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Man, people need to realize they either need to start studying AI or get left behind.
Jeremy Falcon
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Looks like future generations will experience more of augmented reality than 'real' reality.
Edit: Perhaps 'fictitious' reality is a better term compared to augmented reality.
modified 24-Apr-24 4:04am.
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I understand what you mean by "Hollydeadwood"...but there's more to movies than just the visuals. Oh, wait...Hollywood producers haven't been reminded of that for a couple of decades now. Never mind.
In some instances, I can't help but think it did a good job finding an existing video that matches the description provided. In other instances, the descriptions are so specific, obviously no such video already existed. Or did they work backwards? Produce a video first, then come up with a prompt to make it look like it generated the whole thing out of nothing? It wouldn't be the first time this sort of thing was done to blow the minds of the gullible with deep pockets.
I've probably grown too cynical.
It's cute, for sure. But the real question is, if you give it a long enough script, is it gonna be able to produce something that goes beyond the novelty value?
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Came across this bit of code in a review
int v = 2 >> 10;
Usually I just skim by stuff like this because I figure the programmer knows what they are doing. Then I went back and looked because it was specify a max size so I figured someone was being clever. And 'clever' doesn't mean good code.
Then I realized it definitely was not clever.
Always willing to question myself I started wondering if I was misreading it. Or if I had actually forgotten what the operator did. So I wrote code just to verify it.
If it hadn't been so weird and so wrong I wouldn't have spent that much time on it.
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Maybe the author is just suffering of left-right confusion  Poor soul just wanted to write 2k.
Mircea
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Both my Mum and my partner exhibit LRD quite commonly. I can't think of any men I've known who commonly confuse the two.
For a long time, I'd jokingly say, "Oh.. you mean boys right?". I've long since learned to hold up a hand and point left or right when confirming directions in the car. That invariably works just fine.
I've just read a few excerpts from research papers on the subject which suggest there to be a greater number of women afflicted than men. Fewer however, than has been suggested by historical studies - studies which often asked questions which relied upon mental rotation of an image to discern if it was a left or right hand being presented. Men typically perform more accurately at rotation tasks. When studies have been run which remove this task from tests, the difference is smaller but still present.
On a side-note, I've just learned that about 65% of orangutangs are left-handed.
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My mom also had this affliction. And also car trips where my father was driving and my mom was following the map and giving directions were hilarious: "turn left; no, the other left!".
enhzflep wrote: Men typically perform more accurately at rotation tasks.
The better spatial orientation skills in men might be related to their historical role as hunters. Men who couldn't keep a good mental map of the environment were less able to bring home dinner and had a better chance of becoming lunch 
Mircea
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Ahhh, of course. Thanks for speculating.  I couldn't for the life of me come up with a theory as to why gender would play such a role. But when you put it that way, it seems perfectly reasonable that men simply had those less adept at the skill culled from their ranks, leaving only the proficient ones left to create offspring.
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Was the author made aware of the error. Perhaps the authors' finger missed the '<' key.
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I agree.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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maybe just v = 0x.....? all cute code needs to be bitch slapped out of noobs
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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It would be a great way to detect if anyone stole their code.
The OP only says that he came across it 'in a review', so the code may not be open source. Even if open source, it may have been inserted to detect if anyone uses the code without giving the required credit to the source.
Or maybe it was the developer's little test to see how observant the reviewers are 
Map companies often add small, non-existing villages to their maps to detect theft. I guess similar things is common in other fields as well.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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That is an interesting idea. Original author could have copied it from some other source.
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Seems right except the >> instead of <<... I would do something like that if I were trying to exhibit better the "magic number"... this size is the max length in bytes of the 10-bit field.
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A bit like the teachers now adding "invisible" text (white-on-white) to their homework assignments to catch the students who copy-n-paste into ChatGPT to cheat on their homework. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Big time.
St. Vincent - Big Time Nothing - YouTube[^]
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
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I am not fan of rap (this was rap like), but I liked it.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Feel the throwback to U2's Numb.
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This is a sort of followup to a message[^] from Paul (@OriginalGriff) about 7 months ago. He'd posted that he'd bought some 4Tb drives from Amazon at a cheap price, supposedly refurbished, but they arrived 'as new' with warranty cards.
I'm wondering what his experience has been with them so far and how it matches with mine. I'd also be interested if anyone else bought some and what they've found.
In my case, I've previously been using Seagate IronWolf 4Tb drives (model ST4000VN008) in a 6 disk ZFS array (Raidz2, i.e. 2 out of the 6 are effectively parity). The disks were all around 33000 power on hours and one had "failed" according to the SMART data. So I initially bought 2 of these drives, which turn out to be HGST Ultrastar 7K4000 drives. I replaced 2 of the Seagates, bought 2 more HGST drives, replaced 2 more Seagates, bought a final 2 and complete the rebuild of the array.
Then 1 of the HGST drives reported failure. So I sent it back to Amazon for a refund and bought 2 more, intending to keep 1 as a spare. Shortly after that, another failed, so I sent that back for a refund and used up my spare.
Just recently, another drive has reported failure. I enquired via email about the warranty and was told that the company whose name is on the warranty card only sell to the US, so my drive isn't covered as it's a resale. So sent it back to Amazon for a refund and ordered an identical replacement, only now it's double the price.
This one had a manufacturing date on it of October 2016! So I've done a bit of searching and, as far as I can work out, these drives must have been manufactured between 2012 and 2019, but I can't find a way to work out exactly when. HGST was acquired by Western Digital in 2012, but they continued to make HGST drives for a few years.
So these are actually New Old Disks (Old New Disks?) and have presumably been sitting around unused for years - hopefully in reasonable conditions for storage!
I'm beginning to think this may have been false economy and I'd have done better sticking with newer Seagate drives despite the price!
modified 23-Apr-24 10:54am.
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HGSTs will run forever. Unless physically abused are the Toyota of spinner drives.
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Wow! You don't mention purchase dates or failure dates but that seems like A LOT of failures over a short-ish duration!
I have a small 2 disk Synology NAS (running with Synology Hybrid RAID - essentially mirroring) with (2) Seagate ST4000VN000 (4TB) drives. They've been running without so much as a hiccup for a decade now. 
I guess I should consider myself lucky! 
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The HGST drives were bought late October 2023 and early to mid November. The first failure was the first week of December, the second in January and the third about 2 weeks ago.
The Seagate drives were bought in March 2018 and the first failure was October 2023.
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