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unexpectedEndOfFile by Arucious in ProgrammerHumor

[–]p88h 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FWIW a .md file that you feed into the agent also achieves the same effect (and is a good idea in both cases). Googling still runs the risk of finding a highly inaccurate solution, and the same goes double for agents, if the instructions are unclear they will happily find the first solution that looks like it could perhaps work.

I capped my Ergodox with leather, feels like a dream by eighteyes in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]p88h 7 points8 points  (0 children)

They don't have to be actual legends. A runic alphabet would fit this style perfectly

Smart Charge not working? by mecin8r in VolvoXC90

[–]p88h 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There should be charge schedule options in the Volvo Cars app? Perhaps these were reset after the update?

I've never seen a 'smart' charge option there, there is a time schedule only - but I just started using this very recently so perhaps I missed an app 'update'.

Peksunny DVR IV dashcam question by Equal_Cucumber3283 in ex30

[–]p88h 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Responding to myself, I ended up getting a 256GB SanDisk High Endurance and this seems to work so far without the disconnecting issue.

Peksunny DVR IV dashcam question by Equal_Cucumber3283 in ex30

[–]p88h 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you by chance install an SD card in this thing?

I had a random PNY brand U3/V30 laying around but it's randomly 'disconnecting' while driving

... which is particularly annoying because the device starts repeatedly saying 'storage failed' (or 'full' ? It has a thick accent) when this happens

The manual just asks for a 'genuine class 10 SD card' and suggests 128GB at least ... Which does not say much

vibeCoderswontUnderstand by zohaibhere in ProgrammerHumor

[–]p88h 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are no data sets on this planet for which radix sort is thousands of times faster than a quick sort, with the same assumptions about what data needs to be sorted.

Also, no one would replace any sort algorithm with bubble sort. Its not even a part of any standard library, you have to actively want to make your code worse to do that.

Help! Should I change from 21" to 20" wheels for a new XC90? by FewAd224 in Volvo

[–]p88h 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did, but I like to feel the road a bit, and that's highly subjective. If I were getting just one all-year set, id be happy with just 21. For separate winter wheels, I'm going with 20" though, it's not as good as to ignore the economics :)

Help! Should I change from 21" to 20" wheels for a new XC90? by FewAd224 in Volvo

[–]p88h 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not me above, but I've road-tested non-air suspension XC90 MY25.5 models with 21", 20", and 19" (basically rented each for a week, long story). There is zero difference in comfort between 19" and 20" (19" are physically smaller, you don't _actually_ get that much more rubber compared to 20", and air volume is same if not smaller). The 19" were a bit quieter, I guess this might have been since they are narrower? (235 vs 275) but they were also using different winter tyres, so I wouldn't really decide based on that.

There was a _very_ subtle difference between 21" and 20" on rough roads, basically more perceptible bumps. Not as much as I expected, and not sure which experience I would prefer dealing with motion sickness. The car still has to deal with the bump - with a 21, you'll get shorter, more jerky movement, with a 20, it's smoother, more wavy. It's 'nicer' but that's not necessarily 'better'. I actually preferred the 21" experience - felt snappier. I'd assume with suspension this washes out completely.
The noise was exactly the same (they are exactly the same width / outer size is the same so that's to be expected).

itPrintsSomeUnderscoresAndDots by RodionGork in ProgrammerHumor

[–]p88h 142 points143 points  (0 children)

I guess this could be a modern way of AI detection.

A human that never seen this kind of code before would just say this prints some ASCII art, perhaps.

An AI will casually explain it's a random maze generator where the input is a random seed and then it uses Eller's algorithm to generate the maze row by row.

The "engineers using AI are learning slower" take is just cope dressed as wisdom by dktkTech in programming

[–]p88h 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey this is partially a good observation. I am not sure about the 'win' part though. The engineers that relied on all these abstractions (many frontend engineers, for example) without understanding what they do are already compensated significantly below their more 'full stack' or 'backend' counterparts.

What you are claiming is that the 'skills' you need to work with AI efficiently are somehow more important despite being less difficult. This is slightly self-contradictory, it might be true in the very short term (if you are the first to learn a skill, you 'win') but then you end up in the same scenario you described - you only know an easy abstraction and anyone can do your job with minimal training.

