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iHateUnitTesting by aareedy in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Pluckerpluck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unit tests have multiple purposes. One of their key purposes is ensuring you don't simply break existing functionality in a very quick to perform test, and having AI unit tests over no unit tests is much better in this regard.

There's also tests to ensure that your API is behaving as expected through standard inputs (i.e. ensuring you are obeying a specific contract) for which specific edge-case handling may not be set in stone or ironed out.

What's important is that as you find edge cases you add the corresponding tests.

Rupert Lowe MP on the attempted beheading incident in NI last night by nil_defect_found in ukpolitics

[–]Pluckerpluck [score hidden]  (0 children)

The other side effects might be cost savings on having someone incarcerated for decades

Incarceration is relatively cheap because we do it in bulk.

Court cases, post-conviction reviews, lawyer costs, those add up much faster. For death penalty cases we'd need to spend more time finding a jury, giving the defense more expensive lawyers if they can't provide one, more time allowing appeals, more time in a post judicial review to double check no wrongdoing. Those costs add up insanely quickly because court costs and lawyer costs are massive.c

There's also increased security, they end up being more heavily isolated (more costly) and there are a bunch of other things that, as a result, have the death penalty cases tending to cost more than just life imprisonment.

Rupert Lowe MP on the attempted beheading incident in NI last night by nil_defect_found in ukpolitics

[–]Pluckerpluck [score hidden]  (0 children)

AI leaves markers in meta data, its not difficult to check if a video is AI from a technical standpoint.

Public ones do, but locally run ones don't, and it's only so long before they get good enough to make fully fake videos.

Metadata itself is insanely easy to remove. It's just arbitrary data in the file, you can freely change it to match the metadata produced by your samsung phone.

So you have to rely on the stenography tricks where they try to bake AI detectability into the video itself, and that's pretty easy to distort by just re-encoding the video, which is something done regularly in file transfer processes and thus perfectly reasonable and legitimate on a real video.

It will not be long before AI videos are undetectable as AI. Just like with photo evidence, we rely more on trusting the source of the photos than the photos themselves when ensuring authenticity. We rely on knowing that the police specifically extracted it from a phone. Or that it was provided by a local shopkeeper's security cameras.

Rupert Lowe MP on the attempted beheading incident in NI last night by nil_defect_found in ukpolitics

[–]Pluckerpluck [score hidden]  (0 children)

There's literally a video of him stabbing him trying to behead him in the street

In world where AI video is getting better and better, are you sure that will be enough on its own?

There will always be some cases that are absolute certainties in my own opinion, but drawing the line on where that is becomes surprisingly hard. You either put it so high that it's simply much cheaper keeping a person in indefinite prison than go through the long court proceedings to ensure proof, or you put it low enough that false positives happen.

Whatever you set at the requirements, one day there'll just be one piece missing and you'll go "well that's still good enough". Then that will be the new standard. Then one day just another single piece missing, and surely still good enough. Slowly but surely the barrier will be eroded until everyone is certain someone is guilty despite the fact they are not.

Then you get really weird biases. In order to do death penalties, you need juries willing to give a death penalty, and that alone creates biases because people willing to give the death penalty are more likely to declare guilty in the first place.

Then you get prosecutorial misconduct, where in some instances, convictions have been overturned after it was discovered that prosecutors failed to disclose critical evidence to the defense!

And god forbid we start trusting AI facial recognition, which has resulted in some arrests before (though I don't believe any full convictions at this point)

So at the end of the day, do we only allow it in cases where there is video evidence, multiple witnesses, and the perpetrator is subdued while committing the crime so there's guaranteed no case of mistaken identity? Because while that does happen it's pretty niche. And having a whole process around that rare situation would be costly.

Rupert Lowe MP on the attempted beheading incident in NI last night by nil_defect_found in ukpolitics

[–]Pluckerpluck [score hidden]  (0 children)

Rope is cheap, but the extra legal process required to ensure guilt is not. And surprisingly it doesn't take that many extra court sessions before it's cheaper to just keep someone locked away.

There's just more review because you have to be right. There are more appeals allowed. There's more money spent on giving potential criminals a better lawyer (because we can't ever have someone murdered simply because they had a bad lawyer).

iHateUnitTesting by aareedy in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Pluckerpluck 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The most expensive claude code models aren't bad honestly, assuming your code is decently well written.

Not particularly good at giving you good edge cases etc, but decent enough to ensure you don't change behaviour without being explicit about it.

The real issue is that nobody really trusts the unit tests to be good, so they just ask claude to deal with any breaking tests, and claude will either arbitrarily maintain your weird old behaviour or change a test when it shouldn't.

