beejjorgensen

joined 2 years ago

I don't trust the people making the national citizenship list to be honest about it.

[–] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 4 days ago

Lol.. I wanted "DRM". But it's been a long day.

[–] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 35 points 4 days ago (2 children)

No way rich people are using this shit on their own kids.

[–] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org -5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

I often wonder about the stuff I write, what becomes of it. It's a little disheartening since I love crafting it for best effect... But especially with computer books for beginners, people prefer to ask AI for the answers instead of studying.

I also just bought 6 sci-fi books from an author I'd never heard of for cheap. I love supporting indy authors, the price was right, and they sold their books directly from the website, no middlemen and no DRM. Perfect.

But was the author real? I actually did a bunch of research to find out their history and all that before pulling the trigger. I really don't want to read AI stories. But I can see a future where the vast majority don't care. Imagine an endless episode of Survivor or a soap opera, completely generated 24x7 forever. You know that shit would be massive.

And there might only be a fringe that seeks human-generated content for the humanity of it.

[–] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 5 days ago

A trick you can use there is to form the connection with different intent, e.g. to learn more about the field. Maybe it leads to something and maybe it doesn't, but at least you learned something.

[–] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 days ago

I didn't play that one, but I did play the c64 game... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecHVCk_jKdM

Not quite as spectacular. 😅

[–] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah, we computer people don't typically count networking as a forté. But I fear that while before the network was merely important, now it could turn into the only thing that matters.

[–] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 week ago

States rights! Lol

[–] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 week ago

Sucks for today's juniors, but that gap will bring them back into the fold with higher salaries eventually.

[–] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 week ago

The closest we came to this in the '80s in the United States where I lived was a cable channel that was reserved for text information. Not teletext, technically. Maybe someone was transmitting teletext information, but we didn't have any equipment capable of displaying it.

[–] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 44 points 2 weeks ago

But Carter had honor.

[–] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 74 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I'm not worried. The minute the ad blockers stop working I'll finally be able to do something else with my time.

 

Neat article about avoiding a memcpy in a circular buffer.

 

I've never run a big system like this, but like the lead character in the story, I always figured exponential backoff would be enough. Turns out there's more.

 

This is a pretty cool analog arcade game. I never saw one when I was a kid... I'd have been hooked.

 

This is an ad for something CT-scan-related, but it contains a good breakdown of how an old car cigarette lighter works. And it has a couple interactive CT Scan explorers past the video.

 

Can be yours for a mere $155,000. (No, I'm not the seller, but I'm curious who is!)

 

This coder rigged up GPT to create IF games.

 

Have you ever wondered what happens behind the scenes when you write a C program? How does your code transform from lines of text into a fully functional binary executable? If you’ve been curious about the intricacies of the C program compilation process, you’ve come to the right place.

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