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Beej Jorgensen

@ beejjorgensen @lemmy.sdf.org

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Instructor, author, developer. Creator of Beej's Guides.

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  • Get ready to see ads on your… Samsung refrigerator

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  • Hero. There's only one gas station I use that has ads and I'll try it there for sure. I deliberately avoid screened pumps.

  • I find it ironic that some Linux websites load faster on Chrome than Firefox sometime it doesn't even load correctly on Firefox

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  • In the 6 years I've been with Firefox on Linux on my 9-year-old laptop, I could count on both hands the number of sites that didn't render correctly, and on one hand the number that didn't run or weren't performant.

    Maybe I'm just lucky, but I definitely feel for folks who are stuck with Chrome and all those ads.

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  • I have seen no evidence that we as a species in general will be able to harness LLMs for good.

  • "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership

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  • Way back in the day I was making $500 a month with AdSense ads on my sites. And then one month I started making $250 a month. I hadn't changed anything. It's a risky thing to rely on.

  • Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates

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  • My buddy graduated and took a gap year. That year happened to be the dot com crash. So he kept backpacking for another year then started looking for work. 😁

  • Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates

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  • This isn't the first time this has happened, though.

  • AI Can't Help You Write Well

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  • "Average" is the key word here, for sure. Our goal as humans is to be better than the AI. If you're not such a good writer, average is a step up. But maybe we should all try to level up, instead.

  • Ignoring lemmyhate, are programmers really using AI to be more efficient?

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  • I'm pretty sure every time you use AI for programming your brain atrophies a little, even if you're just looking something up. There's value in the struggle.

    So they can definitely speed you up, but be careful how you use it. There's no value in a programmer who can only blindly recite LLM output.

    There's a balance to be struck in there somewhere, and I'm still figuring it out.

  • A Tech Rule That Will ‘Future-Proof’ Your Kids

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  • If I wanted to raise superhumans, I'd simply not give them smartphones until they turned 18.

  • YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround

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  • Additionally, I'm not paying that evil company a dime. All the people I follow on YT get way more money from me on Patreon.

  • Why U.S. politicians are up in arms about new internet rules in Britain

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  • I hear you, but I think Trump could easily do the exact same thing as Britain and call it a good thing while simultaneously calling theirs bad. And get away with it.

  • The World Will Enter a 15-Year AI Dystopia in 2027, Former Google Exec Says

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  • LLMs won't get smarter in the next 10 years, but they will rapidly outpace humans.

  • Apple CEO Tim Cook gives 24-karat gold gift to Donald Trump

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  • "He is an halibut." --Monty Python 😁

  • Mark Zuckerberg writes a manifesto on bringing AI "superintelligence" to everyone to improve humanity, but doesn't even define what superintelligence means.

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  • Will AI finally replace CEOs?

  • Trump’s order to block ‘woke’ AI in government encourages tech giants to censor their chatbots

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  • Top down effort to block top down efforts.

  • The story of Rogue - Spillhistorie.no (2024)

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  • I just installed the original about a month ago to try it again. I hadn't played it since the early 90s on a VT220 attached to a MicroVAX II.

    Didn't make it past the first level. 😅

  • Mastering jq

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  • Basically "does this JSON object contain at least these two properties, and is the value of one particular properties a string of digits followed by the letter 'Z'", for example.

  • Mastering jq

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  • I tried and failed to get an LLM to write jq code to do a regex based matcher for finding if one json object was a subset of another.

    Gave up and learned it enough to get it going. jq is nutso powerful.

  • Solar Industry Says Senate Plan Would Cede Production to China

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  • If Trump's goal isn't to cede most everything to China, he's doing a poor job.