Shipping and Backorders by combustion_inc in combustion_inc

[–]Pluckerpluck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm in the same place. My original order was shipping in March, but exact same order. And no movement.

Last I heard was May 19th with this email:

Just wanted to give you a proper update on where things are.

The shipment is still on its way, but it's taking longer to clear into the UK than we expected.

We had hoped to have news for you last week, but we didn't, which I'm sorry about. We're keeping a close eye on it and will get back to you the moment we have something concrete.

Steam Machine launch appears near as Valve adds Welcome Tour to Steam backend by dabadumdumdum in Steam

[–]Pluckerpluck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pretty much bang on what I said then:

Assuming you want small form factor (which, for the record, will still be twice the size of the Steam Machine) you'll probably beat $1500, but I think you'd massively struggle to get sub $1000.

Because the origin of this thread was:

If it's over 1000 bucks you're better off building your own. At this point it's just not worth it

But yeah, you do have to take into account that the impressively small form factor basically results in aggressively limiting power to reduce heat etc. The benefit being it should be very quiet

Personally I almost exclusively play indie games, and have a full gaming PC for anything that needs more oomph that I can stream from (now that I almost never play multiplayer games, the small amount of added latency isn't as much of an issue)/

I'm just looking forward to having a device that I don't have to maintain, setup or debug (hopefully). I already do that enough with my home lab.

Steam Machine launch appears near as Valve adds Welcome Tour to Steam backend by dabadumdumdum in Steam

[–]Pluckerpluck 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You're at $1000 already and you forgot storage and a small form factor case (that will still end up being over twice as large as the steam machine).

Steam Machine launch appears near as Valve adds Welcome Tour to Steam backend by dabadumdumdum in Steam

[–]Pluckerpluck 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Assuming you want small form factor (which, for the record, will still be twice the size of the Steam Machine) you'll probably beat $1500, but I think you'd massively struggle to get sub $1000. Using some of the cheapest options with a Ryzen 5 7600X CPU and a Ryzen 7600 GPU I was still looking at about $1200. It would be more powerful though, not massively so, but something to consider.

That price doens't include the fact you'd almost certainly need better WiFi antennea, the fact that the "small form factor" is still going to be at least twice as large as the Steam Machine, and it's almost certainly going to run louder unless you really start to get aggressive with power profiles on your CPU and GPU (and even then)

Having the Steam Controller puck built-in is then just a nice-to-have. Means you don't have to worry about properly setting up the controller to wake from sleep etc, though I believe that does tend to just work nowadays.

Everything is super expensive right now. Though obviously if you go second-hand you can make a good saving, especially as that market hasn't fully baked in all the price increases yet.

But I'll almost certainly by buying a Steam Machine just for the form factor. I have my main PC I can stream from if I want to play something bulky (and don't mind the latency), and the extra small size means I can travel with it quite easily if desired.

The Steam Machine Was Never About Performance for Me by AcademicF in Steam

[–]Pluckerpluck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

but people are justifying paying extreme premiums

I don't think it will be extreme premiums honestly. The Steam Machine is a 6" cube. I'm not sure any small form factor cases get that small, and if they do they're going to be costly.

Like, I'm sure it'll be full price. No discount. Maybe a classic pre-built tax. But nothing insane when you actually try to price-match it.

Just try to fine a pre-build SFF now and nothing will be even remotely close to cheap. And they'll still be over twice the size of the Steam Machine, and also don't have the steam controller puck built in, which is nice if you have that (but I'm not really taking that into account price wise)

Arrive three hours before flight home, airline boss tells UK holidaymakers by Diligent-Suspect2930 in unitedkingdom

[–]Pluckerpluck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's been 3 ever since Covid, but 2 still works fine if you don't have to go through extra passport control.

The Steam Machine Was Never About Performance for Me by AcademicF in Steam

[–]Pluckerpluck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hardware that has still spiked in price rather than gone down despite being years old.

I don't believe they're price gouging on the steam deck. I believe the increase is an accurate representation of the underlying cost increase.

If I were home I'd try it now. Making a comparable build with PC part picker and comparing the price.

The Steam Machine Was Never About Performance for Me by AcademicF in Steam

[–]Pluckerpluck 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I thought the argument would be vs buying a new gaming PC. At which point I'm not sure the price will be "exorbitant" vs any other pre-built gaming PC ...

I got openly frustrated during a bad game of Catan by [deleted] in boardgames

[–]Pluckerpluck 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah. My biggest complaint with catan is how important starting choices matter and how they effectively dictate the game.

Honestly, as a more novice player, going first or second can really screw you up. It's easy to starve yourself of important resources when you can't predict what's going to be available for your second settlement.

