• Luccus@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    This.

    Every time I think I’ve found a really clever, novel solution to a ultra specific graphics problem, someone else has already implemented it, usually much better than I’d have done, and was kind enough to put their code online for everyone to use.

    DAMN ASSHOLES, being smart and kind, so I can’t even feel cool for 4 minutes, before I fail at implementation. >:c

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      13 hours ago

      Well they also probably spent well more than 4 minutes trying to implement it and failed multiple times along the way. Just make a small tweak and call it your own, let other people get that pesky trial and error phase out of the way.

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      Don’t worry. Future generations will have an opportunity to dive all these problems after AI destroys a whole generation of useful development along with all the repositories of prior research.

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        6 hours ago

        Yeah but it’s not like Et Al. has been supervising/leading any papers, research or stuff like that. Their name is always stapled on the end.

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    2 days ago

    Not what the post is about, but finding my MX5 on a parking lot is getting increasingly difficult, yes.

    • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
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      7 hours ago

      dude I lose my Subaru Outback sometimes

      newer ones will park next to me and they dwarf it in size, everything is taller and wider and longer

      edit: not the topic, but there was one time I lost it in a small parking lot because a truck had parked next to me, and another Outback in the same colour, year, window tint, and general condition had parked on the other side of that truck — so mine was hidden by the truck. I went to the back and was trying to open it for like twenty seconds before I heard mine unlock ten feet away (the fob receiver sucks and it doesn’t work half the time, which didn’t help the situation). that is the only time in eight years that I have confused another car for mine. one of the actually great perks about driving an older car, nobody else has one just like it.

    • I'm Hiding 🇦🇺@aussie.zone
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      23 hours ago

      I drive a Mini Moke. The only thing that sticks up is the clear windscreen with its little silver frame, and even that isn’t higher than the bonnet of most American Pickup Trucks. Its definitely hard to find

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      My mom drove my BRZ to the store once since it was the last car in the driveway. She walked out into the parking lot after with my sister and was like “oh fuck, I just lost his new car”.

      It was behind a small sedan, like a Corolla or something haha

    • Barbecue Cowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 days ago

      We’ve had several implementations even that were most of the way there just limited largely by hardware constraints. Megahal from the late 90s is pretty similar to modern LLMs, just drastically simplified.

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    1 day ago

    This was me once upon a time but with making stuff on YouTube. It lost it’s glimmer and I wasn’t even really trying to make money from any of it. I could still put out some stuff but It’s not a priority for me anymore.