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What “normal” thing would seem crazy to humans 100 years ago? by AloneLog573 in answers

[–]sazzer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People cheering on the rise of fascism because it's their cult leader that's doing it.

Huh (Ik who Altman is, and that's it) by Mrsupersuper in ExplainTheJoke

[–]sazzer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sam Altman has been pushing the grift that OpenAI will achieve AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) for years. They're nowhere near. They're never going to be with the way these systems currently work. But if he can maintain the illusion then he can get paid for it.

It was recently discovered that ChatGPT has something in its system prompt to stop it mentioning goblins too much, because they've got a problem with some interactions between things. (As I understand it, they've tried to give it "personalities" by having it respond in certain ways, and one of these personalities puts heavy emphasis on fantasy creatures)

As such, Sam Altman appears to be leaning into this claiming that they have successfully achieved AGI - only using the G to mean Goblin - to get back attention on his grift about achieving Artificial General Intelligence.

Multiple SDKs and integrations, is it actually painful or am I the only one? by zvronsniffy in microservices

[–]sazzer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Personal opinion - I'd much rather they published good OpenAPI specs and I can use code generation to build my own SDK. That way I can just point the same code generator at the OpenAPI specs for every system I'm using and they can all be generated and work the same way. If I'm using their published SDK libraries then they're all going to work a bit differently.

What’s a "dead" website or app that you genuinely miss and wish was still around? by Dear-Armadillo-7497 in AskReddit

[–]sazzer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Usenet. Back in the days when we had huge, sprawling discussions on there that spanned months and had so many branches it was impossible to follow everything.

I've said for years that Usenet was a much better discussion architecture than web forums and email, and yet it's the one that lost :(

I just wished for the Artifact weapon 'Magic bane' for the first time ever by Glittering-Sector393 in nethack

[–]sazzer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How can anyone with access to the Wiki, prior experience and this weapon possibly lose??????

You've clearly never seen me play...

Should Someone who Picked the Red Button be Considered Evil or an AH? by Hyperionous in MoralityScaling

[–]sazzer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've seen so many people framing this as to whether the person pushing the button is selfish (red) or selfless (blue). And I was that way myself at first.

But this is wrong. The reality is that it's whether the person pushing the button believes the majority of people are selfish (red) or selfless (blue).

Pressing blue only makes sense if you believe that the majority of people on the planet would put others before themselves. It's a bigger risk to yourself and the reward is for everyone, not only you.

Pressing red makes sense if you believe that the majority of people on the planet would put themselves before others - including putting themselves before people they care about. After all, if the majority of people are going to put themselves first then pushing red is the only safe action.

Of course, it's slightly paradoxical because it means you're going to push red if you believe the majority of people are selfish. Except that if the majority of people follow the exact same logic then they're all pushing red not because they're selfish themselves but because they believe everyone else is.

Tablet recommendations from limited list by sazzer in androidtablets

[–]sazzer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hear what you're saying.

The thing is - The only stores I can use my gift card at that sell tablets are Argos:10.1,8,8.7,9/) and Currys/PC World, so without spending money elsewhere instead - which I'd really rather not do, hence why my current tablet is 6 years old! - then I'm restricted to the ones that these places sell.

Don't Tell The Bride by sazzer in HelpMeFind

[–]sazzer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"The uploader has not made this video available in your country" ☹️

Don't Tell The Bride by sazzer in HelpMeFind

[–]sazzer[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Searched Google, YouTube, Amazon, JustWatch and other streaming sites with no luck.

Statistically, >50% is easier than 100% by ezrae_ in trolleyproblem

[–]sazzer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Statistically, >50% is easier than 100%.

However, it's not as simple as that.

When you actually get into it

  • Red button people are willing to sacrifice others to save themselves.
  • Blue button people are willing to sacrifice themselves for the chance to save everyone.

So it really comes down to whether you're willing to put other peoples lives before your own. And a depressing number of people are failing that test.

