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pixxelkick , 2 months ago to technology in Amazon builds AI model to optimize packaging

This seems like it has pretty powerful potential for space flight.

Being able to aggressively min max packaging materials to secure materials could be critical for reducing payload sizes on shuttles, where every single individual gram counts.

Each kg of packaging is thousands of dollars to get into orbit, so that’s really appealing.

I’d be curious to see if Amazon is also working on box packing algorithms for maximizing fitting n parcels across x delivery trucks.

IE if you have 10,00 boxes to move, what’s the fewest delivery trucks you can fit those boxes into as fast as possible too, which introduces multiple complex concepts. Both packing to maximize space usage and the order you pack it in to minimize armature travel time…

I’d put money down amazon is perfecting this algorithm right now, and has been for awhile.

pixxelkick , 2 months ago to technology in Amazon builds AI model to optimize packaging

Bruh did you read the article at all? Nothing you talked about has anything to do with what this AI is for.

pixxelkick , 2 months ago to asklemmy in What todo app are you using?

I use neorg for neovim, specifically I use:Neorg journal today to open up a daily .Norge file that I maintain notes, todo, etc on.

If I need to leave a note for myself for the future, I create a note for that day ahead of time.

pixxelkick , 2 months ago to programmerhumor in Junior Dev VS Senior Dev

Harpoon is pretty much just tabs, but, without the actual visual ui of tabs, from my experience.

You pin a specific buffer, and can jump back to it, but unlike normal markers it persists between sessions and has a couple other nuances to it.

It pretty much works like tabs do though.

pixxelkick , 2 months ago to programmerhumor in Junior Dev VS Senior Dev

Often people are surprised that I can walk and type but honestly I haven’t found it impacts my wpm at all.

pixxelkick , 2 months ago to programmerhumor in Junior Dev VS Senior Dev

Yup, I usually have it set to the slowest setting when typing.

I find I work much better and can think clearer while walking, as it keeps the blood flowing and makes me feel more awake and engaged.

If I have a tough problem I’m trying to work through I turn the speed up to a faster pace and sorta just work through it in my head while speed walking, often this helps a lot!

During meetings when I’m bored I also turn the speed up a bit.

I often get around 10k to 12k steps in a day now.

Note I don’t stay on the treadmill all day long, I usually clock a good 4 hours on it though.

Then I take a break and chill on the couch with my work laptop, usually I leave my more “chill” tasks like writing my tests for this part, and throw on some Netflix while I churn all my tests out.

Highly recommend it, I’ve lost a good 15ish lbs now in the past year since I started doing it, and I just generally feel a lot better, less depressed, less anxious :)

pixxelkick , 2 months ago to programmerhumor in Junior Dev VS Senior Dev

I have heard of jupyter but am not familiar with its nuances.

But doing python dev with neovim is very doable, it uses the same LSP I think.

I personally have a dedicated dev machine running debian that has everything on it, including nvim configured.

I SSH into my dev box from other machines to do work, because neovim is a TUI it “just works” over SSH inside the terminal itself, which is what I like about it.

It feels good to just

1. SSH into my box
2. tmuxinator my-project-name

And boom, 4 tmux tabs pop open ready to go in the terminal:

• nvim (pointing at the project dir)
• lazygit already open
• nvim (pointing at my secrets.json file elsewhere)
• an extra general console window opened to project root

And I can just deep dive into working asap in just those 2 steps, it feels very smooth.

I often can even just do tmux a (short for attach) to just straight re-open whatever session I last had open in tmux, instantly jumping right back into where I left off.

pixxelkick , 2 months ago to programmerhumor in Junior Dev VS Senior Dev

I try and start using it for basic tasks, like note taking, to get used to its interface and basic commands like :w and :q, as well as switching between insert and cmd mode.

Once you are familiar with switching between modes, copying, pasting, etc, then you probably will wanna Starr learning it’s lua api and how to load in some QoL plugins. Basic stuff like treesitter, telescope, and nvim-tree are good places to start.

