forrcaho

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[–] forrcaho@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

A bill like this was proposed in the Minnesota state house, shortly before one of the co-sponsors was arrested for soliciting sex from a minor.

[–] forrcaho@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

There are definitely people who cut & pasted from stack overflow in the work environment, too. The difference is that I, as the clean-up crew, could google their code and find the post it came from ... and then I could read the comments and figure out wtf they thought they were trying to do. When they paste LLM-generated code in, there's no trace of where the dumbfuckery came from.

Just thinking about it makes me glad I'm near retirement.

[–] forrcaho@lemmy.world 58 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

Having been a coder for decades before AI came on the scene, I don't understand how inexperienced programmers could possibly write a serious amount of working code with AI.

It's wrong, like, at least half the time, but as an experienced coder, I can look at the "code" it generated and know what it was trying to do, and then write it correctly. I do find AI useful when I'm not sure how to go about solving a particular code-related issue, but ... it just gives me something to think about, not an answer I can use directly.

[–] forrcaho@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago (7 children)

AppImage is the no-nonsense universal package format.

[–] forrcaho@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I once saw a headline that someone (I forgot who) said that "AI is weird". All I could think was, well yeah, he's been called "Weird Al" all of his professional life ...

[–] forrcaho@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That article says they're closing for Easter, which is not an uncommon thing in the US-- for example, Costco will also do that. Nothing to do with the boycott, or "looting".

[–] forrcaho@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

My bad, the illustration was supposed to be of Virginia Basora-Gonzalez, who has been accused of trafficking fentanyl. On the one hand, it seems encouraging that they had to find someone who could more credibly be presented as criminal -- hopefully an indication that their claims about the pro-Palestinian students and Argentinians with tattoos they've disappeared were not deemed credible enough by the general public.

Still, we only have the allegation of this administration against this person, so it's quite possible she's entirely innocent. It's not like they give a fuck about actual crimes or making our country safer. They just want to be seen as badasses.

[–] forrcaho@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

When I worked an hourly job on the night shift, we would all clock out to change the time and then clock back in.

[–] forrcaho@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You got a link for that? I'm not finding anything online linking Rumeysa Ozturk to anything related to drugs

[–] forrcaho@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Upvoting for the concise summary of what the article is about (thanks!); not for the opinion expressed (which appears to conflate Russian developers with the actions of the Russian government -- something I find problematic at best).

[–] forrcaho@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You had two chances to impeach the shit and you didn't.

[–] forrcaho@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago (15 children)

CLI is being able to speak a language to tell your computer what to do; GUI is only being able to point and grunt.

 

I want to build a linux PC for digial audio and home network storage.

I plan to use a microphone to record acoustic instruments, so being quiet is a priority. Also, my usb audio interface and usb MIDI devices should be plugged in directly, no using a hub, so a lot of usb ports is another requirement. I'm not clear on whether my devices take advantage of usb3 speeds, but I think I'd better make sure I have more usb3 ports to use that speed if it's available.

Besides that I'd like to run a storage server for my home network. I'm not sure if this is a good idea on the same box I want to record on, but usage should be pretty light and I don't want to build a whole other device for this.

I have an older graphics card already, so I don't need that. I'd like to have a slot available in case I decide to get into experimenting with AI, but that's not in my budget for now.

I'd like to keep this under $1K. What parts should I get? It'd be extra helpful to put together a list in Micro Center's PC builder, since that's where I'm tentatively planning to pick up all my parts.

 

Way back in August, I published part 1 of my adventures with ergo mech keyboards, about my Keebio FoldKB. Now I've finally got part 2 done.

As of now, I have two more split ergo keyboards to write about, but I don't know if I'll ever actually catch up ...

 

This is the story of my involvement with ergo-mech keyboards, describing how I set up my first split ergo, the Keebio FoldKB.

Hopefully this will be the first of a series.

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