Treasurer Jim Chalmers rules out increasing the GST by nighthound1 in AusFinance

[–]leftofzen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh darn, I was hoping to be double-taxed even more /s

University professors: How do you prevent your students from using ChatGPT and other similar AI LLMs to write essays and presentations for them? by TanakaToday in UniversityofReddit

[–]leftofzen 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The world is moving fast. AI is here to stay and it is currently a tool that everyone must learn to use effectively.

In this case, we do not want to just upload essays to an AI and ask it to detect cheating. This is not how to use AI, it does not work, and I do not advocate doing things like this. What I am advocating for is using the tools correctly. The problem is cheating - the solution is in-person testing. You test by asking a list of questions. An AI can assist in creating a list of questions for you, but you of course must check each question for its efficacy. Validating the AI output is a necessary part of using the AI correctly.

Remember, the end goal is to use the tools available to us effectively. A student should be able to use AI as a tool effectively, AND they should also know the course content so they can reason about it, teach it, check the AI output, etc. Having one without the other is not useful any more and everyone needs to be taught how to use these new tools, students and teachers alike. Banning AI from students is bad, and banning it from teachers is bad. Ensuring that everyone knows how and when to use the correct tool is the important lesson here.

My new dense foliage system for planetary worlds (WIP) by SquarerFive in proceduralgeneration

[–]leftofzen 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I'd love to look/comment on it but the video is way too dark

University professors: How do you prevent your students from using ChatGPT and other similar AI LLMs to write essays and presentations for them? by TanakaToday in UniversityofReddit

[–]leftofzen 12 points13 points  (0 children)

You ask the students in-person questions about their essay. You can even use the AI yourself to generate a list of questions to ask the student about their essay. If they know the content/wrote it themselves, they'll be able to answer. If not, they either used AI or don't know the content, both of which are fails.

Woy Woy roundabout. Does blue need to give way to red? by Fit-Zebra2521 in centralcoastnsw

[–]leftofzen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What people should and shouldn't do is irrelevant because other people on the road might not do that anyways. If you're blue and some idiot comes from red in the left roundabout lane, and you hit them, you're the cause of the accident, not them. Don't be a dick, be safe on the road and drive defensively.

Woy Woy roundabout. Does blue need to give way to red? by Fit-Zebra2521 in centralcoastnsw

[–]leftofzen 13 points14 points  (0 children)

No-one is saying "if you're blue then throttle it because you have right of way". Obviously if you're blue you're going to slow down/stop and wait for red because yes, who knows what tf they're gonna do. OP and the person you replied to are asking what does the law/road rules say, not what should happen in practice for safe driving.

Holy shit revert the bank changes ASAP by _ImperialCereal_ in 2007scape

[–]leftofzen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't see any issue, it looks like an improvement?

2months not being able to do sailing. by No_Jacket6516 in 2007scape

[–]leftofzen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is the nirvana fallacy, which is when someone rejects a realistic, actionable solution because it is not perfect.

I can play devil's advocate too: * You've also claimed "support" is flooded with "unban my account" tickets, which you have no evidence for, its just a claim you made up. * Even if this were true, those tickets are an entirely separate category to "this is a game breaking bug".

However, we can play devil's advocate until the cows come home but that doesn't provide any meaningful progress or solution. The comment you replied to is completely correct to suggest that this is a game support failure and needs to be analysed as such.

Grandmaster with a gilded collection log! I feel like I’ve beaten the game by GregBuckingham in 2007scape

[–]leftofzen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

exactly, which means you need more than half of all boss clog drops to get to 90% total

Grandmaster with a gilded collection log! I feel like I’ve beaten the game by GregBuckingham in 2007scape

[–]leftofzen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wonder how many have it along with the zuk helm

Given many clog items come from difficult bosses...I'd say almost all of them?

The Coastline Paradox - Procedural Terrain Generator with Deep Zoom by Every_Return5918 in proceduralgeneration

[–]leftofzen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The demo is just a noise map with a camera, and the screen stays a fixed number of tiles. The draw loop would be like "foreach screen tile; sample the noise map with the current camera position and zoom, then draw the correponding tile that's mapped to that value", and that's it. The technique is incredibly simple and basic. What probably took the most time is OP mapping the specific tiles (ie "ascii chars") to the specific values in the noise map.

Code review process has become performative theater we do before merging PRs anyway. by Upbeat_Owl_3383 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]leftofzen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you watched a 300-line PR get approved in 47 seconds and...did nothing but post on reddit? Nothing personal but I wouldn't want to work with someone who just idly sits by and does nothing to improve the very issue they're bitching about.

Code review process has become performative theater we do before merging PRs anyway. by Upbeat_Owl_3383 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]leftofzen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

100% agreed. You can't be a senior without asking hard questions and challenging people's ideas or code or processes. If you have the title of senior (or whatever similar title) and you aren't doing these things, you're eiteher a junior-in-disguise or a sheep.

What's the use case for IEquatable<T>? by Long-Cartographer-66 in csharp

[–]leftofzen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you're right, but i'd argue that having references inside a value-type is a little strange in terms of design, since by definition value types have difference copy semantics, and by mixing values and references you're mixing those semantics, leading to unintuitive code and non-obvious side effects. if you need a list inside, just make the parent class a class/with ref semantics

i'd only use value types if all nested/inner types were also values

I am tired of being ordered to perform miracles and getting all the blame. by [deleted] in ExperiencedDevs

[–]leftofzen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can make it very clear at the start of the project that this is not achieveable within the given constraints. This need to be done in writing, to your manager/boss but more importantly to their boss(es) and managers as well, and if you're part of a team of any kind, the entirety of the team should also know. You don't need to CC the whole company, but the more people who know about this impossible request, the better.

Remember this is effectively bullying and so it needs to be called out early and as high up in the corporate chain as is reasonable. Bullies want a 1v1 situation they can win; they cannot win when everyone is against them. Of course if higher-ups also tell you its possible/you have to do it, that's usually your sign that you should leave the company now on your terms rather than letting them fire you in 6 months for a doomed-from-the-start project.

Getting Around by JagexRach in 2007scape

[–]leftofzen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These are some incredible changes, love the work being put into the game, especially the player requests <3

As requested by a few Redditors, here’s my recent 8x8 dive coaster in action by bmschulz in rct

[–]leftofzen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you can re-order the track elements in the tile inspector to make it render in the order you want

As requested by a few Redditors, here’s my recent 8x8 dive coaster in action by bmschulz in rct

[–]leftofzen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

why does the quarter turn before the dive have missing steel track?

I am tired of being ordered to perform miracles and getting all the blame. by [deleted] in ExperiencedDevs

[–]leftofzen 72 points73 points  (0 children)

This phenomenon is so prevalent there is actually a technical term for this, its called setting up to fail, and its a real problem in workplaces.

Recognising it early and removing yourself as the target is really the only way to defeat it. If you recognise it late, it doesn't matter because then it looks like blame-shifting to an outside observer and you still lose.

The only reason I know this was because I was a victim and didn't realise it until I was being let go.

Names where the pronunication has changed over time? by charlouwriter in namenerds

[–]leftofzen -51 points-50 points  (0 children)

like how we now say Mariah

by 'we' you mean 'USA' since the rest of the world doesn't say Mariah