[-] vrek@programming.dev 16 points 4 weeks ago

Then hand them a pair of Walmart budget sneakers you bought for $10. See what they do...

[-] vrek@programming.dev 16 points 4 months ago

"mom!!!Brother biscuited himself"

"daddy, are you biscuit - faced again? You were supposed to drive me to my school play tonight!"

[-] vrek@programming.dev 16 points 7 months ago

If you like techno-fantasy I highly recommend snowcrash. For years I've wanted a game of the first chapter, basically a guy is delivering pizza but gas is really expensive so all he has is a skateboard and a harpoon gun with an electromagnet. He basically shoots the harpoon at cars and gave them pull him towards the destination, it sounds like a cool video game like a race but you don't control speed only which car you are connected to.

Don't worry that didn't spoil anything. The book goes into a totally different direction with technology and science.

[-] vrek@programming.dev 16 points 7 months ago

As a US citizen... Dropping us copyright would be a critical blow. Don't enforce rights on tv/novies/games/music would crumble the economy. I'm not against it but yeah, that's a nuke to the economy.

[-] vrek@programming.dev 16 points 7 months ago

It's even worse, if you buy "cold" rotisserie chicken (literally the same just not kept warm under heat lamps so you have to warm it up if you want it hot) it was $2.77 last time I bought one at Walmart.

Why the price difference? Don't know. It's stored in the open cover "cold food storage" they use it which are probably similar cost to run as the heat lamps. That said for a chicken sandwich or chicken noodle soup such a better deal.

[-] vrek@programming.dev 16 points 8 months ago

But I was laying there...

[-] vrek@programming.dev 16 points 9 months ago

I've said it before Ai has uses, about 5% of what it's being shoved into.

For example I was working with a optical measurement system company. You basically took a bunch of photos of what you wanted measured, they would put it through a Ai system and determine the optimal light, contrast, tool, and etc settings to set and then you could use that to setup your system and measure thousands more devices.

Thats probably a system Ai is good at, and they had a chart like with "x photos expect y accuracy, with z photos expect a accuracy" with like 20 options. It was especially good if you could give as accurate of reading possoble, or optimally just "these are good, these are bad".

[-] vrek@programming.dev 16 points 10 months ago

While I think this would be good, why can't they track the boat to its destination, stop both the boat and determine who is distributing it within the US.

People in the US have to be distributing it. I realize they don't typically use official ports but even if they go to a specific spot and drop the drugs in the ocean and later another ship comes by to pick it up, track each stage and make the arrest after the transfer to the next person.

[-] vrek@programming.dev 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That's not even code grief....

Two examples that were far worse:

  1. My last company wanted software developers. They offered to send me to code boot camp and give me a promotion. The boot camp was primarily python. I complete and get the promotion. New manager tells me the code base I'll work on is actually c... Umm ok. New manager retires a week later. I spend a few weeks basically teaching myself c. New manager is assigned. He tells me I should basically assist the senior Dev, ok no problem. Find out the code base is actually c#... Should be doable it's c based atleast. It's c# framework 4.8 based on winforns... No one in the building had heard of a unit test...the code was released to production on December of '23. Oh and yeah the senior Dev then announced he was retiring. There are no other c# programmers on the team.

  2. I told this story before recently. On a separate c# code base the "login" function had hard coded credentials in the source, which checked if they existed in a local sql database table with one entry(the hard coded values) and then verified the returned value for "password" was >= than 5. It then logged you in. Didn't check if the password was correct or even the correct length just that the return of the select statement was greater than or equal to 5 characters... Just for fun remember that false is 5 characters 😂

[-] vrek@programming.dev 16 points 2 years ago

But can he lie about it? Can his brothers deny?

[-] vrek@programming.dev 16 points 2 years ago

Yeah, ok but that means for it to be a adult bird or at least old enough to fly either 1. Young birds don't have a soul. 2. His soul was in 2 bodies at the same time.

[-] vrek@programming.dev 16 points 2 years ago

I think Oregon got rid of that law last year... New Jersey still has it though

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