• Jo Miran
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      I don’t think it’s satire. Miami has become a mecca for crypto bros and “tech” fraudsters.

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          Ever watched a fish stand up?

          They need to be held.

              • @[email protected]
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                It does not have nerves, yet it feels pain. It does not have a mouth, yet it must scream. And until recently: death only made it so so much stronger!

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                It’s from a game called Dwarf Fortress - where you play in a simulated world trying to keep your dwarves alive.

                They get bored of eating the same food, so with farming and hunting there’s also fishing.

                In the past, carps were added with some default settings, which made them overpowered. They would wipe entire squads of Dwarves that would approach any body of water with a carp in them.

                (They were nerfed later on.)

                The game has a very complex fighting system, so when creatures fight, sometimes they fall down, after a big hit with a hammer, or getting knocked unconscious. If they are not fatally wounded, they will get back up. There’s a lot of actions that happen inside the game, but not always in the ‘correct’ context, as the game is still in development.

                And somewhere on the internet, there was a screenshot with combat log showing:

                The Carp attacks the Miner but She jumps away! The Carp stands up.

                So carps were already a challenge, and then you read they can stand up!? Imagine the terror of an army of strong beasts marching down to your fort from a nearby river.

                There were many bugs in the game, if you like rabbitholes, this is a good one.

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          He probably paid some fishing tourist shop to get him to just the right place so he could hook it and pull it in. That pic cost him money, and it’s really important to him.

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        Lol. When I retire, I’m going to change all my job titles on social media to “entrepreneur” just to fuck with my friends.

    • kamenLady.
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      Just hold your phone over it. You’ll feel a tingly sensation in your intestines, but be not afraid, you just got the emotion bottled.

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      Wonder if ChatGPT just scraped an example token from somewhere and is using that.

        • @[email protected]
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          Not exactly related, but I run an unraid game server for friends and use a lot of the preconstructed docker apps for games.

          Most of them come with the server name preset and the server password preset.

          I’ve jumped into many a “private” server called Docker-GAMENAME with the password still set to “Docker”

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            I think it was some XMPP related server I ran quite a few years ago which had ‘i_have_read_the_manual = 0’ or something similar buried into default configuration file. And it would just silently exit if that variable was not set properly.

            Maybe we need more things like that.

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              And it would just silently exit if that variable was not set properly.

              Would’ve used that debug log to scold the end-user. “If you’ve actually read the first 3 lines of the documentation you wouldn’t be seeing this.”

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        Obviously hand coded. After all, he just discovered that there are people, or more probably bots, who will use open resources for their own uses.

          • Lightor
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            I actually build a full copy of the DB on the client machine. That way I can’t lose the data, it’s all right there and so fast.

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        I’ve heard that phrase a handful of times now and it’s already making my eye twitch. Though I don’t think it’s meant to be complimentary.

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    I’ve always appreciated the feature of AI coding tools, where they confidently tell you they’ve done something completely wrong. Then if you call them on it, they super-confidently say: “Of course, here’s what needs to be done…”

    Then proceed to do something even worse.

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      Or when you say there’s something wrong and the new version is just the same with comments

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        Yes. I love the confidently incorrect additional comments explaining in detail how the incorrect code works.

        Though I’m usually pretty angry at that point, it is also pretty funny.

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          ChatGPT would not let me call it “you doofus” when I point outed it had done that repeatedly. For “policy violations”.

          Edit: I don’t know how I screw uped that wording, but I’m leaving it.

    • @[email protected]
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      Hey, gimp is a nice open source image editor, don’t insult it by comparing it to this guy

    • @[email protected]
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      Just speak the incantation of motive energy and light the incense to soothe the machine spirit.

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    If I were leojr94, I’d be mad as hell about this impersonator soiling the good name of leojr94—most users probably don’t even notice the underscore.

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    I wonder if the website did the thing where it lists their big customers like a trophy cabinet on the main landing page.

    It would probably make a good list of places to sell snake oil

    Also love that this is all evidence to back up the premise that building the happy path of an application is generally easy, one of the main skills in software engineering is ensuring the unhappy paths are covered sufficiently. I can say I’ve started a bank and keep people’s money in my wardrobe, I’ll be providing the service of holding their money—I’ll also probably get robbed sharpish because I’m not skilled in the kind of security needed to avoid that.

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      Any “customers” landed are going to be friends and family, if not just outright fakes invented by leo.

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    AI will not replace software engineers, exhibit fuck knows how many.

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    I wanted to edit my Ghostty themes but found out a lot of the colors are in #hexadecimal notation. I like #rrggbb percentage style colors (b/c they are easy to tweak by hand) and I couldn’t find an online color picker that would output that format, so I used deepseek (free) & now have a scrappy ass one w Python & Tkinter completely via “vibe” coding (I call it Clyde Color Picker. It’s adorable).

    Pretty awesome when you’re just some dumbass who needs a very specific tool and not trying to fleece people.

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      I use AI toolings to generate snippets of bash scripts because I can’t be fucked to remember that syntax. Obviously not for anything with high risks or that I can’t easily verify. But things like parsing through mass amounts of files

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        But… bash snippet extensions already exist. The only difference is maybe it doesn’t auto name your variables for you. I’d take that over non-deterministic LLM outputs.

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          I have no idea what the hell a bash snippet extension is, but I do know what a local llama.cpp instance running a small model to tell me bash commands on the fly is.

          I use it to make .desktop files, too. Isn’t that so lazy?

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            They seem to be genuinely trying to provide information about a tool that they find preferable to your solution. And you’re not even the OP they were responding to. Nobody in this thread has called you or your solution lazy.

            A bash snippet extension is “an extension [for a code editor] that provides a collection of snippets for bash scripting.” It’s a tool that is purpose-built to tell you bash commands on the fly, but smaller, more efficient, and easier to install than a local LLM.

            The user you are replying to appears to prefer this because it will also tell you the same bash command every time you ask (non-deterministic outputs can be different for identical requests)