That essentially boils down to “build your own solution”, which under my current circumstances amounts to “don’t do it”. Not that I lack the skill or will but the spare time and energy I have is used on my baby daughter. I can’t justify rabbit holing on something like this.
It’s why I created this thread - to see if there’s a software and hardware combo that solves this with minimal additional work.
WiFi would be easily sufficient. We’re talking a distance of 10m from my router, tops.
I borrowed a camera - it’s not the one I would be using for this.
That’s why I’m asking. I haven’t bought anything yet and don’t want to get the wrong thing.
That would be possible, yep.
An interesting way to try to spin disposable spaghetti code as a positive.
If it can only handle tasks I can do myself it’s not very useful.
My experience has been that more complex cases it simply cannot manage. It’ll swear blind that it’s got it right and the result will be super specific to the example provided. If I knew what the strings would be exactly, in advance, I wouldn’t be writing regex 😂
Shall we ask it to write functional regex too while we’re at it?
I’m pretty open. I’ve been using the internet this way for about 25 years and to date it’s never been a problem. I’ve got clothes with my handle across the shoulders, etc. so it’s not a secret who I am. I try not to be too specific about some stuff that I don’t feel are mine to talk about, or that might be professionally problematic (I don’t really talk about my current employment anyway - I’m not ashamed of it, it’s just not very interesting and doesn’t particularly define me so it’s not very relevant).
In various online communities over the years I’ve been one of the biggest fish so I’m occasionally recognised which varies between flattering and a little uncomfortable (usually in terms of " You clearly want something so what is it you want me to do/not do or wish I had done/hadn’t done?" but with socially awkward pleasantries). This has resulted in someone trying to use an FAQ I wrote to argue against me, not realising - meaning I effectively had to dust off the old “don’t you know who I am‽” type of response (albeit minus the diva overtones).
In the past the odd person has been a bit stalky and then been surprised when this information doesn’t intimidate me (I recall a particularly memorable one being “I know what you look like” to which my response was a photo of me with a shocked face). I do care what other people think but disapproval doesn’t bother me all that much. I try to be true to myself so when confronted there’s nothing to use against me - there’s no cognitive dissonance (so if I was an arsehole, no, I meant to be, it wasn’t an accident, it’s what I felt was an honest response to the situation).
Every time I consider learning more JS because it’s widely used I find myself between a rock and a hard place. It’s popular but it probably shouldn’t be and I don’t want to contribute to it being used even more for whatever mad shit is being attempted now.
We’re in the middle of a release and last week was a lot. I shouldn’t have stepped into the thread!
I really don’t feel like getting in depth about work on the weekend, sorry.
I’m perplexed as to why there’s so much advertising and pushing for AI. If it was so good it would sell itself. Instead it’s just sort of a bit shit. Not completely useless but in need of babysitting.
If I ask it to do something there’s about a 30% chance that it made up the method/specifics of an API call based on lots of other similar things. No, .toxml() doesn’t exist for this object. No, I know that .toXml() exists but it works differently from other libraries.
I can make it just about muddle through but mostly I find it handy for time intensive grunt work (convert this variable to the format used by another language, add another argparser argument for the function’s new argument, etc…).
It’s just a bit naff. It cannot be relied on to deliver consistent results and if a computer can’t be consistent then what bloody good is it?
I went to and organised Reddit meetups. One of the people who went didn’t believe me that I’m Swedish (we were in Scotland and despite growing up in Wales I have an oddly posh English accent). She phoned her Swedish friend to catch me out, which didn’t work, much to her chagrin. Said friend demanded a photo of me as payment. We started talking a little while later and it became immediately apparent that we were a perfect match. We’ve been together for thirteen years.
Don’t go to things to meet a partner, but to build the connections that might bring you into contact with people that might be interested. In the meantime you’ll have fun (hopefully), improve your social skills, and generally avoid dying alone.
I had a dev add a load of unit tests that mocked values and then tested for the mocked values. I mean… They passed…
Is this why so many of these fuckheads are keen on LLMs? They’re great at vomiting out reams of code.
They took out H264 hardware support?
I would be buying. The cam I borrowed wouldn’t fit the setup I want, I just mentioned it because I want that functionality but without the hassle of pulling the SD card.
So far it doesn’t sound like what I want exists, unfortunately.