Why do otherwise intelligent people think chatgpt code is a good idea if they don't know what the code does?

I am a bit in shock by this prospect. I asked about some lines of code that was using some templates I had not used before. The response was "I dunno, chatgpt." This person is really really smart. Yet deploying code that they don't understand completely. This seems dangerous and irresponsible. I ended up rewriting the function I had questions about. It was significantly shorter and didn't do a fuckton of copying strings around.

WTF is wrong with people? Are people afraid to think? Now I want to get out before this kind of shit becomes the norm.

Wikipedia includes nihilist. I am not, so I am unsure if that disqualifies me.

Is this better?

Not sure this is as funny as I thought it was...

This isn't serious. I struggled with the order. The main point was that the smart ones left the industry. I thought about making JS Devs be lowest tier. Please contribute your own version if you can think of a better ordering.

I miss @nanos. Sometimes his stuff was difficult to read (for me), but he was a genuinely cool dude. I find myself skipping over long posts a lot. I kinda feel bad for pointing that out to him. Maybe he would have stayed.

There have been a lot of interesting people here over the last 6 years. I wonder what some of them are doing now.

Why are all the 2060, 3060, and 4060 gpus about $300? Shouldn't the price come down on the 2060 and 3060?

Honestly, the syryp one is probably worse for your health. Neither will have an impact on your day if you are just using for flavor. Didn't realize fake shit was just as expensive now. Are they stupid?

So I work with a guy that is bald and has a bit of a beard going on. I joked that he looks like Walter White. I made this to give it to him.

I mean, there were 5...

If you are going to maintain empty directories in your git repo then use the strategy of placing a file inside the directory called .gitkeep. Searching on this filename will lead you to a discussion of the same topic (hopefully, maybe not). Which includes a lengthy discussion on how the semantics of the file name is somehow more important than the answer of keeping the directory in the repo. My favorite part was someone claiming the file name .gitkeep was the standard way of maintaining a directory and others jumping on this person saying not it is NOT the standard way, and that in fact any filename would work. Misunderstanding that saying it was the standard probably only referred to placing a file and not choosing that exact name.

Basically it seemed to turn into an autists semantics fistfight in the comments.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions...

Someone is that discussion claimed .gitkeep would lead to confusion if it was a standard git filename. I then found this:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions...

Is it wrong to find so much humor in this?

Watching the building maintenance guy assemble desks from kits. Thinking to myself that the company bought him an erector set. Also realizing my job is to assemble software and electronic systems. So basically a generic erector set.

People in tech fields are just building more sophisticated erector sets. No wonder we like games that let you build things in game. We all just want erector sets to be happy.

Which one of you did this?

https://youtube.com/watch/...

This is both a Steam and Paypal exploit. I have not seen the Brit put a disclaimer like this before.

Things not on my bingo card this week: San Francisco nudist saves tourist from blow torch pirate.

I already had made the decision to never visit San Francisco ever again, but they just keep reinforcing that decision.

https://yahoo.com/news/...

This is definitely a mad world.

Thinking of doing an Alec Baldwin play through on Fallout 4. I would go for an evil play through and do all the Raider quests I have yet to do. I will make sure and shoot people at random. Everything will be about the caps. I will get the the cannibal perk for extra realism.

I looked and looked and could not find a Baldwin preset for FO4. I guess I will have to spend time making one.

Protagonist or Antagonist?

Things that I "shouldn't" put in the code:
cout << "Starting bitcoin harvester..."
cout << "Contacting IP 95.24.69.42..."
cout << "Passing control to remote IP"

Also, my boss wanted me to merge to master. I want to tell him my difficulties:
"Had issues with fluix inhibitor for the linker. Had to stretch the void pointer vector to fit the elongated float system. This helped with the binary pretranscompiler moderator in the remote modem configurator. Now everything is working fine."

What happens when downloading files is fast?
Downloading Files Flies
or Downloading Flies

It sounded better in my head. Now it is awkward. Do you feel awkward? Stop it dad, you are embarrassing me and yourself!

My job here is done.

So I am looking at top on our embedded system. I notice the memory amounts are in KiB. Then I thought to myself: "We are not far from this being in MiB units."

I am excited for Terahertz optical cpus and Petabyte storage drives.

Decided I wanted a western style hat to wear. I sized my head and I found it was XXL. Most of the hats I looked at only went up to L or XL. Do people who work cowboy type jobs have smaller heads typically? I also found Stetsons always had the option for larger heads. Maybe it is just a general market availability thing.

This is what I ordered:

This is interesting from a troubleshooting point of view. I have a decent laptop I use to play Fallout 4. It was running just fine until recently. The game will spike GPU activity and crash. I found if I reduced settings and lower resolution it happens less often.

