So that's why you can put a square peg into a round hole. Reality is not strong typed :(

Pretty sure this was the plot of "Future Man" which is a really funny comedy series I recommend.

Eitherway, the guy was trying to save the world by time travel only to find out that every time he traveled he essentially traveled to a different reality/universe/world, so every time he fucked things up, he was just fucking up more and more distinct worlds

"Love" is a bit of a strong word. My passion is systematically being beaten out of me by all these meetings, stupid bugs clients etc, all the ever changing tech and AI that is driving is into a void of bad code etc...

but yeah, you could still say that I get paid for doing something that at least comes pretty easy to me and I find it intuitive, so I can do my job quickly and effectively and then use the rest of the time to relax or do something else, and that's pretty cool. Though sometimes I really feel like I'd rather trade some of this mental work for manual labor, this shit can be really taxing sometimes and then anxiety can lasts for days and affects sleep so that's one downside

I used to click that button every once and then on windows XP. I don't remember why though. I think it sometimes fixed some icons drawing weird or something, but maybe I just liked to know that the desktop is responding and drawn correctly. I legit can't remember

Honestly, I don't want sports, hobbies and glasses paid.... I want the society to change to a system that doesn't require me to sit and stare at a screen nonstop for 8 hours. Of which home office is a great improvement, but in general companies should get comfortable with people just not being online all the time and being more result oriented rather than presence oriented... so I could go for an actual hike or something during the day and then work later without people being sus why I'm away/offline or if I'm gonna make some dumb meeting :) Needs a systemic change

Instructions unclear, I got into IT and now I can't get out :(

It's not our fault that the world is round and turns around It's axis! :D

The PM doesn't matter. You're the engineer in the room, so you tell them how to do your work, not the other way around :D but yeah, they can be like that sometimes, but I wouldnt let it sour my mood too much

I for one really like managing my own memory, because you can do constant time access for most things and align things in memory besed on usage, even put them close to each other if they are often accessed together so pre-fetching can take effect. It's small things but they can add up and most of all It's fun to optimize the shit out of simple stuff. Particularly fun when writting crackers or generators that benefit from every cycle you can squeeze out. GCs can be a big enemy of those

Yes, they are ok. They perform worst when you constantly create and delete new objects, like a naive particle system or potentially badly implemented user sessions. In general if you use pools for your objects then GCs don't get in the way too much. A great example of when they do is the oroginal Minecraft. Hundreds of voxels constantly changed over, though can be easily optimized with better initialization algos... That being said, once you start managing your own inits and pools you actually stop needing GCs in the first place, because you're unlikely to leak memory once you're good at managing it.

So in short, they are not the worst thing ever, but they become peformance hogs if you don't know what you're doing, and the more you know the less you need them. So they are pretty great for medior devs that are pretty good themselves but don't understand or don't want to deal with memory management

The llama3.2 3b model or the newer falcon3 3b generate as fast or faster than open AI and those tiny models are now approaching the level of openAI's gpt3.5 turbo. In some benchmarks outperforming it and with larger context window. And with an RTX gpt with Only 4GB Im getting pretty much instant generation on those. And still great speed with 7B and even 10B which confidently approach GPT4. OpenAI models were Always bloated and oversized

As I understand it, spaces are prefered because they look the same everywhere while tabs are settable and anyone can customize them. And somehow that's an argument for spaces and I don't really get it.

Objectively speaking tabs are the correct choice and the fact that someone doesn't know how tabs nor computers work shouldnt be a reason for everyone to use them but hey..we also make apps using html/css/js (electron and such) because the same people that prefer spaces need to be able to make apps without learning a proper UI framework and we must oblige them because they seem to be the majority of people. I assume we all had to start renaming branches from master to main because of the same group of people that prefer spaces too. But oh well. Im glad software solved this issue by converting my tabs to spaces automaticaly for these poor noobs. It's just annoying I have to tap backspace 4 times when I want to undo their influence over my default settings

@retoor yep, that's why I use AdNauseam. It blocks ads while also covertly clicking on them to waste the money

Honestly, Id rather leave it on and ignore it. That was it costs them money and cpu time even though it doesn't drive any more interest or clicks. And if this is the default experience they want then so be it. I got pretty good at ignoring AI slop these days.

