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vrek

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  • US strikes two more alleged drug boats, bringing death toll to over 100

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  • The world wars, to my limited understanding were really kicked off by a series of mutual defense alliances which pulled in a bunch of other countries. Is there anything like that for Venezuela?

  • Day 520 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing

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  • I love these posts and don't mean to complain but atleast for me it seems every image except the initial one is broken. It's only able to load the first image.

  • the new black!

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  • Even generative Ai has minor uses... For example I've used before we had a database with multiple tables but one included the the device serial number, a test type, and a test guid. Another table actually had the details of each test keyed by that test guid.

    My boss would commonly send me list of serial numbers(not formatted, just space separated) and a request the test details for each device. I would setup a query for 1 serial number that returned the requested information, go onto copilot/chatgpt and say something like "write a query like this but with with all these serial numbers". Yes I could do it my self, copy the list in, erase the space, add a comma, add a new line, repeat for each serial number(largest request o got ever was 650). The Ai got it in seconds and I verified several serial numbers picked randomly. I don't recall it ever not working as expected. That's a small use case and I gave lots of context.

  • the new black!

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  • I've said it before Ai has uses, about 5% of what it's being shoved into.

    For example I was working with a optical measurement system company. You basically took a bunch of photos of what you wanted measured, they would put it through a Ai system and determine the optimal light, contrast, tool, and etc settings to set and then you could use that to setup your system and measure thousands more devices.

    Thats probably a system Ai is good at, and they had a chart like with "x photos expect y accuracy, with z photos expect a accuracy" with like 20 options. It was especially good if you could give as accurate of reading possoble, or optimally just "these are good, these are bad".

  • How do you "feel" gender?

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  • I honestly feel very similar. The closest I can kinda understand is like a guy at birth wanting to wear a skirt, in which case I say go rock that skirt. Or maybe a girl at birth wanting to feel accepted in certain male dominated activities in which case it's a problem with those activities and not the girl.

    I'm a guy at birth, I guess I identify as a guy but it's meh. If I was misgendered at most I would make a overly dramatic joke but it wouldn't effect my physiologicaly.

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  • Wouldn't be surprised if she put him on "hold" to "check" on something and just used it as a quick bathroom break.

    He was on the phone for the whole time, most of it on the balcony and I would go out to smoke and over hear him but I didn't watch the whole time.

  • My code is self-documenting

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  • Yeah effectively using comments as psuedocode

  • My code is self-documenting

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  • Proper comments describe why... For example say you are using an api which requires guids and your application doesn't care are collisions as much so just use int id's.

    You could add in a comment like

    // creating a guid to interface with special api.

    But just saying

    // generate guid

    Means nothing, your method should be generate_guid() or GenerateGuid(). Your comment is repeating.

    Or this is probably going to hit my last company at some point, there was a system to read a serial number. They also wanted a "status" on the screen to verify the system was connected and running properly but both these values came over same signal wire. Depending on your exact ms timing sometimes you would read the status as the serial number. Another programmer wrote a check to verify the serial number did not start with OK. The comment added was

    // add on 11/15/23 by Initials

    With no other details. The serial numbers were 8 numeric digits. Someone won't know the history and delete this seemingly useless check and cause a 10s of 1000s of dollars in loss

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  • Interesting, I did not know that, I always blamed the company.

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  • Come to think of it, i wonder is she even got any breaks or lunch that day...

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  • Honestly I feel like he was kinda right, they took $1600 from him, held it for a week, by following their directions and basically told him to get over it.

    I will say he was perfectly nice to the agent, no cursing or raising a voice, just "no I won't hang up till you resolve this." "sir there is nothing I can do" "I won't hang up till you resolve this" in a single monotone voice for 11.5 hours... That agent probably needs therapy.

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  • Supposedly they weren't able to terminate the call for any rrsson(at the time, almost a decade ago). I will agree it should of been escalated much faster though.

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  • Supposedly atleast at the time they were not allowed to terminate the call for any reason.

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  • I had an old roommate do this. He purchased plane tickets from American Airlines and they had the option to pay through PayPal. He choose that option. Money went through, and tickets were immediately canceled by A A. He called them and they said "that's a bug that happens sometimes. The tickets will be refunded in 5-7 business days, just place the order again and it should work."

    It didn't work.

    He called them again at 805 the next morning. He got told the same line. He refused to hang up until it was made right. He was on the phone with that poor agent for 11. 5 hours. Eventually she just said" look sir, you were my first call of the day and I'm now on overtime, I'm transferring you to my manager".

    Manager did make it right, he got free tickets(about $800 dollars), an additional $1600 on future flight vouchers, and about a week later the transactions were reversed. He came out of it with 2400 in profit. That said 11.5 hours on the phone making small talk with customer serviceand refusing to hang up might just push me over the edge.

  • What is your development environment?

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  • You laugh, at my last job for certain stuff I had to program in windows 10 and word.

    They didn't have source control so they did manual code reviews using the "track changes" feature in word.

    The code reviews were pointless though as I was the only one who knew the language it was written in (g-code with proprietary additions by the system vendor)

  • I Don't Think Larian's CEO Understands How Art Is Made

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  • Using is for placeholder text is probably overkill but doesn't seem much different than ipsum lorem which has been used for years.

  • Little Timmy Tables

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  • Last year during the Christmas shutdown at work I actually made a crud application to track naughty vs nice children for santa, yes it was sql based(entity framework) with >90%test coverage (tests based off a in memory database) and with a winforms ui(what I had to use at work).

    I might revisit and refactor it this year come to think of it.

  • Meanwhile Ball

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  • Just like TI... They no longer make the famous calculator

  • NSFW

    MDs please verify.

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  • Wholey shit only occurs if you do anal