Phen

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[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 5 hours ago

And Hot Tub Time Machine was titled The Hangover

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 4 points 1 day ago

I use Vivaldi as well but every time I update it I need to change one of it's internal JS files to remove one UI restriction that annoys me: I use two vertical tab bars, one for showing all the tab groups and another for showing the tabs inside the selected group. For some reason Vivaldi limits the width of the two sidebar (combined) to 330px, which is too small for my tastes.

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 7 points 2 days ago

Either way these days it is very unlikely that the first result will have anything useful on it unless you're just searching for some basic information like a celebrity's age or stuff like that.

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 4 points 4 days ago (3 children)

If only we could find some way of storing some wind so we could release it when there's no natural wind around.

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 18 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I mean, if someone creates a game with all the options there and you just use AI as a replacement for a complex UI, it could kinda work. A game like scribblenauts could theorically implement an AI based stage creation option with the current tech already. The problem with that is that the AI wouldn't be able to guarantee that the stage has a proper challenge level (or even that is possible to complete it), so it would also need to implement an AI that tries to beat the level as well and then keep iterating over the two until a proper stage is found.

In short: doable, for very niche cases and probably taking a very long time to complete a prompt (possibly hours).

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Round things with antennas

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 6 days ago

You can create files with the same name differing only by case through WSL. I've had issues with it before.

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sometimes a term loses its intended meaning when it is misused enough. I myself have been accused of cultural appropriation before for creating a character of another culture in a video-game I was developing. Any time I see anyone being accused of it on the internet is also something similar.

I agree that actual cultural appropriation is bad, but the term has been misused so much that it is more often associated with simply consuming cultures that you've not inherited.

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Brazil actually merged the freed slaves into society because people at the time thought that over several generations, everybody would end up being white again. In a different way they were also trying to suppress them.

As for the indigenous population, before Portugal arrived here there was one large tribe already dominating all the others. The Portuguese then negotiated with that large tribe and that one tribe's culture managed to survive, but the colonizers also had no respect for it or any of the others and grouped them all together as if being the same thing. The other cultures ended up being either absorbed or erased by that larger tribe.

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 19 points 1 week ago (5 children)

If a tool were created that properly converted an UML diagram into a project without any need for code, all the programmers that lost their job to this tool would then be hired by the company that offered it, in order to give maintenance and support to everything the customers want in their programs.

It would be removing programmers from they payroll of some companies but they would still be working for them, just further down in the chain.

The same is true for AI. If AI could completely replace programmers in some area, it would need a lot of programmers itself to keep dealing with all the edge cases that would show up from being used everywhere that a programmer was needed before.

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Tbf America is nearly equivalent in size to the full West Europe and the culture difference between east and west coast of America is much smaller than the difference in culture between different European countries. With each country focusing on their own culture there, none of them will ever grow to the size of Hollywood. And with the smaller size, they have less content and less opportunities to captivate people from other places as well. It's a full circle.

 

Anything exciting going on in your field of work this year? Or breakthroughs in science, new technologies developed, things like that.

 

Some news that would be completely mundane today but scary or shocking in the past.

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