Semi-Hemi-Demigod

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to technology in AI chatbots were tasked to run a tech company. They built software in under seven minutes — for less than $1.

It's not that writing loops does it, it's that I can ask ChatGPT to hand me pre-assembled parts that I can snap together instead of typing them out with my squishy human fingers. And I can do it for pretty much any language without too many syntax errors.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to risa in Started Star Trek: The Next Generation for the first time last night. How big of an ongoing factor is "Q?" Because I kind of hate him.

In season 1 Riker doesn't have a beard, which is your first clue it's a holodeck simulation.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to technology in AI chatbots were tasked to run a tech company. They built software in under seven minutes — for less than $1.

Right, but you can't give it the variable names you're using and have it fill them in, and if you want to do something inside that loop with

I can ask ChatGPT "Write me a loop in C# that will add the variable value_increase to the variable current_value and exit when current_value is equal to or greater than the variable limit_value, with all the variables being floats"

You won't find that answer immediately on the Internet, and you're more likely to make errors synthesizing the new syntax.

But you do you, I'll keep using ChatGPT and looking like a miracle worker.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to technology in AI chatbots were tasked to run a tech company. They built software in under seven minutes — for less than $1.

It's a lot less in my opinion, because you can just ask it a question rather than having to read and interpret things. Every programming tutorial in every language is going to waste my time explaining how loops and conditionals work, when all I want is how this language does them.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to technology in AI chatbots were tasked to run a tech company. They built software in under seven minutes — for less than $1.

It's great for things like "How do I write this kind of loop in this language" but when I asked it for something more complex like a class or a big-ish function it hallucinates. But it makes for a very fast way to get up to speed in a new language

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to technology in The proletarianization of tech workers

I started my tech career in 2003 and back then I thought I'd work for a startup, get some options, go public, and retire at 35.

That did not happen, and while I'm making more than most I don't have fancy vacations or a brand new Tesla.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to technology in The proletarianization of tech workers

For more details read the book Chokepoint Capitalism

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to noncredibledefense in Weapons development at NCD

Yeah, grenades and baseballs are the same size for the same reason: It's about as big a shape as a person can hold and throw far with a lot of accuracy. It was just a happy coincidence that my grandfather was both on a winning Little League team and the Nazis loved pillboxes with tiny holes. He was part of the 14th Armored and could probably land a grenade in a pillbox from a hundred feet away just like throwing someone out at home from left field.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to news in Chuck Todd Signs Off As Moderator Of ‘Meet The Press,’ *Successor Kristen Welker Says She’ll Approach New Role “As A Reporter”*

Compare this old episode of Crossfire starring Frank Zappa to any political talk show today and you'll get an idea of how far TV journalism has fallen.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to asklemmy in What would you do if Capitalism didn't curb your potential and force you to sell most of your time?

I'd do what I'm doing now but I'd be helping hospitals and schools instead of companies.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to noncredibledefense in Weapons development at NCD

WWI German grenades had sticks, which increased range a lot at the expense of accuracy.

Americans, raised on baseball, were able to get the pineapple grenades into impossible holes, which made them a lot more effective than the German-style grenade.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to world in Scientists design nuclear fuel cells known as a Trisofuel, the size of poppy seeds, to live in space.

“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.” - Stephen Jay Gould

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to technology in Wyze security camera owners reported that they could briefly see feeds from cameras they didn’t own

The IP cameras you can find with Google are because there's a lack of a firewall on them. It's possible to use devices on your local network without anyone knowing if you know what you're doing.

But because we consider electronics "consumer products" we don't have qualified professionals installing them, so we get doors without locks on them.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to technology in Wyze security camera owners reported that they could briefly see feeds from cameras they didn’t own

Wait, isn't every camera public? - NSA

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to technology in Wyze security camera owners reported that they could briefly see feeds from cameras they didn’t own

I mean, if you install a door with no locks on it it's not Home Depot's fault if someone walks in.