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[–] Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

Visual Studio debugger is still best thing ever. It is strange how much poorer vscode's debugger is compared to visual studio.

[–] Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Even when Finland was "neutral", we always knew the enemy is in east, and if they were west, they were trying to flank.

Whole Finnish infrastructure is build on expectation of Russia again attacking us. Hopefully we won't forget that, now that we are part of NATO, because it makes us less easy target.

[–] Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago

Edit is originally from 80's right, at least in dos you got edit that opened the editor which looks similar.

[–] Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz -3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

These new LLM models and vision models have their place in software stack. They do enable some solutions that have been nearly impossible in the past (mandatory xkcd ref: https://xkcd.com/1425/ , this is now trivial task)

ML works very well on large data sets and numbers, but it is poor at handling text data. LLM's again are shit with large data and numbers, but they are good at handling small text data. It is a tool, and properly used very powerful one. And it is not a magic bullet.

One easy example from real world requirements: you have five paragraph of human written text, and you need to summarize it to header automatically. Five years ago if some project owner would have request this feature, I would have said string.substring(100), live with it. Now it is pretty much one line of code.

[–] Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

GPT got all of these correct. I had to zoom on one of them.

[–] Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Pisa, it is total tourist trap. Italy has way much better tourist destinations.

[–] Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 week ago

Who needs to sleep anyways!

[–] Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Old saying in is: In Internet men are men, women are men and children are FBI officers.

Edit: 4chan rules of the Internet:

Rule 29: On the internet men are men, women are also men, and kids are undercover FBI agents.

[–] Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh man, we use windows servers at work, so I see this 20x day.

[–] Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 0 points 3 weeks ago

Well, if the MFA device is not available, reset is the only way. If user would be able to bypass the lost device, the whole thing would be vulnerable.

Whole MFA is of course really f stupid, but it is best we got against phishing.

[–] Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago

There are always some bottle necks on the network, but the frequency is same on all mainland Europe. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Europe_Synchronous_Area

It is possible that this bottle neck saved the whole European grid coming down.

[–] Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 23 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Electricity network requires that production and consumption are always equal. If there is too little production, the frequency (Hz) goes down and if too little consumption, the frequency goes up. If frequency goes too far every electric device pretty much breaks.

This is why there is automation in the network that tries to balance the network (reserve production and consumption). BUT if shit hits the fan, and frequency goes too bad, it automatically takes load off or production off the network. This often causes domino effect, you take load off, which causes over production, and again you take production off and loop is ready. In minutes the whole network falls like domino blocks, one by one.

There was lots of luck (and probably skill and preparation) that they were able to stop it. Main land Europe from Portugal to Turkey is one big network.

Cold starting whole Europe would have taken week. You need to start small islands, and connect them together slowly. Balancing load and production.

Source: I work in electricity production and distribution.

 

I found from hard way that lemmy community urls are bit problematic. Here is the story, which contains bit NSFW material.

I was trying to figure out in Jerboa how to subscribe to community in another instance. First one that I came across, that i was not subscribed to was !hairypussy@pornlemmy. com. (I know, I know, I am a perv)

I copy pasted the community path to my android clipboard, and tried few ways in the app, and eventually gave up.

Some time passes, until I went to do some shopping. My wife and I use a shared shopping list. From this shopping list I found this beatiful community path.

My wife had a laugh, but I was worried that If she would have been bit more jelous side, she could have made a assumption from the structure of the path.

The thing is that !hairypussy @ pornlemmy. com looks like email address. This could have been misunderstood quuuite badly.

I am a coder also, so @ is sensible separator, and serves the same purpose as in email. Probably it should not change, but the structure can cause misunderstandings with some communities and lemmy instance urls. Of course here main issue is user error, and any link to some bad site can be issue, but people understand what website URL is.

Please let me know if this needs NSFW tag.

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