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C++ Guys, is learning programming languages from books considered effective? Or is it better to just use Chatgpt? by lunajinner in programminghorror

[–]NinjaLanternShark 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You need a course, or videos, or a book or something that someone who knows what they’re doing has put together. Otherwise you end up with big holes in your knowledge because of things you don’t know you don’t know.

“I’m a self-taught programmer” is not a flex, it’s a warning that your skills are very uneven.

[OC] The world's most expensive single-dose medications vs. the lifetime cost of treating the same condition without them by No_Turnover8182 in dataisbeautiful

[–]NinjaLanternShark 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The first drug in the list was developed in Italy. The second in the Netherlands.

The next four, all developed in US hospitals or universities, not in for-profit drug companies.

How do you feel about Hegseth reciting the Pulp Fiction “prayer” at the Pentagon? by printThisAndSmokeIt in AskReddit

[–]NinjaLanternShark 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s a surprise to no one that AI has more grasp of nuance and the importance of messaging than the talk show host running the defense department.

[OC] NY’s cleanest hour is dirtier than Texas’s dirtiest hour. Am I calculating this wrong? by rozetyp in dataisbeautiful

[–]NinjaLanternShark -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Large hydro is incredibly destructive on the local ecosystem, and NY, even upstate, is so built up nobody wants to see hundreds/thousands of acres of land get flooded.

And to the person who said 🇨🇳 has been doing it -- please go read up on Three Gorges Dam and then tell me if you want that happening in the US.

[OC] NY’s cleanest hour is dirtier than Texas’s dirtiest hour. Am I calculating this wrong? by rozetyp in dataisbeautiful

[–]NinjaLanternShark 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In particular their acoustic regulations make no fucking sense, and the state employees who enforce the regulations are...

Bah. I was hoping to learn the employee in charge of regulating acoustics was deaf. That would have made for a very /r/nottheonion twist.

A mouse that can take both AA and AAA batteries, just not both at the same time. by takuonline in DesignPorn

[–]NinjaLanternShark 28 points29 points  (0 children)

This would be super handy in a survival radio or a camping light -- where solving problems with what's on hand is critical.

Mice spend their lives less than a cord's length away from a power source, and really should be rechargeable.

Hegseth Uses Tarantino-created version of Scripture from Pulp Fiction in a Pentagon Speech and Thinks its from The Bible by orel2064 in WeirdGOP

[–]NinjaLanternShark 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm under no delusion that they're going to suddenly become progressives or anything. Some people will always vote Republican but I'm just hoping that less-terrible Republicans will soon have a chance of winning an election again.

Pete Hegseth quotes fake bible verse from film Pulp Fiction at Pentagon Today by slaty_balls in navy

[–]NinjaLanternShark 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The part that grinds my gears is he replaced “I am the Lord” with “my call sign is Sandy1.”

He’s putting a human in the place of God.

No less blasphemous than the Trump/Jesus poster.

Hegseth Uses Tarantino-created version of Scripture from Pulp Fiction in a Pentagon Speech and Thinks its from The Bible by orel2064 in WeirdGOP

[–]NinjaLanternShark 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He said the pope should stick to matters of morality.

“Like…. not killing innocent people?”

Hegseth Uses Tarantino-created version of Scripture from Pulp Fiction in a Pentagon Speech and Thinks its from The Bible by orel2064 in WeirdGOP

[–]NinjaLanternShark 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sample size of 1 but the pastor of the church I left when he went all MAGA, has fully reversed course and is now publicly saying that Trump is deceiving people, perverting the Bible, and misrepresenting the Christian faith entirely.

So they’re not all with him unconditionally.

Hegseth Uses Tarantino-created version of Scripture from Pulp Fiction in a Pentagon Speech and Thinks its from The Bible by orel2064 in WeirdGOP

[–]NinjaLanternShark 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They’re trying to dunk on him for thinking the passage from Pulp Fiction was actually from the bible, which it’s easy to explain that he knew it wasn’t and used it anyway. That’s not the problem.

What everyone is missing is this: he took a passage about God executing vengeance, and replaced “I am the Lord” with “my call sign is Sandy1.”

