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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Yeah those job hoppers are the worst. You can always tell right away what kind of person those are. I’ve had to work with a “senior” dev who had 15 years of experience and to be honest he sucked at his job. He couldn’t do simple tasks, didn’t think before he started writing code and often got stuck asking other people for help. But he got paid big bucks, because all he did his entire career was work somewhere for 2-3 years and then job hop and trade up. By the time the company figured out the dude was useless, he went on to the next company.

    Such a shitty attitude, which is a shame because he was a good dude otherwise. I got along with him on a personal level. And honestly good on him for making the most he can, fuck the company. But I personally couldn’t do that, I take pride in my work.


  • Agreed. I wanted to test a new config in my router yesterday, which is configured using scripts. So I thought it would be a good idea for ChatGPT to figure it out for me, instead of 3 hours of me reading documentation and trying tutorials. It was a test scenario, so I thought it might do well.

    It did not do well at all. The scripts were mostly correct but often in the wrong order (referencing a thing before actually defining it). Sometimes the syntax would be totally wrong and it kept mixing version 6 syntax with version 7 syntax (I’m on 7). It will also make mistakes and when I point out the mistake it says Oh you are totally right, I made a mistake. Then goes on to explain what mistake it did and output new code. However more often than not the new code contained the exact same mistake. This is probably because of a lack of training data, where it is referencing only one example and that example just had a mistake in it.

    In the end I gave up on ChatGPT, searched for my testscenario and it turned out a friendly dude on a forum put together a tutorial. So I followed that and it almost worked right away. A couple of minutes of tweaking and testing and I got it working.

    I’m afraid for a future where forums and such don’t exist and sources like Reddit get fucked and nuked. In an AI driven world the incentive for creating new original content is way lower. So when AI doesn’t know the answer, you are just hooped and have to re-invent the wheel yourself. In the long run this will destroy productivity and not give the gains people are hoping for at the moment.



  • Me and my brother once bought one of those Steam key mystery packs, it was only a few bucks and we did it for shits and giggles. The deal was we should each choose one of those games for the other and play them and at least seriously attempt to beat it if possible. The description said it included x amount of games with a value of at least x amount of dollars.

    Turns out half of them were abandoned early-access games. Still for sale for way too much money. One of them was 49.99, which made the key bundle indeed be worth a lot. However the game was just an old Unreal project with some stock assets from the asset store. There wasn’t even a game really and it kept crashing. Last updated 4 years ago.

    Really disappointing, we thought we would have some fun with unknown terrible games. But we didn’t expect them to be literally not a game. So instead we played Bad Way, a really fun but seriously flawed game. We had a blast.



  • Well a machine like the one on the right could actually be made. It’s super oversimplified, but the principle can be done. However it would require a massive amount of energy. And the tricky bit becomes how to get that energy without releasing a lot of CO2. With nuclear it is possible.

    runs away before nuclear bad crowd shows up

    Also note it would be way better and simpler to instead reduce energy usage, so the CO2 doesn’t get released in the first place. And use low CO2 sources when energy is required. However in the long run carbon capture would be a good idea. But as long as we can make gains on the usage and release side it makes no sense. And except for proper research projects, most of those capture things have been investor scams.


  • Depends a lot. If you are going from 2 ram slots in use to 4 ram slots in use, usually the max clock speeds go down a lot. So the performance will decrease for just about everything you do, whilst the use case for such a setup is very limited.

    I have a couple of extra ram sticks to get from 32 to 64gb when I need it. I bought them because I was debugging a rather memory intensive tool. Not only did the tool run in debug mode, which added a lot of overhead. The memory profiler needed to be able to make memory snapshots and analyze them. This just about doubled the memory requirement. So with 32GB I often ran out of memory.

    However my Ryzen 5950X does not like 4 sticks of ram one bit. Timings need to be loosened, clocks need to be reduced and even then the system would get unstable every now and again for no reason. So I pulled out the 2 sticks going back to 32GB as soon as the debugging job was done. They are in a drawer in an anti static bag, should I need them. But for day to day 32GB with 2 sticks is a much better experience.











  • OK so my options are Sleep, Restart, Shut down, Update & Restart and Update & Shut down. Let’s think about this carefully, I’m in a hurry so I need to shut down right away. Let’s select Shut down.

    Windows 11: Restarting, Installing Windows Updates, Restarting again, Installing even more updates. One final restart and just finishing things up (whatever that’s supposed to be). And bam here is your login screen, you are welcome.

    Then Bill Gates busts down the door and goes LMAO GOTTEM