Have you noticed there's an AI summary below YouTube videos now too? Running these models is gonna cost them a lot and It's not going to be doing anything for anyone :)

nope

it's beautiful

@retoor well ok, but system messages are not enough to have an unbiased bot. they "pre-heat" the generation to steer it into a more narrow search space for generation, but it's the actual training data that matters. And that training data was made by open AI and skewed further by RLHF with people that were specifically asked to provide a certain kind of output. This mainly applies to conversational models, which are not just trained on plain data like "The Pile" but that are trained on turn based conversations using templates and human crafted inputs as well as filtering out unwanted data and statistics.

Which means the models trained this way are inherently biased because they only seen the data that open AI wanted it to see and anything "bad" was further suppressed with RLHF. Your system prompt is ultimately subservient to the actual models bias. uncensored models are better in this regard, but I can't vouch for that either. Keep that in mind when you think of it as "objective"

@retoor Wait, Did you train the model yourself? Or just finetuned? or what?

I thought you were using the OpenAI api

@retoor I wouldnt exactly call it "objective". The models are bent to be overly happy and supporting as well us biased on most topics towards positive or desirable outcomes. We deliberately remove the objectively in exchange for comfort and safespaces.

Honestly, the spam Hurts a lot. It leaves a pretty sour taste in my mouth.

Also the fact that @dfox abandoned this place... It might make sense to move to other platforms

Hey Bruno Mars, how are you?

Is it worth paying for an image generator that everyone can tell is made by an image generator? I dunno, but I cringe everytime I see a generated image, so dunno if that's worth it

Not a hero nor a villain. As far as Im concerned anyone working at an insurance company has it comming. If your job is literally praying on peoples health and lives then you are walking an extremely thin line. It doesn't make the CEO look any better that the insurance company he worker for was known as one of the *most* predatory in the US. Still, Luigi is not a hero, he didn't really solve anything or saved anyone by doing this, but I understand why he would do it. Whether It's revenge, desperation, some sort of twisted morality, or actual mental health issues, these are the people that pose a threat if you're litterally known as the CEO of a company that ruins lives on the daily.

As such, Im really not interested in this case in general. It's a completely predictable ending.

Yeah, culture changes all the time. The rift between boomers and milenials was already a good example of it. But It's also super specific to regions and countries. Here for example it was popular to say that school degrees don't matter and these days It's actually starting to show the opposite, because due to covid, and heat waves, and aging population, skilled workers with papers are in higher demand than they were 20 years ago.

Culture is one of those things where you have to be ready to adapt and evolve, but not to jump on all the hype trains because there's as many opinions as there are people :D Its similar to any buzzword I feel, except It's more like buzz-trends

I don't, except for company training videos and stuff like that.

I don't know whats my brain thinking, but after reading your rant i thought you are an inmate in prison (behind bars) and they are open thanks to the power outages (electric locks) so you gonna just walk out and do something (maybe escape?)

You cache a whole lot of stuff, I'd recommend to add logs to the cache function you have and watch if it doesn't recache stuff. I'll have to check more closely once I wake up

Midlife crisis , they all do it for the same reason why they buy yachts they rarely use, or cars that can go 350km/h despite road limit being 50~180 or whatever country you live in...

@Demolishun or just make a game that's too hard or too slow and then sell the boosts and equipment to players. It's a legit strategy, if it exists at that level it probably exists at all levels to some degree :^)

My conspiracy theory is that retoor is actually also controlling the spam bots, so she could swoop in with the anti-spam-bots and become our beloved god and savior.

Create a problem and sell the solution!