Tamo240

joined 2 years ago
[–] Tamo240@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

Because he must have invested $400,000 of effort per month to get that return.

Oh no wait that's not possible, he stole that value from the employees of his company.

[–] Tamo240@programming.dev 14 points 5 days ago

I also think a big part of content creator burnout is the 'everything is content' mindset. If you work in a factory or an office usually you can go home and not be at work any more. When hanging out with your friends or being with your family also becomes content and therefore part of your job, the mental toll clearly becomes unbearable.

[–] Tamo240@programming.dev 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

'Police rescue baby found alone after mother dies days earlier'

[–] Tamo240@programming.dev 15 points 3 weeks ago

'Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes'

  • Dijkstra, 1970
[–] Tamo240@programming.dev 4 points 3 weeks ago

This is something I think the 'you have to use LLMs or you're falling behind' crowd are missing. Of course these companies want you to become dependent on their product, and unable to complete basic tasks without it, because then when they slap you with monthly fees and ads and tokens you won't have a choice but to pay.

Use them if they're useful, but don't out source your brain. You'll need it when the enshittification begins.

[–] Tamo240@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

Israel does not recognise that there are civilian non-combatants in Gaza and therefore does not allow aid to enter. How about you?

[–] Tamo240@programming.dev 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

What would you call intercepting someone in international waters and taking them back to your country without their consent? If Somali pirates did that you'd have no qualms using the word 'kidnapped'.

[–] Tamo240@programming.dev -1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This is actually not true. You are referring to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), an artificially intelligent system that is able to function in any context.

Artificial Intelligence as a field of Computer Science goes back to the 50s, and is defined as systems that appear intelligent, not that actually exhibit thinking capabilities. The entire purpose of the Turing test is to appear intelligent, with no requirement that the system actually is.

Rule based systems and statistical models are examples of AI in the scientific sense, but the public perception of what AI should mean is warped by portrayals in science fiction of what it could mean.

[–] Tamo240@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Just started Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice after wanting it for a long time... and I feel like I'm bouncing off it. Having never played any of the Dark Souls series, but having absorbed some of the concepts via cultural osmosis I feel like the game has gone: It's a soullike, you know what to do from here! But I have no idea what my goals are, other than running around and dying repeatedly, and occasionally finding a 'bonfire'.

I thought the combat was supposed to be a selling point, but it feels really clunky. Maybe I'm missing something, idk.

[–] Tamo240@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

S10 E12 (The Doctor Falls) is the end of (Modern) Doctor Who. Such a perfect episode epitomising the character, and closing an arc for one of the longest villains. He even 'dies' at the end.

Everything since then has been badly written and purposefully disrespectful to the cannon and the audience, and has wasted so many fantastic actors.

[–] Tamo240@programming.dev 10 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Did the generated code get merged? I'd be curious to see the PRs

[–] Tamo240@programming.dev 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If they are only preventing opportunity, the crime will just take place at a different place or time when an officer is not present. The program's mentioned are aimed at reducing the motive for crime, which applies at all places and times.

 

Following the budget announcement in the UK, why is the media obsessed with the predicted growth being 0.2% lower, instead of applauding the much needed investment in our public services? Does it really matter that much?

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