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Badabinski

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Just a sweaty nerd interested in software, home automation, emotional issues, and polite discourse about all of the above.

  • Engineer builds AI laser defense system that wiped out every mosquito in his home

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  • How do you ensure that the room is empty, 100% of the time? Those disinfecting light bulbs don't have the same level of risk as this laser system.

  • Flathub Now Rejects AI-Assisted Apps and Submissions

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  • Nah, it's really not necessary. I'm senior dev at a large software company you've absolutely heard of and I'm just as productive as my colleagues who use LLMs. My tasks usually take fewer PRs as well, since there are fewer bugs that need to be fixed.

    I still don't understand why people are foaming at the mouth about LLMs. They're fucking awful at writing software.

  • what are you reading nowadays that's not crap?

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  • Metro 2033 is so good, you're gonna love it. He wrote such a fever dream of a novel.

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    Where is API tooling lacking ?

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  • Is your container using BusyBox? if so, then it's not even real wget, it's just the disgusting awful busybox version.

    God I hate BusyBox.

  • OnlyDesks

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  • Free as in speech, friend. I donate to multiple FOSS projects every month.

  • What are some of your favourite developer tools?

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  • Regex absolutely counts imo. I love it, especially when you combine it with a parser like, say, parsimonious.

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  • Every time I use Mcmaster-Carr's website, I weep at the lost potential for places like Costco. I wish every store's website was like Mcmaster-Carr.

  • EU could deny new member states veto rights as bloc pushes for enlargement

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  • Security Council.

  • Is AI Profitable Yet?

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  • Building a jet doesn't require over a trillion dollars of capex, and selling jets is profitable. There's solid evidence that inference isn't profitable, and the AI labs need inference to be extremely profitable if they're going to meet their absolutely ludicrous contractual performance targets. Oracle is expecting hundreds of billions of dollars from OpenAI by like 2030. That shit is not happening.

  • Please tell me about your non stovetop kettles, i need a new one and I'm considering how much to spend

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  • I have one of these too. I believe the model is the Cuisinart PerfecTemp. I'm very fond of mine, it's pretty fast and the keep-warm feature is great for ADHD ass people like me.

  • Why are Flathub downloads so slow sometimes? (Blog Post)

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  • The segmented caching request thing is… weird. I worked for a company that developed a caching proxy and it very much did not work that way. Like, random access in a caching system is usually kinda bad and you should try to avoid it. Like, our proxy manually controlled the disk (it wasn't a mounted filesystem) so it could constantly sweep the head across the disk and cue up reads and writes optimally. This gets much harder when things are fragmented as fuck.

    If the concern was about what would happen with multiple connections for the same cache miss, then the caching proxy should just combine the client-side connections into a single upstream one. You can still cache the first part of the response if your upstream connection gets terminated and then restart it from that point.

  • Better filament than ABS

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  • ASA can still warp, but an enclosed and warm build chamber should do a lot to squelch that. Are you printing on an open bed slinger? Or do you already have a build chamber?

  • Professional software engineers of Lemmy, are code reviews still a thing in the age of "AI" assisted coding?

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  • God, the fucking comment spam drives me absolutely fucking nuts. I used to enjoy reading 2 consecutive changes with 12 lines of comments because it meant I was in for a hell of a story of woe and misery. Now, it's just the fucking slop machine doing its thing.

    With regards to LLMs being good enough to do our jobs, I don't think that's ever going to happen. Token prediction is a neat trick, but you actually need something that can reason and understand to replace human intellect, and nothing I've seen on the horizon appears to be capable of that.

  • Professional software engineers of Lemmy, are code reviews still a thing in the age of "AI" assisted coding?

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  • Yes, there's far more code to review and the reviews are extremely fucking frustrating and I can tell who is using an LLM based on the volume and texture of the shit they're pushing out. You have to check everything excreted by an LLM far more thoroughly than if it had just been written by the senior dev who produced the slop. An LLM is incapable of reasoning, it's just choosing likely tokens based on past context, so nothing it produces can actually be trusted.

    Source—I'm a senior dev at a large software company you've absolutely heard of. I am drowning in slop.

  • Honestly impressive how pharmacies are able to find a new type of problem every time I go to pick up my meds

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  • Damn, that's unfortunate.

  • Honestly impressive how pharmacies are able to find a new type of problem every time I go to pick up my meds

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  • Have you tried this yet? I'm interested if it works generally or if it's just a local thing.

    EDIT: Sorry about the double post, my client was being weird.

  • Honestly impressive how pharmacies are able to find a new type of problem every time I go to pick up my meds

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  • Satellites and AI used to track UK hedgehogs in bid to slow decline

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  • Yeah, it's so fucking frustrating. I felt conflicted writing this because I don't want to reduce anyone's resistance to the garbage being pushed by the big corpos. We should be saying "no" as strongly as possible at every encroachment. I just also don't want essential research to also take the blow. A lot of environmental research benefits from satellite imagery, and anything we can do to glean more information from that is a good thing.

    Damned if you do, damned if you don't. You can't really expect the average person to learn the distinction between the good and the bad here. You can try to educate folks, but people already have enough shit on their plates as it is.

  • Satellites and AI used to track UK hedgehogs in bid to slow decline

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  • This is why "AI" is such a shit term. This is not a general purpose generative model, which is what you (and me) should (and very clearly do) dislike.

    This is a model that is designed to operate on a very specific set of data and extract information from it. It was created by people at the University of Cambridge, not one of the big shitty companies. It's not something that you run all the time, it's something you only run when gathering data for research purposes. The model was trained on truly freely available data. No nonconsensual large-scale scraping was used to train this model, so it's free of the ethical concerns typically associated with "AI". Since it's something a research group would run by themselves on a single (albeit very powerful) machine, it has very modest power requirements.

    Models like this have been around for at least 15 years in the research space, and they don't deserve your ire. It's one of the truly good uses of ML.

    If you want more details on the system, it's all open source and can be found here: https://github.com/ucam-eo/tessera

    EDIT: Please don't take this as me trying to defend LLMs and image generators. I fucking hate LLMs and image generators. People at my workplace have described me as "the anti-AI guy" because I really am. I think almost all of the ML products made by OpenAI, Anthropic, and others are unethical and also just shit.