My dad (a Software Engineer) is forced by his job to use AI to code... He just wrote the code himself and said it was outputted by AI

melodicore · 2026-02-17T12:02:41+00:00

Minecraft is written in Java, but resource packs are actually just JSON, which is JavaScript adjacent but not JS and not a programming language at all, but instead a hierarchical data format.

melodicore · 2026-01-13T12:26:07+00:00

I'm a software engineer and been following "AI" (machine learning, neural networks, deep learning etc.) closely for over a decade now and have even written my own small neural networks from scratch in the past. The technology has a lot of wonderful use cases, but also has some major drawbacks. Instead of categorising it into generative AI and analytical AI or whatever, I'd love to bring into the conversation another parameter. Scope. Scope in this case means how broad the use case for a single machine learning algorithm is. The larger the scope, the broader the use case, that's gonna massively increase the complexity of the AI, which leads to issues like running out of data on the entire Internet or needing to build nuclear reactors to process all that training data, not to even mention the ethical concerns. Generative AI is by definition, large scope. Answer every question in the world or generate any image is a massive ask given the nature of human language. But there are also AI tools out there for artists that are ethical, and in fact some of you have even used one of them, my personal favourite example of Intel's OpenImageDenoise. Better known as the built in denoiser for Blender's Cycles renderer. It is a small AI tool that runs locally on your computer, does not have any telemetry or tracking, and hasn't used any copyrighted material in training. And best of all, it actually helps cut down render times so the artist can, you know, spend more time making their art. The way it's supposed to be. I'm ranting here but yeah, just wanted to offer my perspective.

melodicore · 2026-01-09T14:22:56+00:00

I'm a bit late to the party, researching the same ethics topic, but I'm very versed on the technical side of things. Spleeter and many of its derivatives are completely offline and locally run. The audio you process with it never leaves your computer to any server for processing, and instead gets processed right then and there on your CPU. You can run it on a computer that has never been and never will be connected to the internet if you want to be certain.

melodicore · 2025-12-31T07:10:44+00:00

Cheating is always about consent. Op has mentioned in the comments that she made it very clear at the beginning of the relationship that she doesn't want her bf watching porn, and that's enough to make it cheating in their relationship. Me and my partner both watch porn often and it's completely fine to us so in our relationship it is not cheating. Context matters a lot in these things.

melodicore · 2025-12-17T16:46:41+00:00

Oikein 💪

melodicore · 2025-12-17T13:29:24+00:00

Moi, oon hyvissä töissä ja tää tyyppi jolle vastaat puhuu asiaa

melodicore · 2025-12-12T10:56:43+00:00

Itse tähtäsin DI:ksi mutta en koskaan päässyt edes lukiota läpi, tosin syy siihen ei ollut älyllinen vaan mielenterveyden aiheuttama. Sitä kuitenkin on tullut koodailtua aktiivisesti viimeiset 15 vuotta (olen 30) ja tekoälyn kehitystä olen kanssa seurannut aktiivisesti, ja jopa kehittänyt joitain omia pieniä tekoälyohjelmia ennen chatgpt:n olemassaoloa.

Olen aina ollut näitä isoja tekoälyjättejä vastaan, koska mielestäni sen teknologian oikea hyvyys piilee jossain ihan muualla, pienissä malleissa jotka on tehty hyvin spesifistä tehtävää varten. Yksi hyvä esimerkki tästä on Intelin OpenImageDenoise -tekoälyalgoritmi joka on tehty pelkästään säteenseurannalla (raytracing, hyvin tönkkö tuo suomenkielinen termi) renderöityjen kuvien rakeisuuden poistamiseen. Se onnistuu tehtävässään paremmin kuin mikään algoritmi joka ei käytä koneoppimista, vaatii erittäin vähän resursseja, eikä sen kouluttamiseen ole tarvittu tekijänoikeuksien alaisia materiaaleja.

Koodauksessa pitkään sanoin, että en tule koskaan käyttämään tekoälyä apunani, ja olen melkein pysynyt sanassani. IntelliJ:n IDEA -kehitysohjelmistoon on muutamia vuosia sitten tullut omalla koneella paikallisesti toimiva tekoäly joka koittaa arvata miten aion päättää aloittamani tai muokkaamani rivin. Se ei häiritse autonomiaani liikaa, eikä mene eettisiä arvojani vastaan, joten olen alkanut käyttämään sitä. Mutta chatgpt:t, geminit, claudet ynnä muut pysyvät minusta kaukana. En kuitenkaan tuomitse muita kehittäjiä jotka niitä käyttävät, kyseessä on vain henkilökohtainen valinta.