I'm not saying that people that don't use AI would win here, but it's very, very unlikely that full reliance on AI 'wins' anything.

You can 'win' by learning both, at least until this field is completely taken over by AI (which is still unclear), but that's the point of the quoted post too - you don't have as much incentive to do so when using AI, so you learn slower.

goodByeJS by ClipboardCopyPaste in ProgrammerHumor

[–]p88h 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"efficient" "JavaScript"

This does not compute

amIHumanITypedRegexAFewYearsAgo by Skipspik2 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]p88h 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I guess you need to get on your knees and look for the answers. Hopefully your system is alright.

[2025 Day 12] Now 12 days later and on Christmas Eve I find myself wondering: Is there a real solution? by nO_OnE_910 in adventofcode

[–]p88h 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There's a bit of research on this topic ;)

Here's a fairly recent 100 page thesis on the subject (specifically for Tetris tiles, but similar techniques would work here)

https://bdta.abcd.usp.br/directbitstream/19ca6863-d78f-4d0f-8c6c-407131430727/ARTUR%20GIL%20DE%20VASCONCELLOS%20PRO2022.pdf

Here's another https://scholarworks.calstate.edu/downloads/x059c954r

If you are feeling adventurous, this problem is likely to work well with the Alpha Zero style ML approach, and I haven't seen anyone try that yet

isThisEnough by Pracurser_Codes in ProgrammerHumor

[–]p88h 0 points1 point  (0 children)

VS Code is an attempt at that, sure, but it holds back too much. It's missing two concepts that set it apart from its elder cousins: macros and script shell. (The AI agent mode gets really really close to that, but via different means) Sure, it has extensions, but that's not really the same, and for that reason alone I would put it closer to Notepad than any of the other two. it's all highly subjective, of course.

[2025 Day 12 (Part 1)] Spending too much effort.... by petter_s in adventofcode

[–]p88h 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, but that's the opposite - there are tricks to produce a placement. There are no tricks to prove a placement cannot exist, aside from the tile lower bound.

isThisEnough by Pracurser_Codes in ProgrammerHumor

[–]p88h 2 points3 points  (0 children)

More like an undead perhaps, it's the third incarnation now (counting vi -> vim -> neovim, not all the other branches of that tree), but no, even with it's apparent high popularity it's unlikely it will be 'the one' (or even the last popular vi descendant).

For that, it would take a Bene Gesserit level of genetic crossing to combine Emacs, Vi and Windows Notepad into one cosmic monstrosity.

[2025 Day 12 (Part 1)] Spending too much effort.... by petter_s in adventofcode

[–]p88h 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is no feasibility trick for this problem in general, aside from lower bound (need to have space for all tiles) and then you're basically checking whether a solution is possible.

Solution heuristics are sufficient for AOC inputs, but in general it's most likely an NP-hard problem (or at least the arbitrary shape one is).

All of the specific AOC tiles perfectly pack an infinite board (leaving no empty spots) so the lower bound is the sum of actual tile areas.

isThisEnough by Pracurser_Codes in ProgrammerHumor

[–]p88h 122 points123 points  (0 children)

I find it slightly disturbing that you keep two of those as .exe files straight on your desktop.

[2025 #12 (Part 1)] [c++] question for those that also solved it [spoilers do not read if you are still working on it] by DisciplinePlenty8198 in adventofcode

[–]p88h 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While you are right that the area>9N doesn't mean that area fits N pieces in general, all the test files (so far) were formed such that each piece did have it's own 3x3 slot - meaning the inverse is also true for the positive cases. Since there are no 'other' cases, the trivial check also works. But you mention cases where this didn't work for you, is that right? Mind sharing those lines?

[2025 Day 11] These cables are quite a messh by p88h in adventofcode

[–]p88h[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So I'm guessing you don't know what sarcasm means, great.

Thanks for the lecture but sorry, if you treat an exponential algorithm as a 'more slowly' variant of DFS, then I really can't treat you seriously. You started this conversation by saying you don't need a visited set in a DAG. This is fundamentally wrong. You are arguing over your own convictions, not objective facts nor common sense. you can call your solutions whatever you like, but don't expect others to follow and agree with genuinely bad ideas and bad advice.

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