Once you feel comfortable with swapping between files with telescope and configuring plugins, I’d deep dive into getting an LSP up and running for your language of choice so you can actually code.

In the interim I’d recommend getting comfy with using tmux in your terminal, try and open new tmux tabs to do units of work instead of constantly cding around.

I like to keep 4 tmux tabs open for a project:

• nvim
• lazygit
• secrets file open in nvim (usually my secrets file is in another dir so it doesn’t check into git)
• a general terminal tab for running commands

pixxelkick , 2 months ago to programmerhumor in Junior Dev VS Senior Dev

From my experience the only big changes I’d say I made overtime are:

1. Font size bumped up
2. Switched to neovim from visual studio, which took like a year to relearn my entire workflow (100% worth it though)
3. Switched from multiscreen setup to one single big screen (largely due to #2 above no longer needing a second screen, tmux+harpoon+telescope+fzf goes brrrr)
4. Switched to a standing desk with a treadmill, because I became able to afford a larger living space where I can fit such a setup.

If I were to do this meme though it’d mostly be #1, there just came a day when I had to pop open my settings and ++ the font size a couple times, that’s how I knew I was getting old.

pixxelkick , 2 months ago to showerthoughts in We are going to have to reevaluate our moralities when people in the future can look like children while not actually being children

I find it weird how much people give a shit about what consenting adults do for pleasure in the comfort of their own homes, and to their own bodies.

If they are an adult, it’s their body and their choice.

And if their choice is to cosplay as a child and bang an older person because that’s what gets their rocks off, I really don’t care.

It’s honestly not even the most outlandish of fetishes I’ve seen. We got people out there that orgasm from popping balloons, eating shit, and getting kicked in the crotch.

pixxelkick , 2 months ago to showerthoughts in We are going to have to reevaluate our moralities when people in the future can look like children while not actually being children

This is already to some degree an existing dilemma. There are already individuals out there who, due to genetic lottery, happen to have an adult body that through some efforts of clothing, makeup, hairstyle, etc, can very much present themselves as substantially younger looking than their actual age.

Lord knows certain popular niches in the porn industry make this apparant… >_>;

And from what I have heard on social media, sometimes these individuals couple up with another person who… doesnt look substantially younger.

And often, these couples face quite a bit of controversy and social stigma, despite everything they are doing and into being 100% legal and, from am objective standpoint, ethically fine (they are two consenting adults after all)

But I agree that future tech with things like gene editing and whatnot this dilemma will certainly become substantially more pronounced and I think it will likely be yet another group being attacked for daring to live their lives.

pixxelkick , 2 months ago to linux in XZ Utils is back on GitHub and Lasse Collin has been unbanned

Lasse is the original maintainer of XZ, they have been placed back in their position as sole maintainer.

“Jia Tan” was the person who slipped the backdoor into XZ and is now banned.

Lasse has already fixed abd removed the backdoor.

XZ itself is critical software everyone uses (its one of the main compression/decompression programs used on linux)

pixxelkick , 2 months ago to linux in Reproducing a Microsoft corporate environment on Linux.

but the best way to avoid getting them is still to just avoiding stupid shit.

This is fine and dandy on a personal pc, but in a work environment you are now being actively targeted by malicious actors if your company is a good target.

Constantly.

So once you are in that zone you do need some fast acting reactive tools that keep watch for viruses.

pixxelkick , 2 months ago to technology in "No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and ov

I primarily use a couple locally hosted LLMs for searching for info now.

Larger LLMs are trained on so much info that they get the answer right surprisingly often.

Only thing they of course struggle with are recent events.

pixxelkick , 2 months ago to technology in "No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and ov

If a website has literally no login system, there’s nothing to phish.

There is honestly no reason to use SSL on a static website that has no login system and just displays some content.

IE a static blog or etc, where the only content on the website is just “look at this stuff, okay thank you!”