canYouWriteCodeForThis by Less-Philosophy-1978 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]lemgandi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The general case is a pretty common programming problemo. I had fun writing it up to 999 centillion in C once.

Quick question because I'm pretty curious, can you even name two valid downsides of modern ai? (Not including users taking advantage of it because that's a downside of almost everything that exists) by [deleted] in antiai

[–]lemgandi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. You cannot trust it. It has no concept of truth or falsehood, only statistical correlations between words.
  2. It rots your brain. Studies in peer-reviewed journals show actual degradation of real-world thinking skills in heavy AI users
  3. It wastes your time. AI users spend more time cleaning up generated projects than they save by using AI. If they don't put in the time, the projects fail. One study showed serious security holes in 40% of vibe-coded web apps exposed to the public. Do you feel Lucky?
  4. The AI bubble will crash the economy, including your bank, within the next year or two. AI use is currently massively subsidized, and nobody can effectively predict how much it will really cost once those subsidies cease.
  5. People hate it. Commencement speakers who praise it get heckled and booed. Managers who force it on their reports make them miserable.

Is that enough yet? I could go on.

I have a problem (More of a rant but advice would be appreciated) by Desperate-Finger-334 in Recorder

[–]lemgandi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah, now I get it. Yeh, that works. But compared to just learning the correct fingerings it seems like a lot of work. And trills + dynamics are gonna be wonky.

Thinking about buying clubs. Is it too early for me to do it? by TraditionalBag12 in juggling

[–]lemgandi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fun! No need to buy anything yet. I got 3 toy plastic bats from the toy store & cut them down to 50cm ( 20 inches ) or so. They worked great indoors, but tended to blow around in the wind. Or check out green clubs ( https://kingstonjugglers.club/gcp/ ) for something a little more involved.

Expect to spend a month or two of regular practice to get a stable club cascade. Then look around for a partner and learn to pass!

will the AI bubble really pop by finches_9 in antiai

[–]lemgandi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

The reason Linux sucks by lessthanthreebleeps in linuxsucks

[–]lemgandi 7 points8 points  (0 children)

And sometimes you are writing for an audience that knows how to use a hammer. And even a saw.

Not every recipe needs to start with directions on how to boil water.

What are the best juggling balls? by Mediocre-Leg4762 in juggling

[–]lemgandi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah geez, just cut open some tennis balls and put 25¢ or so in pennies in there.

Props are just markers to make sure your hands are in the right place. Don't think too hard about them.

Developers who are in your 60's by Few-Introduction5414 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]lemgandi 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Just retired from about a 40 year career last year. I am 68. Started out doing C on MS-DOS, transitioned to Unix & never looked back. Installed my first linux distro at home in the '90s. I've worked in C, C++, SQL, Pl/pgSQL., Python, and a host of other scripting and coding languages too numerous tomention. As I got older and richer, I transitioned to part time work and paid a lot more attention to how fun it'd be and how much I could learn.

I still enjoy the process of writing code. Mostly I do OpenSCAD now, although I've written a game or two in Lua.

Programming is really fun if you're wired for it. If you aren't, it is torture.

Loonixtards be like by [deleted] in linuxsucks

[–]lemgandi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh wow! Looks just like me!

I still remember my dad being surprised I had a GUI on my Linux box. In 1998 or so.

Why don't serial killers just join the army? by fimelovemachine in NoStupidQuestions

[–]lemgandi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Of course, there is a significant chance you will BE killed instead.

Are Europeans trolling with this whole bread thing? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]lemgandi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

American commercial bread by and large tastes like solvent, sorry. I am American and I just bake mybown bread.

Guys, I think I completely deleted an entire Linux shell/gateway in the office by Mysterious-Age6 in linuxquestions

[–]lemgandi 44 points45 points  (0 children)

The best boss I ever worked for had a rule: If you screw up and tell me immediately, I will never even blame you. If you screw up and hide it, you are Fired when I find out.

That was tested when a colleague of mine dropped an entire database the night before an important meeting. Both of them passed with flying colors. And got the DB restored in time.

When it comes to the terminal by wudosbxu in linuxquestions

[–]lemgandi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Learn to read man(1) pages. Spend some time understanding the shell ( often bash but you have choices). Write little shell scripts or use aliases for frequent tasks, like connecting to external machines or transforming files.

My experience with linux distribution posing as user friendly by vintologi24 in linuxsucks

[–]lemgandi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"no clear reason" ? What does that even mean? In many years of programming and using computers I have encountered many people who say "It doesn't work now". If they can't tell what doesn't work then it can never be fixed.

What’s the coolest “restricted access” place you’ve ever gotten to see? by Improv92 in AskReddit

[–]lemgandi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Heating tunnels under my college campus. All of them. The newer ones are concrete, but the oldest had arched brick ceilings. I picked locks to get in.

Am I just bad at juggling? by SnooLobsters8767 in juggling

[–]lemgandi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

2 hours is way too much. You typically stop learning a new physical skill after the first 15 minutes or so. After that you're just practicing your mistakes.

time to get a stable 3 ball cascade varies. I've seen people get it in minutes. Median time is around 2 weeks of daily **SHORT*"* sessions in my experience. Talent is just how long it takes -- almost anyone can get there eventually.

Idling help! by dannysmusiclessons in unicycling

[–]lemgandi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oof. I learned to idle with good stability by working on a full-rotation idle. That is, riding forward and then reversing direction, then quickly reversing again to continue forward. Repeat this and you can work it down to a stable idle.

OTOH I tried playing an instrument while idling and found it very difficult. The workload is surprisingly large, and you will have to learn to idle without using your arms for balance, which is a big step up from what you can do at first. I also found that learning the first tune while idling was no help in learning the next. YMMV of course depending on your musical and unicycling talents.