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  • I can use CAD. I am an engineer.But noone will ask me to draft a building design on AutoCAD, same as noone will ask me to do so with pencil and paper.Because I don't know buildings.

    Sure, I might be asked to copy a pen-paper drawing onto CAD, but a Civil Engineer with CAD will do that better and a photo tracing software might do it as well as me.

    So while a good enough LLM might code as well as a coder, Programming is more than just coding and making anything new, requires programming.

  • Wasn't it only talking about banning the VPN services that allow a proxy internet access?Now are they banning the technology altogether?

    If that's the case, then what will they ban next? Fire?

  • So I guess AI and hence, vibe coders are having the same problems as normal programmers.

  • where I, an average user, needs so long to find such a basic function

    I am not sure about that.The default UI is similar to the old MS Office Word and the new alternative (which from what I remember, LibreOffice actually asks you to choose from in a dialogue on first start, so you don't need to look through menus to set your preference) uses the newer tabbed paradigm.

    And while I do prefer the new one, I didn't find the old one any harder than MS Office Word 2003 or the older version that came around Win 98.

    The only thing that made me different from the average user back then, was that I actually read and understood user prompts before clicking "Next" or whatever.

  • <15 seconds.Including starting LibreOffice Writer. This is on a 5400RPM HDD and Writer was definitely not cached, since I haven't opened it in days.

    Now how long did it take to start MS Word on my laptop again?

  • It is so for anything having tables, from what I see.Dev has to consider whether snapping is a better idea or smooth scrolling is and toolkits seem to have snapping as the default.

  • Hehe yeah, security in general has been an afterthought in the computing space.And it makes sense. You first make something possible, then restrict it for whatever cases you don't want it happening. The latter is supposed to be easier.

  • But not a ToDo list right?Unless you consider computer instructions as ToDo items, in which case, all executables would be ToDo lists.

  • Yeah, that Mac offended me.My imperative programming journey was a few months on a handed down P2 followed by 3 years of pen and paper.

  • What‽ It was not C-hash?

  • The 1 percent being AudioNoise?

  • I remember there being a CORS problem in a team project.Perhaps I should ask the webdev at the time whether they had made that thing with AI or they really just made the whole thing themselves and somehow overlooked CORS.

  • Yeah.Although I usually tend to send a link directly to the post (which is relevant to what is being discussed), the things around that might change their impression. And considering that their is more political stuff than plain tech stuff, almost everywhere on the internet rn, that kind of a result is expected.

  • Honestly, it is not fun being flattered in a way that makes me try to give them an answer that they will ignore.

    Imagine a C++ compiler with feelings, reading your code ignoring the return value of a [[nodiscard]] function.

  • Ah well, I am not good at that.The best I have gotten people to say is how I "know so much" about stuff at work and the best I can point them to is Wikipedia, StackOverflow and the like, which of course they aren't really interested in doing and their lines are probably just a way to try and flatter me.

  • I advertised Lemmy to my friends a few times and they have now stopped replying to my messages :P

  • I'm guessing "Grip 6" is a particular brand, but I have used buckles with grip action (on normal leather (or were they some fake leather? dunno but not nylon) belts without holes) quite a bit and I liked them.

    Making your own holes in a holed belt might cause a greater structural weakness than it can handle, depending upon how tight you like it.

    I recently got a knitted-ish belt (this is probably nylon or similar stuff) and you can insert the anchor at ~5mm intervals (thickness of the rope used to knit it) and that seems like a good idea too.

  • If you are using C, you could consider SDL 3 as a base library.

    Not a recommendation though. Just saying you can do so.It has all the basic stuff: V-Sync, audio, input device handling etc.

    Almost forgot to add... It also allows you to easily add stuff with Vulkan, OpenGL etc.

  • When you’re talking about the PCIe peripheral, you’re talking about a separate dedicated graphics card or something else?

    Yes, similar to what a PCIe Graphics Card does.A PCIe slot is the slot in a desktop motherboard that lets you fit various things like networking (ethernet, Wi-Fi and even RTC specialised stuff) cards, sound cards, graphics cards, SATA/SAS adapters, USB adapters and all other kinds of stuff.

    I guess the main point of NPUs are that they are tiny and built in

    GPUs are also available built-in. Some of them are even tiny.Go 11-12 years back in time and you'll see video processing units embedded into the Motherboard, instead of in the CPU package.Eventually some people will want more powerful NPUs with better suited RAM for neural workloads (GPUs have their own type of RAM too), not care about the NPU in the CPU package and will feel like they are uselessly paying for it. Others will not require an NPU and will feel like they are uselessly paying for it.

    So, much better to have NPUs be made separately in different tiers, similar to what is done with GPUs rn.

    And even external (PCIe) Graphics Cards can be thin and light instead of being a fat package. It's usually just the (i) extra I/O ports and (ii) the cooling fins+fans that make them fat.