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Re:Cody – The AI that knows your entire codebase on Sunday August 27, 2023 @03:09AM (#37280155)
Tried using it yesterday. VIM mode stopped working in VS Code and then my cursor started moving around randomly and wouldn't stop. Uninstalled instantly.
Re:Unlocking Discord Nitro Features for Free on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @04:51AM (#37220174)
>all they have to do is join a "boosted" server.

I didn't think of this thank you! I wanted to stream in my friend's server for my friends to watch but his server isn't boosted, but now I'm gonna join a random server and stream for strangers instead!

Re:YouTube, the Jewel of the Internet on Monday April 24, 2023 @03:43AM (#35684747)
I love that it often recommends me videos from small channels, often with 0 view. This started happening only about a few months ago I don't know if it's just me.
Re:Learn Vim (2021) on Saturday February 25, 2023 @07:18AM (#34936101)
>I need to spend more time thinking of what to type anyway

Do you think everything through and then implement it? I do most of my thinking as I type.

Re:Riffusion – Stable Diffusion fine-tuned to generate Music on Thursday December 15, 2022 @10:25AM (#34000933)
This is really cool but can someone tell me why we are automating art? Who asked for this? The future seems depressing when I look at all this AI generated art.
>Does it matter that they’re working with an AI instead of moving keyframes around?

Yes, because prompting an AI requires much less skill than animating it yourself. Do you think "AI prompters" will earn the same amount as animators?

Disagree. I was absolutely miserable when I was forced to meet with people in real life, although I enjoyed some interactions, deep down I never liked hanging out with them. Unless you are very lucky and born in a location where you can easily find like-minded people or if your personality is suited for meeting random people and not having any preferences in friends (kind of people who can be friends with anyone they meet), then being forced to meet people is hell. I'd rather have online friends that have similar interests/sense of humor etc... Than have forced and shallow "real" relationships where I have to change who I am in order to fit in.
Re:AI Art Panic on Saturday November 26, 2022 @03:31AM (#33750995)
AI algorithms are human expression.
I could never take notes in school or in college. I tried many times but I just forget about them and never check them anyway, and if I do they are pretty useless because my understanding of whatever I'm learning changes pretty quickly so if I look at my notes 2 days later they won't make any sense to me.
Re:Good Old Fashioned AI is dead, long live New-Fangled AI on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @01:55AM (#33619798)
>I'm yet to see an AI-generated or AI-assisted work that provokes any internal experience other than thinking "hey, cool pixels/sounds/sentences/whatever"

Maybe because you knew it was AI generated before you looked at it?

>It's a bit like saying we can't stop music piracy, now that Napster exists.

You can't. Soulseek is alive and well. It started with Napster and now others are carrying the torch.

Then what was it saying? It said that humans can take inspiration from outside art, from the real world. You can do the same thing with AI by training it on pictures from the real world.
Re:Too Much Internet on Monday October 03, 2022 @04:49AM (#33064973)
What do you mean by "better"? I know some people are technically better than me at making music but technically impressive doesn't always mean good (by good I mean something I would like because it's all subjective). Music I make is some of my favorite music because I'm the only person who knows my taste best so it makes sense, I can make exactly what I want to hear. And I don't like sharing it with random people I mostly just show it to my friends. But the main reason I make it is because the process feels so good and when I'm done I have a new favorite song to listen to.
Re:Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text on Thursday September 29, 2022 @01:32PM (#33024253)
>it’s good to look at what AI has done to Chess It completely ruined the game to the point where it's more about memorization than it's ever been.
Re:The State of WebAssembly 2022 on Monday June 20, 2022 @04:03PM (#31815096)
How do I know it's running in the browser?
Re:“Code” 2nd Edition on Saturday June 11, 2022 @03:17PM (#31707351)
Code is not more high level it starts from as low as you can get in terms of abstractions, it explains what electricity is and how it moves through wires and and moves on to creating simple logic gates using switches.
I don't think it's about expectations at all. For me it's about the state of mind I'm in when I listen to it, same song will or won't give me goosebumps based on where my head is at even if I've heard it hundreds of times.
They are popular programming languages.
Re:A Lonely Universe on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @06:26AM (#30271443)
> If anything else like us existed and it was possible to exist like us for a long period they'd have filled every planet before we ever evolved

Yeah because you know exactly what alien civilization would have done right? Because that's what you would do, as a human. We are talking about aliens and we don't know what they would be like so assuming that they would think like us is just stupid.

Re:My First Impressions of Web3 on Saturday January 08, 2022 @10:44AM (#29852692)
Re:Is Web3 anything? on Friday December 10, 2021 @07:51AM (#29509259)
>I beg the crypto advocates to make those possibilities reality It's up to people to start utilizing the technology. But some need it more than others, for you it might not be necessary but millions of people are already using cryptocurrencies in countries where government caused hyperinflation of their currencies.
Re:The Art of Lost Sleep on Sunday December 05, 2021 @02:45AM (#29447561)
This is why I never read articles. I could spend 15 minutes reading and in the end I'd have learned nothing of substance.
Re:Instagram Is Facebook Now on Thursday December 02, 2021 @08:21AM (#29415747)
I use Discord for the same purpose. Just mindlessly chatting with strangers can be very relaxing and I find it to be way more addictive than facebook and similar platforms.
Re:GetElementById vs. QuerySelector on Friday November 26, 2021 @10:12AM (#29350889)
What else would you use?
Re:Leave no trace: how a teenage hacker lost himself online on Monday October 18, 2021 @09:33AM (#28905274)
That was cringe inducing
Software is whatever you want it to be. I can write software that is not for other humans. That's the most fun part of software engineering to me, when you don't care about the users and just do it just for the fun of doing it.
Re:How to rapidly improve at any programming language (2016) on Sunday September 19, 2021 @01:19PM (#28586059)
>Code things that solve real problems you want to solve.

Everyone says that but I can't think of any real problems I personally have that I could solve using programming.