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xthexder , 1 month ago

Unless you’re rebasing or something, you should never need –force. It’s a good way to accidentally delete or overwrite a remote branch.

I usually use the +syntax for force-pushing a specific branch: git push origin +my_branch

xthexder , 2 months ago

I think they’re talking about steer by wire here, not throttle by wire.

xthexder , 2 months ago

Open Source Software is definitely pretty 🔥 if you ask me!

xthexder , 2 months ago

As someone who’s absolutely terrible at drawing, but enjoys photography and generally creativity, having AI tools to generate my own art is opening up a whole different avenue for me to scratch my creative itch.
I’ve got a technical background, so figuring out the tools and modifying them for my purposes has been a lot more fun than practice drawing.

xthexder , 2 months ago

I think the way I use AI is fundamentally different from how most people draw. For me it’s much more like I’m exploring what’s possible, while making creative decisions on the direction to explore. I don’t start with anything in particular in mind. In a lot of ways it helps with the choice paralysis I get when faced with completely open-ended things like art.

xthexder , 2 months ago

The risk of me getting wrongfully convicted of something and getting a death sentence is higher than the chance of some dangerous murder escaping prison and hurting me.

Unfortunately being absolutely 100% certain is not a luxury we have in the majority of cases. People are framed, new evidence comes up, things like lie detectors and blood splatter analysis turn out to be junk science. Life in prison can get overturned and corrected if mistakes were made, death can’t.

xthexder , 2 months ago

That’d be twittererox.com I think? As far as I know it’s only replacing “twitter.com”

xthexder , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

This graph actually shows a little more about what’s happening with the randomness or “temperature” of the LLM.
It’s actually predicting the probability of every word (token) it knows of coming next, all at once.
The temperature then says how random it should be when picking from that list of probable next words. A temperature of 0 means it always picks the most likely next word, which in this case ends up being 42.
As the temperature increases, it gets more random (but you can see it still isn’t a perfect random distribution with a higher temperature value)

xthexder , 2 months ago

You seem to be the only one arguing about how this meme can apply to multiple ideologies. So far no one has disagreed about this meme possibly applying to feudalism, communism, or even a dictatorship.
I don’t think there’s any debate that the selfishness depicted in this meme is representative of modern day capitalism, so I don’t really understand the point you’re trying to make? It seems like you’re just trying to find anything you can to disagree with.

xthexder , 2 months ago

Exactly this. You don’t realize how useful they are until you’ve had a good one. The amount of BS from other teams they can shield you from can make focusing on your own job so much easier.

Unfortunately the ratio of good to bad PMs leaves a lot to be desired.

xthexder , 2 months ago

Same! I’ve lived 3 different places in this city and this is the first one that had an independent fiber internet provider. It’s hilarious getting Comcast/Xfinity mailers advertising internet offers that are higher priced and slower than what I have.

xthexder , 2 months ago

On Windows, EAC runs at the kernel level and basically has full access to everything about your system. It only works on linux because newer linux kernels support emulating system calls in user-space (this might not be 100% accurate, but it’s the general idea).

xthexder , 2 months ago

Microsoft Defender exists for Mac? What?

xthexder , 2 months ago

I’ve chatted with a few experienced web devs, and from what I’ve heard, there’s a whole group of “web programmers” out there that just learn React and other fameworks, but don’t actually know how to code anything themselves. So many places won’t even consider you if you don’t know React.

And here I am still thinking jQuery is an excessive amount of page bloat.

xthexder , 2 months ago

That’s like saying HDDs will forget numbers if you store them next to a powerful magnet. Most SSDs have an operating range up to 70°C, so that hot room would have to be more like an oven.

xthexder , 2 months ago

Now I really want a lego kit of a mechanical computer. That would be so cool.

xthexder , 2 months ago

FTX had over a million users, and was advertising publicly on things like the Superbowl. It wasn’t just rich people that lost money on FTX.

xthexder , 3 months ago

Depending on the credit card system used, there’s various levels of fraud detection. Some stores use a point-of-sale system for in-person transactions, and those generally don’t need the CVV code because you’re supposed to have the physical card. It doesn’t stop some businesses from using the system incorrectly, allowing them to charge a card without a billing address or security code.

This is part of why credit card signatures are basically useless compared to a pin that’s required for all in-person transactions.

xthexder , 3 months ago

It’s taken a while to figure out the meaning, but the reading I did basically defines “Woke” as generally being aware of the world and its problems, (Or in other words, not having your head in the sand). It’s baffling that the term has been used as an insult by anti-intellectuals.

xthexder , 3 months ago

Okay, fair. Let me reword that: I’m baffled that anti-intellectualism is a thing.

xthexder , 3 months ago

Human language truely is a wonder to behold.

xthexder , 3 months ago

Douglas Adams strikes again.

xthexder , 3 months ago

Is that even a feature that exists? For home charging you can do it whenever you want without internet, and for paid chargers they’ll have their own Internet connection anyway.

xthexder , 3 months ago

You don’t need Internet to put charging on an hourly schedule. I’ve never heard of any EVs doing actual smart communicating with power stations to distribute load, it’s all manual and up to the car owner to charge during off-peak hours.

