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t0fr , to lemmyshitpost in acceptable screws
@t0fr@lemmy.ca avatar

You can tell a shitpost is a shitpost when it is entirely wrong

pelotron ,
@pelotron@midwest.social avatar

Agreed, Phillips needs to get Thanos’d.

lambda ,
@lambda@programming.dev avatar

Torx screws 4 lyfe

LookBehindYouNowAndThen ,

Yeah, they’re literally made to cam out.

Useful for automation, but terrible for repairs.

stoicmaverick ,

I also watch AVE, but it’s Philips heads that were made for early assembly line use to cam out under torque. Specifically for the Model-T if I remember correctly.

LookBehindYouNowAndThen ,

Never watched AVE, I used to be an auto tech.

The Wikipedia article has an interesting summary.

Looks like it wasn’t intended by the initial patent, but was discovered as a useful property.

frezik ,

And the automation argument isn’t as important now that electric drills all have clutches.

MataVatnik ,
@MataVatnik@lemmy.world avatar

Same with slotted, hate them with a passion, especially when it’s those with the raise head

SSUPII OP ,

Successfully baited 200 comments

t0fr ,
@t0fr@lemmy.ca avatar

Did you really shitpost? Or did you go fishing?

SSUPII OP ,

Was indeed a big catch

Bishma , to programmerhumor in Network protocols for dummies
@Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

UDP seems more like a ball fired from canon to me. You may not be prepared for it and you won’t know what state it’s in when it gets here, but that packet is making it to the gate no matter what. Or, in the rare case it doesn’t, it means someone else is having a real bad time.

bleistift2 ,

You forgot to mention that you might get it twice, or thrice, or more, and in different versions.

Neato ,
@Neato@kbin.social avatar

(novice) Why would you get UDP packets multiple times? UDP doesn't check for acceptance I thought.

ByteWelder ,
@ByteWelder@lemmy.ml avatar

From StackOverflow:

Switches will send packets to all interfaces when using broadcasts or under extreme conditions (full MAC Address Table). This can lead to duplication if there is a loop between two or more switches and if the Spanning Tree Protocol is not used. So the answer is rarely.

stackoverflow.com/…/duplicate-udp-packets-how-oft…

PowerCrazy ,

That is extraordinarily rare and I’m not even sure if it’s possible anymore. That was potential attack vector in the 90’s where you have a port on network switch, and then you flood the cam table with thousands of bogus mac addresses until you fill it up, then the switch turns into a hub, and you can now sniff all traffic traversing the switch. These days I’m not sure what will happen if you do successfully fill up a switches cam table. Also cam table sizes are are much much larger now. ~128k entry’s vs maybe 1000 back in the day.

Socsa , (edited )

You can bring a surprisingly large number of network segments down just by plugging both ends of the same cable into a dumb switch. It probably won’t happen immediately, but eventually you will get a broadcast storm which will propagate until it hits an element smart enough to snuff it out.

bleistift2 ,

Don’t the big internet-y routers also send packets to multiple interfaces if they don’t know how to correctly handle the target IP address?

c0mbatbag3l ,
@c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world avatar

You mean under MPLS?

bleistift2 ,

No clue. My college course wasn’t all that deep, and it’s been quite some time.

c0mbatbag3l ,
@c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world avatar

If you have no RSTP/MSTP you’re just asking for trouble.

Switching loops are unlikely unless you have bad or non-existent documentation or someone new.

Smc87 ,

Or users

c0mbatbag3l ,
@c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world avatar

The only switching hardware they should have physical access to is a dumb switch if absolutely needed. Then control the cables.

MystikIncarnate ,

Yep. That happened once. The user plugged the cable for their laptop, from the dumb switch, into the same dumb switch and took out most of the network.

MystikIncarnate ,

Fun story. I was tasked with figuring out a connection problem on a client’s network. STP was enabled, but everyone having problems were all connected to one switch.

Some investigation later and STP’s root port is not the expected root port…

After some investigation, a user took the ethernet cable for their computer (Daisy chained off their VoIP phone), and decided to store it, in the wall jack… Across the office.

That was Jack was on a different switch, and it had a lower port cost than the primary root port between the switches, so naturally, let’s send all inter-switch traffic over to this… Telephone.

/Facepalm

frezik ,

Protocols using UDP often dial in some features of TCP at the application layer, and resend packets as needed.

