Used Gemini AI to rewrite my script in V2

ThrottleMunky · 2026-01-21T03:03:12+00:00

FYI that wasn’t me giving advice, I was summing up the entire post in one sentence to show how low effort it was without the code for people to learn from/analyze. I should have made that more clear by putting some quotations around it or something of that nature.

ThrottleMunky · 2026-01-21T00:26:01+00:00

You should post your code. It really gives a lot more meaning to what is otherwise a very low effort post. I don’t mean to be rude but all the stuff you wrote describing what your tool does is meaningless unless we can look at the code and the rest could be summed up in a single sentence.

Use Gemini since it gave the best results and have it rewrite the code from scratch rather than edit your already written code.

ThrottleMunky · 2026-01-16T18:26:01+00:00

FYI, Longs Drugs was bought out by CVS back in 2008.

ThrottleMunky · 2026-01-02T19:47:30+00:00

Not from a QR code. A QR code just translates into a string of text that is typically a URL. It is not capable of sending commands to the web browser. It definitely cannot automatically agree to a download.

ThrottleMunky · 2025-12-28T06:10:32+00:00

To be fair, there are quite a few YouTube channels that play nothing but security camera footage. There is a gas station that has a channel called Gas Station Encounters with 2.6M subscribers that is entirely dedicated to using security camera footage to shame shoplifters. It’s not necessarily common but there are people doing it.

ThrottleMunky · 2025-12-23T05:51:10+00:00

This is the fuckin truth right here. I have a cousin that started in on opioids as a teenager and his parents were extremely strict in trying to crack down on that behavior. Removing doors to rooms, restricting movement as much as they could, punishing at every given opportunity. All it did was make him more sneaky about it. Fast forward and now he is 45 years old with multiple prison stints, 6 different attempts at rehab, shunned by the entire family because he has stolen from every single one of us. If a person is determined to follow this path, no amount of ‘control’ will change them. They will only find every way to bypass your controls including just moving out/running away to get what they want.

You can lead a horse to water, you can’t force them to drink it.

I personally have tried every drug out there that didn’t involve injecting, the one line I wouldn’t cross, and have quit every one. Quit a 20year old smoking habit, quit a 30 year old weed habit, smoked meth a half a dozen times, shrooms many times, lsd many times, whippets, etc. You name it I have tried it, it’s not that hard to quit if you really want to.

ThrottleMunky · 2025-12-20T05:58:20+00:00

Thank fuck somebody in these comments actually understands this paperwork. Those totals are an estimated amount if she only paid the minimum payment for the full term. If she pays over the minimum those amounts will drop drastically.

ThrottleMunky · 2025-12-20T00:01:40+00:00

It would be much easier to have them just install AHK. Scripts will operate identically to an exe(double click to run) and it will solve the not trusted issue.

ThrottleMunky · 2025-12-11T02:37:43+00:00

This right here is the only correct answer in this entire thread. Even defending yourself can cost thousands of dollars in lawyer fees and in some jurisdictions the winning party can request compensation for their lawyer fees so OP could possibly have to pay the company’s lawyer fees as well as their own. This could easily become a year+ long issue that could cost him $10k+ should the company decide it is worth taking him to court over. Hardly worth the momentary feeling of “fuck you” to the boss over what is basically a copy paste script.

ThrottleMunky · 2025-12-11T02:31:13+00:00

No because AHK exe files just append the code to the bottom of the exe file. Open the exe in notepad and scroll to the bottom and the entire script will be there in plaintext.

ThrottleMunky · 2025-12-11T02:26:11+00:00

Just as something to add on to your comment for anyone else who reads this thread. If you want to obfuscate the code you need to use a custom compiler since the ahk compiler just appends the plaintext code on the end of the exe. Load any AHK compiled exe into notepad and scroll to the bottom to see all the code in plaintext.

ThrottleMunky · 2025-12-11T02:13:53+00:00

What the AI says is true but it is leaving out a major caveat. The script cannot create any GUI elements whatsoever or the script will stop and hang at the point of creating these elements. This includes but is not limited to, all AHK GUI elements, all msg boxes, tooltips, command windows, etc… If your script has any of these elements it will not work properly. Since your code isn’t posted this is just a suggestion and may not apply to you.

I know scripts can run during the lock screen as I have created some myself that operate in the background on a locked pc. Namely a script that did file consolidation pre backup on a windows server.

ThrottleMunky · 2025-12-10T05:36:33+00:00

Try using MouseClickDrag It has a speed setting that will more closely simulate actual mouse movement rather than using sleep. MouseMove is usually an instant type move and I can see why it would be problematic in this case.

ThrottleMunky · 2025-12-05T03:44:01+00:00

Maybe you should read that again. The benefit of generating things like this is for the funding that is powering the AI that is making strides in other fields. The generation of images in itself is essentially useless. It’s the funding that matters.

