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  • el_abuelo@programming.devtoHumor@lemmy.worldYes, but
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    18 days ago

    Hard disagree.

    1. Your hands are filthy regardless, you’re on your way IN to the bathroom so you very likely haven’t washed your hands but you’ve touched a LOT of things. Phones, keyboards, door handles, banisters etc. Pulling one more door open is not adding any meaningful contamination. If you are that concerned about one door handle, you should be VERY concerned about the state your hand is already in and thus would need to wash your hands before using the other facilities anyway.
    2. You’re being overly paranoid. Your junk is not going to explode because it interacted with real world pathogens.

  • I know this isn’t going to be popular here, but I do really worry that people who take this approach will end up hamstringing their opportunities in life.

    I agree that AI is over hyped, easily misused and being forced into things it’s not necessarily very helpful for…but that’s also what it was like when the internet came around.

    I think people would be wise to familiarise themselves with the tools available if only to hedge their bets…you can’t find a software engineering job right now that doesn’t want experience with AI tools, and if it’s as successful as many think it will be - you will find most jobs will expect proficiency with AI in the same way they expect proficiency with computers.

    It might go the other way and become irrelevant of course. But right now I dont think the majority of people are informed enough to know which way it will go and are thus just responding emotionally instead.





  • My first foray into doing anything remotely close to programming was substituting things in other people’s TCL scripts. I had no idea what I was doing…but i was somehow getting results.

    I curently have no idea how this person did this, and so as a bare minimum id have to learn that in order to know where to start replacing keywords. Maybe it’s completely trivial, but the fact remains I do not know and so I would have to learn something.

    So yes, even if they’re “just replacing keywords” they’re still learning something. Even if you consider it trivial or mundane.


  • I’ve not run into any of these issues…but as I went from iPhone to samsung perhaps its all just a matter of perspective. Perhaps the Pixel is superior.

    I check each year what the reviews are saying and the Samsung always seem to edge out on top for what I want - a large device (i get the Ultra) with a premium build and great camera. I also have a samsung watch so the integrations work quite nicely. I found the google wallet on the watch constantly asked for my pin while the samsung wallet only would the first time since I put it on. Oh and you have to unlock your device to use Google Wallet as your travel payment…with samsung wallet I can just tap and go which is much more preferable to me as it means my eyes are up and paying attention to my world, not looking at my phone unlocking it.