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• Well, actually, some of them really are daemons.

  on Why yes, I do communicate via esoteric languages incomprehensible to the average person, why do you ask? in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 1d ago

• This was before climate change. Nowadays the glasses are hot.

  on Thats why I only smoke weed. Don't want to risk this nasty windows Programms to suddenly start working in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 5d ago

• No, definitely not!

  …

  …

  ^but^ ^actually^ ^yes^

  on there's mostly only two relentless hardships in programming: networking issues, naming things, and off by one errors. in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 15 Sep 2026

• I was going to ask about the socks, but I forgot that those arrive later, automatically.

  on your entire personality now in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 12 Sep 2026

• This will in no way come back to “haunt” us…

  on World-first biological data center packs 16 mn living human neurons in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026

• Actually that does sound best… but not because of anything to do with you, that advice just applies to all humans for the last basically twenty years. So it’s nothing to do with AI slop, but rather compilation got SO FREAKING GREAT that in like 99.9% of cases it does better than a human.

  Ironically, one of the reasons for that is that concepts like “word” varies between different architectures (like like “byte” too - e.g. you’ve likely heard the distinction between 32-bit vs. 64-bit systems). As the other person said it is usually 4 bytes but other times it can be like 2 (in super old systems I suppose) or more than 4 in like super powerful ones (128-bit ones maybe?).

  And compilers keep track of ALL of those minutiae, as well as a bunch more stuff too. Like a small(-ish) loop that only runs a couple to few times is far more efficient to just be duplicated in the assembly code, rather than have the GO-TO procedure jump back to its beginning spot. And also it helps immensely to feed things to the chip based on what the various cache sizes are - L1, L2, L3 (though not all chips have all… or even any of those).

  So yeah, it’s best to leave compilation to the computer to handle, thus freeing up the programmer to handle the overall logical flow and deal with other higher-order effects like code reuse and documentation and stuff.

  on Bites & Bytes in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 11 Sep 2026

• Word:-)

  on Bites & Bytes in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 10 Sep 2026

• I mean, so far they seem to be doing just that!

  on OpenAI admits it didn't disclose rogue AI wiki hijacking incident in c/technology@beehaw.org · 7 Sep 2026

• They got their clicks though - the rest is someone else’s problem (according to their POV).

  on AI Is Creating New Jobs But Millions of Workers May Not Be Ready in c/technology@beehaw.org · 5 Sep 2026

• Syntactically correct - the best kind of correct!!

  on Paradox in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 3 Sep 2026

• So very wrong.

  “big” != “Big”

  on Paradox in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 3 Sep 2026

• People interested in being less than wholesome on Lemmy.

  on Queen of the Hill in c/lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026

• That should help! 😃

  on Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside corporate networks in c/technology@beehaw.org · 29 Aug 2026

• The first paragraph in the article says:

  Documentation files on more than 100 websites are referencing potentially dangerous executable content that gets installed automatically when visited by many AI agents. A few dozen companies, some of them Fortune 500s, are among those that executed proof-of-concept code. At least one misconfigured site is directing visitors, human or AI, to live malware.

  So… yes. All someone has to do is register to become the new owner of the previously non-existent resource and then they can serve up whatever content they wish to the slop machines.

  on Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside corporate networks in c/technology@beehaw.org · 29 Aug 2026

• Laughs in Linux.

  on "Buy more storage for only 19,99$ a month!" in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 29 Aug 2026

• This seems geared more towards programming languages like C++, whereas in scripting such as BASH it seems to me like it absolutely would get to be a mess to have so many functions, particularly those called only once (either total for the execution of the entire program or within the context of being inside another function, so once per function).

  I am curious now what would Linus Torvalds say about that?

  on I can definitely maybe do this! in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 27 Aug 2026

• It made their human workers 70% less efficient. You know the solution to that don’t you… MORE AI!

