Flamekebab @ Flamekebab @piefed.social

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It's entirely possible to know how to use a program and still think its UI is dogshit.

I can't say I've ever found him to speak too slowly, but you do you.

I think it's Gaming Historian that does my head with that, or at least used to. Comedically slow.

Further distancing us from that bin-fire? Oh no. How awful.

I'd support a Lemmy-wide ban on posts with pro-advertiser censorship.

That sounds about where I'm at. I'm happy to spend all day outside and I prefer to be barefoot in general. But I want a bit of floor for sleeping on. Far too many nights spent in perpetually soggy tents!

I detest camping. I've camped in a number of places and it has never been good. I don't care if it's the rolling Mongolian steppe greeting me in the morning, it's still horrible.

I like floors.

Won't someone think of the poor bankers?

It took me a moment to realise this was about inner monologues.

Americans: We're very unhappy with the status quo
Dems: Best I can do is more status quo

I'm watching from the sidelines but my gods, you guys need to take your politicians to account. Bricks for the current lot first, mind. The two "sides" aren't equal - one is awful and the other is redefining how bad human beings can be without directly sending people to gas chambers.

Maurice: 'To my right, heh, to everyone's right in fact, we have congressman Alex Shrub; the youngest state congressman to ever be elected by Vice City and now a respected man in the capital. Mr. Shrub got elected because he has great hair and says things that make you nod your head. His campaign appealed to the wealthy because he set all of us at ease by confirming, "It's okay to be rich, as long as you say you care about the children." Mr. Shrub, welcome!'

Alex: 'That's not entirely true, Maurice. My campaign also appealed to the poor... who were too stupid to understand what I'm saying, so I held up pretty pictures and then I gave out candy bars to appeal to their most base insticts.'

I'm reminded of the scientist paid for by big tobacco in Thank You for Smoking...

I hear that. Given I need practice in refactoring code to improve my skills, it's not useless to me right now but overall it doesn't seem like a net gain.

I've found it can just about be useful for "Here's my data - make a schema of it" or "Here's my function - make an argparse interface". Stuff I could do myself but find very tedious. Then I check it, fix its various dumb assumptions, and go from there.

Mostly though it's like working with an over-presumptuous junior. "Oh no, don't do that, it's a bad idea because security! What if (scenario that doesn't apply)" (when doing something in a sandbox because the secured production bits aren't yet online and I need to get some work done while IT fanny about fixing things for people that aren't me).

Something I've found it useful for is as a natural language interface for queries that I don't have the terminology for. As in "I've heard of this thing - give me an overview of what the library does?" or "I have this problem - what are popular solutions to it?". Things where I only know one way to do it and it feels like there's probably lots of other ways to accomplish it. I might well reject those, but it's good to know what else exists.

In an ideal world that information would be more readily available elsewhere but search engines are such a bin fire these days.

Surely it's a clone given that it clones the game mechanics specifically? As in the rules of the game are 1:1 to Civ V, or as close as you'd need to be an expert in the game to tell the difference.

Our towns and cities centres are dying because there's no realistic way for most businesses to bring in enough to make the numbers add up when factoring in premises. The costs are insane. Trying to get enough trade to cover that and wages is a non-starter for most businesses. Commercial premises have essentially priced themselves out of the market.

If you're referencing the video, I didn't watch it. It was a serious question because I don't know whether using LLMs for any large scale coding task is a (terrible but real) thing or an elaborate joke. It's hard to tell with some of the hideously stupid bullshit that has been happening in the last few years (e.g. NFTs).

That creepy dude is still at Gearbox?

Is "vibe coding" a real thing? I thought it was a meme.

These are internal drives connected to a desktop PSU wired to a USB interface to connect to the laptop.

Haha, yeah. It does make me wonder whether I should bin the whole TrueNAS approach entirely. It seems like a tremendous faff when I could just have the files mirrored to another disk as a backup.