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  • You should be glad it’s apologizing. On the occasions I’ve used it to try to actually write code for me it’s had a tendency to blame me for its mistakes.

    It writes a function that gets stuck in an infinitely recursive loop that never exits, I point it out and it’s all “Aha! You’ve fallen for a classic recursion trap!” What do you mean I’ve fallen for it?

    Between those experiences and seeing the hot garbage some of my coworkers vibe coded, it was enough for me to relegate LLMs purely to the “ask questions that you would have searched for on StackOverflow” role. And it frustrates me that search was made so impotent that it’s not a real option to avoid the LLM entirely. The multiple answers and perspectives on SO were often really valuable.



  • That’s very obviously a figure of speech, and you’re very obviously motivated to interpret it literally just to have something to attack me over.

    I’m curious exactly how I ended up in this hypothetical scenario where I’m in your way, and you are apparently justified in mowing me down because I don’t want to hear your music.



  • So to summarize this conversation, I expressed that it would be nice if people stopped blasting their music in natural spaces. Then you projected a whole bunch of bad intentions onto me, expressed that you believe you have a right to rape everyone’s earholes, and that if someone dares suggest you not do that they are an ableist bully and you’re ready to pull a knife on them.

    But I’m the problem because I’m being unreasonable and impolite.

    Then you have the gall to suggest earplugs. The default state for people not blasting music is that they are not imposing on anyone. The default state of people blasting music is that they are imposing on everyone. How about you get some headphones?




  • punkfungus@sh.itjust.workstoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldSound of silence
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    12 days ago

    We literally never stop accommodating you. Are you being physically confronted over your music in public all the time? I doubt it.

    We live in a populous world and the “I need loud music at all times” folk have absolutely no boundaries. There is nowhere to go where there is no chance of disturbance. Which is why it would be nice if some people would back off of blasting music in places of respite.


  • I found it kinda funny that enabling the marketplace in VSCodium was your example here, given how much of a vector for malware that is itself. It’s malware all the way down.

    You can download .vsix extensions from the marketplace and import them into VSCodium manually just FYI. And it won’t auto update so it will save you next time a supply chain attack inevitably hits and starts infecting new versions. Assuming the downloaded version isn’t infected in the first place of course.




  • The number of times I’ve told my work laptop to shut down on Friday, and found it still running on Monday is too damn high. And it’s usually because I had two instances of VSCode running, and when they got closed they both tried to run an update, and the setup processes interfered with each other. The resulting dialog window prevents shutdown.

    Every workday using Windows is just further validation for running Linux on my own hardware.



  • It’s possible, I’m just wary because mushrooms seem to be a very popular topic for AI slop generation. The picture you linked shows the stipe looking more like I’d expect so it could be the particular combination of lighting and macro lens making it so gold and reflective in the post here. Very rare indeed to find any kind of mushroom totally clean of any dirt though, particularly in such a wet environment. I can’t really look any deeper because I don’t do Instagram.

    Fungi are indeed magical and sometimes quite alien. I do some of my own macro fungi photography.



  • punkfungus@sh.itjust.workstome_irl@lemmy.worldMe_irl
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    My cat loves to eat the fluff that comes off my socks. I actively have to hold him back while I pick it up, he wants it so bad. He’s also partial to the little strings of plastic that come out of the carpet underlay.

    He’ll then turn his nose up at little bite sized chunks of fresh meat. What’s this, delicious organic free range meat which I evolved to eat as my primary food source? No thanks, sock fluff and plastic for me.



  • If you average out the low precision, high accuracy shots you will get a single point as your result. If that point is not already in the dead centre, then increasing accuracy is simply a matter of shifting that point closer to it. You can do that without increasing precision by moving the entire shot spread in that direction.

    I’ve found this analogy often confuses people because in the shooting world the terminology is a little different. There the high precision spread would be considered high accuracy, with it only being a matter of adjusting the sights to get it on centre. And nobody is winning a shooting competition by arguing that the average of their shot spread is in the centre.


  • I was watching live when Trump called in, and the astronauts were clearly trying to emphasize the benefits of diversity and co-operation, and I’m quite sure none of that sunk in. Trump was too busy mispronouncing names, not knowing the difference between the name of the mission and the name of the craft, big noting his own role in funding NASA (while his administration has been actively attacking NASA) and generally waffling on because he likes to listen to himself speak.

    The next call after that also had the NASA director comment something like “I’m sure this call won’t be as special as that last one” whereupon commander Wiseman burst out laughing so I’m pretty confident those involved in the mission are not in Trump’s camp. Which is to be expected, because their jobs require them to be humans with functioning brains.