  J/k, and btw this actually seems like a good article to read, acting as a cautionary tale about reliance upon this high unstable technology in its current (HAHA!) state.

  on AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions” in c/technology@beehaw.org · 27 Aug 2026

• I dunno, lemme wait to hear from Jimothy first…

  on Wisdom in c/lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026

• Tech-pilled people that naively believe whatever they read, especially in previously believable sources of “news” that have since sold out.

  on Tesla’s Robotaxi gets caught crashing through bollards, just as it readies the purpose-built Cybercab for public roads in c/technology@beehaw.org · 23 Aug 2026

• I already posited that LLMs may perform lower-level thinking. Also, in the reference you linked to read their third stated limitation. Perhaps one day some kind of AGI will do “higher-level” aka more realistic thinking… but not yet. Which, I want to add, is not entirely relevant to their utility to us as humans.

  Talking about “thinking” gets us distracted from what can actually be done, though if we do want to do it then we’d need to come up with a working definition of what “thinking” actually is.

  on LLMs and Humans are Cognitive Cousins – Sean Carroll podcast w/Dr. Chandra Sripada in c/technology@beehaw.org · 21 Aug 2026

• The difference between the cash register and an inference engine is the training data. Also, barring something like mechanical failure, I would trust the calculation of a cash register (that has previously been demonstrated to function with high fidelity, and barring any major incidents such as dropping it onto the floor that might make me question the relevance of those prior tests to its current performance).

  But the results of a LLM “calculation” - and I mean this with total sincerity - might be something like:

  “What is 1+1=”?

  “Answer: 6, 7!! 🤪”

  

  Or in ye olden times, one expected response might be “ur mother!” or some other flippant remark… exactly like a small child, imitating others might do. Monkey see, monkey do => the principles undergirding LLM technology? It does not understand what it sees, hence it does not “know” when to apply what answer, only going by the most popular (whatever the weighting scheme is - probably highest upvoted answer on Reddit?) string of words that seem to be associated with the question.

  on LLMs and Humans are Cognitive Cousins – Sean Carroll podcast w/Dr. Chandra Sripada in c/technology@beehaw.org · 20 Aug 2026

• He admits himself that nobody really knows how people think, and so all the talk about LLMs looking like they are “thinking” is based purely on vibes rather than reality.

  Then again, the thought occurs to me to ponder, how many actual humans really think also? Do 4-year-olds? Do <insert name of opposing political party here>?

  That thought experiment helps me to understand. Even if an LLM does perform a kind of “lower thinking” - i.e. mere imitation, of the kind that a monkey or even a 6-year-old human child might - even then, I still would not trust it to vibe-code anything for me.

  And it most definitely does not “think think” i.e. higher-level thinking, though again, neither do many humans, seemingly the largest majority of the time.

  on LLMs and Humans are Cognitive Cousins – Sean Carroll podcast w/Dr. Chandra Sripada in c/technology@beehaw.org · 20 Aug 2026

• What… is that thing, mixed in with the no alcohol and no cigarettes?

  Well, I suppose if I am asking that, then I am unlikely to be doing it, so I have that going for me I guess 😜

  on Feel so good in c/lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026

• Narrator: and they did.

  on GitDown is Hub in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 17 Aug 2026

• Juicy and delicious 😋

  on New website lets drivers check whether their license plate has been searched on Flock database in c/technology@beehaw.org · 17 Aug 2026

• No no no no no - keep up! We’re talking about “Jason” - the one who was killed but came back to continue his task anyway… oh, I see the confusion now 🤔🤪

  on Everyone's asking, 'Who's Json?', but nobody's asking, 'How's Json?' in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 12 Aug 2026

• Don’t ask - if he told you then he’d have to kill you…

  on Everyone's asking, 'Who's Json?', but nobody's asking, 'How's Json?' in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 12 Aug 2026

• oh no, not again.

  on Why nano gets used in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 9 Aug 2026

• Skill issue.

  git guud

  on Getting inspiration for a fourth MFA method in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 9 Aug 2026