I kept searching and finally found someone saying it could be GPU thermal compound has worn out. So I looked how to change that on a laptop. The video I found it looked fairly easy.

I get into my laptop and I find all the screws for the heatsink/head pipe assembly. However there is a ton of thermal tape used everywhere holding it all down. I think if I am not careful I will break the heat sink. I did pull on the main part and it just didn't want to give.

Feeling a bit defeated as I put everything back together. I had gotten some decent thermal compound for this. So I fire up the game and it runs fine at the low settings. Then I raise all the settings to max with max resolution. This was crashing the game the last few days. It just runs and runs fine on those settings. GPU temps look normal (they did before, but I wanted to see). So, all I can think the act of lifting the heat sink a small amount may have reseated the thermal compound a bit. I am still going to price out a professional doing this, but I can play on max settings again. Maybe messing with screws on GPU and slightly moving the heat sink actually did something.

This confirms to me that something needs done about the thermal compound. The company I bought the laptop from offered custom thermal compound at time of purchase. So I am thinking they can do this for me. It will be cheaper to pay a couple hundred bucks to have a pro do this rather than pay $1800 for a new computer. This is only 2 1/2 years old. It has been a top performer up til now.

So on my computer I have 3 drives. I had two m.2 ssds and one sata ssd. I thought I had misc data on my sata. Turns out I had it on the second m.2. So I have been running my game installs off of the slower sata... I found out because I am updating my m.2 drives to 2TB from 1TB. What is funny is the data on the second m.2 is just temp storage. So I pulled it and put my new second m.2 2T drive to clone from the sata. It was failing to clone over usb for some reason. Not sure if software or something with drive. Cloning in process so will find out soon. The funny part is this makes it easier to update because I was using drives wrong. DOH!

It will be nice going from 3TB to 5TB. Woot!

Sometimes I get in a mode where everyone is a potential enemy. So my mind will be say, "The fuck you say!?" in a reactionary way. When this happens I sometimes respond badly online. I am noticing this pattern before I respond. It can take great effort to not post shit online at times.

My general goals when conversing online these days:
1. Spread joy through humor. (it isn't my problem if you don't think it is funny)
2. Care for people by telling the truth. (it isn't my problem if you don't think its true. I do like exchanging ideas.)
3. Try to listen and help people if they exhibit a perceptible need. (sometimes a lone voice reaching out can make a huge difference)
4. Restrain myself when someone aggressively challenges my beliefs. (work in progress, the fuck you say?!)
5. Sharing common interests with people. (games, programming, staying sane, etc)
6. Shitting on Javascript. (not because it is true, but because it is funny. see goal 1)

People ask why I love modded Skyrim. This is why I love modded Skyrim:
https://youtube.com/watch/...

I cannot find the mod on the Nexus yet though.

Kaspersky must be finding the malware/viruses the US government is creating...

https://reuters.com/technology/...
https://cnbc.com/2024/06/...

If you are a dream stealing cunt then kindly fuck off. I don't know you, I don't want to know you. Climb into whatever hole you came out of and just eat shit.

Nothing in this life raises my ire more than people who hate on others daring to dream. The haters don't add to society and are just stealing air.

You ever just get pissed at everything?

I find myself wanting to pick a fight about everything today. Little stupid things just setting me off. Just rage...

My head also a feels a bit fuzzy. Also tinnitus is fucking loud today.

Fuck off world!

Been playing a Skyrim modlist (Living Skyrim 4) with a ton of mods in the game. I have only small idea of what mods are in there. My first quest from the Companions was to beat up a pot grower outside Whiterun. Then later on I ran into Jarl Marx. All he did was criticize me so I killed him and enchanted his clothes with Fortify Barter.

https://reddit.com/r/skyrim/...

This modlist has been a lot of fun.

So I was wondering what was going on with Recall. Heard it would take screenshots without permission and send to MS. No idea if that is completely true. This continues to confirm that Windows 11 is a complete shit show. As I was looking I found a discussion of copilot being forced on users. Huge threads at Microsoft support saying it is a piece of shit (and that was a one of the nicer comments). So even before Recall comes out copilot is destroying the desktop experience. Is this the end? Will this force users to Linux or Mac? I am actually in shock how incompetent Microsoft is becoming.

I run games and support clients with Windows 10. I absolutely do not ever want to run Windows 11. It just keeps getting worse and worse.

So I heard a character in a game say this: "You are so stupid that you don't know that you are stupid." They were not saying this to me. It was to a common enemy. However, I am unsure if I am smart enough to be offended by this statement.