The meme is funny and all, but real world use of UDP is pretty sophisticated.

Bishma ,
@Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

You’re right. I forgot that grapeshot is always something to worry about.

agent_flounder ,
@agent_flounder@lemmy.world avatar

Just keep tossing packages over a tall fence, say “I guess that’ll do it”, then shrug and walk away.

WindowsEnjoyer ,

Sorry I didn’t get this UDP joke…

neeeeDanke ,

Well I ain’t just gonna repeat it…

wholeofthemoon ,

Because you’re so prepared for a guy kicking a parcel over the fence. It’s the same analogy my dude.

Bishma ,
@Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

The kick over the fence means they took enough care to carry it as far as your fence. UDP lobs it from one town over.

user224 , to mildlyinfuriating in New cars are great...
@user224@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

“Please do not turn off the engine during installation”

Tell that to my empty gas tank.

bstix ,

Well, if it’s a new car, it might not use any battery from idling anyway. Still a stupid requirement though.

SmashingSquid ,

That’s the most ridiculous part to me. Why isn’t this able to continue off the car battery? It should be do not disconnect car battery if anything. I hope there’s some sort of fail safe to prevent it from bricking that doesn’t involve a factory reset or dealer visit.

Poe ,

It’s because they don’t want the car battery running flat during installation. Kind of like how your phone requires a minimum battery charge to update

SmashingSquid ,

Yeah but shouldn’t the power usage for the infotainment system be similar to a cell phone at this point with similar hardware where it really shouldn’t be possible to run a car battery dead during an update?

Poe ,

Ideally. Depends on the update time too. I know flashing ECU tunes requires a battery topper. I’ve also killed a car battery modding my infotainments firmware so it’s totally possible. But most likely Subaru is doing it out of an abundance of caution… Don’t want an angry customer coming saying the update killed their battery

the_third ,

My car pulls about 130W on the 12V line while in “stand-by”. That would flatten a 12V, 40Ah battery in less than four hours, and that’s only if it’s in perfect health.

watson387 OP ,
@watson387@sopuli.xyz avatar

I’m extremely curious what would happen if I just shut it down and left it as usual while it is updating but I’m not ready to test it out yet. Lol

FederatedSaint ,

If the programmers have any competence, the update will just fail and you’ll have to restart the process.

Avg ,

So that sort of happened to me on the previous gen of this infotainment unit.

I used the app to turn on the car and it keeps the car on for a short time, I started the update but it took way longer than I expected and the car shut off halfway through.

It seems to me that the unit is kept in some low power standby mode, when I turned the car back on, it just continued from where it stopped.

watson387 OP ,
@watson387@sopuli.xyz avatar

Good to know.

Rand0mA ,

Haha now reinstall FordOS

thatsTheCatch , to steamdeck in Probably the worst Deck 2 design I've seen

This reminds me of the XBOX 720 memes from back in the day where the console was a sphere or some shit

v4ld1z ,
@v4ld1z@lemmy.zip avatar

Funny to see that it’s turned out be a simple geometrical shape after all but just a little… edgier.

Ser_Salty ,

IT’S SPHERICAL

tunetardis , to programmerhumor in Code quality can be measured in fucks per minute

This was a struggle for me going from hobbyist programmer to working at a company. I tried to tone it down. Really. But eventually I got “promoted” to having my own office with a suspiciously thick door. Hmm…

wahming ,

I’m not seeing the issue here

computabloke , to lemmyshitpost in gaming

For a few seconds this could have been a shit post. But when you see it, its shitpost.

Spiralvortexisalie ,

The Wallpaper Engine Logo + K(ill) = KDE Logo

Wallpaper Engine

K

=

KDE

Seems apt

ignotum , (edited )

KDE, Kill Dhem Everyone

SouravSatvaya , to mildlyinfuriating in Sideloading won't be enabled where I live
@SouravSatvaya@lemmy.world avatar

Brexit effect. Slowly but surely starts to show some results.

cupcakezealot ,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

for david cameron at least

Double_A , to nostupidquestions in What kind of light is this and is there a lightbulb based on it?
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Darkassassin07 ,
@Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca avatar

Beat me too it…

Kissaki ,

What do you want to be beaten with?

idunnololz ,
@idunnololz@lemmy.world avatar

I think it was a typo. They meant to write “beat meat to it”

erezac ,

Wow, TIL.

irmoz , to lemmyshitpost in And why you gotta touch my back with those ice blocks 😩

What exactly does the "No one: " accomplish, here?

ehyuman ,

No one:
This guy: What exactly does the "No one: " accomplish, here?

