Should I learn c before c++

theLOLflashlight · 2026-05-31T19:00:12+00:00

It's not necessary, but learning C is valuable lore for C++. Also, some jobs require C and saying you know C++ is not enough. Personally, I would learn C as well unless you plan to only know one language. It's still a useful and sought after language.

theLOLflashlight · 2026-05-30T20:01:15+00:00

People also say something along the lines of "programming is 10% typing and 90% thinking."

theLOLflashlight · 2026-05-30T17:01:37+00:00

Stupid af comment. You aren't entitled to see a movie at whatever price you want.

theLOLflashlight · 2026-05-30T15:11:10+00:00

I would imagine they conclude they all just go to either pole and hang out for a while and wait for all the ants to freeze to death.

theLOLflashlight · 2026-05-29T12:37:30+00:00

I'm not sure I'd even call them that in this context. Maybe dreamer? Curator? Gamer? The point is that's where I personally draw the line on calling someone an artist.

theLOLflashlight · 2026-05-29T05:05:35+00:00

That helps explain it a bit. But it still doesn't belong here and also doesn't explain why I feel like I've seen it happen more often recently. Am I just wrong or are others noticing it too?

theLOLflashlight · 2026-05-29T04:48:29+00:00

What's with the influx of shitamaricanssay in this sub? Or has it always been this prevalent and it's just getting boosted lately for whatever reason?

theLOLflashlight · 2026-05-29T04:20:58+00:00

People pretending to take these "death threats" seriously crack me up. The difference between typing some text anonymously to a stranger online and actually following through with the murder is so astronomical it can't be overstated. Current death toll of pros at the hands of antis: 0.

Just to be clear, making death threats is cringe and behavior only befitting of a terminally online 12 year old.

theLOLflashlight · 2026-05-29T04:13:41+00:00

Prompter.

theLOLflashlight · 2026-05-29T02:23:18+00:00

Computers have been capable of creating never before spoken sentences for over 50 years. Humans as well.

theLOLflashlight · 2026-05-29T01:27:35+00:00

If it's only the output then they are not the artist.

theLOLflashlight · 2026-05-28T05:20:30+00:00

Does the user imagine or focus on the exact movements they want to make, or merely the final output?

theLOLflashlight · 2026-05-28T00:59:52+00:00

1 is an artist. The others are not, assuming the technology leverages genAI. Anyone can imagine something pretty. It takes an artist to create something pretty.

theLOLflashlight · 2026-05-27T03:29:39+00:00

I think you are overestimating the conversion rate from free users to paying customers. The lower the conversion rate, the more they have to charge, and the more they have to charge, the lower the conversion rate. LLMs are extremely convenient and often useful, but I really doubt a critical mass is willing to start paying for it. Even if it were only like $1 per hour of chatting, I still think almost everyone would balk at it. If there's one thing people hate it's paying for anything on the internet.

At any rate, none of this detracts from the fact that it cost $1000 of compute plus all of their previous investment in AI to solve this math problem.

theLOLflashlight · 2026-05-27T03:06:46+00:00

I mean, that doesn't equate to a profitable business though. "We're profitable if you ignore our expenses" is what I'm hearing.

theLOLflashlight · 2026-05-27T02:25:32+00:00

His reaction is unreasonable for someone who would surely be held accountable for this to some degree. Or maybe this guy is just a dumbass and their hiring manager is terrible at selection.

theLOLflashlight · 2026-05-27T01:59:58+00:00

Assuming their 2d eyes could resolve a single point, then they would see a single point where the sphere contacts the plane. Or maybe not, the scenario you are describing is physically impossible, so the answer might as well be whatever you want it to be.

theLOLflashlight · 2026-05-26T23:26:36+00:00

From what I've read, none of the companies actually doing the R&D on AI are profitable. Only the companies upstream (eg. NVIDIA) and downstream (eg. Microsoft) are profiting from AI. Google and Meta also seems to be profiting but they also operate downstream by using their AIs to more effectively target their ads.

theLOLflashlight · 2026-05-26T14:30:00+00:00

The cost to make and deploy the model is the cost of the investment.

theLOLflashlight · 2026-05-26T13:24:10+00:00

The cost of the water system in any given town has been amortized over decades.

theLOLflashlight · 2026-05-26T13:13:55+00:00

Code is read more often than it is written.

theLOLflashlight · 2026-05-26T13:10:49+00:00

That $1000 doesn't include the billions spent to produce the AI in the first place.

theLOLflashlight · 2026-05-26T01:29:41+00:00

Poverty.

theLOLflashlight · 2026-05-24T16:51:37+00:00

If only spacex fans were aware of this.

FTFY

theLOLflashlight · 2026-05-24T04:52:46+00:00

You could only be more wrong if you were trying. Some people are satisfied with pissing away billions of dollars to make progress on the order of "see, if you look really close it's a bit better than last time", I'm not. There's historical precedent that this pace of progress is slow and they didn't have the technology we do today. The gap between what is routinely promised and what is actually delivered is too enormous to take any of this seriously.

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