thebardingreen

@thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI giants race to scoop up elusive real-world data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well yeah, they can’t keep training their models if all the available data is slop from their models.

  A future is coming where it can just be your job to let an LLM observe your life 24/7… And that might be the only job available.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's hear it, little lemmings.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Tesla. I want to ask him about a bunch of the rumors and conspiracy theories about him. I’m sure almost all of them are bogus, but I’d love to know.

  My son picked Einstein. He’s curious what his last words were.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These new Captchas are getting out of hand.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  • Runs off to make a captcha that uses lioconcha hieroglyphica.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every question you ask, every comment you make, I'll be recording you⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I didn’t bother teading the OpenAI ToS or privacy policy.

  I just assumed they were recording everything I did and would probably sell it get in the opportunity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am forced to admit that I knew that.

  But my partner of 8 years has DID.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can make that tomorrow…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That guy they got to play Stephen Hawking in ST:TNG

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨born 2 l8⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨beaver girls rise⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nyan?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: Scott Bakula will be attending STLV.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why front-end development will persist⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m working with a team where my business partner and I are external consultants, but they also have internal developers (who are mostly very junior and need hand holding with things like using git).

  Anyway, the CEO (without talking to us first) hired a pure vibe coder with no software engineering experience to build the user interface. Super nice guy, super easy to work worth, super eager to learn but OH MY GOD THIS CODE.

  A lot of my work is / has been in cybersecurity (mostly for the space industry / NASA adjacent projects, but also less recently for start ups and fortune 500 companies). This app is the worst I’ve ever seen. The AI writes things SO weirdly. 30k lines of typescript to do something we could have done in 6k. Reams of dead code. Procedural code to do repeatable tasks instead of functions / classes (10 different ways of doing the same thing). API keys / data base credentials committed to git. API Keys stored in .env but then ALSO just hardcoded into the actual API calls. auditability

  AND no. At the end of the day, it wasn’t cheaper or fast than it would have been to hire us to do it right. And the tech debt now accumulated to secure / maintain this thing? Security is a long term requirement, we’re bringing a buddy of mine in to pentest this thing next week, I expect him to find like 10-12 critical vulns. Wow.

  tl;dr: If a project requires security, stability, auditability, or the need to quickly understand how something works / why something happens, DON’T vibe code it. You won’t save money OR time in the long run. If you’re project DOESN’T need any of those things (and never will), then by all means I guess, knock yourself out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet regulation is entering its hall pass era⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Driving wider adoption of alternative social media and privacy tools.

  Although I expect them to try to come for us and our tools at some point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the story in your field? Here's mine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  TBH, 98% security problems in the Python ecosystem boil down to mission critical projects using old versions of libraries or straight up unmaintained libraries, where the library in question is 100+ megabytes of who knows what, but the project only imports one function, the utility of which the devs could have recreated themselves in 15 minutes without needing to use the library, especially lately when everyone just imports what the AI tells them to import.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the story in your field? Here's mine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Image This is me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Saved me a click.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⚡️👇👇👇⚡️⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Darth Tyrannosaurus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⚡️👇👇👇⚡️⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there actually any biologic mechanism to generat and conduct electricity at a high enough voltage and current that it can ionize air over a distance as large as that (looks like at least 1/2m) without damaging the actual animal doing it?

  Midichlorians. The ability to cause an extinction level event is insignificant next to the power of the Force.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We tried to build systems that perform a kind of basic, rudimentary, extremely power intensive and inefficient mimicry of how (we think maybe) brain cells work.

  Then that system lies to us, makes epic bumbling mistakes, expresses itself with extreme, overconfidence, and constantly creatively misinterprets simple instructions.

  Hmmm… Actually, maybe we’re doing a pretty good job…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jupiter⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And I went to Venus, to get more…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pick up artist 101⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Too many ads lying to me about hot single chromosomes seeking casual syngamy in my area.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BREAKING NEWS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tekeli-li

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Showrunners Talk Season 3 Premiere And “Retconning” The Gorn⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with basically everything you said, although I’ve found more things than just the Gorn in SNW to be cranky about. While TNG era never TRIED to get science and engineering right… they tried WAY harder than SNW, which is saying something and NOT a good something. It’s like TNG’s attitude was “We know we’re goofy, but we DO have techno bable consultants, and we try to link some of what we’re doing to real physics and engineering” while SNW is like “We don’t even care, rule of cool in a hollywood hipstery writer way, we don’t really know what we’re talking about, nor do we care.” Major pet peeve of mine.

  Also, I love Carol Kane as an actress, but she’s just Lillian in space, and honestly, I really didn’t ever need that.

  Certainly, some of my joy in the show also just has to do with it just being better than Discovery (for which I’m like…oh thank god).

  Lower Decks was a better show.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Kevin⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Having worked with a bunch of Boomer and older Gen X EEs, it is a fucking misogynistic boys club of white ass old men with undiagnosed autism. I have never heard so many racist and sexist jokes in the workplace.

  So this surprises me not at all (in fact, I think I’ve heard it before, but as “Black Boys * * *”).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ach aye, Scottish words for plants⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I always thought it was a “Dandy Lion,” like a fancy Victorian gentleman lion.

  Also

  “Uhuhuh… you thaid blow balls.”

  “Yeah! Heheh! Yeah!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You yiffing people are everywhere, I stg.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not futa enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Star Trek’ series beams into Hamilton⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yay, a time travel episode.

  Also, thespec.com has some very obnoxious javascript going on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sea snail teeth top Kevlar, titanium as world’s strongest material⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Know people that worked with him, can confirm.

  “Move fast and break things” Startup mindset is dangerous when taking your customers end up potentially hostile environments. If only Michael Crichton had warned us about that decades ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨he big, he attac⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I knew that.

  They also thrive on incest, and love to breed with their own parents and siblings.

  Bedbugs are already just super gross, but the more you learn about their biology the more gross they become.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robert Picardo On How The Doctor Is “Deeper” In ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And honestly, my sourness with the 32nd century is sourness with Disco. It remains the only Trek series I haven’t seen every single episode of.

  So I’ll give Academy a chance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Covergent Evolution⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what you get for going Warp 10.