Davin

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TIL When a person receives a kidney transplant they don’t take out the old kidneys, they just shove em to the side and leave em in there. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe if you imagined then being played angrily by tiny little opera phantoms it would help.

SAG-AFTRA Approves AI Voice Actors, Enrages the VA Community in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Companies will use them before they are perfect.

Stackoverflow Mod proposes prohibiting questions from being closed as duplicates to catch-all questions in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, this is how it has always been, at least for me over the last thirty+ years of programming. It has been getting better, but there are still a bunch of old school assholes who seem to think that being shamed and learning everything through personal trial and error is the best way to learn because that is how they learned.

Lucid dream startup says engineers can write code in their sleep. Work may never be the same in c/[email protected]
AI companies have all kinds of arguments against paying for copyrighted content in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Like with most things, consent and intent matter. I went out on Halloween when I was a kid and got free candy, so why is it bad if I break in and steal other people's candy?

"waves of technological innovation" have gotten faster over time, "students might now find themselves learning skills in college that are obsolete by the time they graduate" in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I had to take a COBOL class in early 2000s. And one of the two C/C++ courses was 90% talking about programming and taking quizzes about data types and what do functions do, and 10% making things just beyond "hello world." And I'm still paying the student loans.