Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

I haven't watched X-Files in 20 years and I still have nightmares about that incest family. Why would you make her watch that?

I liked X-Files for what it was, when I was teenager (and nothing phased me back then)...but I don't think I could watch these days. Too dark, gritty and depressing, at least in the first 2-3 seasons. (Marginally less so later on)

Its mostly legal here but they still call taxes on gambling sin taxes.

I'm impressed, that whole series from front to back is a gauntlet that I've yet to rewatch.
Well worth it though!

Because it's a great show! Hell, Supernatural gives it like 33 nods. (also fun fact, the actor who plays Crowley is the Irish Pyrokinetic guy from one of the early episodes)

Some of the episodes are disturbing, yes. But that makes them memorable and is the point! Plus there's the really campy episodes like the one where it's black and white in a small country town and nobody can get their story straight about supposedly seeing aliens. And are all clamoring respectfully/idolizing Mulder and Scully for being FBI lol

honestly I just think my subconscious was overstimulated and exhausted and desperately trying to sort/process of the experiences of the day to repair and remove routine wear and tear and ammonia buildup in the brain lol

A couple of weeks ago I started a project of doing a speedy run (not a speedrun) of Palworld and record it.

But every dozen of hours played, I figure if I had made a simple tweak in my choices I would be in way better position.

So, Ive been spending like 3 to 4 weeks just restarting over and over, and I still didnt got the point I feel like doing my very best.

Im also doing loads of save scumming, so it just makes worse all this trouble, because Palworld RNG is worse than I thought at first.

It's officially see-through outfit season for the fairer sex where I am.

And indoor sunglasses wearing season for those less fair.

Here and there some new terms appears being overly discussed on youtube.

One of those is the so called “vibe coding”.

I had zero interest in knowing what is this, but noticing so many are talking about it, in starting to feel compelled to at least understand the overview of it

vibe coding is using an LLM to write all the code you could be writing. you just "go with the vide"

most of the discourse around it that I have been seeing is that debates on its efficacy. Proponents say it is awesome and the best thing ever, while other believe it to be a gimmick at best and code rot at worst.

If you have used an LLM to write a program, and then only edited that program by sending the LLM prompts to make adjustments to the code you have vibe coded.

LLMs have been great at writing modular parts of the code (a simpler function) when I am prototyping something. But so far I think it only works well on small projects.

Overall, I think senior developers will make the most out of LLMs while the entry level is probably going to cease to exist. By this, I am not saying that younger generation won't be able to land a job in CS. I'm merely stating that the skillset is going to be wildly different.

Still sweater weather up here :(

IMO it massively depends on the type of project you are working on.

I think I mentioned this before, but I asked it a week or two ago to write a bash script that parses part of data in /proc and outputs it. It spit out something that worked the first time and saved me the effort of doing it, it was kinda gross but I didn't care - it was a one and done thing. I did something similar with writing a script to parse one file then query an elastic instance. It did all of that and saved me...more time than I'm willing to confess, but it still wasn't 100% correct. The instructions it spit out on how to make elastic do what I needed to do were based on old versions, so I had to (*gasp*) figure it out on my own - annoyingly because idgaf about elastic - but the syntax for the field was right, at least.

Ask it anything in C or anything related to a large code repo and it just vomits out ***. It can be useful as a documentation tool, though, sometimes I can just ask it "show me how to invoke <xyz>" and it gives me the declaration and possibly a semi-correct example. So it can parse manpages, header files, and comments at least in a way that's useful enough to save a few minutes here or there looking - but you will still be looking at the code yourself or patching up insanely poorly written code to make it work. Other times it's just flat out wrong, I asked it some questions recently about openssl's engine API and it was stumbling over itself repeatedly trying to answer the question - 10min looking at it manually and I had the answer myself, but no matter what I did - I couldn't get it to give me the right answer.

IMO it'll optimize peoples jobs who depend on simple, small scripts that do certain tasks - so developers, sysadmins, etc - but when it comes to managing large code repos, it just can't handle it well enough to replace anyone. I don't think I've seen a case yet where I can ask it how to insert code somewhere into a large repo and it give me a correct answer

100%!!

Which one are you using btw? Claude is scaring me man. It's getting too good for my comfort!

Thankfully I work with really low level hardware parallelization so it still doesn't understand the concept very much. But once I teach it what I am trying to do (with diagrams and everything), it starts to create very good Verilog code. A few corrections here and there and it becomes good-synthesizable code.

For prototyping an idea, it's just amazing.

The most delightful experiences I have had is with asking AI to use mermaid markdown to turn my code into a flow diagram, saves me all the trouble of doing it and after building a small collection of examples it handles the translation very well.

Outside of that It has been abysmal, can't do much of anything with the old pascal code base I work in (which is partly because the person who wrote code in the 70s must have been high the whole time, pascal is case insensitive for identifiers and he used that "feature" thoroughly)

It can do well with some boiler plate in languages you find online easily like javascript or python, but doing what everyone has done is not always the best way to do something, and it tends to duplicate code locally rather than extracting it to a function and using that.

I use t3.chat outside of work, having access to all the different models for a nice price has been good for exploring where the value in the tools lies for me

At work we only allowed to use our Azure environment, and github copilot(which i dont use)

Trash in, trash out.

Dang... pascal is almost as old as I am.

Lucky ***. It's gnat season here already.

you are a frog isn't that a good thing? like you get a free lunch and dont even have to move for it now.

Early this morning Ive decided to climb a huge RNG mountain, of trying to get a skill that belongs to a category with 1% chance of appearing, and even within this category, there is a 1/8 chance to hit my target.

My mind at beginning was: I dont want to be lucky and get this done fast. Im pretty satisfied by getting my thing around the expected amount of tries.

Long hours after, I had like 15 hits inside that 1% category. Within those 15 hits, I got 6 out of those 8 available skills. 15 hits and still havent seen 2 of those.

And the abnormalities of landing FIVE repeated skills before a single one of the one I want.

Yeah, Im perfectly fine taking long for a goal as long Im within the expected time.

Unfortunelly at this point, its quite obvious Im in the bad luck road. Im already taking at least TWICE the expected amount of time to find my target.

I watched a video review a comic book "Monica".

Very interesting story.

So, ive been thinking about my future RPG Maker game.

The fighting system I came up has a lot of things I consider sufficiently unique, mixing many things I already like. Obviously with RPG maker, I wont be doing an ARPG, but I can fill many extra quick time action to reduce the boredom of turn based battles.

The story will follow one of my preferred themes, cyberpunk. The structure will be more open world then linear. Not going to focus on story. I like how Palworld presented the story: it is there, but you dont need. If you want it, do side content and infer many things because purposelly the fragments of lore will contain several holes for the player to interpret as he see fit.

I already decided about the starting fodders in game, will be three weak foes, snails, frogs, grumpy cats and llamafanias

Are you now going to read the comic?

No, because now I know the entire story.

I think the grumpy cat should be a boss that can only be defeated in a dialogue battle not physical. :D

@Vyre-kun

Please approve my AI art that I submitted to FFXIAH

Thanks in advance

Episode 4 of the Last of Us was the best yet, finally got Jeffrey Wright involved. These next two seasons are going to be carried by the supporting cast. Even though Bella Ramsey was a bit better in this episode, she just doesn't have the acting chops. You never know when you cast young actors, some of them have it, some of them don't.

Whats the word on the book

Its gonna come out in the next week, im just editing it and re-editing it

It is hot here.

Can we keep the image section related to XI.

AI is fine as long as it's listed as AI, most people liked them. Stop uploading random crap though, you're making the site look worse and wasting peoples time who validate images.