Just make sure you get consent first.

Check!

After celebrating accomplishment, return to todo list 2 days later. Add item: add items to todo list. Check it, it counts. Time for another celebration!

I can’t understand how anyone looked at JavaScript, worked with it for a bit, then decided they wanted to use it to build full applications.

Check out the behind the bastards episodes on Gates. Even his charity foundation is just another way to exert control.

Ironically, the more accepting others are of mental health issues, the more power those issues seem to have to disrupt.

My guess is what’s going on is there’s tons of psuedo code out there that looks like it’s a real language but has functions that don’t exist as placeholders and the LLM noticed the pattern to the point where it just makes up functions, not realizing they need to be implemented (because LLMs don’t realize things but just pattern match very complex patterns).

Don’t get me wrong, it’s decent entertainment. It’s just disconnected from any kind of scientific or technical reality and a part of me is rolling my eyes for a lot of it. And maybe a bit frustrated because I like thinking about things and analyzing and problem solving. I prefer hard magic systems over soft magic ones because there’s no point in thinking about soft magic systems because they just do whatever the plot calls for when it calls for it while hard magic systems have to build up to it and need to be clever to surprise viewers.

Tony uses a soft technology system that defies thought.

Yeah, Tony was capable of doing whatever the writers wrote him to be capable of, just like every other fictional character. And the writers wrote him doing it in a manner similar to the “programming” in Swordfish or the tech work in NCIS (or whatever show it was that had multiple people typing on one keyboard at the same time). As in difficult to tell if they had any understanding of it at all, sensationalised it for entertainment purposes, deliberately made it unlike any real programming to troll people who do understand programming, or some combination of all those.

MCU science might as well just be another school of magic. Especially when Tony’s suit could shapeshift and convert between matter and energy because of some quantum mumbo jumbo. He just cast a quantum spell on it.

Also every movie had multiple impacts in that iron suit that should have been worse for him than most car crashes.

Though I wonder how much punch those things have. It’s 9v but I wouldn’t be surprised if that voltage drops quite a bit if offered little resistance.

How did this data get gathered? Because my full chat history with chatgpt is available on the site but history doesn’t show up for it here.

Unless it’s java.

I don’t have the patience to keep it up for a long time but I barely get any scam calls after pushing the button to talk to someone and then just asking about the plot holes in their script. Like the one claiming there’s going to be a warrant for me, why does the guy need to ask for my name and other information? Why would revenue Canada (of anyone who isn’t a scammer of some sort) ever want any kind of payment in gift cards? I’ll use a tone of voice on the verge of laughter, too.

One time, after I asked, the guy just asked me why I even pressed the button to talk to a person and then hung up. Most of the time they just hang up. Sometimes the English option seems to only be there to make it seem more realistic for those who would pick the Chinese option because the call disconnects right after picking English.

Though more recently I’ve just been hanging up early in the recording when I do get the odd scam call. They might filter that, too, because even the volume of those calls stays low. Which makes sense because even just making the calls probably costs them something, even if it’s just pennies.

A rifle is more stable than a pistol, even when recoil isn’t a part of the equation. More mass means it needs more force to change the direction it’s pointed in, plus the stock can be braced against the chest/shoulder to make it less dependent on keeping arms steady.

Plus I’d imagine more space gives it more versatility. The hand phasers are enough to vapourize a person, but the rifles can likely do that more times with less overheating or increase power even more to overwhelm shields or vapourize larger or more stable things.

But yeah, overall power and accuracy are whatever the writers deem them to be. If Piccard needs to take out three enemies while not taking out two others, it doesn’t matter if he’s ordering Worf to hit them with the ship’s phasers from orbit or throwing rocks.

Yeah, this is the impression I got when he talked about spending so much time training for the problems, especially the bit where he said it was all about hoping you’ve already seen and memorized the problems while pretending it’s the first time you’ve seen them. That’s the whole point of obscure problems like that: to show how you can handle a new problem.

I’ve interviewed for technical positions and I don’t even really care if you get the right answer as much as I care about how you approach the problem.

Shit like this will just make it harder to figure out who the real programmers are and separate them from the people who are only there because they know tech skills means money but didn’t actually develop any tech skills because they were too busy gaming the system. I don’t want to hire someone who spent hours memorizing things they think I want regurgitated on command. I want to hire someone who can understand the overall picture of what’s going on and what needs to be done because it’s interesting to them.

Holographic bullets aren’t really ballistic. The borg might have been able to adapt. Though if they were fooled by holograms and force fields, an anti-borg program could have been made that makes them get stuck in an endless non-euclidean maze (and I mean one of the interesting non-euclidean spaces) or just tear them apart by having dozens of force fields pop up through their bodies.

With all of the hologram projectors they had in Voyager, not to mention the portable one, they really didn’t explore the tactical advantages they could give. You could literally make any boarding party believe they had transported to hell, or let them run around thinking they are winning and took over the ship when they are actually just standing around in the brig–or airlock.

Or have them board only to hear “warp core damage critical, breach in zero point–” then give them some kind of afterlife sequence where they settle into their new afterlife and pass time telling each other about state secrets they were privy to, now that it doesn’t matter anymore.

It’s kinda funny that they had holograms but didn’t really ever explore any post-facts kind of themes, other than using holograms on less advanced species.

LaForge and Troy: What the fuck!?

Riker: Holy shit I’m glad I’m not you right now.

Fuck! It is fucking possible to commit no fucking mistakes and still fucking lose. That is not a fucking weakness. That is fucking life.

Hmm might have gone a bit over budget there, but fuck it.

It’s a safety issue. You need to find a urinal buddy to help protect you from any perverts that might enter the bathroom while you’re pissing.

Remember the whole secret code involving narwhals and bacon that some of Reddit leaned into while others cringed? And a good portion weren’t even aware of it despite using Reddit.

Though that’s more like 16 years ago now I think.

Just made that one up but it was based on another Frankenstein-like setup another user in a beta testing group was using that I don’t remember the specifics of. His issues started getting mostly ignored until he upgraded his system to something more normal lol.