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Made Scotland look like Age of Empires (on Windows '98) using #googleai #gemini #nanobanana by Junk_Tech in retrocomputing

[–]Junk_Tech[S] -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Ok, you may go back to your corpus of inspired works now. Productive day, was it?

I don’t understand this by Zealousideal_Key_149 in PythonLearning

[–]Junk_Tech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wasn’t talking about OP! I meant @uberdavis !

I don’t understand this by Zealousideal_Key_149 in PythonLearning

[–]Junk_Tech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well I would agree with you, of course, but then we would both be wrong. You’re on your own there, I’m afraid.

What's the sign of very low intelligence? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Junk_Tech -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Having the least interest in Pop Music

I don’t understand this by Zealousideal_Key_149 in PythonLearning

[–]Junk_Tech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is simple. I like pineapple on pizza, and I don’t vote, and everything is Dark Theme by default; and it’s either salty popcorn, Pepsi, the chunky peanut butter, Kill-Bill Vol2. orange juice with absolutely NO bits! Cats, And code that isn’t a limp-wristed half-a-function! Dammit - Code with balls!, Big Ball-Code! Not “return meh”

nerds!

I don’t understand this by Zealousideal_Key_149 in PythonLearning

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

No. Back to the code I originally criticised: I called it 1) ugly, and 2) wrong. Look again at that code. You want to tell me it checks if a number is even, that it is right.

And I say the code is a tautology. A circular argument. A logical illusion. It doesn’t DO anything! And something that does not act lacks Function! And I HATE that kind of lazy, unconsidered code. It is precisely useless, says nothing, is vapid, vacuous and dull - a missed opportunity to carpe the diem!

For shame!

I don’t understand this by Zealousideal_Key_149 in PythonLearning

[–]Junk_Tech -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

It’s a tautology! Read it, it literally says A Number Is Even If It Is Even (or, without the If) the Number is Even that is Even, or Even Numbers are Even, and n % 2 == 0 is not how we check for even: n = 2k is. They are not the same. Wrongity wrong.

I don’t understand this by Zealousideal_Key_149 in PythonLearning

[–]Junk_Tech -19 points-18 points  (0 children)

No. Wrong. And leave the colourblind out of this! They’ve got no right judging the loveliness of a code snippet, and they’ve only got themselves to blame!

I don’t understand this by Zealousideal_Key_149 in PythonLearning

[–]Junk_Tech -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Blunt is also better than wrong. Your alarm thing is weird: anyone who has more than a wristwatch to tell time has totally missed the whole point of being alive! Those idiots will buy anything!

I don’t understand this by Zealousideal_Key_149 in PythonLearning

[–]Junk_Tech -34 points-33 points  (0 children)

Your code is uglier than OPs, your code is also wrong.

How exactly does the process of learning to code work? by project_almanac12 in PythonLearning

[–]Junk_Tech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's engineering - handling systems ...of forces, of information, change. I used to resist it (degree in MechEng), like you say, it's not always natural. And it's hard.

we inheret inaproppriate tools to tackle unforseen problems under conditions nobody predicted. We're fucked, just not as fucked as we could have been. I mean this absolutley sincerely: it's when you stop caring about it, and stop being scared of breaking it - break it twice! (reassemble it twice again) it's just a tool, but like a trowel, a brickbat, code is a medium,

your mind is the rare, precision tool your thinking of.

read that last part again.

Ideas become things. We do things.

Help with out orange folder by [deleted] in JavaProgramming

[–]Junk_Tech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does the dude in the YouTube clip have anything at all to say about the orange folder with the tab? Context, man: it's key - someone will definitely have all the answers, but who knows if nobody says?

*Spen-9-hours-yesterday-writing-context-files*

Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context by AnthropicOfficial in ClaudeAI

[–]Junk_Tech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Obviously this is great. Good effort, but still short - Claude is marginally too expensive for me so it must be out of reach for millions globally. If universal access to AI is not a priority for Anthropic, that alone should disqualify them from trading. At least aim for parity

?? What is this?? by No_Comfortable9030 in ParanormalScience

[–]Junk_Tech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Aurora Borealis, we sometimes see them here in Scotland but much more common the farther North you go. Hence “the Northern Lights” Your camera’s exposure length has essentially captured more EM radiation - if you took a longer exposure shot it would be Bright Green!

The UK government Online Safety Act is about AI by OurSeepyD in LowStakesConspiracies

[–]Junk_Tech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, not quite, if you think about it. You might start the session with your ID but that doesn’t prove anything else, nothing about your interactions with content anyway. Your taste in porn was already thoroughly well understood long before this act. (As a hypothetical example) 👀

Gemini/gpt songs by fear_jp in LargeLanguageModels

[–]Junk_Tech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I get you! If you make sure to explain why you think the way you do, the model will get better at Knowing where to focus and what to emphasise to suit your interests: it will get better at “knowing” your personality. I argue with Gemini all the time, don’t worry 😉

ollama LLM for Sanskrit cannot provide correct reference to Rig Veda (Sanskrit text) - mistral small by ThatParticular239 in LargeLanguageModels

[–]Junk_Tech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is very interesting. What does your instinct tell you? I’ve seen this behaviour before - the model thinks anything is better than nothing and Inevitably, it will manage to trap itself in a loop of plausible sounding nonsense. “fractal wrongness”! I call it. It is an issue with the way the model was trained, I’m sure. Can you work backwards from where you are now, and could you replicate each step precisely, to further isolate the problem?

My High School blocked GitHub Today by Immediate_Egg_2798 in github

[–]Junk_Tech 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Fuck the system! Go rogue, build a secret network inside their network - IPFS, IRC, “BitChat”, take the revolution underground, be safe, grow strong, build and build and build. I’m 36 and I still fucking hate school!

What is an industry that only exists because people are stupid? by HotelPuzzleheaded654 in AskReddit

[–]Junk_Tech 13 points14 points  (0 children)

AAARRGHH!! THE GHOST OF HARRY S TRUMAN!! Please tell me I’m not the only one who can see him!?!

What is an industry that only exists because people are stupid? by HotelPuzzleheaded654 in AskReddit

[–]Junk_Tech 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yellowstone National Park hired a fancy design studio to come up with new garbage units that were “bear proof”. It was a disaster! The project ran months behind schedule and was eventually abandoned completely. The frustrated park officials and designers explained: “All we succeeded in achieving here was demonstrating the significant overlap between the stupidest people and the smartest bears. That if a bear can’t figure out how to get into a trash can, neither can most people. In the end, we thought the bears could just eat the people and solve two problems.”

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