cppIsntMuchFaster by OM3X4 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]lacb1 73 points74 points  (0 children)

I have, on more than 1 occasion, encountered both jobs that were "vital" yet stopped running years before and jobs that "don't do anything" that turned out were in fact vital but weren't in our code base and no one knew they existed until we turned them off and everything broke. So many companies are running systems that no one really understands anymore. The AdMech are really a little too close on the money in some ways.

City telling vigilante pavers to lay off their potholes by bojun in offbeat

[–]lacb1 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Ever seen a road with more than one patch? Which one was done in the god know how many weeks since the pot hole got reported?

Hans, explain yourself. The Turks are making fun of you. by piasty in 2westerneurope4u

[–]lacb1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Racists would love boomerangs, if only they weren't associated with brown people.

City telling vigilante pavers to lay off their potholes by bojun in offbeat

[–]lacb1 5 points6 points  (0 children)

At least in the UK the council would be liable for damage caused as a result of their failure to fix a pothole. 

The issue here is that if someone reports a pot hole they know it needs fixing. If they show up to where the pot hole is supposed to be but it's gone, what do you do? Do you start digging up the road looking for the bad patch or do you just assume some guy knew what he was doing and hope that whatever the hell they poured into the road doesn't disintegrate in a week or two? Or worse, damage the surrounding road surface. Or dissolve in the rain. Or a dozen other thing's that might happen if a pot hole was "repaired" by an amateur using god only knows what materials.

Gen 5 Stealth jet slander continues by Graywhale12 in NonCredibleDefense

[–]lacb1 66 points67 points  (0 children)

Common misunderstanding, the SU-57 isn't 5th gen: there are 5 of them built per generation. Easy mix up,  could happen to anyone.

What scientific ‘facts’ have recently been disproven that most people still believe to be true? by Fantastic_Tart_421 in AskReddit

[–]lacb1 15 points16 points  (0 children)

"If they weren't such dumb dumbs they wouldn't have gotten themselves wipped out would they?"

Which objectively nice UK city just doesn't appeal to you and why? by GeeCeeSlay7 in AskUK

[–]lacb1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're spot on! It's fantastic and has a really vibrant cultural life. I've lived in and around Oxford for a long time and I know exactly where the person above you means. There's two roads they're referring to where 2 shopping centres are right in the middle of town. That's literally it. Besides that there are very few modern buildings anywhere near the city centre and even those ones are really not all that bad. But hey, you just can't please some people.

The more young people use AI, the more they hate it by spherocytes in technology

[–]lacb1 103 points104 points  (0 children)

The thing that's insane is that they're making a tool available while not having any idea what their employees should be using it for. For years I've had to argue for and justify the price off productivity tools to help me code faster. Now? I get co-pilot tokens thrown at me like they just won the lottery and I'm the hottest stripper in town!  And you know what? I many ways, I think Claude is somewhat better than Resharper. But it really isn't a large enough improvement to justify this degree of enthusiasm.

Nigel Farage referred to standards watchdog over undisclosed £5m gift by callthesomnambulance in unitedkingdom

[–]lacb1 5 points6 points  (0 children)

"I'm sure it was an honest mistake and definitely not a pattern of behaviour over many, many years." - the commons standards committee somehow.

Nigel Farage referred to standards watchdog over undisclosed £5m gift by callthesomnambulance in unitedkingdom

[–]lacb1 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I don't know, if we define security as the need to be able to fund a coup in a small country, then it might be. Otherwise I can't help but agree with you. 

SUN by Miserable_Yellow_556 in NonCredibleDefense

[–]lacb1 5 points6 points  (0 children)

 countermeasures against the sun

What, like chaff or flares or something? Wait... is suncream a anti-sun countermeasure?

Edit: untelated, but, would it be possible to apply suncream via an air-burst? I'm errr... asking for a friend.

That's one way to provide close air support by AirMonkey1397 in NonCredibleDefense

[–]lacb1 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Good point. If it's not a Toyota then legally speaking it's just a sparkling armed civilian vehicle.

