canis_majoris

canis_majoris , 11 months ago to technology in Stack Overflow's CEO doesn't understand Stack Overflow

I’ve had great success with LLMs troubleshooting my code independently without needing to consult a peer.

It’s easier than looking on StackOverflow because it already crawled the answers there and it’s been programmed to drop the sass unless you ask it to be sassy specifically. All the knowledge without the elitism.

canis_majoris , 11 months ago to technology in Stack Overflow's CEO doesn't understand Stack Overflow

Because the established elite on SO are fucking dicks. You can’t ask a question anymore. It’s literally impossible to open a new thread. Yeah, a lot of troubleshooting has been answered, but do you really think the burden should be on the new user to know literally every single existing thread on the site? No, that’s absolutely absurd, and when some moderator or poweruser comes in and tells the newbie to go fuck himself for lack of research it’s pretty obvious why nobody wants to use the platform when the moderatorship is basically actively antagonistic to anybody seeking information, which is literally the point of the site.

I’m glad it’s been crawled by GPT. I’m glad because the bot gives me no sass at all when I ask it to audit my code. It does it without any malice or bullshit and it saves me time from doing the research because everything is in the LLM DB already.

canis_majoris , 11 months ago to technology in can we please keep this community about technology and not Twitter/X and elon news?

I like cement. Roman cement with quicklime. Shit cracks on the limestone flakes which erode and re-calcify within all the micro-fractures. Fuckin Romans were mad smart.

canis_majoris , 11 months ago to technology in can we please keep this community about technology and not Twitter/X and elon news?

Yeah I never got the gimmick of that sub because it’s actively contributing to the problem. Guy lives rent free in their heads and they have to take it out on the rest of us.

canis_majoris , 11 months ago to startrek in Anyone else out there who actually really loved Discovery's S1 style of Klingons?

I liked the way they talked about science from a warrior race in Mass Effect. The Krogans have scientists but they’re mostly focused on making bigger bangs and booms. I would probably assume the Klingons are similar.

I know we have a few episodes showing other sides of the castes but generally we only interact with the warrior caste and occasionally see arbiters like in Rules of Engagement (DS9) or Judgement (ENT).

The only time we saw an actual Klingon scientist was in a TNG episode where they had figured out meta-phasic shields or something that allowed shuttles to get closer to a sun than ever before. Crusher was even dealing with some prejudice regarding Klingon scientists and has a few lines about how it feels weird to be working with a Klingon not focused on war and battle.

canis_majoris , 11 months ago to startrek in Anyone else out there who actually really loved Discovery's S1 style of Klingons?

I think Emony was actually the one that hooked up with McCoy. IIRC Enmony was the gymnast and dancer and she was comparing her capabilities with McCoy’s “hands of a surgeon”.

canis_majoris , 11 months ago to startrek in Anyone else out there who actually really loved Discovery's S1 style of Klingons?

My main issue was less about how they looked and more about what they were capable of. The idea of being able to essentially species change a Klingon into a Human with TOS-era Klingon medical tech sounds impossibly advanced for what the Klingons are known for. Their scientists are few and far between, and even in TNG it’s elaborated on that treatments for disabilities aren’t even looked into, they just tell you to kill yourself. That doesn’t sound like the kind of species that 100 years prior is going to be able to do this insane medical procedure.

canis_majoris , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to startrek in Anyone else out there who actually really loved Discovery's S1 style of Klingons?

They would have been fine with hair. The whole thing where everyone is bald was the point that made it look bad.

I have pictures of T’kuvma photoshopped with hair and he looks great.

Another thing I want to mention is that Gene himself never held the series up to visual continuity. When the budget got better, the sets got better and so did the makeup. It was just a natural progression of the series. I don’t feel like it’s a stretch to keep trying to improve on alien appearances, especially as the aesthetic for the show changes and evolves. I like the SNW bridge update. I like that it’s all metal and glass and feels substantial.

canis_majoris , 11 months ago to android in 'Android's now better than iOS': Instagram boss weighs in on the age-old iPhone vs. Android debate

KDE Connect rocks. It’s objectively better than Windows Phone Link because, somehow, it fucking works.

canis_majoris , 11 months ago to selfhosted in What do you use for self hosting a streaming service like Geforce Now?

I have it installed on Arch (running an Nvidia GPU) and it works flawlessly connecting to my main Windows machine.

canis_majoris , 11 months ago to linux in What are the main challenges in Linux adoption for New users, and how can it be addressed?

The main issue is that easy problems that should be solved baseline by the OS crop up far too often for the average user to want to have to deal with day to day. Also, whenever you go to ask on a forum, you’re usually told to just do something entirely different or use another distro. Every time I go to fix something on this machine it sends me down a rabbit hole of shit I don’t care about because it doesn’t solve my problem since it introduces a brand new one to solve. If I want to use solution X don’t tell me to go install program Y that’s your favorite program to use but is literally not what I’m trying to accomplish.

Today I installed Manjaro onto an old laptop and for the life of me I could not figure out why it wasn’t connecting to the internet. It wasn’t a network issue, it was the fact that the time was out of sync. It took me a while to realize that was the issue and not that I had fucked up my router config or something. It just couldn’t validate any cryptography because the time was off. There were like four different solutions that all attempted the same fix and eventually I was able to connect with ethernet and restart timesync, which only worked after a restart.