jsomae

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[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 points 17 minutes ago

I would imagine these teens didn't learn through the conventional educational channels.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 points 19 minutes ago* (last edited 19 minutes ago)

I'm familiar with a dozen or so teenage romhackers. Assembly surely harder to get the big picture of than cobol, but they're making incredible changes to 30-yo video games.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 points 22 minutes ago

Yeah, I wasn't taught this in french class, hardly anyone is. idk why. My teacher told me about it after class when I asked about it.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 points 23 minutes ago

my brother taught me to code when i was 6, so at 19 i had 13 years of experience already. At 6 i was mostly doing simple stuff like qbasic, vb6, but still it adds up. I'm not saying I'm a great coder, not by a long shot, just that I was experienced as a teenager. I assume a lot of these teenagers are much better than i was.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 124 points 21 hours ago (11 children)

Teenage programmers can understand legacy code. These ones didn't. Don't dis teen coders.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 2 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

In the infinitive, ne pas verb is the correct order.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 day ago (4 children)

It's not exactly the same as Musk's (doesn't thump his heart first) -- which is probably the point. Trying to sneak in more completely implausible "plausible deniability." Nobody's fooled. It looks like a duck, it's a duck.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Oh yeah, definitely. I didn't mean about a tally of sells.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago

but the person you are talking to didn't. That's the very premise of this conversation. Please find another justification, homie.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Screw you. The peasant is not the imperialist.

@harsh From your values, sounds like I would welcome you to my country.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I don't like it. Might be accurate, but it brings to mind "feminazis" a usage which undermines the usage of nazi as a suffix. Even though "Zionazi" wouldn't be undermining it on its own, the precedent ruins it. "Zionist Nazi" is better IMO.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

it's not a wash, because you sell for a different price than you bought at.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by jsomae@lemmy.ml to c/philosophy@lemmy.ml
 

The experience seemed roughly on par with trying to advise a mediocre, but not completely incompetent, graduate student. However, this was an improvement over previous models, whose capability was closer to an actually incompetent graduate student. It may only take one or two further iterations of improved capability (and integration with other tools, such as computer algebra packages and proof assistants) until the level of "competent graduate student" is reached, at which point I could see this tool being of significant use in research level tasks.

 

What do y'all guys use for cloud storage, like DropBox, Google Drive, and so on? Ideally something which works even when offline.

I'd like to de-google of course.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by jsomae@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
 

(Please don't downvote just because I need some help.)

I was once a privacy nut. But it's getting so hard nowadays, and there are so many more important problems -- global warming, AI, the inevitable collapse of the current world order... how does privacy improve the world? Please help remind me.

I do approve of privacy, of course. All this protect-the-children flak is bullshit. I just can't remember why I thought it was something worth fighting for and preaching about.

 

In a poll on hexbear (see link), it was observed that there are very few cis women on Lemmy. I think this is the intersection of several problems:

  • engagement of women on Reddit was always low
  • fewer women in computer science
  • I'm hesitant to recommend anything fediversy to people who don't tinker with computers like I do and thus might need a more handholdy UX.

I gather that transgender people tend to be more into CS, though I don't see why that explains entirely such an astonishing presence of the transgender community on Hexbear.

Anyway, I just thought I'd open the floor to brainstorming.

 

Safety tips:

  • Only use special eclipse glasses; regular sunglasses aren't safe
  • Wait for 100% totality before taking off your eclipse glasses. (If you don't have eclipse glasses, wait for totality before looking at all)
  • Have a timer prepared on your phone set to the duration of the eclipse at your location, so you know when to put your glasses back on.
  • When the sun is mostly (but not fully) eclipsed, it will likely not feel painful to look at it, but it will still damage your eyes permanently.
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