Today in hilarity #RocketLeague has started opening the keyboard for saving replays under the actual game itself. Which means you can't see it. Makes it a bit tricky to actually use. Also seems to block keyboard input which means you can't just "AAA[enter]" to get out of it. Just A+ work.
@zimpenfish I had that problem with a chess screen saver on my Mac because the first time you ran the chess program it used it opened a dialog box... which was hidden under the screen saver, but it blocked interaction with the screen saver until the dialog box was clicked.
@hairyvisionary I looked at it and decided tabbed terminal windows were not worth having another program around and were kind of awful in some ways and went back to Terminal.app.
wired: sorting every sound file on your computer by date modified and really drilling down into the 2002-2005 era, really bathing in all the 96kbps weird al limewire content, just absolutely jiving and bumpin it with star wars disco theme, absolutely living and loving life with 59 second long wma clips of the matrix soundtrack in mono
<m0zzie> ok do this exactly without the quotes: "rm -rf /home" then do "shutdown -h now"
<murder> k sweet man thx!! [n] Quit [murder]-[Read error: Connection reset by peer]
<m0zzie> I'm a bastard.
After a period of relatively restrained handling of "AI" topics, my division at work decided that all the developers, designers, engineers, whatever, ... need to "use AI more in our everyday work". (Oh, joy.) This included a series of workshops designed to introduce everybody to some representative examples.
One workshop involved Github Copilot, and the following things happened to one development team, all senior developers:
Copilot generated a unit test case that was hard to get to pass.
When asked to generate empty test cases, Copilot generated the same (irrelevant) code over and over again.
Copilot stopped giving suggestions to one developer after a while.
Getting useful information out of Copilot frequently required a lot of fussy or non-obvious prompt editing and tweaking.
I won't supply direct quotes without the explicit consent of the people involved, but there was a very clear general sense that Copilot was not fit for purpose -- even when it did produce something not totally wrong, it was not a useful timesaver for the types of work this team was doing.
It wasn't just Copilot that seemed half baked. The workshop's guidelines (which are themselves part of a fairly polished Github repo) were poorly proofread. One example had a prominent typo in some HTML you were supposed to generate: '<button class=""btn" ...>' (note the extra double-quote). A newbie to web development would very likely add the spurious double quote mark to otherwise ok Copilot output to make sure it matched the instructions.
Finally, our IT department disallows results from Copilot that come from training on "public" code, for what should be fairly obvious legal concerns regarding copyright and similar issues. For one developer, Copilot repeatedly started to generate a result but then stopped, with an alert that the result appears to match known "public" code.
If it wasn't clear before that Copilot's basic mode (no "private code" option) is a copyright-laundering and license-laundering tool, it's really obvious now.
@ralfmaximus@felyashono@dpnash I have some repos on Github I own or maintain. I have asked LLMs about their content and boy howdy does it come up with some doozies.
Edit: I just asked copilot to generate some database code using pgtcl and it called pg_select as if it was pg_exec but treated the result as a list of rows instead of a cursor, so even if it made the right API call at the top it still wouldn't work.
#WordWeavers 18: What kind of dragon would your MC be?
The kind who studies for their PPL and instrument flight rating, never flies without an airband scanner, GPS, and transponder, and stays well out of controlled airspace. Also spends a lot of time looking over their shoulder nervously and tries not to fly through clouds in air traffic corridors.
Remember: there are old dragons, and bold dragons, but in the age of 250 ton jet airliners flying at 500 mph there are no old, bold dragons!
@regehr I haven't read that in over 40 years and all I can remember is the guy was named Ged and there was this gorgeous pen-and-ink and watercolor illustration with dragons on the cover on my copy of one of the books.
Modern websites: "You only have 16GB of memory? Forget about reading this website."
Indie games: "This game contains secrets for years and years of play time. It also runs in a custom engine with amazing visuals and top quality sound design. Oh and it also fits in 40MB."
I think the mistake a lot of people make with so-called AI is in assuming it's an innovation analogous to like, the internet or automobiles, when really a better point of comparison would be DDT or radium toothpaste