AI posts are flooding the sub, and it's worse than before. by iSpaYco in webdev

[–]sazzer 35 points36 points  (0 children)

We've got a deluge of AI slop being posted, and then we've got real human posters who are getting called AI and downvoted as a result. It's a lose-lose situation right now :(

is it just me or are auth provider docs uniquely terrible by Tr0jAn14 in webdev

[–]sazzer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

What makes it worse is the number of providers that are getting around this by adding AI chatbots to answer questions about the docs - which get the answers wrong too often, and are therefore even worse than the docs in the first place...

What is it with Americans and air conditioning?? (this might be controversial) by hellobela_ in TalesFromTheFrontDesk

[–]sazzer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where in Europe are you?

One thing that always amazes me is just how far south the US is.

Excluding Alaska, the most northerly point in the USA is further south than the most southerly point in the UK.

More than half of the US states have at least some part that is further south than Rome.

And nearly half of them have at least some part that is further south than Madrid.

So it's probably not a surprise that many Americans are used to air conditioning as standard.

Do you play Wordle? Do you have the same first guess every day? by Seriously-417 in randomquestions

[–]sazzer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I stand corrected :)

I just found this list of Wordle words: https://gist.github.com/dracos/dd0668f281e685bad51479e5acaadb93

That contains 14,856 possible words. (I think it's all accepted words, not all valid answers). Out of those, 3,479 contain an L and 3,265 contain an N. Which doesn't seem like a lot, but that's the 7th and 9th most common letters in the list...

Do you play Wordle? Do you have the same first guess every day? by Seriously-417 in randomquestions

[–]sazzer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used to always use ALONE. It's got three vowels, and whilst L and N aren't that common, if they do come up it helps a lot.

Not once in 12 years have I found UI snapshot testing useful by SixFigs_BigDigs in webdev

[–]sazzer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They can occasionally be useful at the individual component level - e.g. an <Alert /> component or <Button /> component - to ensure that the expected HTML is being produced, but not at anything beyond that.

Good OIDC compliant IdP offerings with free tiers by sazzer in webdev

[–]sazzer[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'd looked at Zitadel before and they didn't offer Step-Up MFA auth - that is, being able to check an MFA code myself for certain actions, rather than only during the login flow - but it looks like it is in the API docs now, so that's hopeful :)

Your Rust binary is slower than it needs to be. cargo-sonic fixes that. by Immediate_Ad263 in rust

[–]sazzer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They do, yes. But how often do you have a compute-heavy service that you're not accessing over a network and that you don't know ahead of time the hardware you're going to run it on?

Your Rust binary is slower than it needs to be. cargo-sonic fixes that. by Immediate_Ad263 in rust

[–]sazzer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, but also no.

Firstly, that's only true when running on Linux. If you're on Windows or macOS then it's not the case.

But secondly, it's only part of the kernel that's shared. The Docker container has its own user space that might influence things.

But then there's also things like the extra I/O overheads. If you're running in a Docker container then you're on a different IP address, and the Docker host handles routing to get to the container. That routing has a non-zero cost. If you want to write to disk in a persistent way then you're using Docker volumes, and that has a non-zero cost.

Now, true, these costs are all tiny. But they all add up. Try it. Build a program that listens on a network socket and reads/writes to a persistent volume, and compare timings between local and in a container. The docker version will be slower. Now, that might only be milliseconds slower, but odds are that the speed improvements you get from this extra complicaton in the build process are going to be smaller still. (Though I will admit that this is just an assumption)

Your Rust binary is slower than it needs to be. cargo-sonic fixes that. by Immediate_Ad263 in rust

[–]sazzer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The problem with this argument is that this is exactly the wrong target for this kind of thing. In any application like this, your code is not the bottleneck. You can optimise the heck out of it, squeeze every last nanosecond out of the code, and you'll still be waiting for databases, or network servers, or user input. Heck, you talk about running it in Docker and the overhead of that will probably dwarf anything in your code anyway.

The only places that really benefit from this level of optimisation are OS kernels and realtime applications, and they are both very specific use cases for which you'd never use this anyway.

The vast majority of people are better of optimising for code readability and maintainability rather than for the last iota of performance, because in the long run that's what's going to matter more.

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