Kusimulkku ,

Lmao I see it now

irmoz ,

?

hglman ,

Allowing us to laff

Nythos ,

Making us all groan at a completely useless part of the meme.

FlaminGoku ,

Took me forever to understand that it is meant to show the thought is “random” / “weird” / “coming out of thin air”

It’s silly. You can see the same thing with memes starting with

So,

irmoz ,

Took me forever to understand that it is meant to show the thought is “random” / “weird” / “coming out of thin air”

How?

Kanda ,

It accomplishes the text “No one:”

irmoz ,

But why

Sunfoil ,

It implies a lack of justification, like there is no good reason girls hands are like that. Not sure why everyone is confused. It’s a meme format that has been around forever.

irmoz ,

How does it imply that? I know it’s been around ages, still don’t get it.

Sunfoil ,

Don’t really want to have to explain. It’s all here: knowyourmeme.com/memes/nobody

irmoz ,

Yes I’m aware of the meme. Still don’t get how “nothing was said by nobody” implies that, since it’s an incoherent concept - such a double negative surely implies someone said something?

Sunfoil ,

Better to think of it as “nothing was said, and nobody said it”

irmoz ,

So, somebody said something.

Sunfoil ,

No. Nothing was said. And nobody said it.

irmoz ,

Nobody saying nothing is logically equivalent to someone saying something.

What you want is “nobody said anything.”

Sunfoil ,

No. Nothing was said. Nobody said it. The meme wouldn’t make sense if it was;

No one: anything

irmoz ,

That is the only version that actually makes sense. It literally comes out as “no one said anything”. Isn’t that what’s supposed to be implied: there was silence, interrupted by something no one asked for?

Sunfoil ,

I don’t know how else to explain it. I guess you just have to be against the Internet one this one.

irmoz ,

You don’t need to explain it. I get it. It’s just wrong.

smeg ,

“I can’t think of a good intro for my joke and am a slave to trends”

renzev ,

A surprising amount of people get their knickers in a twist over it, which is pretty funny tbh. I like to put it in a lot of my memes just to piss people off haha

smeg ,

Consider my knickers twisted!

sigswitch , to mildlyinfuriating in New cars are great...

I’m kind of surprised that car technology is so awful. How the fuck am I paying $35k for a car and they’re still like “lets run the UI off a potato via the least responsive touch screen possible”? At some point I’d rather they just gave up on providing a UX themselves and just ran everything through Android Auto.

RogueSensei ,
@RogueSensei@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t mind having a UI for things like navigation or android auto. What gets me is why do things like climate control need to be buried in a UI? If my windscreen starts to steam up mid-jourmey, the last thing I need is to take my attention off the road to change the climate settings in the UI where dials and buttons will do the job much faster without needing to take my attention off the road.

c0mbatbag3l ,
@c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world avatar

Yes! I hate having everything in the UI. I’d much prefer a physical control set for A/C and even basic volume control at least.

You can’t sense a flat touch screen, but we are really good at sensing knobs and switches. It’s much safer for the driver to feel for a control rather than look at it.

clanginator ,

My 09 VW CC has knobs for bass, treble, and mid, in addition to volume. Seat heaters, AC, everything is tactile and I can operate anything without looking.

I know it’s manufacturers wanting to save money, but it’s so annoying that we’re going backwards. Touchscreen is a form of input. Just because it’s higher tech doesn’t mean it should replace tactile inputs in all applications ffs.

freeman ,

If my windscreen starts to steam up mid-jourmey, the last thing I need is to take my attention off the road to change the climate settings in the UI where dials and buttons will do the job much faster without needing to take my attention off the road.

This is why ill never get rid of my 2009 Tacoma. Three knob AC controls are the pinnacle of UI engineering. One knob for fan speed, one for temp and the third for vent/airflow selection. The backlight on one of my knobs has burned out at this point, but i dont need it…Can adjust the AC without taking my eyes off the road.

