Have you ever tried connecting your beard to another beard like in Avatar?

Only Americans have to pay for Santa to come visit

Happy holidays from a German :)

Other countries don’t have to pay him to visit

https://youtu.be/ljV_kvV12gw

Gotta imagine not every house puts out cookies. And since there are ~127 million households, that seems to work out pretty well.

Tho I have heard he leaves out Milwaukee for religious reasons.

Really cool video to show what you can create using AI these days

These kinds of fakes wouldn’t have been possible until recently

Pope could always talk to the big man and get that rule changed. Who’s gonna stop him, the pope?

Thanks for the correction, I didn’t know that!

I’m 100% with you - it’s the dangerous level of knowledge where someone understands the technical background for the most part, but is lacking real world experience. Reminds me of the blog posts titled “Misconceptions programmers have about X” - almost everything we touch in IT is complicated if you get deep enough.

But their style of commenting really jives with Lemmy on technical topics. I can’t count the number of posts where people proudly shout fundamentally wrong explanations for current AI models, yet any corrections are downvoted to oblivion. It’s not as bad on non-AI-topics, but I can’t imagine anyone in the field reading GPs comment and agreeing…

I think you might be underestimating the potential impact.

Remember the Crowdstrike Windows BSOD? It caused billions in damages, and it’s the absolute best case scenario for this kind of issue. Our potential Y10K bug has a bunch of additional issues:

• you don’t just have to patch one piece of software, but potentially all software ever written that’s still in use, a bunch of which won’t have active maintainers
• hitting the bug won’t necessarily cause crashes (which are easy to recognize), it can also lead to wrong behavior, which will take time to identify. Now imagine hundreds of companies hitting the bug in different environments, each with their own wrong behavior. Can you imagine the amount of continuous supply chain disruptions?
• fixes have to be thought about and implemented per-application. There’s no panacea, so it will be an incredible amount of work.

I really don’t see how this scenario is comparable to anything we’ve faced, beyond Y2K.

Do you like live in a version of Pawnee located in Texas?

Even if such parsers aren’t used directly in critical systems, they’ll surely be used in the supply chains of critical systems. Your train won’t randomly derail, but disruptions in the supply chain can cause repair parts not to be delivered, that kind of thing.

And you can be certain such parsers are used in almost every application dealing with datetimes that hasn’t been specifically audited or secured. 99% of software is held together with duct tape.

My brother in Christ, there’s more to time than just storing it. Every datetime library I’ve ever used only documents formatting/parsing support up to four year digits. If they suddenly also supported five digits, I guarantee it will lead to bugs in handling existing dates, as not all date formats could still be parsed unambiguously.

It won’t help you if time is stored perfectly, while none of your applications support it.

Regarding Y2K, it wasn’t horse shit - thousands upon thousands of developer hours were invested to prevent these issues before they occurred. Had they not done so, a bunch of systems would have broken, because parsing time isn’t just about displaying 19 or 20.

The issue is that you’re changing the ecosystems and environments so much that all those eons of evolution are simply lost. The only other times this happens is during natural catastrophes. Sure, in the long run this allows new life forms to take the old ones places, but it’s still a massive loss of diversity and evolutionary knowledge - and unnecessary suffering for millions of living beings.

When species compete for a habitat, they rarely destroy it - and those species that do either don’t survive for long, or they wipe out large swaths. We’re actively killing almost anything in our habitats, and destroying them for almost all previous species.

Love the art style, thanks for sharing the title!

Python has Interfaces in the form of protocols, but those are explicitly duck-typed

So basically a reverse pony jar?

Awesome, thanks! I coincidentally looked for help in reverse engineering another Dr. Oetker pizza a couple of days ago, but this is much simpler.

I wanna try both of those

Do you then go like Pac-Man?

Waka Waka?