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"Working with Gen AI" by Dandytoon
  • I love this way of thinking about it.

    I haven't been interested in AI enough to try writing code with it, but using it as an interactive rubber ducky is a very compelling use case. I might give that a shot.

  • Misplaced Faith in Racist Ignorance
  • I don't think he is saying that an inability to differentiate between foreign languages is racist, but rather that given a random shithead who holds truly racist beliefs, it is unlikely they will be able to recognize differences between Asian languages.

    To put it more generically, most people in Set A exhibit Trait B, but having Trait B alone does not mean you are a member of Set A.

  • Anon is your financial advisor
  • That's true, they can be a bright spot in a dark sea of overpriced used crap.

    Unfortunately that seems to be fading too though. It seems like in-person ones are usually the only time that happens though, and many of them are moving online. That means you're competing with everyone else who knows how to use auction sites besides ebay.

    Maybe I'm just looking for the wrong things though. Collectibles outside of my interests may be experiencing different trends.

  • Anon is your financial advisor
  • Flipping second-hand goods hasn't been viable at any worthwhile scale in over a decade. Too many people know how to use the Internet now, and usually google their shit before it goes on the garage sale or flea market table. The days of finding that rare vase or vintage toy that the owner doesn't know the value of are gone.

  • ???
  • Yep, that's exactly what happened when I was on escort duty for recently recruited Iraqi police. And my god the result looked exactly like second stick figure image in the OP. I'm glad cleaning it up wasn't part of my job.

    I also watched a guy reach into a urinal and use the urinal cake as hand soap. I feel kinda bad that I didn't stop him, but he did it with such speed and confidence that it was the right thing to do, it was too late by the time I realized what was happening.

  • Anon is a real 4channer and definitely not a fed
  • That's probably for the best.

    I spent 4 years in the USMC and have a very complicated relationship with my time enlisted. There is a lot I'm proud of, but there's also a lot that would be nice to forget.

  • Anon is a real 4channer and definitely not a fed
  • The ASVAB tests for aptitude, hence the name, not the ability to step into a job without training. Looks up practice questions for the Mechanical Comprehension portion to see the kinds of questions that might suggest someone could be a good mechanic.

    The U.S. army absolutely does provide training to its mechanics, and does not assume people know jack shit coming in. I scored high enough on the MM portion of the ASVAB to be one and don't don't know a damn thing about fixing vehicles.

  • The decline of Intel..
  • Your analogy is very incomplete. No one is saying that Intel's products or technology is "moving backwards", but rather that their market share and performance as a company are declining.

    Take your person "standing still" and imagine they were previously in the lead during a marathon and suddenly stopped before the finish line. They're not moving backwards, but their position in the race is dropping from first, to second, to third, and they will eventually be last if they don't start moving again.

  • I know that naming variables is one of the biggest unsolved problems of Computer Science but how would you name a boolean flag to be self explanatory?
  • I sometimes name booleans after the action that will be taken rather than the condition they represent For example, I might have booleans called "doQuickInit" or "invertResult". I find this very useful when the value of a boolean is determined by a complex series of conditions that are not actually true or false.

  • Why doesn't any country do this?
  • Why hello there, Mr. 0352.

    At least your MOS still exists. I was one of them SMAW guys, and now both my job and old unit have been deactivated. It makes me feel like even more of a dinosaur than I otherwise would when I talk to people about my time enlisted.

  • Calculus made easy
  • It’s all triangles.

    Sure. They relate different properties of triangles or periodic phenomena.

    But can you explain what a "sine" operation is actually doing? Algebra and calculus can pretty much all be explained in terms of basic operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. But I'm in the same boat as @rekabis@lemmy.ca - trig operations feel like a black box where one number goes in and a different number comes out. I am comfortable using them and understand their patterns, but don't really get them.

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