Quibblekrust
@Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club
- Comment on I c it! 2 weeks ago:
You made a parallel sentence construction:
- pinholes diffract light.
- lenses refract light.
You directly contrasted them. Refraction is obviously key to how lenses work. So it seemed to me like you were saying that diffraction is key to how pinholes work. 🤷
- Comment on I c it! 2 weeks ago:
Only if you know the sun’s size, which kind of presupposes you know its distance.
- Comment on I c it! 2 weeks ago:
Pinholes diffract light.
The diffraction effects from a pinhole camera are not what make them work. In fact, diffraction makes the photographs worse than they otherwise would be. The pinhole makes an effective aperture for photography because it’s small size produces small circles of confusion on the film plane. Ideally, you would make the hole as small as possible, but beyond a certain (small) size, defraction becomes the dominant source of blurring. So the size of the pinhole should be chosen to yield the best balance between geometric blur and diffraction blur.
The diffraction is merely a limit to the smallness of the aperture, and not what creates the image.
- Comment on Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter, a JRPG, just got released on Steam—and this is a big deal because this game is to PC what Final Fantasy VII was to PlayStation. 5 weeks ago:
What do you mean they won’t let you? There’s no time limit on edits.
- Comment on KATHLEEN 1 month ago:
You are correct, but it’s simpler than that.
Katy is short for Kathleen, and “did” is kinda-sorta-not-really short for accomplshment.
Katy -> Kathleen
Did -> Accomplishment - Comment on how do you slice it?? 1 month ago:
I once saw a snake half the size of a garden hose.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 2 months ago:
It was just a contrived example for the purpose of the comment, and I admit it wasn’t a good one.
How about turning a directory tree of dozens of .url files (Windows web shortcut files) into an HTML file? Directory names as section headings, and nested bulleted lists of hrefs using the .url file names as the link text, minus the “.url”. Can you do that on the CLI? Sure, but it would be a hell of a hack. It would be a disgusting blob of awk code, probably. You’re much better off writing it in something like Python.
It’s not hard stuff. It’s simple directory recursion, string building, and file writing. It’s just so mind-numbingly boring to write, and it takes time. Instead, Copilot made that for me in 10 seconds. As fast as I could articulate the need in text. No debugging needed. Worked the first time. All I had to ask for in a second pass was more indenting of each nested list, and I could have just added that myself.
I would argue that I can probably do it faster by hand than you can prompt your LLM and debug the slop it hands you back.
It’s funny that you’re not even sure you can do that extremely simple thing in my original comment faster than I could prompt an LLM. And your prejudice is showing by assuming I had to even debug it, or that the code was slop. The code looked great. It was perfect Python.
I wish all of you people would stop knocking what you’ve never even tried. Because it just makes you sound bigoted, using words like “slop” and making assumptions about the quality of the output while never having tried it yourself. Prejudice is never a good thing.
I’ve written a fair amount of advanced command line stuff using grep and sed and whatever else. Anything non-trivial takes just as much debugging as Python code, and it’s harder to read and debug. And when it’s boring, one-off code, why would you even want to do it yourself?
I’ll never understand the LLM hate on lemmy. Feel free to hate on capitalism, or on using fossil fuels to power LLMs, or on having no social safety net when LLMs displace jobs, or any number of other things, but to be prejudiced and assume it’s always slop when you’ve never even tried it just makes no sense to me. It’s a revolutionary tool in its infancy, and it’s already very useful on certain tasks.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 2 months ago:
That hasn’t been my experience for something this simple. Not at all. I vibe coded a 75 line Python script the other day and it worked perfectly the first try.
- Comment on human geography 2 months ago:
Everyone knows they’re properly called “sparkle butts”.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 2 months ago:
And most devs I know use it everyday, so… 🤷
Especially for repetitive mundane code, like they said. It’s much faster to check code for correctness than it is to write it in the first place.
“I need to restructure this directory tree. If a file has “index” in the name, then it has to go in a parallel directory structure starting at “/home/repos/project/indexes/” with the same child folders as the original.”
