#programming

[coffin-spider]

The gremlins in my mind want to own a lil mini computer like this as if I we're some strange sci-fi novel character. To you beautiful humans who make stuff like this and know how to use raspberry pies, I love you. My fantasy to be a cyberpunk/lainecore/space girl is fuled by your mastery of this lil goobers

[track-maniac]

for context i'm looking at the code i wrote back when i made this post and uh

yay! hardcoded secrets!

in the gitted lab. straight up "pushing it". and by "it", haha, well. let's just say. Bad code

[captaindrewboy]

I hate when I tell people I'm into Comp Sci and programming and they go "ooh there's a lot of money there". I'm not DOING it for the MONEY I'm DOING it because I want to FUCK the COMPUTER!!!!

[prokopetz]

I 100% agree with the criticism that the central problem with "AI"/LLM evangelism is that people pushing it fundamentally do not value labour, but I often see it phrased with a caveat that they don't value labour except for writing code, and... like, no, they don't value the labour that goes into writing code, either. Tech grifter CEOs have been trying to get rid of programmers within their organisations for years – long before LLMs were a thing – whether it's through algorithmic approaches, "zero coding" development platforms, or just outsourcing it all to overseas sweatshops. The only reason they haven't succeeded thus far is because every time they try, all of their toys break. They pretend to value programming as labour because it's the one area where they can't feasibly ignore the fact that the outcomes of their "disruption" are uniformly shit, but they'd drop the pretence in a heartbeat if they could.

[academicfever]

71/100

happy weekend everyone! today I am relaxing... eating good food... and taking naps....

[msmissing-possum]

Computer Scientist here, this is correct

[commieclimbercatboy]

Graphics projects are fun because if you have bugs, you don't get the image you want, but you get free art!

[giggibaloggio]

proud to be learning c++

[i-am-cybersmith]

People hate robots so much they are willing to suffer if the robots suffer too. Sad!!!

You really, really don't need to be cheerleading Disney and Universal here. It honestly doesn't matter how much you dislike AI art — if the court rules in favor of the corporations, the implicit expansion of copyright law will do a million times more harm to the arts than fucking Midjourney ever could.

Like. There is no definition of copyright that does not permit AI training, but does permit fanworks. The latter is much more clearly derivative than the former. You do fanart? Fanfic? Disney's pointing a gun squarely at your head and you're cheering because it might hit the AI artists behind you too.

And beyond that, do you know what happens to AI generation if Disney/Universal win this? They aren't opposed to the technology in principle! They'll be able to use their exclusive rights to a vast corpus of art to make their own AI, for their own purposes. Who does this help? Companies who want to reduce employment costs and disenfranchise the working artist. Who does this hurt? Well, it hurts independent AI users. Congrats, your anxiety over commission prices is gone now, not that it was well-founded to begin with. It also hurts anyone who wants to make use of fair use doctrine forever, so I hope none of what you were selling was fanart of copyrighted characters.

I've never made a secret of being rather more open to generative AI as a technology than most people in these online spheres. But for fuck's sake, you really don't need to like AI to realize that this lawsuit's success would be a terrible thing to happen to art! If you've found yourself on the same side as Disney, that should be a clue that you might wanna review your thinking!

[omeletcat]

I drew kris in my sprite style!!!

[piratesexmachine420]

Imagine your balls on the edge of a cliff. Java works the same way.

[track-maniac]

what r ur opinions on neovim/helix editor etc :3

i think they're cool but don't have the energy to learn it

oh i hate to disappoint but i am a vscode girlie. not even code OSS or vscodium (i tried but had issues)

i edit single files in kwrite, or sometimes vscode when i know i'm going to need some features such as json formatting

and when i actually need to edit text in a terminal i use nano, with the only setting being tab=4 spaces. so to answer your question i don't have an opinion as i haven't used neovim nor helix

now if someone wants to preach their CLI text editor that'll make it 12.7% easier for me to edit my nginx config files over ssh i'm all ears (obtuse shortcuts forbidden)

[foone]

So I'm writing a program, right? and it translates between two codesets, and it needs to have a global variable to store the translation table.

so naturally I call it TRANS.

but the fun part is that I actually need another variable, a inverted form of the translation table, which turns into TRANS at a startup.

So obviously I named it CIS.

[cidthecoatrack-blog]

Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.