Honestly there’s so many weird flowers out there it can be hard to tell truth from fiction. Yeah these are AI generated, but look at all the other flowers that are real:

• Lambs ear
• Sea holly
• Teddy Bear sunflowers are real even
• Protea “Little Prince”
• Hoya Multiflora

Lots of very interesting flowers out there.

The bigger paid models or potentially the local ones if given access to search the web can probably get you the right answers. The big ones have pretty much memorized half the internet, but can still be wrong so pushing them to verify their answers.

But the harder part is trusting what they say regardless. I can’t just take an answer for truth, and unless I can verify the statement (fact checking myself, looking up the source, running/testing the code, etc) then it gets harder to do anything with AI. This is the thing I hate about AI in general, people just take whatever they say at face value. Lawyers with fake citations, random people asking chatgpt about random facts and such. Its a tool that people put too much faith in to do thinking for them.

Are you using real agents or the free chats on the web, because the latter ones are really dumb. Even when you ask them to search the web for basis you don’t get much success.

But they do work, maybe not as a full replacement but my god the amount of boilerplate I can avoid in creating unit tests from scratch. Extracting and finding information in the code base is also useful, not everything is an easy text search of tracing a few code paths. It’s an incredible tool for these kinds of work.

If it becomes harder to tell the difference then it also means it’s closer to matching reality. And todays AI can do very impressive “reasoning”, managing to debug complex issues I have had.

The most important part is that you as developer is fully responsible and can stand behind what they do and deliver using AI agents.

Sorta first time Linux user, picked CachyOS because it came with friendly installer and startup install guide/automation. Unlike last time i tried Linux to run some python project on the GPU I never managed to install CUDA.

CachyOS promised out of box support, wine/proton directly, and the selection of default tools got me far along the Windows migration. So far no issues even compiling programs that need CUDA drivers and more. Haven’t really gamed a lot, but this OS is supposed to be good for that.

My worst one, have working code, make a change, it broke. Revert it, still broken…

The issue was that all icons and stuff randomly got a wrong size in the GUI. Just had to restart the machine to fix it, but I was really pulling my hair out when I somehow broke things backwards in time.

In principle I agree>!!<, but in practice it’s not clear cut.

The main one is some historic accuracy, I say some because the color of the skin doesn’t really matter for most things set in some time period or era where a race wasn’t particularly present.

The second one is just how it looks, we’ll see how well casting Snape for the new Harry Potter goes as it seems to be Harry’s father is bullying the weird black kid. Another one is the Artemis Fowl movie which cases a woman as leader for the Fairy unit, which undermines the actual accomplishment of Holly being the first to get here place as a woman. It’s not the end of the world, but it changes the tone and plot.

Probably not the end of the world, but these problems fall on the same line as other poor adaption/remake choices that actively hurt the story is try to tell. Not everyone can fit into a role in a story, and I don’t think that’s systematic discrimination. And I reiterate, it largely depends on the setting of the story. For most things, gener and race is not a big factor.

Lumine(boot manager) on my PC remembers the last boot choice, so when I choose windows it keep going to that until I choose Linux again. Have about 5 seconds to press a button before it auto starts. Seems like the most sane alternative here.

I principally agree with you, it’s why I use reddit/lemmy and not 4chan.

But there is a difference, albeit hard to convey correctly through text. But I think some of the extreme responses mentioned are the ones in the banter type. It’s a kind of response when someone jokingly says “Star Wars and Star Trek is pretty much the same” and you go “I’ll skin you alive” due to the unjust comparison. It sure as hell don’t work with strangers, but it can within an community since everyone knows neither party is serious about it. Which is what the original post kind of says that it can work in the right community.

At least Rust compiles down to what is used. I don’t know if js has any of that, but at least with rust the final program doesn’t ship tons of bloat.