There, I just finished a custom Python script to accomplish that. Can I do it myself? Yes. Can I do it in 30 seconds? No. Why would I waste my time writing such a mundane script for a one-off thing?
- Comment on Alcohol is "amazing" - Kurzgesagt 2 months ago:
You know Kurzgesagt isn’t a person, right? It’s German for “in a nutshell”. (Litetally “shortly said”.) It’s a production studio.
- Comment on Any good Android games that aren't roguelikes? 2 months ago:
No, it’s rogue-lite. Not -like. Rogue-lite games have randomized runs, permadeath, and (often tons of) meta-progression involving spending stat points, or unlocking new skills or weapons. In many games, the difficulty decreases by unlocking new skills and adding stats. Sometimes the games increase their enemy difficulty as you earn victories, in order to balance the difficulty with all the new choices and skills you have.
Rogue-likes, on the other hand, are turn-based dungeon crawlers that have very little or no meta progression. They may have training wheels like being forced to start with a simple class and unlocking additional ones doing simple things in-game. They do this to avoid overwhelming new players with character choices, and not to make the game easier as yoy play. You get better by learning the game, and not by unlocking more things or adding to stats.
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 2 months ago:
let $random_game_publisher = "Ubisoft"; print("But on windows every {$random_game_publisher} is allowed...?"); > But on windows every Ubisoft is allowed...?
I’d like to report an issue with your code.
- Comment on Google search boss says AI isn’t killing search clicks 2 months ago:
But that’s the whole point of the feature, isn’t it? (I don’t even have Gemini installed.) You hold down the circle nav button (or do whatever with gestures) and then circle the part of your screen you’re trying to visually search for. “Circle to search”, right? I use it to ID bugs and things. Or translate text quickly from a photo.
Are you saying you would use it for just text searches? I’ve never thought it was for that. There’s a search box on the home screen for that, or just open your browser.
- Comment on US education 2 months ago:
No! You only felt what it does.
- Comment on Australia’s attempt to join the space race lasts 14 seconds 2 months ago:
We’re all one race: the human race. There is no space race.
- Comment on Name him. 2 months ago:
Skinny D.
- Comment on Off topic 2 months ago:
No! And neither are subtitles!
- Comment on Off topic 2 months ago:
I tried watching The Dark on Netflix with the English dub (only because it’s the default), and it was so bad. I had to switch to German and uae subs.
- Comment on These totally legitimate comments 2 months ago:
I am so grateful for this post! You always post such interesting content. 🦐⛹️♂️📷
- Comment on salty 3 months ago:
Nature’s Pop-Rocks
- Comment on Caption this. 3 months ago:
Norman Rockwell getting his weekly injection of inspiration.
- Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 4 months ago:
The term you’re looking for is “Extra Medium”.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
I don’t understand the question. Why wouldn’t you put a space after a question mark? You did so yourself twice in this post.
- Comment on ‘The Wheel Of Time’ Canceled By Prime Video After 3 Seasons 5 months ago:
That’s funny. Because unlike WoT, I loved Fallout. The bad acting was part of the schtick.
- Comment on Chicken breast steak medium-rare is the best kind of steak 5 months ago:
Chicken sashimi is a thing in Japan. It’s slightly cooked on the outside.
- Comment on Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade 5 months ago:
Deception? I asked what you thought GIMP was missing and then you went and made huge assumptions about me. That’s on you. I only replied the way I did because of what you said. Next time maybe just answer a question instead of insulting someone for even asking. Or don’t answer it. That’s fine, too.
- Comment on $80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen" 5 months ago:
Yet I played it so much I can hear it in my head right now.
- Comment on $80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen" 5 months ago:
In today’s dollars, my local video game store in 1991 was selling Wizardry for the NES for $141.
Fuck, the average AAA Atari 2600 game was $99 in today’s dollars. Games like Pitfall and Pac-Man.
Just some perspective. I’m going to go yell at a cloud or something, now.
- Comment on Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade 5 months ago:
Name a few features in Photoshop that cant be done in GIMP?
