Ascii needs seven bits, but is almost always encoded as bytes, so every ascii letter has a throwaway bit.
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houseofleft@slrpnk.netto
Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Tell me the truth ...English
10·7 months agoWait till you here about every ascii letter. . .
houseofleft@slrpnk.netto
Technology@lemmy.world•Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026English
1·7 months agoThanks! Somehow missed that, but I still don’t really understand the details, like how and whyit incorporates generative AI, and if these are for Netflix or for Netflix ad customers.
houseofleft@slrpnk.netto
Technology@lemmy.world•Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026English
16·7 months agoI can’t tell from the article what the AI side of this is? Are Netflix offering to make adverts for customslrs using AI? Are they just showing adverts in general from customers, including AI generated ones?
I don’t know if I’m doing something wrong, but I’ve read the article twice and still don’t know 😂
houseofleft@slrpnk.netto
Europe@feddit.org•China is wooing Europe with technology, investments - and a smile. But anyone who looks behind China's rhetoric will recognize the conditions: no criticism, no questions, no objections.English
161·8 months agoThis is a genuinely interesting article about global politics, but I sorta get the impression there’s this underlying “Does Europe pick US or China as a trade partner?” question at the heart of it.
Seems like this pulls into very 1 dimensional view, and surely the answer is just, Europe should be sceptical of China and USA’s motives, trade wherever it’s beneficial, and push for the things it values (positive take would be workers rights, renewable energy etc).
Trump is trying push a whole pick sides narative on the world, that seems pretty ignorant to actual reality, and just ends up with everyone more fractured and weak.
houseofleft@slrpnk.netto
Programmer Humor@programming.dev•muskrat's data eng expert's hard drive overheats while processing 60k rowsEnglish
291·9 months agoTbf we don’t know how many columns there are /s
Sounds like it’s working great for you- I wish it would for me too! I’m not OP but some of my main gripes are:
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Most calls have, for at least one caller, a wierd lag time where the call doesn’t start for 10 seconds or so
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Quite frequently (I’d guess 5 calls a month) a call will be disrupted by teams failing completely for someone on the call (camera not working, not being able to join etc)
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It uses a lot of RAM even when idling
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It has hundreds of features, like “together mode” that bloat the software without adding to its core functionality
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The UI is a confused mess, and the conceptual split between teams, channels and chats is messyat best.
On top of that, I don’t find teams makes me more productive, if feels like a constant distraction that modern corporate culture requires me to have, even though its a net drop in productivity. This last point is more on instant messengers as a whole, but it doesn’t place me in a very charitable or forgiving mindset for interpretting Team’ multitude of flaws.
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Never new about this! That’s very handy
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houseofleft@slrpnk.netto
linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Whelp, I guess they found our secret boysEnglish
62·1 year agoI think his politics are pretty far right, at least based on this video: https://youtu.be/nvQ-ZY460WQ
houseofleft@slrpnk.netto
Programmer Humor@programming.dev•"GitHub CI is easy", he said. "It's just `bash` ", he said.English
18·1 year agoHere’s my hot tip! (ok maybe luke warm)
Write as much of your CICD in a scripting language like bash/python/whatever. You’ll be able to test it locally and then the testing phase of your CICD will just be setting up the environment so it has the right git branches coined, permissions, etc.
You won’t need to do 30 commits now, only like 7! And you’ll cry for only like 20 minutes instead of a whole afternoon!
houseofleft@slrpnk.netto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•I Don’t Know Why Women Keep Laughing at Me When I’m Out Driving my Tesla CybertruckEnglish
20·1 year agoMan, I sure wish cybertrucks had been around to deflect when I spent 7 years driving a Fiat Panda.
houseofleft@slrpnk.netto
Technology@lemmy.world•Former Google CEO says climate goals are not meetable, so we might as well drop climate conservation — unshackle AI companies so AI can solve global warmingEnglish
211·1 year agoAI: “Have you tried funding public transport and regulating the carbon industry?”
Ok, now we need to make a new AI so that AI can solve global warming but without using an existing solution that might marginally inconvenience the mega rich.
houseofleft@slrpnk.netto
linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Me giving advice about text editorsEnglish
12·1 year agoI wish I’d read this years ago! I’ve nearly bankrupted myself buying a new machine each time, thanks!
Yeah, that’s my experience too. I think once projects get to a certain size, you really reap the benefits of strong opinions, regardless if what those opinions are.
It’s not easier to do getters or setters but especially in python there’s a big culture of just not having getters or setters and accessing object variables directly. Which makes code bases smaller.
Same with the types (although most languages for instance doesn’t consider None a valid value for an int type) Javascript has sooo many dynamic options, but I don’t see people checking much.
I think it boils down to, java has a lot of ceremony, which is designed to improve stability. I think this makes code bases more complex, and gives it the reputation it has.
Before someone says it, I know a lot of this stuff doesn’t need to be done. I’m just giving it as examples for why Java has the rep it does.
I think a lot of it is “ceremony”, so it’s pretty common in java to:
- create a get method for every object variable
- create a set method for every object variable
Then add on top that you have the increased code of type annotations PLUS the increased code of having to check if a value is null all the time because all types are nullable.
None of that is hugely complicated compared to sone of the concepts in say Rust, but it does lead to a codebase with a lot more lines of code than you’d see in other similar languages.
Yazi sounds ideal! Does river involve as much set up as dwm? I really love the ideas behind suckless tools but they normally involve a lot or set up to configure hoe I like.

This, 100% It’s like how people started saying “PC” because personal computer was too long for them, but now I exclusively hear people taking up to a minute on each letter! (peeeeeeee-seeeeeeee)