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Looking for vibe coder with vibe management skills in c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
[–] CanadaPlus 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

And even this improvement wasn't universally appreciated: some people found error messages they couldn't ignore more annoying than wrong results, and, when judging the relative merits of programming languages, some still seem to equate "the ease of programming" with the ease of making undetected mistakes.

This guy was writing in the year x86 was first introduced, and I still feel like I see this attitude around.

(He manages to shoehorn in a "kids these days" paragraph too, though)

Looking for vibe coder with vibe management skills in c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
[–] CanadaPlus 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Yes, but quality takes actual skill to measure, instead of just a diff.

(Although I guess lines are still better than time in office)

Looking for vibe coder with vibe management skills in c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
[–] CanadaPlus 6 points 12 hours ago

Hmm, was the boss hoping to turn that into a "why do I even pay you" moment?

What's an animal that would be cool if we could domesticate to the level of companion animal, like dogs. in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] CanadaPlus 7 points 12 hours ago

Maybe a large seal species. Something to ride in the water, but that could still come on land and fall asleep by the fire.

What's an animal that would be cool if we could domesticate to the level of companion animal, like dogs. in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] CanadaPlus 2 points 12 hours ago

... Is this bestiality?

It's could help lose weight, I guess.

What's an animal that would be cool if we could domesticate to the level of companion animal, like dogs. in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

The murderous insanity would actually be kinda funny if it was in miniature against, like, a beetle.

NDP MP Lori Idlout crossing floor to Liberals in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] CanadaPlus 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Clearly, Carney is basically the NDP.

Okay, I'm joking. But IIRC that was the Lemmy reaction with the Conservative floor crossers. The reaction to this one seems like barely contained salt.

NDP MP Lori Idlout crossing floor to Liberals in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Two are needed, two are safe seats, the Liberals have a double digit poll lead.

Trump’s Iran war will reinforce North Korea’s view that nuclear weapons are the only path to security in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Uh, so other side of the border from me is red state Montana. Anyway, I think the idea is you load it onto something else once it's in and take it to an actual target. It's just a long border that's hard to seal perfectly.

If there's a note of disbelief in there, I'd like to point out America has nukes and uses them as a deterrent the same way. Like, whether proliferation is morally justified, of if we should just accept our fate in that scenario, is a serious question we should ask, but you don't really have a moral highground about it. Obviously I'm not saying killing people is cool, and we know 2/3 of Americans didn't ask for any of this.

Canadian military personnel identified on white supremacist dating site in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 22 hours ago

Well, yes. I just mean that the only people who would make or go on such a thing are people who have a problem with anyone not white, so it isn't a surprise it ends up being that way.

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[–] CanadaPlus 0 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

If you don't care about installing any particular mobile software, that would work.

LineageOS is the current game in town otherwise, unless you want a Pixel, in which case there's options like GrapheneOS.

Trump’s Iran war will reinforce North Korea’s view that nuclear weapons are the only path to security in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] CanadaPlus 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (3 children)

TIL.

Delivery would be an issue for sure. Then again, if the potential target is America "guys on quads" would work. If the target isn't America, America will do it for us. Edit: Because they own the Western hemisphere, and we're their bitch.

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Premier says Alberta will withhold funding for judges without more input on selection (www.cbc.ca)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by CanadaPlus to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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Don't fucking let "us" touch the courts, Canada.

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About That (Venezuela Invasion Episode) (inv.nadeko.net)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by CanadaPlus to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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Not sure how to link the exact episode about a "possible" invasion of Venezuela. If somebody knows I'll edit.

We'll see how it plays out. I'm still not sure they're actually planning to send 200,000 troops, but Trump said they're going to "run it" somehow.

Edit: Moving to invidious.

Original Gem link: https://gem.cbc.ca/about-that-with-andrew-chang

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Would you rather glow in the dark, or slowly get bigger when in water, and then shrink back to normal when dry? (self.wouldyourather)
 

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/51360759

You do not get to turn these powers off, they are always active.

This question was inspired by those toy dinosaur things.

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Xi made his most consequential call to a US president ever. Trump missed the entire point. (open.substack.com)
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What is there to know about magnetic storage mediums? (self.retrocomputing)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by CanadaPlus to c/retrocomputing
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Modern formulations are proprietary and almost certainly require a cleanroom, but the basic concept has existed for a century. I'd assume there's a history out there beyond what little Wikipedia offers.

Would I be able to DIY a tape that could store tens of megabytes of data, at least?

Edit: This adjacent wiki might have more to say on it, based on the reply I got. I assume digital data amounts to a much higher frequency of recording, though.

I do know audio cassette tapes were used repurposed for digital storage in the early PC era. Was there a noticeable difference based on quality and type of tape?

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Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters (www.bbc.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/41849856

If an LLM can't be trusted with a fast food order, I can't imagine what it is reliable enough for. I really was expecting this was the easy use case for the things.

It sounds like most orders still worked, so I guess we'll see if other chains come to the same conclusion.

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Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters (www.bbc.com)
 

If an LLM can't be trusted with a fast food order, I can't imagine what it is reliable enough for. I really was expecting this was the easy use case for the things.

It sounds like most orders still worked, so I guess we'll see if other chains come to the same conclusion.

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Apparently this car opens up extra parking spaces (www.youtube.com)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by CanadaPlus to c/CommercialsIHate@sh.itjust.works
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The awkward "nnnts nnts nnts" also made it pretty hard to tune out. And it got a sequel, which is actually fine because they're playing that now instead.

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A classic all across North America, at least (www.youtube.com)
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Carney says a U.S. trade deal without some tariffs is unlikely (www.cbc.ca)
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What's a concrete example of LIN ⊊ NLIN? (self.compsci)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/37414239

I've read the old papers proving that fact, but honestly it seems like some of the terminology and notation has changed since the 70's, and I roundly can't make heads or tails of it. The other sources I can find are in textbooks that I don't own.

Ideally, what I'm hoping for is a segment of pseudocode or some modern language that generates an n-character string from some kind of seed, which then cannot be recognised in linear time.

It's of interest to me just because, coming from other areas of math where inverting a bijective function is routine, it's highly unintuitive that you provably can't sometimes in complexity theory.

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What's a concrete example of LIN ⊊ NLIN? (self.math)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/37414239

I've read the old papers proving that fact, but honestly it seems like some of the terminology and notation has changed since the 70's, and I roundly can't make heads or tails of it. The other sources I can find are in textbooks that I don't own.

Ideally, what I'm hoping for is a segment of pseudocode or some modern language that generates an n-character string from some kind of seed, which then cannot be recognised in linear time.

It's of interest to me just because, coming from other areas of math where inverting a bijective function is routine, it's highly unintuitive that you provably can't sometimes in complexity theory.

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