I was thinking… What if we do manage to make the AI as intelligent as a human, but we can’t make it better than that? Then, the human intelligence AI will not be able to make itself better, since it has human intelligence and humans can’t make it better either.

Another thought would be, what if making AI better is exponentially harder each time. So it would be impossible to get better at some point, since there wouldn’t be enough resources in a finite planet.

Or if it takes super-human intelligence to make human-intelligence AI. So the singularity would be impossible there, too.

I don’t think we will see the singularity, at least in our lifetime.

Stranger things char?

I’m migrating millons of encrypted credit cards from one platform to another (it’s all in the same company, but different teams, different infra, etc).

I’m the one responsible for decrypting each card, preparing the data in a CSV, and encrypting that CSV for transit. Other guy is responsible for decrypting it, and loading it into the importer tool. The guy’s technical lead wanted me to generate the pair of keys and send him the private key, since that way I didn’t have to wait for the guy and “besides, it’s all in the same company, we’re like a family here”.

Of course I didn’t generate the key pair and told them that I didn’t want to ever have access to the private key, but wow. That made me lose a lot of respect for that tech lead.

I recently started the anime (just finished the Kuro arc) and I’m wondering if the animation gets “better” in later seasons?

Don’t get me wrong, I still love it, but some scenes feel very dated and low budget, having lots of still images.

I was working in my (poor third world) government job, and our keyboard broke. Replacements took months, since they only bought mouse and keyboards in bulk once per year or so, and they ran out of.

I had a second job working as a contractor for a private company, where we were contracted for a public hospital providing system administration and technical support. We had some old PS2 keyboards that were to be decommissioned, but since they didn’t have inventory number, I got hold of them and brought some to my other job.

So I donated some equipment from one area of government to another, but it was kinda illegal, lol 😆.

The color looks really cool.

Sennheiser headphones that I bought for about $20 about 10 years ago. The cable is indestructible. I once had to resolder it to the speakers because it my cat pulled it out, but the cable itself has endured all kinds of abuse without breaking. And the sound is fantastic.

She was the vice president and took over when Perón died. And yes, by that time they were pretty anti leftist.

I think you can also synthesize it from ipomoea seeds, which have LSA, so it’s a much shorter path

I don’t have a story, but I have a setting that’s been really underutilized.

We, as a species, were nomadic for hundreds of thousands of years. We had tens of thousands of years of cohabitation with other hominids, intermingling, making important and powerful discoveries, exploring, etc.

And there’s no one using that for a story?

The only stories about that time that I see are about dumb cavemen or ice age migration.

These people had the same mental capacity that we have now. They had culture, rituals, trade, interesting things.

So yeah, a story set in the prehistoric times.

Aire acondicionado

Arch is very powerful and flexible, but definitely not newbie friendly. I only made the jump after 7 years of using Ubuntu and Debian, and I still had a learning curve.

Covert racists too

When I first started learning how to code 9 months ago […]

You do it in teams and call your workmate!

Tomb of the Necrodancer is a rythm rogue like which is very unique, imo.

These kind of forums don’t store the plaintext password, they send an email while in memory, and hash them afterwards. Still bad security, but it’s not storing it in plaintext.

I’m from South America and work for a global company with headquarters in the Netherlands and important offices in Sweden and France.

They talk about Latin America as a “focus region” and wanting to develop the company here, but their only interest is how much money they can extract and take to Europe. They don’t give a shit about the employees here.

And they’re sooo racist about it, but they would never admit it. When one of the products was repurposed for use in Latin America, the European people working on it all desperately transferred teams because no one wanted to work with us. If we ask for anything they just stall and make us wait for weeks or months for it.
They say that they want us to have “ownership” of our processes and tools, but we have to ask for permission for any project, no matter how small.
If we do things our way, they block us with bureaucracy and red tape and make us jump through hoops for every little thing.

I could continue all day…

I just think that lemmy.world tries really really hard to be reddit.

Looks very similar to arroz chaufa from Peru!