FreedomAdvocate

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[–] FreedomAdvocate -3 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

It was the same for Biden, why did no-one care then?

[–] FreedomAdvocate 10 points 2 weeks ago

What surprises me is that Samsung isn’t trying to get better hardware to get more market share.

You say this about the company that invented folding screen phones? lol

[–] FreedomAdvocate 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I get what you’re saying, but also see the other side - these services exist and aren’t ever going away, so the level of knowledge you need about these to use them at least competently is significantly reduced.

What their existence does mean is that there are thousands of developers who wouldn’t ever touch or learn any of this stuff previously are now actually learning it and using it. That’s a positive thing. Not everyone needs to be an expert on the inner workings of everything that a service provides unless you’re specifically looking for an expert.

Also…..people lie on CVs and cover letters. If your ad has buzzwords and technology X, Y, and Z, then you should expect people with little to no knowledge of at least one of those things to have all 3 on their resume.

[–] FreedomAdvocate 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Tl;dr:

It said the two people alleged the suspected use of X’s algorithm for the “purposes of foreign interference.” It didn’t detail the alleged interference or how the algorithm was allegedly used.

The 2 people are politicians, and you’d assume they’re the sore-loser type looking for someone to blame for their loss. Most likely a nothing-sauce.

[–] FreedomAdvocate -2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Adding context is “knowing more” for a computer program.

Maybe it’s different in VS code vs regular VS, because I never get issues like what you’re describing in VS. Haven’t really used it in VS Code.

[–] FreedomAdvocate 1 points 2 weeks ago

DLSS is applied in the rendering pipeline before post processing effects. It is part of the rendering pipeline.

You clearly don’t know what you’re talking about. We’re done here.

[–] FreedomAdvocate 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Interesting downvotes, especially how there are more than there are upvotes.

Do people think "junior" and "senior" here just relate to age and/or time in the workplace? Someone could work in software dev for 20 years and still be a junior dev. It's knowledge and skill level based, not just time-in-industry based.

[–] FreedomAdvocate 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

They're tools that can help a junior engineer and a senior engineer with their job.

Given a database, AI can probably write a data access layer in whatever language you want quicker than a junior developer could.

[–] FreedomAdvocate 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

They're also bad at that though, because if you don't know that stuff then you don't know if what it's telling you is right or wrong.

[–] FreedomAdvocate -4 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

The reason it goes down a “really bad path” is that it’s basically glorified autocomplete. It doesn’t know anything.

Not quite true - GitHub Copilot in VS for example can be given access to your entire repo/project/etc and it then "knows" how things tie together and work together, so it can get more context for its suggestions and created code.

[–] FreedomAdvocate 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I've found it to be great at writing unit tests too.

I use github copilot in VS and it's fantastic. It just throws up suggestions for code completions and entire functions etc, and is easily ignored if you just want to do it yourself, but in my experience it's very good.

Like you said, using it to get the meat and bones of an application from scratch is fantastic. I've used it to make some awesome little command line programs for some of my less technical co-workers to use for frequent tasks, and then even got it to make a nice GUI over the top of it. Takes like 10% of the time it would have taken me to do it - you just need to know how to use it, like with any other tool.

[–] FreedomAdvocate -4 points 2 weeks ago

Sounds like you just need to find a better way to use AI in your workflows.

Github Copilot in Visual Studio for example is fantastic and offers suggestions including entire functions that often do exactly what you wanted it to do, because it has the context of all of your code (if you give it that, of course).

 

This is my first time using ArkOS - are there any settings changes that people always make first when setting up a device with it? What GUI do you like? Can you download different ones?

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by FreedomAdvocate to c/retrogaming
 

I've recently moved from using my PC to emulate retro games to a R36S (game boy style but with 2 analogue sticks as well) handheld and have fallen in love with having them in a portable device.

I'm looking at purchasing a bigger and much newer and more powerful device so was looking for advice on things like what the pros and cons of some popular devices are, what OS people prefer, what emulators people use, etc. My R36S is running ArkOS which is ok.

I'm thinking a clamshell device would be nice, but a Switch-style would be fine as long as the controls aren't too snug. As close to "full size" analogue sticks would be ideal too, I hate and can't get used to tiny ones like on this R36S or sliders like on the 3DS.

Don't really have a set budget. Would like to be able to emulate up to and including Wii U via Dolphin if possible, but I know that's pushing it. PS2 or DC level would be acceptable too. Alternatively a really good "up to and including PS1" device would be an option.

Some that I've seen that look good:

  • Retroid Flip 2

  • Anbernic RG556 (I think the 557 isn't getting very good reviews)

  • Retroid Pocket 5

  • Anbernic RG Arc (because the Megadrive 6 button controller is the GOAT of the 8/16 bit generations.

  • Anbernic RG CubeXX

 

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