• Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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        261 month ago

        i spent like 6 hours yesterday reinstalling my os because a power outage rawdogged my filesystem in an unrecoverable way. the love hate relationship is inevitable.

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          141 month ago

          I spent most of the evening trying to figure out how to covert a .dds format imagine to a .xbm format imagine, which is exactly the same format except cpdr changed something and redengine can’t read .dds

          What was wrong? Why didn’t it work the first time? Well i put the wrong right .dll in the plugins folder instead of the identical right right .dll

          Like, idk, four hours of my life right there, and the solution was buried in some discord thread about how to make your character’s cyberdick glow in the dark.

      • PeeOnYou [he/him]
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        1 month ago

        I’m not a programmer, but I’ve been in tech most of my life and i fucking hate computers and i wish i had any other skill whatsoever to utilize to get the fuck out of this hellish industry

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      171 month ago

      I think it is more boring and stupid. The tech industry has engineers and scientists who builds stuff but the executive controlling it, the public using it and politicians regulating it insists to believe that a magic genie lives inside the computer.

      Sometimes the genie is benevolent and can fix the economy, answer all your questions with absolute certainty, fix every social problem and rid you of the burden of having to enploy people to do stuff. Other times the genie is evil and he will tell the evil SeeSeePee everything about you and let Russia decide the outcome of the election.

      But in any case the computer is magic and has unlimited abilities.

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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      That’s because most “software engineers” aren’t actually engineers. They’re more systems designers and analysts with a bit of programming knowledge and a little bit of a computer science background. Being a real engineer is very different.

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            Because for the most part it’s approached completely unscientifically - especially in the corporate setting.

            What code is “cleaner and more maintainable?” All vibes.

            How should we write tests to ensure they’re robust and covering all expected functionality? Who cares just get the tool to 90% coverage and ship it.

            A carpenter isn’t a wood scientist

            • macerated_baby_presidents [he/him]
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              That’s not “computer science”, you’re talking about programming or software engineering, which are workers building what computer scientists have figured out. There are very few computer scientists. They are basically specialized mathematicians. Think Dijkstra. Google has most of them chained up in a basement somewhere writing sharding algorithms or something. It’s confusing because many programmers get CS undergrad degrees, but they are starting to make “software engineering” degrees.

              It’s true that CS doesn’t use the scientific method, but neither do library science, “scientific socialism”, etc. Popper isn’t the be-all end-all.

      • @Miaou@jlai.lu
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        91 month ago

        Pretty sure you could word things similarly for every field that’s around. I’ve yet to find a proper explanation for “software development is not engineering”

      • macerated_baby_presidents [he/him]
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        I think this is not true. When interviewed, people who have crossed over from ChemE/MechE/etc say it’s engineering. We just iterate a lot faster because compiling is cheap and most software failures are cheap.

        I think we rely too much on stereotypical ideas of what “real engineers” are doing, which can’t be defined and generally don’t stand up to scrutiny. For instance, is designing a processor in VHDL computer engineering or merely programming?

    • @BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      171 month ago

      In this case I’m pretty sure it’s some C level clown that pushed this through even if everyone told them “it’s not ready” or “you need a larger model for this to work”.

      The people on the floor rarely get heard, they only get the blame.

  • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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    341 month ago

    Fuck what is that from, I swear I remember seeing that shitpost before. Is it a bit from an old cracked article or something?

      • happybadger [he/him]
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        61 month ago

        Imagine a world in which we don’t need musicians. You simply say, “Computer. Write me a song by Beethoven about leaving a dog in a hot car”. The ultra-advanced AI will understand every nuance of what you mean. In mere seconds you’ll have a fully customisable song from ANYONE about leaving a dog in a hot car. Want to insert a “happy birthday mom” message? Want to make it about YOU leaving the dog in the hot car? The possibilities are endless because we’ve democratised art.

  • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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    191 month ago

    if you leave a dog in a hot car it will get cooked…

    but if you leave a hot dog in a car, will it get cooked too?

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      51 month ago

      idk, but here used to be cooking griddles you could attach to the engine of your car (well, trucks, really) and you’d put whatever in there with some water and it’d steam or cook your food while you drove. Like, put your hotdogs in, drive for an hour, check your hotdogs. Mostly for over the road truckers and road trips.

  • Arthur Besse
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    131 month ago

    you can hear the song here 🙄

    (generative “AI” and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race)

  • quarrk [he/him]
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    111 month ago

    It’s not just wrong, it’s incredibly creative in the process of being wrong. Like someone asks you for a cookie recipe and you design a novel stapler that doesn’t work, it staples up instead of down