JohnnyCanuck

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Devils Panties 07/10/2025 in c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago (6 children)

You won't get that from artists

Bullshit. That's so fucking elitist. Go ask all the people using midjourney to generate slop if they're artists. They're artists as much as vibe coders are programmers.

Devils Panties 07/10/2025 in c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 84 points 1 week ago (26 children)

Kinda wish I had social media right now so I could tell DevilsPanties to go fuck themselves.

CEOs are demanding that programmers use AI, and measuring how much they use it. If they don't use it enough, they're in the next round of layoffs. Vibe coders are people who don't know how to code, and probably aren't working for a corp.

Seriously, attacking the workers? Motherfuckers.

What is your favorite simulator game? in c/games@sh.itjust.works
[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

A-10 Tank Killer was the bomb.

[Que rock music and slo-mo running Phlox with his drooly tongue wagging] in c/tenforward@lemmy.world
[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

Cue, Queue or Q. No Que, okay?

Jeopardy! 2019 / 2020 / IBM Challenge Torrent in c/piracy@lemmy.ml
[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Any chance of bringing this one back? It doesn't seem to be working.

Edit: Nevermind, seems the problem is on my end.

I finished my 3D Printable screw design! Excellent print ability, reliable for simple use, though the head is prone to strip... can't win them all. in c/3dprinting@lemmy.world
I finished my 3D Printable screw design! Excellent print ability, reliable for simple use, though the head is prone to strip... can't win them all. in c/3dprinting@lemmy.world
[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I wonder if 3d printed driver tips would be better for matching the material strength and reduce stripping. Or maybe they wouldn't have enough strength at all and would just twist and fall apart.

I was also wondering how well printing drywall anchors would work.

"How come the computer in Star Trek is always a flat monotone?" in c/tenforward@lemmy.world
[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lwaxana Troi should have been the Enterprise computer voice, amirite!?!?

Which riddle / puzzle / intelligence game I can play only with my phone? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's better to start here: https://notpron.com/notpron/

Which riddle / puzzle / intelligence game I can play only with my phone? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks! I didn't know about that community.

Why This Python Performance Trick Doesn’t Matter Anymore in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 37 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

TLDR: 3.11 is twice as fast as 3.10 at doing global name lookups, so an old speedup hack of aliasing a global function locally isn't needed.

For example, when calling len() in a loop, going l=len, and calling l() in the loop was faster in 3.10. In 3.11, moreso in 3.13, it's almost a wash.

However, the author says this:

Accessing functions through a module [e.g. math.sin()] or a deep attribute chain can still carry overhead. Creating a local alias or using "from module import name" continues to be effective in those situations.

But when I look at the numbers, I would say 3.13 is pretty close to making it an unnecessary optimization in general. A little subjective on how you interpret the numbers.

Great info, but this was like trying to use a recipe and reading the author's life story to get there.

City of Victoria pledges over $10M for public safety following violent long weekend in c/britishcolumbia@lemmy.ca
[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah that was just the byline and I grabbed some excerpts about what triggered it.

Thanks for pointing this out though. Personally, I'm glad they're taking action and coming at it from multiple angles.

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Tiny Steps (lemmy.ca)
 

I find it funny how certain wordings will trigger the AI and others won't. It also gets it right for a bunch of numbers (which I checked after seeing this error).

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Linux written in C++? (lemmy.ca)
 

This description of C++ is misleading at best (C++ is used for "Air Travel"?), but saying its used to "make Linux" is just wrong.

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Axe Tax The (link in post) (lemmy.ca)
 

There are different versions on various news articles but I found this one with a search: https://www.meansandways.ca/news-articles/poilievre-takes-popular-axe-the-tax-mantra-on-the-road

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Oops, forgot one! (lemmy.ca)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca to c/ArtificialIgnorance@lemmy.ca
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I was watching a video on orangutans and it made me wonder how well google would handle this question.

Didn't get it quite right... But maybe it's a subtle dig?

Note: I accidentally scrolled the "AI Overview" notation off before taking the first screenshot, but it is there:

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Full of hot air (lemmy.ca)
 

Make up your mind Google AI. Is sound faster in air that is less dense or more dense?

Honestly, there is so much wrong in the AI answers that it's hard to know where to start, but the direct contradiction of itself seems like a good start.

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Trivially Stupid (lemmy.ca)
 

This came up after a friend was playing a trivia game. We were looking up what colour the wedges were for the different categories in Trivial Pursuit and it came up with this gem.

Search is "trivial pursuit sports and leisure colour"

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Is Hot sorting broken? (lemmy.ca)
 

I know this has been an issue in the past, but it seems to have reared its ugly head again. Sorting posts by Hot (for my subscriptions) I get almost the same results as sorting by New.

I'll use other sorts as a workaround, but I usually like the hot sort.

Anyone else noticing this?

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'Number of people stabbed,' suspect shot by police in downtown Vancouver: VPD (www.cbc.ca)
 

Several videos floating around, some articles are reporting 1 dead (possibly the suspect).

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Vancouver airport runway to be closed for 'a few days' after cargo plane overruns landing (www.cbc.ca)
 

No injuries reported after plane came off runway; passengers asked to check flight status

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RCMP say they have busted 'the largest, most sophisticated drug superlab in Canada' (www.cbc.ca)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca to c/vancouver@lemmy.ca
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More than $485 million in illicit drugs and drug ingredients seized in rural B.C. community

Some excerpts:

According to police, the amount of fentanyl and other materials seized would have amounted to more than 95,500,000 potentially lethal doses and worth an estimated $485 million in profit.

The "superlab" was located in the community of Falkland, B.C., an unincorporated community about 50 kilometetres east of Kamloops.

The Mounties say the bust is a "decisive blow" to those who organized it and that in addition to the facility in Falkland, several locations in Surrey were also searched.

Aside from the drugs, which included 54 kilograms of fentanyl, 390 kilograms of methamphetamine and 35 kilograms of cocaine, police also seized 89 firearms, several small explosives, body armour and $500,000 in cash.

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[OC] Fall Colours By False Creek (lemmy.ca)
 
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Fire Fire breaks out in downtown Vancouver high-rise building [Monday] (globalnews.ca)
 

Editorialized title to indicate this happened yesterday since it's not breaking news now.

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