I’m no expert on the grain side, but Netflix had a nice writeup about its power.

https://netflixtechblog.com/av1-scale-film-grain-synthesis-the-awakening-ee09cfdff40b

I also heard that when you use film grain, you should disable the denoising done on the output to properly preserve detail in the encoding. Which depends on the encoder, but should generally be possible on the ones that do film grain.

But it might not be as good for artistic film grain that doesn’t fit normal “grain” in videos.

Tesla somehow manages to do well(at least prior to the nazi events). Still at a good price in Norway.

But all other manufacturers have dragged their feet with EVs, and that price cost of starting is large enough that they are in trouble. I’m not a huge fan of China, but they did the investment and are ahead exactly because of that (and crazy subsidies). Being left behind is their own fault imo, and I think that applies a lot to EU as well. Eg. WV.

Code normally works fine after you write it and then hopefully at least test by hand. The new guy 5 years later, which do not fully grasp the extent of his actions, and the guy reviewing the code also not being too familiar with it, will not make sure everything does as intended.

Tests are correctness guarantees, and requires the code and/or the test to change to pass. They also explain how something should behave to people that don’t know. I work in a area where there are so many businesses rules that there is no one person that knows all of it, and capturing the rules as tests is a great way to make sure that rules remains true after someone else comes to change the code.

In modern games, I think it’s fairly common to have a common 3d skeletons share names. So you can make animations like the one above apply to any character even if they have differences. It doesn’t mean that dog extends human, but it may mean that a dog model shares a lot of common “bones”, that are used for movement, with a human model.

So when a human animation is applied to the dog, you can see it warp to start position of the animation, move, and then then stop at the end position as a standing human, before warping back to idle animation (when it turns back into the dog shape)

Related, weapons in Destiny also share the same components across weapon types, and bugs have caused one weapon type to be used for another weapon, making funny things happen. Like how a hand canon (pistol) stretches like a bow because it’s model got used in place of the bow model at the start of this clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YZa9vv5U0M

I know my product managers don’t use chatGTP because they end all sentences with ... , every damn time. And I’m fairly sure their habit developed independently, given that one of them is from a relatively recent purchase of a company.

"".to_string() probably

I feel this is related, and hightlight this even further, look at all the ways to initialize something in C++.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DTlWPgX6zs

If you are really lazy, have a look at making an int at around 7:20. It’s not horrible that alone, but it does show how many meanings each thing has with very little difference, added on top of years of legacy compatability accumulation. Then it further goes into detail about the auto use, and how parantheses, bracket, squiggly bracket all can be used and help with the mess.

None of those issues for my main IDE, though Rider on some occasions do get stuck marking some spelling errors after they are fixed.

It has stuttered a few times, but pretty rare. But it does have a bug where it think it is building a project, but isn’t. And requires a restart to fix… Easy to trigger if you try building a project while it’s loading the project…

Visual Stuido with Resharper is the one where things would randomly stop working though. Especially hotkeys would sometimes stop working until I restarted it. Slow and stutter too.

In my country the consultant company i work at shifted to only going for hiring experience / senior people once interest rates went up 2023-2024. The economy being worse reduces investments, and naturally consultants are less desired during those times. So we didn’t even meet hiring goals for 2024, we barely grew. I think expectations are a bit better this year though, if that is a indication that also applies to your country/place.

It’s a strong contrast to where I, with Master degree in non-tech areas, got a developer job shortly after university at this company. Things were pretty desperate “hire, hire, hire” back then. It also helps that my country is less bad on interviews and such compared to the US.

Not sure if this advice really applies, given i haven’t used Git for any reports myself and I don’t know how you are doing the text based project. I did pretty much all my uni reports in a online latex document site which allowed shared editing, so there was some history but all edits were live to the main doc.

But with the power of latex at least, you can have the main file do import and usages, and maybe some setup. And then combine other files representing anything you want. Such as one for front page, one per chapter or one for appendixes.

Then just can do changes/new sections in feature style branches, and it’s up to you if you want things to go to the main branch, or have a dev like branch where further refinement can happen if your work is structured and not all over the place like my report writing was.