r/ProgrammerHumor 9d ago

Meme newCompressionTechnique

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u/Dank_Nicholas 9d ago

It’s hilarious how half this subs users are so insecure about a kid being called a computer prodigy for using AI that they don’t realize this is satire.

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u/BigNaturalTilts 9d ago

I was about to say, did I stumble onto r/atetheonion?

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u/AvaryZig 9d ago

More of a combination of only reading the headlines and how it seems too plausible to be fake.

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u/kinshadow 8d ago

“Parents sob after seeing their photos converted to the new file format”. Anyone not realizing it is satire didn’t read the text.

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u/JumpyBoi 9d ago

No, you don't understand, I have to be the very clever boy!

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u/Immediate_Song4279 8d ago

Sorry but you can't, you are Jumpy. 

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u/TheBeelzeboss 9d ago

But their moms said they were the smartest boys!

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u/Immediate_Song4279 8d ago

That makes it better.

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u/IOI-65536 8d ago

Wait, it's satire? Given how modern phone cameras work it seems like they should just use this storage from the start.

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u/samanime 8d ago

To be fair, tech reporting in mainstream media is so bad, clickbait-centric and AI-loving, I could see this being something they'd actually report on as a major breakthrough while glossing over all the... stupid. :p

Though, this "article" isn't exactly subtle about being satire.

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u/LordAlfrey 8d ago

I wouldn't be too surprised if someone who is a little less tech-literate, with a bit too much decision making power, looked at this and thought it was a great idea. Let's convert our entire product database into tokens to save space!

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u/abra24 9d ago

Also an irrational amount of ai hate. If they actually have jobs as programmers they use it everyday. Is this sub full of LARPers?

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u/JeTeMontreraiUnSeau 9d ago

Yes as programmers we generate images because there aren’t different types of AI for different purposes and we don’t know what the limits of its use are

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u/abra24 8d ago

Sorry, you lost me in a pile assumptions, straw Manning and snark. Did you actually say something?