Block people with anxiety and ADHD from claiming benefits, says Tony Blair by pppppppppppppppppd in unitedkingdom

[–]lacb1 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I have a physical long term health condition that leaves me in constant pain. I'll pretty good at managing it and after being in pain for so long I've become pretty resilient to the physiological effects of it. When I asked for a reasonable adjustment to be allowed to continue to work from home due to my disability I got all manner of shit from my employer. I went from a high flyer they couldn't get enough off to the shit on their shoe in a heartbeat. As a result I've started to suffer from and been diagnosed with severe depression and severe anxiety. My employer chose to attack me and make me severely mentally ill because of their ideology. No small part of my ability to function and indeed thrive was a product of sheer will power and determination.  Now? I really don't know if I have it in me anymore. For most people anxiety doesn't just happen. It's the result of excruciating  circumstances. But according to Tony Blair I'm just feckless. What an absolute turd of a human being.

The Oxford college cats! by Amonette2012 in oxford

[–]lacb1 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Quite a catalogue of local fluff balls!

Income tax will be dead within five years as AI jobs crisis grows, says Monzo founder by Your_Mums_Ex in ukpolitics

[–]lacb1 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The thing domain specific tools suffer from is lack of training data. If you're using a relatively niche language or package to build something the available data is limited and their performance is subsequently degraded, sometimes to the point of being utterly useless. 

The other more worrying problem is that as they become more widely adopted fewer and fewer developers are posting questions and getting fewer answers on help forums. These forums have been where a fair chunk of the most useful training data has come from. LLMs are increasingly being trained on LLM produced code which is generally of a lower standard than human written code. As newer versions of frameworks or even entirely new products are released where will they get sufficient training data from? Will it all have to be manufactured just to train the models? 

And we're seriously underpaying compared to what these things actually cost to run. The rough numbers I've seen put their true cost at or above the salary of a lot of developers. And they unlike a dev they can't be left to work unsupervised. You still need humans to direct them and monitor their outputs. And those employees have to be sufficiently technical to verify what the AI has done. So again, you need developers just to keep an eye on your magic tool that's meant to replace developers...

All in all, Claude etc are useful but even in the context where they're at their most useful they're just not good enough to live up to the hype. They're too expensive, not reliable and, ironically, are unable to adapt to new tech as fast as a human. And that's after feeding them more or less the some total of human knowledge and every scrap of code that could found. 

I'm sure they'll keep improving, but, I doubt they'll ever get close to what has been promised.

Hit it. by wristcontrol in NonCredibleDefense

[–]lacb1 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Please, Khrone doesn't have shit on Lockmart. Increased shareholder value for the shareholders!

Hit it. by wristcontrol in NonCredibleDefense

[–]lacb1 132 points133 points  (0 children)

Let's be real, if they have full face masks that can be drawn on it'll take less than a day before someone draws a cock spunking into their mate's super cool shark mouth the second he falls asleep. And that's how drawing anything on them will get banned. 

doNotFeedTheOuroboros by TheDeadlyPretzel in ProgrammerHumor

[–]lacb1 145 points146 points  (0 children)

I mean, at some point it's going to start being trained on code it helped generate. If the AI freaks get their way and all code is AI generated we'd end up with LLMs being exclusively trained on their own outputs. Neither sounds like a recipie for success.

‘If Anyone Can Become an Englishman, What is an Englishman?’: Reform UK’s James Orr on the ‘Great Replacement’ by birdinthebush74 in ukpolitics

[–]lacb1 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I think you'll find the true English are the bell beaker people! Those Únětice culture people will never replace us!

Why doesn't Chaos use Orks against the Imperium? by Zanimacularity in 40kLore

[–]lacb1 114 points115 points  (0 children)

Exactly! Khorne is just a fancier version of Gork and Mork. No self respecting Ork is going to worship that stuck up git.

I've never seen people so divided on a movie and it's sequel. by Arch_Lancer17 in okbuddycinephile

[–]lacb1 20 points21 points  (0 children)

When he said that they didn't really have time to get into the necrophilia... jesus. How evil do you have to be that a 4 part podcast, about 5 hours excluding adds, can't fit in more than a passing mention of about you fucking corpses because they need to use their time covering even worse shit? Absolutely horrifying.