When it was ubiquitous, this meant i could do this in any car. Borrowed my inlaws FORD F-150 once, had to pull over to figure out how to turn off the goddam heat. It had BOTH a touchscreen and series of dash buttons but there were so many it was hard to figure out what did each thing while driving. I also had to update their dang infotainment, it wouldnt work on some random USB device, i had to go get a USB-A 3.0 device to get it to work at all and even then it was idling in my driveway for an hour and a half. Even tried just doing it via WiFi…nope

PrimeErective ,

Just FYI, it might be pretty easy to replace the back lights. You can even get LED ones. Word of warning though, if the bulbs are built such that the polarity can be reversed, they’ll only work in one orientation. This is due to the nature of how LEDs work. I had to redo mine because I didn’t win all 3 coin flips when I installed them

freeman ,

Yeah it’s not too bad. Just the dash kit is fairly old and held together by those plastic clip. I always break those things. It’s a juice isn’t worth the squeeze honestly. I actually upgraded my radio a while back to a wireless CarPlay/android auto and mean to ask them to swap em. But forgot.

RogueSensei ,
@RogueSensei@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, my 2017 KIA has a touch screen for controlling navigation, radio, android auto etc. but climate control is controlled with buttons and dials like you described. It’s modern enough to the point it feels safer than an older vehicle might, but I don’t think I want a vehicle more modern than this.

Whootshoot ,

This is the way

nuke , to noncredibledefense in Truly weapons of peace

Less bloodshed… for us

Way way more bloodshed for you

Gradually_Adjusting ,
@Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world avatar

Username rather pointedly relevant

Zorque ,

Pretty sure the blood gets vaporized before it can be shed.

psud ,

I think enhanced radiation weapons make for plenty of blood

Shipgirlboy ,

The purpose of a soldier is not to die for his country, it is to make the other dumb bastards die for theirs.

bolexforsoup , (edited )

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Cold_Brew_Enema , to programmerhumor in Polly wants a deliverable

I’ve worked with the worst project managers. Sit in a meeting for an hour completely silent, then at the end ask questions that were already answered. I’d love that job. That or scrum master. Our scrum master is fucking useless. I think if he doesn’t move stories around swim lanes he will explode.

Crack0n7uesday ,

When I first started applying for IT jobs back in the day I would see “Scrum Master” jobs get posted a lot and I would think to myself “why the fuck do they need to hire a rugby player” before I knew what a scrum master actually did.

Cold_Brew_Enema ,

I think a rugby player would be more useful in some situations

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

Strong terry tate vibes

Dasus ,
@Dasus@lemmy.world avatar

I once met one of those.

Just the type @Cold_Brew_Enema is talking about. Self-important douche who literally tried holding presentation on what scum master does. On a recreational evening. And we had no choice but sit there and listen because the space we were spending the evening in was the conferencerooms/sauna of their company. Then he had a brilliant idea of making people do airplanes as a “social activity.” Ugh. The average age in that room was past 30.

And yes I’m aware I wrote “scum”, it was on purpose. It was either that or “cum”, but I don’t want to slut-shame anyone and imagine any potential cum masters out there being more pleasant to be around than him.

Xanis ,

Oh god that reminds me of an old boss. I’m the type to sit in meetings and listen. Taking in everything and asking few questions/making few statements. I got pulled aside one afternoon and asked, “Why aren’t you participating in the meetings? You hardly speak up and sit there looking bored.” So after a few minutes of this talk I absolutely began asking the actual hard questions that I used to water down while putting in applications on the side.

Got pulled into a meeting a couple months (and several interviews) later on some email discussion I forwarded as way of explanation for a situation I was loosely involved with. The other email participant and I had a very strong relationship and because of that some professionalism fell off. Nothing truly informal. More khakis than dress pants if you will. Anyway, they tried slapping me with the old dreaded formal warning not over the situation, over “my tone used with another professional”, so I pulled out the undated and unsigned notice I had been carrying around since that initial talk.

Anyway, story went on longer than expected. Point is, sometimes you’re fucked either way.

RagingRobot ,

I want the title of scrum master just because it sounds gross. Keep your dirty hands off my scrum!

