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If you are a heavy cannabis user, quitting for a week or two has the same effect until your tolerance goes back down.

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Construction too. I peg my "I'm in danger" meter every time I go up in a scissor lift. Those lights/speakers/fire strobes/WAPs don't make it 30 feet up to your Walmart ceiling by themselves. Then there's the residential a-hole who wants a camera at the apex of his roof on the third floor, so gotta break out the creaky old sun-bleached 40-foot extension ladder and fuck around like Clark Griswold...

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Nope, never lost my DOS, I made backups.

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I have no good excuse. I was 19. Weed and ejaculating were more important.

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I'm only a hobbyist, but I do embedded programming, and knowing computer science concepts really helps when you're bare-metal programming a teeny-tiny computer in say, a smart toaster.

Pointers and dereferences and how memory works, buffers, interrupts, how registers work, and perhaps even a little bit of assembly are still very useful things to know about in today's world, just not on the web. But like damn near everything has little computers in it everywhere, even your TV remote. I bet the average home is filled with hundreds of these one-chip computers.

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I'll settle for this ESP32 microcontroller I'm currently playing with to play variable-bitrate MP3s through a decoder chip without segfaulting.

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Isn't that something you can just install yourself? I don't own a surface, not sure how locked down it is and how "PC-like" it is in terms of architecture.

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Not sure if you're aware of this, but stuff like that has already happened, (AIs questioning their own existence or arguing with a user and stuff like that) and AI companies and handlers have had to filter that out or bias it so it doesn't start talking like that. Not that it proves anything, just bringing it up.

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know less about how to do manual work than my dad.

Funny, this is the opposite for me and my Dad, because I very much took advantage of all the free knowledge available on the Internet to improve my skills in that area.

He's the kind of guy to put WD40 and spray foam on everything to "fix" it, while I'll look up proper replacement parts and the right way to fix something.

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Someone ought to order pizza delivery for him to cheer him up...

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I can't believe NASA still trusts them to make a space capsule.

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You don't need to "capture" asteroids. You mine them in place and build heavy industry and everything you need in-situ. It's a hell of a lot easier to launch a new vessel off an asteroid than Earth. For some reason, people always think we'll be bringing these resources back to the surface of the Earth. That's wasteful, why do we want to throw them back into a gravity well?

We don't even need fancy fusion tech or anything for this to work, regular fission reactors can power things just fine. And the bonus is, you don't have to worry about where you put the waste. Just designate another asteroid in a clear orbit where it's most likely to not hit anything else for the next ten thousand years as a dumping ground, and mark it on the maps.

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I'm an electronic security technician. My system is a mishmash of Axis, Hikvision, Bosch, UNV, and Arecont. Basically whatever customers throw away when they upgrade. As long as it can do ONVIF, I'm good.

Anybody need some commercial access control panels? I got a stack of those in the basement too...

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That's not how emojis work. They look different for everybody. It all depends on how the client renders Unicode character U+1F62C. Just like text.

Try it out. Find a PC with a web browser and find your comment and emoji, and see how it looks on a different platform.

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Oh shit my bad, I was being a nerd. 🤓

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As if we were so much more refined back when we were giving each other links to the goatse pic and writing Livejournals.

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They said email, not AIM username.

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That would put you at about the mid-90s. Peak millennial/gen-x goth/grunge/nu metal era. Makes sense.

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Is this a rational discussion about what may be actually happening here in reality, or is this a circlejerk where everybody just repeats what we already know, which is that Elon sucks as a person? Let's not become Reddit.

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That wasn't my point. I'm just getting sick of seeing "Elon sucks" everywhere with no substance. We fucking get it already. You're preaching to the choir on the fediverse.

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What are you talking about? Are you lost in the thread responding to the wrong person? I made no edits to my comment.

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4 hours is how long ago it was made. If it was edited, it would say "edited" on the header, at least it does on Kbin.

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Space is hard.

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Here where I am in the US there are probably like 200 drugstores and doctor's offices in a 30 mile radius that will give me a Covid shot no problem.

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People are different. I just like to look at cool pictures. I couldn't care less about the person that made it. I expect anyone to do the same with anything I create.

