TimeSquirrel

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[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Full market saturation. They're washing machines now. We shouldn't be caring so hard about them anymore. We're pretty much at the peak of mobile telephony the way we know it. Let's come up with something totally new and focus on other tech. It's like still being excited over mass-distributed electricity 40 years after its rollout.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You're welcome, how's the free cable too by the way?

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Apple IIgs was alright. That thing and Oregon Trail is embedded into the culture of every American 80s/90s kid. Jobs era I was a lot different than Jobs era II.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Me, the mystery dude in the game server who doesn't have a mic, doesn't use any voice features, never text chats, but always shows up and plays.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Wat? I can't hear you over the eeeeeeeEEEEEEEEeeEeeeEeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEUUMMbumbumbumbumbumbumbumbumeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

No we obviously need more cheap plastics that will dry rot in your shed and shitty rubber grips that will turn to sticky goo in five years, as well as lowest bidder designed control circuitry with a dozen corners cut.

I get what you mean, modern power tools feel like Fisher Price toys. They're disposable.

What happened to the giant metal vacuum cleaners that doubled as a blunt-force weapons?

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

GitHub Copilot introduced a new keyword a little while ago, "@workspace", where it can see everything in your project. The code it generates uses all your own functions and variables in your libraries and it figures out how to use them correctly.

There was one time where I totally went "WTF", because it spat out Python. In a C++ project. But those kind of hallucinations are getting more and more rare. The more code you write, the better it gets. It really does become sort of like a "Copilot", sitting there coding alongside you. The mistake people make is assuming it's going to come up with ideas and algorithms for them without spending any mental energy at all.

I'm not trying to shill. I'm not a programmer by trade. Just a hobbyist who started on QBasic in the ancient times. But I've been trying to learn it off and on for the past 30 years, and I've never learned so much and had so much fun as in the last 1.5 with AI help. I can just think of stuff to do, and shit will just flow out now.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So your results are biased, because you're not going to see the decent programmers who are just using it to take mundane tasks off their back (like generating boilerplate functions) while staying in control of the logic. You're only ever going to catch the noobs trying to cheat without fully understanding what it is they're doing.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

That would apply in my "encrypted container of some sort" solution, yes.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is it. That is the man's legacy now. His tombstone will read "brainworm guy".

Not sure what he thought he had to gain by divulging that info.

BTW guys sorry I was off the Fediverse for a while, had to go get some polyps removed...big'uns too, size of a golf ball. /s

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago (7 children)

So let's stop calling it "deleted" then, and call it what it is. "Forgetting".

I'm not sure what you actually want the OS to do about it other than as I said, fill it with random data.

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