I also found it useful to do some one-off batch processing of a big file without thinking of chunking and doing too complicated things. Imagine something like a 60GB file in a custom format that need to be deduplicated. It’s easier to just load it all up in memory and do run the algorithm 2-3x slower using a 50GB swapfile than spend hours to complicate the algorithm.

Fair point 😊 Thanks for the clarification!

Reading AI code all day absolutely sucks and is the least interesting part of the job. Reading human code is so much better.

Also in all the places I worked 99% of the code was not copy-pasted. Beginners copy paste in their uni assignments, but once you are a bit comfortable with code it’s much slower than just writing out exactly what you want!

I don’t think that fully, 100% AI-written code is going to be the future and humans are only going to read it. I believe that (expert) humans still do a much better job in structuring code for long-term maintainability and thus there’s still going to be a niche for software developers there.

But I also have to agree with you that unfortunately most of the code will still be AI generated slop.

Luckily I have been playing a skyblock peaceful pack (Star technology) so I would be doing quite well.

Though before this I tried a bit Gregtech GTNH, and I would have been super-duper fucked. I was scared of the infernal monsters while playing the game, I can’t imagine how it would feel being actually in the game myself.

Thanks for the wikipedia rabbit hole!

It’s really great at removing the dirt in the toilet (and the toilet, and my arm, and the bathroom, and …)

I think it was not meant to convince anybody out of being flat-earther. It makes a fool out of them, but also it shows that there are humans behind the movement and their motivation (they went down the wrong path and got indoctrinated by the wrong people, and are now isolated by everybody else). I started the documentary thinking thar they are all stupid, and ended it feeling a bit sad about them and understanding a bit why would anybody continue to be part of a group spreating such an obvious lie. They really need some friends outside that group, support and some good education… the flat earthers and many conspiracy theory groups would have already died out, if society did not treat these people as a lost cause. It also explains indirectly why even some very intelligent people do fall for other conspiracy theories (like qanon).

I think it has changed how I would talk to a conspiracy theorist in real life, and I think it’s great that it managed to do that.

The “outside any juristiction” part is probably the main reason here.

Try to seize any evidence from servers that are traveling in space 10000 miles/hour. For now also space weapons are mostly in experimental phase, and I assume would cause a lot of debris in orbit. It makes the thousands of satellites in orbit almost untouchable by any government on earth.

The epstein-class has much to benefit from this.

It might also be playing into the distopyan fantasy of putting a superintelligent AI in earth orbit, so that it becomes unstoppable from earth.

In any case nothing good comes out of this.

Then you might be hitting some bugs in the router, and there’s not much to do :/

It seems strange that it only happens when you run the updates, but I did see some cheap routers randomly restarting before when under heavy load, so it’s not impossible. You should have been hitting the same problem with other downloads or steam though.

I’m unsure on what it could be, ans I don’t have many other suggestions other than “try a new router”, unfortunately :(

Is the connection with the router that drops only on your pc, or is it the whole router going down? You can check this by having your phone connected to the wifi, without 4G/5G data enabled, while your pc is running updates. Try browsing the internet on your phone while the updates are running and see if the pages load. If your phone loses internet at that point too, then your router actually crashes and likely has a problem. Not much to do here except changing the router.

If it’s just the wifi of your pc that drops the connection it might be that the wireless card has some compatibility issues (I have an old macbook air with the same problem - I workarounded it by buying a USB wifi adapter…).

The trick for windows is to rename the file and kill the process that’s using it / reboot (if it’s some unkillable service). The service won’t then be able to find the file after reatarting and you can delete the renamed copy.

On linux this whole thing is done automatically by the OS: if a file is open and you delete it, it will disappear from the folder but its data won’t actually be deleted from the disk until it’s closed by every program. Some programs even use this trick to create invisible temporary files to offload some data from RAM to disk!

In some countries (like Iceland), children have sex for the first time at age 16 on average [0]. That’s the average age, which means 50% of all people have already had sex before then.

If you wait to talk to them until 14, there’s probably a good chunk of them who will have had sex before even knowing what sex is, and many more that will grow up with the very skewed idea taught by porn. And nowadays kids will stumble upon porn even if you try to prevent it (friends, etc.).

You might not like this and it might be different from your experience in the past, but it is IMHO better to have a discussion and teach them that most of what they see is as fake and scripted as an action movie, teach them what is safe, than having them learn dangerous stuff from friends and porn or improvising by themselves. IMHO making this such a taboo topic also helps abusers and pedophiles, because it makes it harder for the kid to actually talk about abuse and report it.

[0] https://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/virginity-map-average-age-people-first-have-sex-by-country-33094921.html?guccounter=1

Working in IT, I’ll describe it as a “just a little temporary workaround, that I’m sure will be replace soon by a proper solution” (soon=never)

BTW, if you have a soldering iron, or a hackerspace/repair cafe/workshop close by and you want to get your hands dirty, you can put there a shorter cable, a dot of solder and it’ll be much more permanent. It should be relatively easy too!

You might be able to use loop-mounting (man losetup) to make the kernel forget about the device type, and treat the disc as a different kind of drive. It’s likely not going to work, but it’s worth trying. If you know programming and you are searching for a new rabbit hole, you can also look into fuse and write your own filesystem. It might be fun with a dvd+rw!

I’ll get a steam frame even at the inflated prices… It runs linux, seems quite open, and it not made by facebook. I’m already sold on just that. I also fear though it’ll sell out almost immediately 🙁