Please direct me to any EVs that actually do this though, since it sounds nice.

xthexder , 3 months ago

With automated CI, I’ve had very few times where bisect is useful. Either the bug was introduced 1-2 commits ago, or it’s always been there and the exact commit is irrelevant to the solution, since you just fix it forward.

xthexder , 3 months ago

these things have been flooding in and being sold to kids through vape stores – nine out of ten which have been established within walking distance of schools. That’s no accident, they’re doing that because that is their target market.

That’s some bullshit. I assume there’s already a law banning the sale of vapes to minors.
Schools are built next to residential neighborhoods. Those same neighborhoods with adults living in them are the target market, not kids. Just like cannabis stores are absolutely everywhere now in Canada (including within walking distance of most schools).

xthexder , 3 months ago

The default copyright on all content is “all rights reserved”, even if no license is specified. So I guess it’s cool you’re giving out permission to use your comments with credit? It won’t stop any bots crawling the comments to train AI on though.

xthexder , 3 months ago

Not to mention there’s nearly 10x difference in bitrate between 4K streaming video and actual 4K HDR off a bluray. The only people who know how big a 4K video is these days are nerds and pirates, because it’s not like Netflix tells you.

xthexder , 3 months ago

Got it. Just spend millions of dollars that the developers of a free open source program definitely have just lying around.

xthexder , 3 months ago

Definitely not an issue in the US anymore. T-Mobile is the last carrier to support 2G and they’re shutting that down in April this year. I think most Android phones explicitly disable 2G now too because it’s not secure.

xthexder , 3 months ago

I’ve had my server behind Cloudflare this entire time. Should I not be doing that? At a minimum I need something to hide my server’s real IP.

xthexder , 3 months ago

“Pay no attention to Wimp Lo, we purposely trained him wrong… as a joke.”

xthexder , 3 months ago

This is extremely normal for any phones more than a couple years old. Wifi / cell network polling for messages uses a lot of battery, and I only remember my phone getting smarter about it around 2019? (Most phones now will detect you’re inactive and poll network much less frequently overnight for example)

xthexder , 4 months ago

Hololens 2 still exists and runs a highly modified version of Windows, so it does sort of exist. But obviously there’s no chance of running desktop apps on a Hololens.

xthexder , 4 months ago

"It is unacceptable that it is possible to buy tools that help car theft on major online shopping platforms.”

I can buy a hammer and screwdriver online, and those could be used for car theft. Does that make those also unacceptable?

xthexder , 4 months ago

I guess you haven’t seen all the TikTok videos of kids steeling Kia’s with nothing but a USB cable (used to turn the ignition, not anything digital).

To be fair, it doesn’t work in Canada because immobilizers are mandatory. They really love their cost cutting in the US though…

xthexder , 4 months ago

It literally is. They even covered that in the post’s video.

xthexder , 4 months ago

All of those are dated after the meme. I think it’s safe to say that account is based on this meme, not the other way around.

xthexder , 4 months ago

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xthexder , 4 months ago

The context of that quote is a little lost, because these days with inflation and housing prices, just owning your own home probably makes you a millionaire.

xthexder , 4 months ago

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xthexder , 4 months ago

The UNIX Tools Philosophy is that tools should do one thing, and they should do it well.
I wish more things followed this philosophy.

xthexder , 4 months ago

My adblocker is causing me to miss out on the JOMO!

xthexder , 4 months ago

“Web Extensions” is a terrible name for a browser extension and explains nothing, so I’m glad it’s actually called “Web Archives”

xthexder , 4 months ago

Trusting Humans is literally a security flaw.

Exactly, and using Bitcoin does not solve that because you still have to transact with humans. If you buy something with Bitcoin and the seller never sends you anything, you’re out of luck. Your money is gone.

If you use a regulated financial system you have some options. If you paid with credit card you can charge back and dispute the charge. Your money in the bank is backed by insurance that is guaranteed by the government.

Bitcoin only cuts out the middleman. Every other issue of trust with the recipient still exists, and those are the problems regulation solves, and the reason fraudsters love Bitcoin so much.

xthexder , 4 months ago

Damn, I must’ve been missing this in my code the whole time.

Not even joking, I’ve got a project that crashes the MSVC linker with “Internal compiler error occurred” like 1 out of every 5 builds.

xthexder , 4 months ago

Clickbait from before it was called clickbait.

xthexder , 4 months ago

There actually are a lot of really cool EV conversion builds on YouTube using fairly open parts. So I’d say this is perfectly accurate.