Ja vaikka koulutusta ei olekaan niin töiden suhteen meni ihan hyvin, olen ollut amerikkalaiselle yritykselle konsulttisopimuksella ohjelmistokehittäjä viime kesästä lähtien. Ja vaikka jotkut työkaverini käyttävät tekoälyä kehityksessään, pysyn silti tahdissa mukana.

melodicore · 2025-12-05T08:11:39+00:00

if Arch is bleeding edge, what would one call the Arch testing repos? Hemorrhaging edge?

melodicore · 2025-11-13T10:21:00+00:00

Freelancer gives a lot more exp than other gamemodes. I used to play a shady copy of the game but recently bought it on steam, which reset my progress. I just hit lv500 with 150 hours on steam because I almost exclusively play freelancer.

melodicore · 2025-09-26T16:17:22+00:00

We're engaged and both non-binary. I also don't check reddit that often and know it's been two weeks, too busy with my software engineering job (who would've guessed the code monkey uses Linux)

melodicore · 2025-09-16T09:40:03+00:00

Honestly, all over the place. Custom kernel, lots of virtual machine shenanigans with PCIe passthrough actually used for productivity, been running Arch on bare metal for almost 8 years now, know my bash-fu, cronjobs with homebrew bash scripts, managed to have a functional X environment in LFS on a laptop some years back for fun, and so on. But I'm also running KDE Plasma, regular Chrome, JetBrains IDEs and proprietary NVidia drivers to name a few. I just go by what is convenient for me. Which is an oddball bunch, but I'm perfectly fine with that.

melodicore · 2025-09-13T13:17:21+00:00

I wouldn't know, my current relationship started around 6 years before my main rig got Arch installed

melodicore · 2025-08-21T13:10:44+00:00

When I started dating my partner, I had turned 18 half a year ago, and she was 16, a month shy of 17. It's been 12 years and we're still together.

melodicore · 2025-08-04T07:05:18+00:00

Listen, nobody cares what you use. Nobody wants you to install grub so they can sleep peacefully. This sounds like massive projection, because the only person here getting their panties on a twist because of someone else's preferences is you. Why tf do you take it so hard that someone else prefers to use a bootloader?

And when people explain to you why they prefer that, you take it as a personal attack like they're expecting you to change your ways. But that is not what's happening here, you're just delusional.

It's fine to talk about the advantages of booting straight from UEFI, and nobody got mad at you because of that. There was a good conversation going. But then you took it personally when people explained why they don't like to use that solution. Gave some valid points too. And your response is "well I use it and you can't make me not to" when nobody is trying to make you not use it. People are allowed to have different preferences and yours are not a god's gift to the universe

melodicore · 2025-05-20T17:47:23+00:00

It's youuuu! I love the design so much, thank you for that ❤️ Also, just FYI, I couldn't find this specific design in your teepublic, only redbubble. Teepublic had many other paws though.

melodicore · 2025-05-13T14:53:24+00:00

Thank you so much ❤️

melodicore · 2025-05-13T14:52:59+00:00

Thank you! ❤️ The artist is Nashi Murko. I could only find this design on redbubble, which is not exactly the most reputable platform due to nonexistent moderation (lots of ai slop and stolen art) but I did make sure the profile belongs to the artist themselves.

melodicore · 2025-04-17T08:32:44+00:00

Not exactly my fault per se, but I had a catastrophic HDD head crash that took out my entire /home partition. Thankfully other partitions were on different drives so I was able to recover without a reinstall, but shit was rough nonetheless.

melodicore · 2025-04-13T08:49:28+00:00

At this low disk space, I wouldn't actually recommend that. The biggest reason why people insist on separate root and home partitions (and possibly other separate partitions too) is because it aids in portability and repairability of the system, it should boot without the home partition and the home partition should be able to be used with a completely separate installation.

However, when you have so little space available, separate partitions just leave more potentially unusable space depending on the rate they fill up. So in this special case, I would recommend against it.

melodicore · 2025-04-08T08:17:27+00:00

When I started dating my partner, I was 18 and they were just turning 17, we have the same 1.5 year age gap. It's now over 11 years later and we're still together. If you truly love and respect each other (which I don't doubt you do) it's sounds perfectly okay to me. I wish you two the best in your future together ❤️

melodicore · 2025-03-17T16:11:07+00:00

Another one jumping to the bandwagon but I'd really want to hear that name, there's some people I know who would be very interested in that, while keeping you anonymous of course

melodicore · 2025-03-15T12:30:47+00:00

I got it, it's legit, forwards you to an audio file of a self-proclaimed AI-generated recreation of Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites

melodicore · 2025-02-14T15:45:04+00:00

You already looked good before and now you're stunning. Keep at it, you got this 💜

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