• Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
      1802·
      3 days ago

      I don’t think it’s satire. Miami has become a mecca for crypto bros and “tech” fraudsters.

      • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
        7·
        2 days ago

        Lol. When I retire, I’m going to change all my job titles on social media to “entrepreneur” just to fuck with my friends.

              • reinei@lemmy.world
                7·
                3 days ago

                It does not have nerves, yet it feels pain. It does not have a mouth, yet it must scream. And until recently: death only made it so so much stronger!

              • msage@programming.dev
                2·
                2 days ago

                It’s from a game called Dwarf Fortress - where you play in a simulated world trying to keep your dwarves alive.

                They get bored of eating the same food, so with farming and hunting there’s also fishing.

                In the past, carps were added with some default settings, which made them overpowered. They would wipe entire squads of Dwarves that would approach any body of water with a carp in them.

                (They were nerfed later on.)

                The game has a very complex fighting system, so when creatures fight, sometimes they fall down, after a big hit with a hammer, or getting knocked unconscious. If they are not fatally wounded, they will get back up. There’s a lot of actions that happen inside the game, but not always in the ‘correct’ context, as the game is still in development.

                And somewhere on the internet, there was a screenshot with combat log showing:

                The Carp attacks the Miner but She jumps away! The Carp stands up.

                So carps were already a challenge, and then you read they can stand up!? Imagine the terror of an army of strong beasts marching down to your fort from a nearby river.

                There were many bugs in the game, if you like rabbitholes, this is a good one.

        • frezik@midwest.social
          10·
          3 days ago

          He probably paid some fishing tourist shop to get him to just the right place so he could hook it and pull it in. That pic cost him money, and it’s really important to him.

  • PapaSkwat@lemy.lolEnglish
    116·
    3 days ago

    Can I get this emotion bottled? I want to experience it at full strength later

    • AEsheron@lemmy.world
      19·
      3 days ago

      Just speak the incantation of motive energy and light the incense to soothe the machine spirit.

      • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
        18·
        2 days ago

        Yes, that’s the joke.

        AI creates almost (but not) good enough stuff really fast. And occasionally straight up hallucinates stuff that is meaningless or worse.

        So this person has a huge stack of functional but broken crap, and it’s blaming X for their woes.

        There’s an old saying that goes roughly “It takes four times the experience to maintain a program as it took to write it. So anyone writing the most clever program they can think of is, by definition, not competent to maintain it.”

        In this case, it’s extra funny, because neither the AI nor the AI user has the faintest idea how the generated code works. So maintaining it is almost certainly 1000% outside their abilities.

        So they’ve paid an AI for the privilege unpleasant daily panic of learning everything they need to learn after the app has gone to production, rather than before.

        • ripcord@lemmy.world
          4·
          2 days ago

          It certainly isn’t good at security, which is what it sounds like his biggest problem is.

      • frezik@midwest.social
        14·
        3 days ago

        I’ve heard that phrase a handful of times now and it’s already making my eye twitch. Though I don’t think it’s meant to be complimentary.

        • Th3D3k0y@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          2 days ago

          Not exactly related, but I run an unraid game server for friends and use a lot of the preconstructed docker apps for games.

          Most of them come with the server name preset and the server password preset.

          I’ve jumped into many a “private” server called Docker-GAMENAME with the password still set to “Docker”

          • IsoKiero@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            4·
            2 days ago

            I think it was some XMPP related server I ran quite a few years ago which had ‘i_have_read_the_manual = 0’ or something similar buried into default configuration file. And it would just silently exit if that variable was not set properly.

            Maybe we need more things like that.

            • ohshit604@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              2·
              2 days ago

              And it would just silently exit if that variable was not set properly.

              Would’ve used that debug log to scold the end-user. “If you’ve actually read the first 3 lines of the documentation you wouldn’t be seeing this.”