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  • What is your favorite (online) newspaper?

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  • Even later than your recommendation is my thank you. I'm practically monolingual (decades old Latin and the handful of Spanish I know doesn't count). Still, I don't mind transliteration of sites because I am interested in the information. Plus, I find the idioms used in other languages fascinating.

  • After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes

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  • One of my first big jobs at NASA was as a lead engineer on a multi-experiment platform to fly on the space shuttle. I checked all the work and compiled all the data and trotted my 27 year old self down to Johnson to present my case to the Safety Board. When I stood up to present, the head of the panel asked if I knew why I was there. I confidently told him that I was there to walk them through my evaluation of each of the payload components and show that the payload was safe to fly. He smiled. He then said "You're here because if something goes wrong on this mission, there had to be one ass to kick. Proceed."

    Everyone needs an ass to kick, and AI doesn't offer that function.

  • After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes

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  • The output looks good to people who are poorly versed in the segment for which AI is being asked to perform, but often inefficient or fails in ways that an expert in the field would never miss.

    ---ignore this part, I'm just rambling from here on Depending on the context, you'll almost certainly get something that looks correct on first glance, especially if you're not an expert. If you're an expert, you wouldn't need to ask for such a task and, if you did to save time, you'd probably end up adjusting, correcting, or fixing several things to produce a production-ready output. I use it regularly for code because the last language I had any training in proper syntax was Fortran 77. And eventually the simple tasks I ask it to code for me work. I've asked it to do some excel calculations (I'm not an excel expert, I do a lot of mathematic manipulation in custom sheets) and some of them work, but most are either wildly convoluted or relay on obscure calls/functions rather than simply using standard logic and mathematic operations which are easy to edit and change. I've also asked it to do some graphical illustration (because I'm not a graphic artist) and it has produced nice looking illustrations with zero basis in reality - i.e. "draw me an outline of Scotland in the style you'd see on a tourist map and label, with a star, these four cities". It produced what I would expect an average American would estimate the outline of Scotland looked like and was equally as accurate with the location of the four cities (i.e. utterly incorrect).

  • UK backs Ukraine to strike Russia with Storm Shadow missiles

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  • $1M a shot seems like a lot until you look at what goes into each one, how much development costs, and the environment it is designed for. You don't need corruption to make these expensive. Also, the are based on 30 year old technology. Rather than being cheaper than new, they tend to be more expensive due to requiring miniature mechanisms which were cutting edge in 199x. And there are no other uses for them in their hardened configuration so you don't get economy of scale of something like a commercial ship or board. Plus there's a lot of paperwork and you can't sell a single piece unless the government approves it. This is so far from a consumer item there isn't even a way to compare costs.

    FWIW, corruption would cost roughly the same price but you'd receive a missile with shoddy components and forged paperwork. Just look at Russia's army to see the difference in munition reliability.

  • Here's a quick project that anyone can do in their garage.

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  • As a modeler, 3D printers are a bit like AI art to an artist. It's fast, it can do some things that are nearly impossible to replicate, but it feels like a hack or a crutch at times. Part of the thrill of old-school modeling (for which I'm neither old enough nor patient enough) is taking very basic, simple shapes and making something realistic out of seemingly nothing. Adam is absolutely from that school. And - like AI art - to go from almost good to presentation quality is nearly as much work - or more - that just building from scratch. As a long time model rocket enthusiast, my printer is an amazing utility. But for some of the really intricate models, I have a lot less pride in the final product because I know I just pressed a button and it popped out.

  • Here's a quick project that anyone can do in their garage.

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  • Yeah, I made nearly that mistake. Twice, actually. First with a monoprice, then a creality. I probably have more money in upgrades on my CR10s than I have in the purchase, and I still haven't upgraded the board. I keep thinking I'll fix it but I've resolved to strip a couple of parts and throw it away. My Prusa XL preorder came last month. I made one update to it (for better TPU performance), and printed one QoL add-on (nozzle wipers). That's it. I'm done. It prints like a dream, multi-material supports are indistinguishable from magic, and even swapping nozzles is fairly quick and easy. Now I'm (almost) exclusively printing things for my other hobbies rather than worrying that something on my CR10s will fail or need re-tuning.

  • Here's a quick project that anyone can do in their garage.

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  • Don't care. I will watch every second of every build project Adam Savage does in his shop.

  • Here's a quick project that anyone can do in their garage.

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  • Me: Should I buy a prebuilt 3D printer?