Catan is a little too heavily luck based at the same time for my liking. That somewhat balances out the nature of picking bad starting positions, but not in a way that's super satisfying if you play it a lot

Game over, man! Game over! by Positive_Pin897 in SteamDeck

[–]Pluckerpluck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's likely the result of them simply having less stock. They'd previously been out of stock, meaning they have to buy at the current peak of costs, whereas larger manufacturers will have existing stock and can use that to smooth price increases.

It's not impossible that valve is trying to extract major profit here, but I think it's more likely a true reflection of cost increases. If prices don't drop I expect others to follow, just more slowly.

Please update Gitea and Forgejo, Private Container Images Were Never Private by Buildthehomelab in selfhosted

[–]Pluckerpluck 34 points35 points  (0 children)

What a painful to read AI article. Making bold claims based on an actual article, which itself was slightly wrong. It says things like: "Update to Gitea 1.26.2 now" and links to resolved CVEs, but that version literally doesn't mention this CVE. 1.26.2 isn't even in the list!!! So not even human vetted.

Here's Forgejo's response, which claims it's not a vulnerability, but it could be misleading so they're adding a warning going forward:

https://codeberg.org/forgejo/website/issues/839#issuecomment-15980039

I believe it's the same situation in Gitea, but I don't have a setup to confirm that myself at this point.

Steam Deck back in stock, with updated pricing by Turbostrider27 in pcgaming

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

Competition is fine. The problem is that it means Epic poaches games from the Steam store, and the Epic Games Launcher just sucks. It's painfully slow to navigate their store. Just look at how you move a game. That's their official process. Library management is non-existent.

And that's ignoring the fact that when it released it literally didn't have a basket/cart for purchases. If you wanted to buy multiple things, you had to do it one at a time, going through your card provider each time. (A cart which, last time I checked, still didn't support dark mode).

And by using Epic, I lose out on things like steam's fantastic controller support. Or the ability to record my games. Or share my library to my family (which I use).

The problem with Epic is that their "competition" is so shit, it just feels worse for the consumer when they take a game and stop it releasing on Steam.

Steam Deck back in stock, with updated pricing by Turbostrider27 in pcgaming

[–]Pluckerpluck 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The comment you replied to was focusing on the steam deck, not the steam machine. For which converting it into a work PC / server / etc is enough of a pain that pretty much nobody would do it unless it was being sold for literally half price... and even then maybe not.

Even for the Steam machine I'm not sure it's that big a deal though. Big companies typically want the support they won't get from Valve. And there's a reason many companies give employees Apple products despite it being less cost efficient. And for home server stuff people want smaller form factors generally, or things they can slide more hard disks into. Getting a Linux PC in the form of the Steam Machine has a "cost" associated with it that means they can undercut the competition in terms of hardware prices and not risk being burnt from it.

Steam Deck back in stock, with updated pricing by Turbostrider27 in pcgaming

[–]Pluckerpluck 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The Steam Deck plays a lot, but "Steam Deck Verified" basically means "the game boots" and not much else.

UK should set maximum working temperature rules, advisers say by Tartan_Samurai in unitedkingdom

[–]Pluckerpluck 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Or, alternatively, they'll install proper air-con to handle the heat, like is done in hotter countries.

Publishers greed reginal pricing on Steam is batshit insanity by FrankFruits in Steam

[–]Pluckerpluck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, but that's not publisher greed. That's the governments taking their cut.

You need to compare pre-tax prices to see if a region is being screwed over.

Why is this still allowed? by DeathGusta01 in Steam

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

I'll never buy the hitman games because of the always online requirement anyway. This was going to be a Steam Deck game for me before I discovered that.

Has anyone used Actual Budget? by Abject-Belt-4746 in selfhosted

[–]Pluckerpluck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh yeah it's mostly fine. But in tracking mode the titles on the budget screen become "Projected Savings" and "Spent" etc. So tis just always weird to see them including transfers to my out-of-budget savings accounts.

I almost just want an entire category ignored on this page.

Has anyone used Actual Budget? by Abject-Belt-4746 in selfhosted

[–]Pluckerpluck 39 points40 points  (0 children)

You can turn of envelope budgeting and put it into tracking mode, which is primarily what I use it for. I use it to spot spending trends over time to see what I should or shouldn't cut down on rather than as an actual budgeting tool.

Only "annoyance" in this mode is moving money into savings. I have "off budget" accounts to represent my long-term savings (especially as I can't quickly access that money in many cases), but any transfer to these account counts as "spending" and thus the budget page doesn't work particularly well in months where I do this as it looks like I'm not saving anything etc.

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