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  • blarghly@lemmy.worldtowikipedia@sh.itjust.works•Nutty Putty CaveEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I’m friends with a number of fairly dedicated cavers, including a few who have participated in multi-day first descents and who have been part of scientifically funded research expeditions.

    This guy died because he was dumb.

    Not to say it isn’t a tragedy. But in caving, you should never really push yourself until you get stuck, and you should never ever descend a tunnel head first. If you are going down, go feet first, because it is far easier to get out crawling up than down.

    The cavers I know will be the first to tell you that caving can be dangerous. But they do everything in their power to mitigate that danger. It pisses me off that this is the image that so many people have of caving, when the cavers I know are extremely meticulous about the risks they take. People die in caves every couple of years, but they typically arent knowledgeable and experienced cavers. Typically they are dumbass yahoos who didn’t learn jack about the dangerous terrain they are navigating before waltzing in, and then proceed to demonstrate an ample lack of common sense. Note that the wikipedia article itself notes - this cave was popular with boy scout troops and college kids. Every one of those people, inexperienced and untrained, managed to not crawl headfirst into a tight hole until they were impossibly stuck, because they exercised some straightforward common sense.

    A cave like Nutty Putty, when entered with a bit of research, preparation, and common sense, is not very dangerous to the average person. It is a fun and interesting adventure. A chance to explore the natural world. An opportunity to get some fun and novel exercise. And a time when great memories and friendships can be formed. There is always the chance something could go wrong - but then, there is also a chance that you will die in a car wreck while driving to and from the cave. We take calculated risks all the time in the name of living more enjoyable and meaningful lives - the point of life is not to survive, which impossible, but to live. And the takeaway from Nutty Putty should be “don’t be a dumbass” not “never leave your couch, it’s scary outside.”

  • blarghly@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.zip•Elon Musk says UK wants to suppress free speech as X faces possible banEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Preventing the spread of pornographic deepfakes is simply an extension of very reasonable existing laws banning revenge porn..

    Deepfakes in general should have significant legal regulation around them as an extension of libel/slander/defamation/disinformation laws. Imagine if you pissed the wrong person off, and they generated a bunch of deepfake videos of you cruelly killing dogs, then circulated them around to your friends, family, or potential employers. Or imagine if a politician campaigning for reform has a deepfake video generated where they argue in favor of pedophilia.

  • blarghly@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.zip•Don't fall into the anti-AI hypeEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I’m confused why you are confused.

    In the past week, just prompting, and inspecting the code to provide guidance from time to time

    I feel like it is pretty clear the author said “hey AI, do this thing.” The AI made an attempt, the author clarified a few things and maybe made some edits, and then was satisfied with the result.

    Like your example of planning a wedding menu. I’m not sure where the ambiguity is. If someone said “I used chatgpt to plan my wedding menu”, I assume they prompted it something like “plan my wedding menu. I want something classy but cheap. No fish.” Then chatgpt spat out a few options, they provided feedback - “I dont like broccoli either” - and then they picked an option they like.

  • blarghly@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.zip•Don't fall into the anti-AI hypeEnglish
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    2 days ago

    From the article, literally one line above the line you quoted:

    In the past week, just prompting, and inspecting the code to provide guidance from time to time, in a few hours I did the following four tasks, in hours instead of weeks:

    1. I modified my linenoise library to support UTF-8, and created a framework for line editing testing that uses an emulated terminal that is able to report what is getting displayed in each character cell. Something that I always wanted to do, but it was hard to justify the work needed just to test a side project of mine. But if you can just describe your idea, and it materializes in the code, things are very different.
    1. I fixed transient failures in the Redis test. This is very annoying work, timing related issues, TCP deadlock conditions, and so forth. Claude Code iterated for all the time needed to reproduce it, inspected the state of the processes to understand what was happening, and fixed the bugs.
    1. Yesterday I wanted a pure C library that would be able to do the inference of BERT like embedding models. Claude Code created it in 5 minutes. Same output and same speed (15% slower) than PyTorch. 700 lines of code. A Python tool to convert the GTE-small model.
    1. In the past weeks I operated changes to Redis Streams internals. I had a design document for the work I did. I tried to give it to Claude Code and it reproduced my work in, like, 20 minutes or less (mostly because I’m slow at checking and authorizing to run the commands needed).
  • blarghly@lemmy.worldtoHistory Memes@piefed.social•when you put it like that, how could we say no?English
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    3 days ago

    You can very easily teach how to change a tire at school. Assuming the school has a parking lot, you just walk out there where you have literally any car parked. Then you change the tire. Even in an urban setting, this is quite easy by simply walking to the nearest location where you can park a car, and practicing on a car that the teacher has parked there earlier in the day. Changing a tire is an extremely simple skill that could be taught in a single class period, but many motorists lack it and end up stranded on the side of the road because of their lack of knowledge. If they break down in a convenient location, this may simply cost them time and money as they wait for someone to come along and do this task for them. But if they are in an isolated location - say, on a remote road in the mountains during a blizzard - this knowledge could save their lives.

    why bother when cars don’t come with spares anymore

    how many flats do you get?

    Are stupid? You get CPR trained not because you expect someone to need CPR every day, but because you want to be prepared in case you ever need to do CPR. If your car doesn’t come with a spare, go buy a spare. Don’t get fucked over just because auto manufacturers are cheap bastards.

    Changing the oil varies hugely per model too.

    Why would you need to learn how to change a doorknob when that varies quite a bit per model?

    This is not true, like… at all. There are some minor differences with, say bolt sizes, oil filter types, existance of retainer clips, etc. But the process of changing the oil in a passenger vehicle is pretty universal. Same with doorknobs. I’m sure there are some weirder varieties - but every doorknob I’ve replaced follows exactly the same process. Slide the bolt in, put the knob turny-boi in the bolt, finagle the machine screws into position to connect inner and outer knobs, tighten machine screws and the screws that hold the bolt plate into the door.

    None of this is rocket science, but as the other poster said, most people’s issue is simply the first step of believing that they can successfully complete a repair or maintenance task themselves. There is nothing special about replacing a doorknob, but it is a simple and useful demonstration assignment that can get kids comfortable with actually using tools and taking things apart, and that is an extremely useful life skill.