brsrklf

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[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I distinctly remember them failing a console launch spectacularly by (among other things) trying to pass it as a media center and talking about how great it is to watch TV on.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's the guy Julianos got his name from right? IIRC divines are aliases of the old Bethesda team.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 5 points 2 weeks ago

I mean, yeah, it kinda detracts from his whole backstory. Especially if the whole reason was just to be able to say "See? He's totally American by birthright!".

The whole point was that shit shouldn't be important.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

My knowledge of Superman is very basic, but I always had that image of him being placed in the pod as a baby.

Of course there must be like 40 retellings of that scene at this point if we count all media.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 3 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Is that canon? Was he sent as an embryo or something?

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Did the AI gave you a starting point that would be very different from a bit of code someone submitted 10 years ago on stack exchange? Because in my experience, everything has already been asked and answered. This includes the most basic and naive stuff, and often I am very grateful for it, because, yeah, sometimes I need someone to guide me through the most basic stuff.

In fact, the AI needed that exact knowledge base and a bunch more to exist in the first place. It's just vaguely competent at retrieving it.

Anyway, I didn't say I had no experience, just the most minimal python experience. There are definitely a few quirks I had to learn (the data structures mostly), but for the rest is mostly finding the right method in the reference library, like you would in java.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 8 points 2 weeks ago

The AI willed those cupcakes into existence, why don't you trust them?

It's like the metaverse and NFT, you're not supposed to think about how it works. Instead you just need to believe reality will magically reorganize to make it work.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

I needed about 30 minutes to do a python application from scratch that took linear JSON data files, merged them and presented them as a tree in a GUI.

Before that I had barely done anything in python, basically could do a basic function declaration with a simple operation and nothing else. I even didn't have a lot of experience with UI at all.

But like you I had experience with java and such, and those skills transfer. All it took was searching basic syntax/related code examples and required library imports. And I mean basic, search engine search, not AI answers.

All I'm saying is, I really don't think AI is providing anything a lot more efficient than doing a good old crawl through API docs and stack overflow. So the fact it's using tremendous amounts of resources to maybe achieve a 10% efficiency boost is bothering me a lot.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 5 points 2 weeks ago

Getting ready for the sea level rising? Not sure about greenhouse gas emissions on that Rimword, but that might be more useful on Earth.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 3 points 2 weeks ago

It's easy to test for water holiness. If you drop the bottle and it bursts into flame molotov-cocktail style, it is still holy water.

Source : Belmont et al., Wallachia, 1986

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Boring movies are boring.

Most people prefer their stories generally ending on a positive note, and then once in a while go for a darker one, if they're in the mood for it. And yes sometimes we need one of these.

But every movie being a heroic sacrifice or a downer ending, even if they're good, would be depressing. And then it would start losing power quick, too.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 5 points 2 weeks ago

(old man) Logan wants a word too.

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