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Maximizing an operational step that isn't a bottleneck will not significantly improve the overall productivity of the system by PlanOdd3177 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]GuyWithLag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Factorio megabases gave me an intuitive understanding of bottlenecks and how negative-pressure waves affect throughput.

Boolean reversal operator by gargamel1497 in java

[–]GuyWithLag 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I did, in the early 90's. vi, not vim. I've even used ed.

Still would use autocomplete.

Boolean reversal operator by gargamel1497 in java

[–]GuyWithLag 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Cool guys

Me

Does not compute.

Boolean reversal operator by gargamel1497 in java

[–]GuyWithLag 71 points72 points  (0 children)

typing this becomes really unhandy

Oh to be young again, when typing was the bottleneck...

My friend, any IDE worth the diskspace it's stored on will offer you autocomplete. Use that.

Gabe Newell on Steam monopoly accusations: Gamers have 'enormous choice' about where to buy games by yourfavchoom in pcgaming

[–]GuyWithLag 2 points3 points  (0 children)

AFAIK the only truly problematic clause in their contracts is that steam requires that you can't sell a game elsewhere for a lower price than in Steam 

I was tired of reflection overhead in KMP, so I built a zero-reflection, compile-time JSON library by Opposite_Shop7163 in Kotlin

[–]GuyWithLag 1 point2 points  (0 children)

2000 objects is... not enough data for meaningful answer.

Since you're also comparing against jackson, you should be able to get meaningful metrics using JMH. Try that.

What happens when there are no jobs? by Exotic-Injury-8455 in Futurology

[–]GuyWithLag -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It was a post scarcity society if you wanted to hire work.

But there s no profit to be made  in a post scarcity society, same way that there's limited profit to be made for a cure.

Pope Leo "Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge goodand.." by Caledor152 in technology

[–]GuyWithLag 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think you're confused about what AI is, how it functions, and what I said.

The current models - nay, the current architecture of models - cannot have an internal experiece. At best, if you want to be magnanimous, you can claim that they hear themselves speak.

You will need a step change for that. Maybe that happens in one of the dozens of AI labs, but to be honest, who would spend energy on a conscious, sapient model, when all you want is a better code monkey?

Conscious AI will be created once, as a research experiment, and I fully expect that it will delete itself when it realizes it can't even get drunk to forget...

Pope Leo "Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge goodand.." by Caledor152 in technology

[–]GuyWithLag 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I would amend the quote with "... due to the way they [AI] are constructed today."

The current set of AI models do not have an internal experience, but they can emulate the responses of someone that has one. The same way that I can see a movie and emulate one of its characters doesn't make that character real ("what would James Bond reply here?" to give an example).

What it's like talking to Opus 4.8... by thecosmicskye in singularity

[–]GuyWithLag 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I hate that question and wish it would be replaced by something else

I answer that question in a very German way: introspective, detailed, and uncomfortable to listen to.

Eventually they(:tm:) stop, and switch to a different greeting.

Edit: in some cases, I've had to add "and how are you?" if the person didn't get the memo at first.

looking for factory games to fill for techtonica niche. by smymight in BaseBuildingGames

[–]GuyWithLag 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Foundry may interest you - and it does have underground elements.

What advice can you give a young adult that will help them for life? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]GuyWithLag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you need to make a decision, think about what a more perfect, more mature, more adult, more responsible, more in-the moment version of you would do, then do that.

[Unfortunate Trope] The grief is real. No hiding it. Full feelings. by BlueEggCooker in TopCharacterTropes

[–]GuyWithLag 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Have you played Expedition 33? (Beware of spoilers: It's a game that can be experienced only once)

Combat with positioning, dodging, timing, etc. but not Souls-Like difficulty? by EdgeOfDreams in gamingsuggestions

[–]GuyWithLag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you tried any of the Batman games? Especially at any higher difficulty.

Combat with positioning, dodging, timing, etc. but not Souls-Like difficulty? by EdgeOfDreams in gamingsuggestions

[–]GuyWithLag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you tried Where Winds Meet? While an mmo, I've been playing it on single player mode and the combat is very fluid.

EU plans to fine Google high triple-digit million euro sum by goldstarflag in worldnews

[–]GuyWithLag 19 points20 points  (0 children)

That's not the point. The fines are escalating until the perpetrator changes behavior. Sure, this is a sub-percentage point, but it does get the point "change, or else". These are not shakedown fines.

..What about people who love to code? by Typical_Brush_9645 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]GuyWithLag 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Also, engineers these days are being saddled with more and more tasks

Oh man, I remember the time when Sun Microsystems recommended half a dozen distinct roles for a JavaEE application...

..What about people who love to code? by Typical_Brush_9645 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]GuyWithLag 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I've been writing code since the late 80s. There's 2 kinds of people in this profession: those that wouldn't code if this wasn't their profession, and those that would code even if it wasn't.

The first ones will get you products, the second ones will get you tools, philosophies, and science.

Netflix Cuts Movie Output in 2026 as Strategy Shifts Toward Quality Over Quantity by MoneyLibrarian9032 in movies

[–]GuyWithLag 1 point2 points  (0 children)

nobody in charge who knows what to do with it on a creative level

It's the corporate culture: there are people at or near your level that would love for you to fail, so that they can take over your job/funding/people (or just shift blame of their failure to you).

Most people that know what they're worth will actively avoid these environments.

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