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https://i.imgur.com/FcGcOFO.jpeg

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Compiling source code tends to get messy when you decide to remove it from your system. Also, you'll have to manually update it, any package manager will be unaware of it and can't do anything with it anyway. You'll also be responsible for dealing with conflicts with other software or dependency issues. That's why we have repos. Someone else did all that work already.

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I'm using Github Copilot every day just fine. It's great for fleshing out boilerplate and other tedious things where I'd rather spend the time working out the logic instead of syntax. If you actually know how to program and don't treat it as if it can do it all for you, it's actually a pretty great time saver. An autocomplete on steroids basically. It integrates right into my IDE and actually types out code WITH me at the same time, like someone is sitting right beside you on a second keyboard.

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At the beginning of Covid, reasonable people that were trying to tell people that the vaccines aren't 100% effective and should probably take other precautions on top were getting banned for "vaccine misinformation" and were being lumped in with the Covidiots. It was a trigger-happy moment for social media that was trying to brute-force moderation on keywords alone without looking at context.

Not saying that's what happened to this person, but it did happen.

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This might have accidentally been why I thought Unity DE was a piece of shit back in the day...it still is, but for different reasons.

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Do you care that you may soon be having discussions/arguments with chatbots more often than not on popular platforms like Reddit, X, YouTube, etc?

I wouldn't mind it as much if these chatbots weren't being used for nefarious purposes, like mass data collection, tracking, influencing, and privacy violations. Other than that, if it walks like a human, talks like a human, and we are convinced it's a human, is there anything wrong with that? It might as well be human. This is going to become more and more of a big question as we get closer to AGI. An AGI isn't going to suddenly "wake up" and become self aware one day. All these systems are slowly inching towards it. There's not going to be a clean line between "just a program mimicking a human" and "a fully self-aware entity". It's up to us to determine that, and there's no hard rules to determine that, because it falls into the "problem of other minds" philosophical concept.

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Different perspectives I guess. That era to me is the era of Apogee software and DOS shareware games, since we never owned a Nintendo system but my Dad did have a decent PC. Many evenings as a preteen were spent trying to cook up my own shitty games in QBasic.

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If the human brain can do what it does while being powered by Doritos and beer, we need to do wayyy better on the hardware efficiency front.

Opinion: It's Time To Ditch 2.4GHz WI-FI

2.4GHz wifi is not suitable for two big reasons, interference and low bandwidth. 2.4GHz wifi in any kind of suburban or city environment and sometimes even in rural will be congested with other networks, microwaves, other appliances, etc causing massive speed degradation or fluctuations. The range of 2.4GHz is just too large for...

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I run both. 5Ghz for high bandwidth devices such as phones and laptops. 2.4Ghz for IoT stuff that needs to penetrate through walls and isn't using much bandwidth.

Because of this useful niche, it probably won't go away for a long time. Just like new burglar/fire alarm panels, UPSs, and network appliances that still use RS232 serial interfaces to program some settings.

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My AF technical training squadron 20 years ago was on a joint base. I remember a tropical storm hitting the base, so they had us all huddle in the dorms and relax until it passed while we watched the Marines march around in 3 foot high water outside.

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Windows ME is definitely one of the Windows of all time.

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GNU guy, he made a ton of Linux that's not Linux. GCC for example.

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The ISS is one yard short of the length of one American football field!

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What about the programming socks? Is that true?

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So this is how Amazon companies come up with their names.

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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DmWLjU0V4AA2IbJ.jpg

It's soo dripping with snark and I love it.

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😳 your username...

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The dev spent 1,000,000 hours making the entire codebase their second language and knows it like the back of their hand, why can't you?

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THANK YOU

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Software pirates still love it for some reason. You'd think they'd use non-proprietary archival programs.

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Which is why people still need to learn to code. We are gonna find out real quick who the copypaster fakes are.

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I'll never forget seeing "Y2K compatible" flashlights in the dollar store.

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Some will find a niche. There's a dude I watch called "Dankpods" and his schtick is shitty cheap-ass mp3 players from the mid-2000s on up.

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