My favorite old cookbook is a wine cook book. The author is an obvious and unrepentant alcoholic that perfectly demonstrates the time period it was written in. One of the recipes was literally “melt a bunch of cheese and stir in wine while it cools, then pour the wine cheese into a loaf pan to solidify”, encouraging you to have a glass while you do so.
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justastranger@sh.itjust.worksto Programming@programming.dev•AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower1·1 month agoSo far I’ve only found it useful when describing bite-sized tasks in order to get suggestions on which functions are useful from the library/API I’m using. And only when those functions have documentation available on the Internet.
justastranger@sh.itjust.worksto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Why are there so many apps that could be websites?81·2 years agoIt also has all the UI/UX stuff preloaded making everything feel snappier.
justastranger@sh.itjust.worksto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Lifehack for naive schoolchildren3·2 years agoBecause all the energy of every motion pulling the magnets apart and back together adds up to a net-0 amount of motion in either direction forward or backwards
It feels like it’s September again
justastranger@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi contentEnglish281·2 years agoThis tracks with my previous attempts at reporting that Sinfest guy. Posts hundreds of comics that blatantly break multiple official substack content guidelines and I get the effective equivalent of a promise for “action” combined with a dismissive eye roll. They completely ignored my follow-up email detailing the complete lack of action and the dozen or so new content guideline violations.
justastranger@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•‘Nudify’ Apps That Use AI to ‘Undress’ Women in Photos Are Soaring in PopularityEnglish3·2 years agoI’m predicting clothing lines designed to trick the AIs into thinking you’re better endowed than you really are
justastranger@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•IBM releases first-ever 1,000-qubit quantum chipEnglish21·2 years agoNot really, there are quantum-resistant crypto algorithms
With a J but rhyming it with life
You’re the software for the meat mech
justastranger@sh.itjust.worksto News@lemmy.world•Elon Musk's Twitter takeover being probed by SEC13·2 years agoC’mon, he was subpoenaed. I wish that shit meant something to the plutocrats.
justastranger@sh.itjust.worksto ADHD memes@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Internally vs. externallyEnglish8·2 years agoThe actual symptom is called “executive dysfunction”.
justastranger@sh.itjust.worksto News@lemmy.world•McCarthy’s last-ditch plan to keep the government open collapses, making a shutdown almost certain26·2 years agoEvery single government shutdown in the last 30 years has been caused by Republicans controlling the House
justastranger@sh.itjust.worksto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•When will post quantum resistant HTTPS protocols be a thing?1·2 years agoLuckily the majority of websites and Internet traffic go to the three cloud companies
justastranger@sh.itjust.worksto Movies and TV Shows@lemmy.film•Rick and Morty | Season 7 Official Trailer | adult swimEnglish41·2 years agoIt gets extremely obvious when they enter the “nearly cracking” voice range but overall it’s fairly close
justastranger@sh.itjust.worksto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•If Thanos had, instead of randomly wiping out 50% of all living things, he had instead in each species wiped out only the dumbest 50% what would the reaction of each avenger have been?1·2 years agoHe could have literally just wished for the best, most ethical solution to happen without even coming up with one and had the stones figure it out for him (i mean, one of the infinitely powerful magical space crystals is the mind stone after all, could totally just say it’s capable of thought)
justastranger@sh.itjust.worksto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•If Thanos had, instead of randomly wiping out 50% of all living things, he had instead in each species wiped out only the dumbest 50% what would the reaction of each avenger have been?5·2 years agoThat’s because they tried to make him some sort of noble villain in the movies when he was just horny for Death in the comics and wanted to impress her
justastranger@sh.itjust.worksto World News@lemmy.world•Archaeologists discover previously unknown language from ancient tabletEnglish5·2 years agoBack when they didn’t have virtual machines so they had to hand-transpile it into Fortran and encode that onto punch slabs to put in their stone computers
justastranger@sh.itjust.worksto Canada@lemmy.ca•Posters for 'whites-only' parent-and-child group in Metro Vancouver draw outrage263·2 years agoWorth noting investigation by some users here on Lemmy have shown the situation to be really hinky. Probably just a troll race-baiting since no actual group has been found.
They succeeded in getting GTA5 pulled from the shelves of two of the largest physical distributors in Australia.