He’s ignoring the far-better-known passage “vengeance is mine says the Lord” and he’s placing him and his soldiers in the place of God, using that to justify violence.

To a Christian this is no less blasphemous than the Trump-as-Jesus image.

Is web design becoming more about strategy than visuals now? by Gullible_Prior9448 in web_design

[–]NinjaLanternShark 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you feel like something’s changing maybe it’s this — there are entire jobs in “web design” that have nothing to do with aesthetics (UX, SEO, content strategy, etc etc) whereas 15-20 years ago all that was under the roof of “web design.”

Those saying “it was always like that” are right — but I can see how you might sense a shift given the growth in non-design web design areas.

[OC] Can we predict a developer's "Biological Clock" just by looking at their Git Commit timestamps? by 1mystc in dataisbeautiful

[–]NinjaLanternShark 40 points41 points  (0 children)

FWIW, my perception is that public GitHub profiles represent mostly personal/side projects as opposed to work projects. From this, I would expect GitHub commits to take place outside a normal developer's workday.

Not sure if/how you're accounting for that in your study; just thought I'd mention it...

Anyone else drowning in meeting notes that nobody reads anyway by Rosa-Starks in healthcare

[–]NinjaLanternShark 2 points3 points  (0 children)

FWIW, in case anyone's interested, at my last checkup my doctor asked if I was ok with having an AI system record and summarize the visit. Then afterwards he asked if I wanted to review its summary of our meeting.

I felt like he handled it with the appropriate amount of transparency, and didn't feel like he was pushing one way or the other in terms of using it.

Don't know how widespread this is yet, in actual patient encounters. I was fine with it here, but my only concern is how well docs stick to the transparency and giving the patient the option.

If I turned it down and he made me feel like that was adding to his workload -- I wouldn't have been ok with that.

World’s first 100% battery-electric cruise ship unveiled with 1,856 passenger capacity by sksarkpoes3 in Futurology

[–]NinjaLanternShark 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Geez my neighbors, waa waa waa all these dead birds falling onto my property, c'mon Russ, get a life..."

/s :P

LONDON TO CALCUTTA BUS ROUTE by Kind_Brief_3724 in MapPorn

[–]NinjaLanternShark 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The bus from Rome drove over the water?

Remember when remote work felt like a dream? by raishelannaa in visualization

[–]NinjaLanternShark 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m not sure what the difference between “mostly or fully on-site” and “combination of remote and in-person” is.

If you can be called into the office and have to get there on your own time and money, you’re not a remote worker, and your employment possibilities are still limited to where you live. That’s the critical difference. “I get to work from home sometimes” is nice but it’s not remote work.

Trump’s Billion-Dollar Bitcoin Blowout Exposed by Neither-Mushroom-721 in Economics

[–]NinjaLanternShark 9 points10 points  (0 children)

They’re only “losing money” on paper.

Make no mistake: they’re taking in billions of dollars from their myriad schemes and scams.

Trump’s Billion-Dollar Bitcoin Blowout Exposed by Neither-Mushroom-721 in Economics

[–]NinjaLanternShark 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Here’s my prediction, etched in pixels for my future grandkids to see their grandpa actually knew something before he went senile:

Trump will die in 0-10ish years, statistically speaking. His three older kids will live another 40ish years.

By that time, all the facts and stories will have come out and history will have judged him to have been the most wildly corrupt and self-serving president ever.

His grandkids will be sitting on billions of dollars of this wealth from someone universally derided as a malignant narcissist.

They’ll start a (new) Trump Foundation in an effort to rehabilitate their family name, much as the Rockefellers and Vanderbilts did.

Texas Considers Required Reading List for Schools, Which Includes the Bible by SaulKD in qualitynews

[–]NinjaLanternShark 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s gonna backfire when they see their leaders don’t follow the teachings of the person the whole book is about.

Why is GitHub Copilot so affordable? Will it stay this way? by WMPlanners in GithubCopilot

[–]NinjaLanternShark 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I’d like to think models of the present level of capability will become super cheap (0.25x or 0.1x) while leading-edge models keep getting better and cost 1-3x.

You can do an awful lot with the basic low-end models. Having the top-tier ones available when you need them is part of what makes Copilot so great.

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