    Reddit 3D printing sub: Oh, heck no. I put mine together for $18.22 plus some spare parts from seven printers I got of craigslist for $1 from some widow. Only took me three weekends to do it, plus a couple hundred hours to update the firmware to match the parts and troubleshoot it.

    Me: Uh, so does it print better than the one I could just buy?

    Reddit: Well, I'm still tuning it for all my filaments. I've been through about 40kg, and I've got a trashcan full of benchys though. The last few have been pretty good.

  • How one unexpected game (Nier Automata) changed the Steam Deck forever

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  • Just wanted to drop you a thanks for starting this sub-thread. I also recently finished W3 (after a couple of false starts) and was surprised how much I enjoyed it. I know it's just a step-and-fetch game, but the storytelling has spoiled me for shallower content (plus I suuuuuuuck at aiming a firearm with the joystick so I've yet to get into Cyperpunk). Anyway, Nier GOTY is in my catalog so the responses to you have been illuminating.

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    SpaceX Starlink terminals openly available on Russian website offered by Chinese drone maker DJI claiming to be an "official distributor"

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  • Only way to disable these Russian terminals would be to do it individually device by device.

    Your offer is accepted. Certainly a 10 figure fine would help shake loose a small team at SpaceX to enable this.

  • Texas governor issues disaster declaration as wildfires grow in Panhandle

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  • Looks like somebody didn’t rake their forests.

  • Bezos, Nvidia, OpenAI, Microsoft, Intel, Samsung, invest millions in human-like robot startup

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  • Exactly. Not that I don’t appreciate the automation we have, but this is one of the domestic “last mile” problems - along with proper dusting and loading and folding laundry - that need to be solved.

  • Wow, that's very interesting!

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  • Why do you even come here, Papaya. Nobody likes you.

  • Airplane! is the perfect comedy

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  • Undercover Brother

  • Couples race to move frozen embryos out of Alabama after court defines them as children

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  • I don’t see how this isn’t prima facie evidence of a first amendment violation (presuming that the courts or state legislatures are bound by “Congress” being synonymous with “Government” as I believe it’s been interpreted)

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    UK sanctions heads of Arctic penal colony where Alexei Navalny was killed

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  • I'm sure that Mr. Kalinin is devasted by the news and will work to reform his prison and bring Navalny back from the dead in order to restore his good name.

  • Now that you have settled here on Lemmy. What is your impression of it?

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  • I find it more neckbeard than Reddit, and I mean that in the most offensive way. Reddit was big enough that there were lots of places they either didn’t participate or were so rare as to not be annoying. They’re everywhere here on the big, fully federated servers.

    By the same token, the semi-federated, more restrictive instances (yes, I mean beehaw) are actually quite nice places and really does feel like a mature place to casually discuss things.

    In general, though, lemmy is a desert or ghost town of vibrant niche, non-IT focused communities with regular participation.

  • AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants

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  • They’re not looking for the exceptional, out there exceptions - they’re looking for statistical pattern which have predicted current success. You may as well say that BMI is a useless metric for long term health complications. They both explicitly misestimate anomalous outliers because they are not designed to identify or classify anomalous outliers.

  • Please don't make me google where your application saves things by default

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  • Say your pc torrents 2 TB of media

    those people in engineering and comp sci who have massive files of projects

    Neither of those people are using windows as an appliance.

    because they already use backups to github

    This is where everyone who loves Linux - and nearly everyone who works in IT/CompSci fails to understand the rest of the world. If you have to do anything from the command line - or if anything is easier from the command line - you've excluded roughly 90% of the population from calling it "easy". You may as well tell someone how to adjust the fuel mix in their carburetor or set up a bridgeport mill to make a quick replacement for the plastic buckle that broke on their backpack (and much stronger/durable to boot!). Not only does nobody today want to, they've probably only seen exist in a movie.

  • Hey, Listen!

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  • Tinkerbell was OG thicc

  • Steam Hardware @sopuli.xyz
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    Does Windows/Big Screen work like the Linux/Gaming Mode?

  • Steam Hardware @sopuli.xyz
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    Why doesn’t the steamdeck hibernate by default?

  • Steam Hardware @sopuli.xyz
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    On screen keyboard and mouse - what are your survival tricks?

  • Amateur Radio @sh.itjust.works
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    Is anyone surprised at the response in Maui?

  • Helsinki @sopuli.xyz
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    What is your favorite (online) newspaper?