Hand made

This. Exactly this. If no one is ever accountable why not save some money and use computers? They don’t need as much salary.

That I mattered.

Remember when passing the Turing Test was like a big deal? And then it happened. And now we have things like this:

Stanford researchers reported that ChatGPT passes the test; they found that ChatGPT-4 “passes a rigorous Turing test, diverging from average human behavior chiefly to be more cooperative”

The best way to differentiate computers to people is we haven’t taught AI to be an asshole all the time. Maybe it’s a good thing they aren’t like us.

The things about quantum computers is they are really, really powerful at a some kinds of things, some of the time. Maybe even most of the time.

Binary computers are okay at one thing, but it does that one thing exactly every time. If it ever makes a mistake then entire thing might crash.

The problem is a quantum computer is so different from normal computers you have to start over from the beginning of the tech stack. Even if you get it working reliability (which is hard to do), how does it help you? You can do some crazy math, but it can’t run an operating system. It doesn’t have a bios. There are no drivers that speak some percentage of up spin vs down spin. There isn’t a standard assembly language. There isn’t a standard anything. It’s like how computers were in the 40s.

I think quantum computers are very interesting and might help in very specific applications, and I mean like custom made math heavy applications that only run on that one machine you built it for kind of specific.

Can that change the world? Maybe. But it will take time. No one wants to talk about it because it’s a hard problem that is still years away from doing much to impact peoples lives. Better to talk about ai slop, that gets clicks because you can see it and touch it right now.

I mean… the outlet is very, very regular pressure. Just need a barometer to know what the pressure is.

I’m pushing numbers like that. And I have to say, when I really stop and think about it, my life just keeps getting better. I keep getting better. My mind is better. My attitude is better.

I think about death a lot, but I also think about life a lot. Its easy to think back and say “if only I could go back” forgetting that who you are now and who you were then are completely different. We wish we had more time to be young and wise, but usually you have to pick one out the other.

I must second this. I think the problem is these morons are the loudest in the room and have no self awareness. Most people likely agree, just quietly.

All I can think of here is Government Cheese. Murica.

Is there some kind of deeper meaning or message here? or is this just a weird thing to do in front of a police line?

This is exactly what I came here to say. They are militantly against duplicates. Doesn’t that mean on a long enough timeline the number of new questions have to eventually reach zero?

I use stack overflow every day and have for years. I have never once had to ask a question.

I kind of love that can opener. More tools should be available for public use like that. Could you imagine? A stand mixer just bolted to the wall, bring your own bowl and spatula.

Can we take a moment to talk about what this was written on the back of? It looks like a building plan that looks like an ultra open concept space with doors instead of walls. All the exterior walls are just marked as doors. And I think there is a bathroom that looks to just be in the main space. No walls there either. This is some serious office nightmare fuel. You work outside now, we open all the doors. Poop in the corner while we judge you for not working while you do it.

Play some farming simulator. I’ve learned so much about different types of agricultural equipment, their uses, the process of where food comes from. I feel like if things ever feel out in the tech sector I could easily transfer to agriculture.

As a developer of many years I hate to tell you sometimes that it’s all the information we have when something breaks also. Most code is a god awful mess. Thankfully I love a good mystery.

Can’t wait to pick out which burbclave to join…

Honestly if taken out of context, hawt.

90% of programming I have seen after a decade plus of doing it full time is minor changes being made to code that was already made by someone. Likely not documented. Likely already changed in a dozen little ways. Math isn’t the problem. Understanding what the guy who wrote it is often the problem.

Oh and you can’t ask them because they likely don’t work here anymore.

Being a programmer is more like being a detective than anything else unless you work for a small company.

I am saddened to see that this thread had no mention of how many horses it takes to run a router. What do y’all think? Would one be enough? It would need to work in shifts to keep up time at 100%. Maybe 3 to be safe?

I feel like the other side of that central plate has your answer. Pop the central screw and see what is on the other side of that discoloration.