blackbirdbiryani @ blackbirdbiryani @lemmy.world

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I desperately need this. It's gotten to the point where I don't even consider search results from 2023 anymore.

Don't get me wrong, it's incredible. But it's still a variation of the Chinese room experiment, it's not a real intelligence, but really good at pretending to be one. I might trust it more if there were variants based on strictly controlled datasets.

I write a lot of bash and I still have to check syntax every day, but the answer to that is not chatGPT but a proper linter like shell check that you can trust because it's based on a rigid set of rules, not the black box of a LLM.

I can understand the syntax justification for obscure languages that don't have a well written linter, but if anything that gives me less confidence about CHATGPT because it's training material for an obscure language is likely smaller.

Nobody is forgetting mate.

You dropped your '/s'

For the love of God, if you're a junior programmer you're overestimating your understanding if you keep relying on chatGPT thinking 'of course I'll spot the errors'. You will until you won't and you end up dropping the company database or deleting everything in root.

All ChatGPT is doing is guessing the next word. And it's trained on a bunch of bullshit coding blogs that litter the internet, half of which are now chatGPT written (without any validation of course).

If you can't take 10 - 30 minutes to search for, read, and comprehend information on stack overflow or docs then programming (or problem solving) just isn't for you. The junior end of this feel is really getting clogged with people who want to get rich quick without doing any of the legwork behind learning how to be good at this job, and ChatGPT is really exarcebating the problem.

But we do live in a currency-based society. That's like saying food only has value in the context of a chemical-energy based society. It's a pointless semantic argument here.

I hate capitalism as much as the next lemming but banks and insurance companies, at their base level, definitely provides a service. Banks help you spread the cost of things over time at the expense of interest, and insurance companies do something similar with risk.

Its only when they do warped shit like lend money at zero interest or force consumers to pay for insurance (thereby negating the need to be competitive) that they start to leech off the system.

Wiztree is a good upgrade over windirstat.

Or alternatively, nobody would care if it didn't involve a public figure. Cuts both ways.

I will never understand people in programming who do stuff in tedious/inefficient ways without stopping to consider the alternatives. 9/10 if it feels stupid, it probably is.

I once had a pretty bad bed bug infestation and tested DE by putting a bedbug in a cup of it... It lived for weeks before I killed it by hand. DE only hinders their movement in my experience, you need stronger stuff to kill them.

Same sort of logic for why people cross picket lines. Sure everyone is entitled to do what they want, but it hurts the rest of us.

The amount of bootlicking YouTube premium users in these threads astonish me. Wonder how they'd feel when it's $150+ per year and the value proposition completely ceases to exist.

Dilbert principle

No simple way to join tables though, which is still pretty shocking to me.

Another cat related one is an automatic feeder. No more waking up early to feed the cats.

That depends. If discarding food costs $X and distributing it to another market costs $2X guess which option is economically favourable?

Yea, maybe you're just unlucky but I've been running it on my ancient mid-tier 2017 pc and it runs amazingly on high. No major bugs except with throwing weapons.

That's silly, taking advantage of that information is part of the game.