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MajorHavoc

@ MajorHavoc @programming.dev

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  • Ensign Bean, reporting for duty

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  • "Why does the navigator of the Enterprise have to watch his step?"

    "Because the Captain does his doody on the bridge!"

  • Playing "Minecraft" Without Minecraft

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  • This recipe is cool, but needlessly complicated.

    As the top Hacker News comment points out, just grab Luanti and Mineclonia and start playing.

    On your SteamDeck, boot to Desktop, search for Luanti in the app store. Install. "Add to Steam". Reboot. Grab a community controller mapping. Enjoy.

    Or on Windows, Mac, Android, Linux or FreeBSD: Luanti Downloads, and enjoy.

    Yes, you can play cross platform between all of these. Any running copy includes an optional server for your friends.

    No, the system requirements aren't the same as Minecraft - you can get away with way cheaper hardware.

    Edit: And check out Lemmy's Luanti community athttps://lemmy.ml/c/minetest

  • I do indeed

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  • "If you don't want to carry it home, that's okay. I can bring the smell home for us with a quick roll in it."

  • Do you think anyone will be able to remember who any of us are in 600 years?

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  • Yes. Or, they'll get the thread with the awkward dog meme about a microwave. It's beautiful to contemplate.

  • What does the social power heirarchy in the United States look like? What are the different classes?

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  • As someone "ordinary rich", it is acceptable to also call me "useful idiot who turns over power and influence to the real rich in exchange for an empty promise of joining them".

  • Uh...

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  • "Our AI security reviews 20,000 configurations every hour. Your money is safer than - shit. Well, nevermind. There's no money left. Excuse me, I need to leave the country."

  • The vibecoders are becoming sentient

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  • If it’s all dumped into a single commit, I will whip your computer into the nearest body of water and tell you to go fish it out.

    I'm going to steal this for an update to an internal guidance document for my dev team. Thank you.

  • The right way, the wrong way...

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  • People are too hard on Janeway. She didn't have great options here. I'm sure if she could have, she would have sacrificed Ensign Kim - for not refilling the coffee replicator.

  • Tactical Shooters?

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  • The tactics in Wolfenstein: ET were brilliant.

  • 1X will test humanoid robots in 'a few hundred' homes in 2025 | TechCrunch

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  • Yeah. Which I'm sure is what they're officially selling. That's fair. Long term, walking robots are likely only going to succeed thanks to learning algorithms.

    I find it suspicious that this company is touting their AI enhancement while admitting their product can't be trusted to navigate an apartment alone.

    Personally, I would select homes with simple layouts, before conceding to constant monitoring, if I could. But I couldn't do that if my mix of math and AI was outright bad, and it couldn't handle it...

    To me, this smells like over-promising and hoping new AI algorithms outpace their promises.

    And having a remote operator just looks like a lot like a classic mechanical turk scam.

  • An AI bubble threatens Silicon Valley, and all of us

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  • AI is propping up the blockchain bubble that already popped.

    Both have been primarily interesting solutions looking for problems to solve without any hard work, rather than having any worthwhile investment strategy, in most cases.

    There's people doing hard work with block chain and AI to solve real problems. But there aren't "the vast majority of venture funds" number of people doing that.

    I am constantly amazed at how long it takes folks to realize their money is being pissed away.

    An alternative less generous assumption is that they're mostly just laundering crime money, and so don't mind the high rates of loss.

  • EPA knew it wrongfully canceled dozens of environmental grants | According to an internal email, EPA officials knew they had no contractual right to cancel dozens of grants. They did it anyway.

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  • This is going to be a great time to be a lawyer... until the climate kills us all, of course.

  • Can't solve the captcha because I don't know what undefined is

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  • When unsure of what the Captcha is trying to learn from me, I find "Kill all humans." is a pretty good guess what the Captcha is really after.

  • 1X will test humanoid robots in 'a few hundred' homes in 2025 | TechCrunch

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  • While Neo Gamma uses AI to walk and balance, the robot is not fully capable of autonomous movements today. To make in-home tests possible, Børnich says 1X is “bootstrapping the process” by relying on teleoperators — humans in remote locations that can view Neo Gamma’s cameras and sensors in real time, and take control of its limbs.

    So yhis is a non-functional product.

    Being able to walk autonomously is normally done with a lot of difficult math, which it sounds like they don't have the talent on staff to code.

    Be sure to get your venture capital dollars in soon, because that's all this is here for.

    Also, it's comforting to know that creepy robot face will initially be remote controlled by a rotating series of low paid total strangers. And by initially, we mean always (as in the case of Amazon checkout.)

  • How would you feel about the government adding magnesium to water?

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  • Why do programmers want to quit programming and start a homestead?

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  • Heh. Good point.

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  • Oh, gee. A Microsoft product that worked perfectly locally is about to require a subscription. Who could have possibly guessed that would happen, yet again? (This is sarcasm.)

    I really like OneNote, but I decided to learn something else when I realized which way the wind was blowing.

  • No more Bosch for me..

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  • Bosch has a lot of goodwill. Interesting how they decide to spend it. Also Consumer Reports needs to start considering Internet connectivity, because the risks from Internet connected dishwashers are real and scary.

  • Why do programmers want to quit programming and start a homestead?

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  • I've longed to work the fields with my hands and simple tools because the fields don't fucking spit out meaningless gibberish when I'm just trying to get them to process a simple text field, and my hands don't have documentation apparently written by a distracted seven year old.

    And while the living off the land will certainly kill me due to my own incompetence, nature will have the decency to just eat my corpse and not gloat over my failure repeatedly in a hung CI/CD process for the rest of eternity.