[–] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

HaVe YoU ConSiDeReD thE PoSSiBiLiTY that I'm not pro-AI and I understand the downsides, and can still point out that people flock like lemmings (*badum tss*) to any "AI bad" post regardless of whether it's actually good or not?

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  • [–] 33 points 11 months ago (8 children)

    Or are you yet another bot lost in the shuffle?

    Yes, good job, anybody with opinions you don't like is a bot.

    It's not like this was even a pro-AI post rather than just pointing out that even the most facile "ai bad, applause please" stuff will get massively upvoted

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  • [–] 93 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    I bet this was some sort of gen AI mishap: "translate this campaign text to Latin", because of course Latinos speak Latin, and it's called Latin America too!

    Although this would be twice as hilarious if they hired a translator who just went "🤷 ah well, money is money"

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    By Jon S. Stumpf

    May your signals all trap
        May your references be bounded
    All memory aligned
        Floats to ints rounded

    Remember ...

    Non-zero is true
        ++ adds one
    Arrays start with zero
        and, NULL is for none

    For octal, use zero
        0x means hex
    = will set
        == means test

    use -> for a pointer
        a dot if its not
    ? : is confusing
        use them a lot

    a.out is your program
        there's no U in foobar
    and, char (*(*x())[])() is
        a function returning a pointer
        to an array of pointers to
        functions returning char

     

    Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx7Lfh5SKUQ

    A fairly in-depth and "dense" C3 talk about the AGC that covers the architecture and instruction set, the hardware implementation, peripherals, and the system & mission software.

    Really interesting stuff if you're into retrocomputing and/or computers that got people to the fucking Moon, and if you're not the sort of person who turns into an unskippable cutscene when the AGC is mentioned, you'll probably learn a lot. If you're like me and you are that sort of person, you'll probably enjoy the talk anyhow.

    (book tips: The Apollo Guidance Computer: Architecture and Operation by Frank O'Brien for AGC details, and Digital Apollo by David Mindell for a general overview of the automation in Apollo)

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