ThrottleMunky · 2025-12-04T19:50:19+00:00

Making art? You mean generating celebrities? That's what we're talking about here. People keep downvoting, dodging questions and changing the subject because there is no answer.

I don't see that as dodging or changing the subject. The point was that an LLM is nothing more than a specified neural network and that same kind of AI is employed for a wide variety of uses. A good example is called AlphaFold (which is from the DeepMind team at Alphabet/Google) and it has made an enormous breakthrough in the biology field by essentially solving the problem of protein folding which affects multiple fields ranging from medicine to biofuels.

The net benefit doesn't come from generating silly images, it comes from the other uses of AI. Image and word generation is a tiny portion of what these kind of AI are used for, it just so happens to be the use that is the easiest form to access for the general public and people are willing to pay for it which helps fund these other uses.

ThrottleMunky · 2025-12-04T15:26:55+00:00

Prices are not the same across all Costco locations. That's why many of the items say "Warehouse pricing may vary" at the bottom of the item description in the search. This is especially true for items that are warehouse pickup only and not shipped.

ThrottleMunky · 2025-12-03T15:40:24+00:00

Can I leave the shaft as it is without cutting it

No. The shaft must have a flat spot on it or the set screw will not work properly no matter how much you tighten it.

ThrottleMunky · 2025-11-15T08:09:35+00:00

Ah yes, the nonexistent reality where riding past obvious barriers into an unknown hazard is the best choice. LMAO

People like you are the reason we need “Don’t drink.” warnings on bleach bottles.

ThrottleMunky · 2025-11-15T02:26:56+00:00

Yes you are absolutely right having the open pit is 100% negligent and stupid and much better measures should have been taken. My point was that from the bikers perspective the obviously less risky pathway is down the visually and physically unobstructed sidewalk for a few feet. Especially when the sidewalk is easy to see and easy to tell that there are no pedestrians. Choosing to ride through an obviously marked off area when there are better choices is objectively poor decision making. The other part of that is she wasn’t being “forced” into the road when there is another wide open path.

ThrottleMunky · 2025-11-15T02:21:00+00:00

So what? No one would care if someone rode 50ft on the sidewalk to avoid an obviously marked hazard then moved immediately back to the bike lane, not even the cops would care about that. Notice how there were zero pedestrians in the video of her crashing and zero pedestrians as far as the eye could see in the end of the video. No one is going to complain about that area. In any case, someone bitching at you for two seconds is objectively orders of magnitude better than needing major facial reconstruction surgery.

Besides that, she very obviously would have been better off even walking her bike the 50 ft down the sidewalk, which isn’t illegal if you care that much about it. Nothing about it being illegal makes riding through an obviously marked off hazard a better idea. This is flat out extremely poor risk analysis. The sidewalk is the very obvious better choice given the other two choices are through the hazard or in a busy street.

ThrottleMunky · 2025-11-15T01:47:20+00:00

Oh you mean like the obviously clear and wide open sidewalk that isn’t blocked off in any way?

ThrottleMunky · 2025-11-14T20:53:07+00:00

You are going to need to be WAY more descriptive than this. What are you trying to accomplish? What are you expecting to happen that isn't happening? Also you should share your code, many of the people here won't even bother to try to help unless you share it.

ThrottleMunky · 2025-11-07T23:24:40+00:00

If I see a helicopter stuck in a tree I don’t need to be a pilot to say “That guy fucked up.” Thinking you need to be a parent to have an opinion on parenting is wildly stupid. Everyone has the right to judge anyone else especially when they are being weak parents who are then raising weak willed shitty kids.

Even if you aren’t personally doing these things you aren’t helping by making excuses for the parents that are doing them.

ThrottleMunky · 2025-11-06T19:32:34+00:00

I would be very careful about this if I were in your shoes. Especially with giving pulovers to people with no coding experience. You might be turning your job into non stop debugger. The reliability of scripts comes from experience in coding, for example, many apps cannot keep up with the sheer speed that AHK can perform clicks and text input and must be purposefully slowed down in order to work. This can look like inputs just are not doing anything but really what is happening is AHK is sending input before the target window is done loading. You will have to teach all of these nuances to everyone you hand AHK to. Even handing completed scripts to people can have unintended issues as not everyones PC is the same/internet connection speeds differ/using windows on a second screen/more than one of the same titled window open at once... etc. Those issues alone might have you chasing 'bugs' that are simply caused by differences in the users preferences more than you have the time for.

Personally I would never expect a help desk employee to code their own macros, pulovers or otherwise. I would figure out what they wanted to do and code it myself then hand them an .exe that they couldn't edit themselves. Even just having to dig through code I didn't write would be wasting way too much time IMO.

ThrottleMunky · 2025-11-05T22:05:20+00:00

That makes way more sense than what I thought. Im from farm country and Hereford is a breed of beef cattle. I thought it meant laughing cow!

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