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The cost of a game getting patches and updates isn’t the same as the cost of making the game in the first place.
Tell me you’ve never tried to maintain/update software without telling me…
The cost of a game getting patches and updates isn’t the same as the cost of making the game in the first place.
Tell me you’ve never tried to maintain/update software without telling me…
Was not prepared for the Diablo II reference lmao
Yeah, I’d like to see a source for this. There have been many proposed theories for why cats vocalize to humans, especially because “meowing” is not common between cats except for kittens. How do we know that it isn’t a request for food or attention?
“Allow us to introduce ourselves”
As long as I don’t have to maintain it.
(Who tf downvoted this? The “legacy code” lobby?)
FYI, “anthropomorphizing” doesn’t strictly mean “viewing as human”. I never meant to imply that people see a spoon as a human being.
Anthropomorphization is the act of associating human qualities with non-human entities.
My point is that humans are remarkably good at doing this, even as far as, e.g., ascribing “unhappiness” to a spoon simply for being unused.
This kind of behavior is why we must be extremely wary of the Turing test and other measures of machine “intelligence” - humans may see intelligence even where none exists simply because it’s our nature.
Yep, this is the major flaw that’s becoming clear about the Turing test, and why people are so hyped over LLMs: computers don’t have to be good at imitating people, because people are so good at anthropomorphizing computers (along with everything else).
This joke is much simpler if you’re bisexual.
You’re just Bismuth.
The “solution” is to curate things, invest massive human resources in it
Hilariously, Google actually used to do this: they had a database called the “knowledge graph” that slowly accumulated verified information and relationships between commonly-queried entities, producing an excellent corpus of reliable, easy-to-find information about a large number of common topics.
Then they decided having people curate things was too expensive and gave up on it.
Lost the coin flip.
So like, 3 months of PG&E bills?
Pretty sure the lyric is “ride the pony”, my dude.
Blubuntu
There’s that old chestnut: “you know what they call alternative medicine that works? Medicine.”
RCS is an open standard, isn’t it? Are you referring to the E2E encryption that Google added to Android?
Ikr? Seems like a good thing to me. I want dumb devices controlled by a smart system.
Bold of you to assume no one will come up with a replacement date library rather than just getting rid of JS.
Holy cow, what are you doing with all that power?!
Furthermore, it’s “Zeno’s Paradox”, (as in, attributed to Zeno) not “The Zeno Paradox”
I am unironically saying that, as a career software engineer, fixing bugs and adding new features to an existing product is about 80% of a programming job.