LiveLM ,

She scrum on my master until I… agile???

psud ,

I have been a scrum master for a couple of years. If you can facilitate, teach some scrum basics, and have some ability to get good work from people it’s the easiest job there is

Unfortunately my “train” downsized and my team was dissolved (the team was 80% contract staff in a government IT area, and we had to lose all the contract people) and I’ve been moved to a product owner role

PO isn’t going to be nearly as easy, but it has a good chance of being more fun

sheogorath ,

If you’re competent, a SM is invaluable, however it’s one of the easiest to replace role. As an example, almost all of the engineers in my division has a PSM I certification. So all the SM do is just facilitate meetings. When we started we have around 5 SMs but currently only have 1 because all of the SMs are redundant since the team already know how scrum works.

DigitalTraveler42 , to noncredibledefense in Prigozhin you were the chosen one

TFW you call a guy who idolized the Nazis enough to name his mercenaries “Wagner group” in their honor and recruited Nazis, psychopaths, and even cannibals for that group, “the chosen one”.

Rest in piss prigozhan.

skillissuer ,
@skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

as a cherry on top the og wagner, dmitri utkin was also abroad and he’s confirmed dead by now

SaakoPaahtaa ,

Wonder if the swastika tattoo on his skin looked like a helicopter when he was falling through the skies.

gregorum ,

I wonder if it burned like hitler in the crash

pastermil ,

I thought Hitler killed himself.

DragonTypeWyvern ,

They burned the body and threw the ashes in a river so no one would run around with bone relics.

KrimsonBun ,
@KrimsonBun@lemmy.ml avatar

yooo he’s dead?

fist_of_fartitude ,
@fist_of_fartitude@sh.itjust.works avatar

he was on a plane that crashed in Russia today, possibly because it collided with a a2a missile.

Zoidsberg ,
@Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca avatar

collided with a a2a missile

I didn’t shoot him, officer. His body just collided with my bullet.

Ezergill ,

It really sounds like the newspeak russian media uses. Like, the explosions are called “loud claps”, helicopter crashes have been called “hard landing” etc

aSingularFemboyHooter ,

I’m just going to launch missiles in this direction, if you get hit, that’s your fault!

Franzia ,

Also they were/are moving away from Ukraine to go do war crimes 24/7 in Africa

stingpie , to programmerhumor in If AI can now speak Italian, it can certainly replace us...

This might be happening because of the ‘elegant’ (incredibly hacky) way openai encodes multiple languages into their models. Instead of using all character sets, they use a modulo operator on each character, to make all Unicode characters represented by a small range of values. On the back end, it somehow detects which language is being spoken, and uses that character set for the response. Seeing as the last line seems to be the same mathematical expression as what you asked, my guess is that your equation just happened to perfectly match some sentence that would make sense in the weird language.

PlexSheep ,

Do you have a source for that? Seems like an internal detail a corpo wouldn’t publish

stingpie ,

Can’t find the exact source–I’m on mobile right now–but the code for the gpt-2 encoder uses a utf-8 to unicode look up table to shrink the vocab size. github.com/openai/gpt-2/blob/master/…/encoder.py

crispy_kilt ,

Seriously? Python for massive amounts of data? It’s a nice scripting language, but it’s excruciatingly slow

stingpie ,

There are bindings in java and c++, but python is the industry standard for AI. The libraries for machine learning are actually written in c++, but use python language bindings. Python doesn’t tend to slow things down since machine learning is gpu-bound anyway. There are also library specific programming languages which urges the user to make pythonic code that can be compiled into c++.

NeatNit ,

I suppose it’s conceivable that there’s a bug in converting between different representations of Unicode, but I’m not buying and of this “detected which language is being spoken” nonsense or the use of character sets. It would just use Unicode.

The modulo idea makes absolutely no sense, as LLMs use tokens, not characters, and there’s soooooo many tokens. It would make no sense to make those tokens ambiguous.

stingpie ,

I completely agree that it’s a stupid way of doing things, but it is how openai reduced the vocab size of gpt-2 & gpt-3. As far as I know–I have only read the comments in the source code– the conversion is done as a preprocessing step. Here’s the code to gpt-2: github.com/openai/gpt-2/blob/master/…/encoder.py I did apparently make a mistake, as the vocab reduction is done through a lut instead of a simple mod.

xmunk , to programmer_humor in STOP DOING DEPENDENCY INJECTION

We’re struggling to deal with climate change and these selfish developers can think of nothing except building more factories. This is a global issue, we need a global solution: eschew factories and services for defining everything globally.

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