Ok, I should have phrased that differently. I did get that bit. I just found “ahhh” inappropriate to mimic a bat (a is a deep vowel, not a screech), and “right there” or “that’s it” inappropriate for acknowledging that you got an echo. It feels really forced for the purpose of making a joke, and it didn’t click with me at all.

I think you got that wrong. If anyone should leave, it’s fascist sympathizers.

Premise could be funny but I don’t get how the last panel relates to the joke / bat noises.

Relevance to the post: 5%

*Musk suck

I have had to debug code of “software devs with more than 10 years of experience” often enough to know experience does not equal skill. If you think slop generators are helping you, while you by violating the licenses of all developers whose code went into the training data, then you apparently did not invest those 10 years well.

Computers being math, and the human sense of touch being pretty dang sensitive, means that other peripherals than screens, can represent that nuance required to reverse engineer, or anything else relating to computer code.

I am genuinely interested in what’s available today on that level - the last I checked, it was still Braille displays, and those were not good for much beyond text.

There are blind programmers, I am very much aware, and I could definitely see myself still enjoying development would I not be able to see. But for myself, I always assumed I would need someone else with normal eyesight to debate the algorithms and help me implement.

The term for what you are doing and which isn’t something that requires malice, is ableism.

Aren’t you jumping to conclusions now? I never made any comments about her skill, I expressed - poorly worded, I now admit - my curiosity. But the answer I was expecting was “yes, she is visually impaired but she did all of this anyway”, which would be all the more impressive. You do agree it is harder to work on graphics drivers as a visually impaired person, don’t you?

[…] just from a critique based on perception of facial features from a picture

Let me quote my original comment verbatim:

She has this out-of-focus look that makes it seem like she’s visually impaired or blind - but I guess then she wouldn’t be working on graphics drivers, of all things?

Where / how do you read any form of critique into that?

Definitely interesting, but also relatable - I mean we have mathematicians and physicists doing (useful) calculations in 4D and higher, and I bet most of them can’t picture a 4D space :)

LLMs are a subset of AI though.

Obviously, but all machine learning systems that I am aware of - and definitely the generative ones - lack the “I” in AI in their core processing. I won’t dispute that there’s actual deterministic algorithms implemented before and after the core processing, to handle grammar rules etc. But there’s a huge danger in accepting the term “AI” for the slop machines of today. Gullible people will mistake linguistically sophisticated output for actual understanding, and trust the output to be correct. Less gullible people have the obligation (imo) to set that record straight every time the topic comes up. Because gullible people vote, too - and they will otherwise be fine with slop machines controlling critical infrastructure the malfunction of which may be lethal.

And OP made the outrageous claim that reviewing and correcting LLM output would be less effort than “also writing it”. Even if LLMs did not, as they do, tend to generate a lot of garbage code to throw at tiny problems, and even if they did not MASS VIOLATE LICENSES AND COPYRIGHTS (yes, that makes me angry), the time spent on developing an all but trivial algorithm is a constant back and forth between writing it, reviewing it and tuning it. The actual writing of code is negligible compared to the amount of time a serious developer has to spend thinking about what a line of code does, and what it does not do.

The only people that “benefit” from LLM generated code are people who would otherwise not be able to piece together a stable bit of software beyond a “Hello World”, and now they break out of their sandboxes and waste the time of actual developers with their slop pull requests. One could almost assume this was an intended side effect by big corporations to kill the trust and efficiency in open source projects.

AI will generate code that is mostly correct, the human time cost of (properly) reviewig this code and correcting it is generally less than also writing it

Just calling LLMs “AI”, you disqualified yourself from being able to assess what proper programming is about.

That said, your statement is also objectively false in all other aspects.

My bad I didn’t think about the transmission. I somehow silently assumed they’d bite, lay eggs, bite again, lay more eggs.

Pure speculation on your part. I would claim the opposite and say most meaningful contributions to reddit came from PCs, not mobile phones. And those people preferred old.reddit.com to begin with.

I didn’t conclude anything, I speculated. Because it’s relevant to graphics driver engineering.

Well - I don’t want to overanalyse it. It was really only curiosity in combination with graphics driver development.

Because “they”, i.e. everyone who cared was gone by then. Didn’t you read all the responses you got?

name a more a iconic duo.

As a German: Germans and rolling over after not even attempting an impotent protest.

Same

I love the 70s/80s looks.

Yes, I do know that, but it’s more complicated doing it all in your head. Hence my curiosity. Also, specifically reverse engineering requires trial & error and visual cues in the output to assess the result of an attempt. Having to do all that with visual aids would be a lot more difficult.

As if you don’t know where the camera is. People with normal vision will typically look straight at the camera, or focus on some object behind the camera. And since blind people don’t see where the camera is, their eyes sometimes (often) appear to be looking unfocused. You can’t tell where their gaze goes because they are not gazing at anything. This is what the two photos (this one and wikipedia) look like and why I was curious.