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  • RamenJunkie@midwest.socialtoFunny@sh.itjust.works•Basically thisEnglish
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    4 days ago

    This is what really gets me with AI and why its 1000% a bubble.

    Putting aside all the ethical problems.

    Putting aside the environment problems.

    Putting aside how basically everyone hates it.

    Lets say its popular and will take off etc.

    Its all going to become more efficient enough you can run it all locally. Why are we trying to piss away zillions of dollars on data centers and these stupid companies, when 99.9% of uses will work with a model running locally on the GPU/NPU?

  • RamenJunkie@midwest.socialtoMemes@sopuli.xyz•I used to be an uber eats driver and lowkeyEnglish
    4·
    13 days ago

    This is 100% why these services exist. Running a.business with emplpyees who are delivery deivers is expensive, especially when benefits and insurance are required.

    Hence the push for these bull shit “gig work” style apps.

    Now you get people who maybe make 10% more as a Door Dasher than they wpuod directly working as say, a Pizza Hut driver dirrctly. Without realizing they are making basically halfnas much because they also get to cover all the backend expense Pizza Hutt wpuld cover.

  • RamenJunkie@midwest.socialtoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•Probably the most sweat-inducing user input verification code in history.English
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    29 days ago

    I know people hate AI, but I fed the OP pic to Claude and asked it to explain the code and maybe gice modern comparisons to something like Python.

    This is AGC (Apollo Guidance Computer) assembly code from the lunar module’s landing radar routines. Let me walk through it:

    P63SPOT3 — “Is the antenna in position yet?”

    CA   BIT6
EXTEND
RAND CHAN33
EXTEND
BZF  P63SPOT4

    Reads a hardware channel (CHAN33) to check the state of the landing radar antenna. BZF means “Branch if Zero” — if the antenna bit is already set, skip ahead.

    if radar_channel_33 & BIT6 == 0:
    goto("P63SPOT4")

    “Nope, not there yet — bug the astronaut”

    CAF  CODE500
TC   BANKCALL
CADR GOPERF1

    Loads error code 500 and calls GOPERF1 — this triggers a crew alert, literally asking the astronaut to manually crank the antenna into position. The comment says it all: “PLEASE CRANK THE SILLY THING AROUND”

    display_alert(code=500, message="Antenna not in position, please fix manually")
await_crew_response()

    “Did they fix it or bail?”

    TCF  GOTOPOOH  # TERMINATE
TCF  P63SPOT3  # PROCEED — SEE IF HE'S LYING

    Two possible outcomes: crew hits terminate (GOTOPOOH — yes, really), or hits proceed and the code loops back to P63SPOT3 to check again. “See if he’s lying” is the actual comment, meaning: verify they actually moved it.

    if crew_pressed == "terminate":
    goto("GOTOPOOH")
else:
    goto("P63SPOT3")  # trust but verify

    P63SPOT4 — “Okay, antenna’s good, initialize radar”

    TC   BANKCALL
CADR SETPOS1

    Calls SETPOS1 to initialize the landing radar into position 1.

    bankcall(SETPOS1)  # configure radar for landing approach

    “And we’re off”

    TC   POSTJUMP
CADR BURNBABY

    BURNBABY. That’s the actual name of the burn routine. Jumps to the powered descent initiation — the engine ignition sequence for landing.

    goto("BURNBABY")  # 🔥 start the descent burn

    The whole thing is basically: check hardware → nag human if needed → loop until fixed → initialize systems → light the engine. Written by people with a great sense of humor under enormous pressure, in 4KB of RAM.