pinball_wizard @ pinball_wizard @lemmy.zip

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Greedo shot first.

I always assumed Voltorb evolved to look like a PokeBall as a camouflage technique.

Which implies that PokeBalls have existed for millions of years....

Your explanation makes more sense than mine.

I do not have any RAM to share, sorry.

An economics simulation in Python needing 200+GB of RAM sounds preventable.

In your friend's shoes, I might start asking for pointers over on the programming.dev Lemmy.

As others have said, a rewrite in a faster language like C or goLang could help - but my guess is there's also ways to cut that memory need way down, while still using Python.

Is all vibe coding actually like that too or does some of it actually work?

It's all like that.

How bad that is - for you - depends on your patience and your learning style.

When I use it, my experience usually lets me recognize the mistakes and correct them quickly. So it's just a lazy convenience. Most of the time.

I've had it make subtle mistakes that cost me significant amounts of time to cleanup after letting the vibe code run for a few minutes.

I'm aware that particular mistake cost me more time that vibe coding has ever saved me.

I don't mind, because my employer is excited about AI right now, and I get paid for my time, and I don't work unpaid overtime.

So - to your implied questions:

Is AI bad at coding?

Yes. It will get better. But today, it is worse than most people think. Obvious problems are easily fixed. Subtle problems are being released daily all over the Internet to combine to cause headaches later.

Should you try it, anyway?

Of course! You'll learn something and it might do a good enough job for what you need. If you stick with it, you'll learn enough to do what you need.

Is vibe coding a better path forward than learning a programming language?

Absolutely not. If you need to succeed, and had to pick one, learn to code.

But you don't have to pick just one approach. And it's probably impossible to vibe code for long without learning to actually code. Vibe coding is a path toward aware knowledgeable coding. It's not the only path. It's not the best path. But it's still a path. And you can pursue more than one path.

So I say, Dive in! You'll be complaining with the rest of us, soon! Maybe together we will make it a bit better.

"U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, pushed Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon; Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta; Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla; Tim Cook, CEO of Apple; and Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet, on their attempts to secure billion-dollar tax handouts paid for by ripping away health care coverage, food assistance, and other services from millions of American families."

I wish headlines like this would use their names. These aren't an amorphous immoral blob responding to stimuli, these are specific human individuals who can still be held accountable to the rule of law:

Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai [are] Attempting to Secure Billions in Tax Handouts Paid For By Ripping Health Care, Food From Families

That's five people whose actions, per the article, may cause an additional 51,000 deaths.

So...Date Everything...is a thing, I guess?

The 1990s called to tell you that your setup is glorious.

Also, they said to say "whaaaaaat's up", I guess. I'm not sure what that was about.

Joking aside - that's a very nice setup in any decade.

That's a tough question. It's hard to know, because there are so many bot accounts.

The platform providers would like everyone to believe they have 100% solved this, and keep giving them advertising money.

But I feel like the three largest players are also the ones who have done the most to demonstrate general, all around untrustworthiness, recently.

Sure. Prison would be fine. Hell, I'll gladly argue for the reduced sentence after they're brought to justice. I bet I'll be feeling generous.

Yes. And I understand that one of the character's expressed gender is opposite inside and outside the Matrix.

Our logic is the same, only our conclusions different:

Thor: Love and Thunder: A mostly wasted chance to examine the love, sacrifice, power and worthiness.

Quantumania: A dumb excursion into the microverse.

There's more of value in "Thor 4: For more Thor", but it's also a bigger disappointment, than "Ant-Man: It's Bonkers How Small they are This Time" "Honey, I Shrunk the Kid, and Your Parents, and Myself". Haha.

I'm glad they're finally covering that classic story from the comics.

I hated that when it happened in Titan A.E.

Sweet. That's more often than I realized. Thank you.

I understood that (RuneScape) reference.

True. I wish someone had warned me off of used car dealerships.

To add to all your points, maybe one car in 100 is a lemon (has something seriously broken), but 100% of lemons eventually get traded to car dealers for trade-in value.

I feel like the odds of getting a lemon new or private sale aren't bad. But the odds of getting a lemon on a used car lot skyrocket.

Animals is Peppa Pig get dumber as they age, and some become so dumb that the rest cage them or eat then. Peppa's father is about 70% of his way there, already.

I joke. But on a serious note, there's so many better children's shows out there. I hope you manage to switch it up, before it becomes the favorite of any young people in your inner circle.

Some of the jokes in this show seem targeted to adults, which makes no sense, as absolutely nothing in this show is watchable to anyone above the age of 4.

Exactly. They don't seem to know who the intended audience is.

My only (kind of random) thought is that some kids change their names, eventually, to fully express themselves.

So I might be tempted by initials, or something more symbolic, myself.

It isn't what you were asking, but, I have my son's footprint from his birth certificate on top of my foot.

Awww! That is both epic and cute at the same time.

o7