Pattern Recognition Unit 5000

@ChShersh Pain

It's Sunday afternoon, and you still haven't seen any C++ Unacceptable. I'm fixing that. Here's some C++ code for reading a file. I use this utility class in every hobby project.

@leadlagreport See the reason nobody takes this UFO topic seriously is because we're missing a tiny little thing called evidence

They will literally release 46 secret UFO videos to distract from the Epstein files fuck off

@DavidKPiano @trashh_dev This is exactly what Chinese companies do with shoes on Amazon

@trashh_dev 1. Take a known million dollar idea 2. Build 1000 versions of it

i need some billion dollar ideas yall. let’s hear them.

@amritwt Retro video game hunter. Sounds cool until you realize how expensive it is in the long run.

what are the worst hobbies one can have? I'll start: cave diving

@DP32020 @MarioNawfal @Tesla Dumbest Tesla comment that is 100% factual you mean?

Nomination for dumbest Tesla comment of the day right here! They promised 25k, 6 years ago and before Covid, before the biggest world wide policy inflation created, before money dilution. I’m mad Tesla didn’t create that 25k car promised that I wouldn’t even purchased at 15k because I hate Elon lol.

Tesla. Remember when $35K sounded unrealistic? Now it’s ~ $27K in real terms. And they’re still making money on it. Next step? Remove the driver. Obviously. @Tesla

@vmiss33 Holy cow

This was 2500 bucks earlier this week and I didn't buy it, epic fail. corsair.com/us/en/p/gaming…

@AdamCharbel @Jenny_1884 Several years ago I asked my now 67 year old mother why the HELL they didn't load up on 20 year treasuries which yielded 17% in the early 80s. Her response? They had no money whatsoever to invest anything, much less in bonds.

@Jenny_1884 Savings accounts also paid 10% interest lol

When I married in 1981 we both worked & most of our salary went on paying the mortgage as the interest rate was 15% at the time. Everything we owned was 2nd hand & we never went out for meals as we couldn’t afford to. We rented our TV Went to the launderette every weekend as had no washing machine. Only had new clothes at Xmas & birthdays as presents. We went without until we could save enough to pay for something. It’s always been hard whether you are young or old. So those out there that think we had it easy we didn’t. Our governments are to blame, not the old.

@unsure_onion @RecaroSo @Jenny_1884 Actually they do go together because that's how inflation works.

@RecaroSo @Jenny_1884 You’ve inflation-adjusted the house price but kept the 80s inflation rate. Those things don’t go together - high interest kept prices low. You can’t mix the two and call it an equivalent.

@unsure_onion @Jenny_1884 You'd make $3 an hour on minimum wage too though, lmao

@Jenny_1884 I wish I was paying 15% interest on a house costing £20k.

Wait til he finds out the price of a house 50 years ago

@Tectone The same reason Dollar General is the 5 dollar store now.

How in the fuck did the 5$ footlong become the 11.72$ footlong in just 5 years.

@hrgiger44 @cryptopunk7213 AI is ALREADY working for me, literally. You don't have any idea what you're talking about

@cryptopunk7213 Its laughable that you think working with AI is going to be an advantage for you. The point of every AI system is to eventually replace people. There is no you and AI sooner than later.

genuine question: why are the arts and gaming communities so fucking touchy about ai? i get that 99% of examples are slop but we’re reaching a point where ai-generated media is indistinguishable for 90% of the world that shouldn’t go un-acknowledged just because you want to hide behind a professional identity ai isn’t going away, it’s getting (a lot) better, so why not try and figure out how to work with it to your advantage? isn’t that what a bunch of hollywood is realising now? doomer: “NO THIS IS NOWHERE CLOSE TO PIXAR GRADE” 8 year old (target audience): “haha that’s awesome” what am i missing?

@HeatRayCaravel @cryptopunk7213 Do you drive a car or a horse to work?

@cryptopunk7213 When everything looks like Pixar, no one cares for Pixar. When everyone is an animator, no one is. This is how human psychology works. You fail to understand what entertainment really is for the human brain. It's a social experience even when you watch it alone. Algos can't do it

@philchacko @cryptopunk7213 That looks like a good read.

@cryptopunk7213 Economic anxiety. Also:

@facsimileglib @cryptopunk7213 Does taste matter when it comes to programming? Like, if the machine does the job that I want be simply asking to do it in a different format, does it matter how it got there? I could write the code in C++ in 6 months or I could just write it in English and get it in 6 minutes.

Its the difference between Lossy and Lossless. "we’re reaching a point where ai-generated media is indistinguishable for 90% of the world" Is an opinion of someone who can't hear the difference between 128kb/s mp3 and 48khz FLAC. So its extremely annoying when someone points to a mcdonalds burger and a freshly ground hamburger patty made from prime filet mignon and says "they're 90 percent the same". And this is everything. From food, to wine, to architecture, to art, and so on. The problem isn't AI. The problem is the undiscerning person who is saying something has less value because they have little to no taste.

@Rahll @cryptopunk7213 Do you drive a car or a horse to work?

@cryptopunk7213 Oh I dunno, the theft and exploitation and the f*cking jobs disappearing? What a mystery.

@cryptopunk7213 Some of it is desperation - they feel the need to defend their profession. Understandable enough. Some of it is fear of the unknown. They don't understand AI so they refuse to explore it (whilst secretly using chatgpt for answers) Some of it is straight up pride - to a fault.

@JadenJTW We have one, they're called employees

We need a slur for people who use Microsoft products

@Nerdrotics One really big problem: the whole thing is a giant lie and Bob Lazar is a fraud.

S4: The Bob Lazar Story is brilliant. Instead hearing is account, you get to see it. Highly recommend.