Many of an engineering bent, including programmers / coders / developers / whatever we're called this week, have an innate desire to tinker with things and add "just one more feature". This is known as "feature creep" as more and more metaphorical little bells and whistles are added. See also: "Bells and whistles" itself, "creeping featurism", "feeping creatures" (ho-ho), and variants thereof.
Searching some of those actually finds other terms that other responders have mentioned.
Most of my stuff over the years has been hobby or job-adjacent rather than my actual job to produce the tools I did, so I think what really helped me to stop working on the very few things that were requested by other people was not being a user of the tool I created.
I still had to "use" things to test them, but once they were in real use, I didn't have to see them all the time and think "I could just add this little thing here / there / etc."
It was only at the request of the users that specific new features were added.
Getting someone else to design the interface is often helpful, assuming they're not an absolute fool.
A few years later, a very similar tool I made, one that I was a user of, got a lot more tinkering and feature churn. Maintaining backwards compatibility reigned some of that in, but there were a couple of times where that wasn't possible.
While I try not to these days, sometimes I still state with authority that which I only believe to be true, and it then later turns out to have been a misunderstanding or confusion on my part.
And given that this is exactly the sort of thing that AIs do, I feel like they've been trained on far too many people like me already.
So, I'm just gonna keep doing what I have been. If an AI learns only from fallible humans without second guessing or oversight, that's on its creators.
Now, if I was an artist or musician, media where accuracy and style are paramount, I might be a bit more concerned at being ripped off, but right now, they're only hurting themselves.
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Their page at https://perchance.org/privacy-policy suggests you can contact them by e-mail (address at the bottom of that page) and ask them anything about their data retention and usage if it's not clear from that page. They might also take deletion requests, but I'd check with them about that first.
Whether the answers you seek are on that page and whether they'll answer you if they're not are entirely separate matters, but you could tell the Internet - Lemmy or elsewhere - that they didn't respond in a reasonable time, or if their response wasn't to your liking for whatever reason.
If you do send them an e-mail, do try to at least sound sane if not also kind. Don't give them an excuse to delete your e-mail for being outrageous or abusive.
Well, some of us have voted for him more than once because the way voting rules are worded, it's implicit that those who aren't eligible can't vote for him once, so more than once is clearly perfectly fine!
The "solution" to this will be that you'll only be allowed to have one at a time. Choose and choose wisely. Changing will mean a huge amount of paperwork each and every time.
Inconvenient? Tough. Unless you're rich.
There'll be a tier of "known persons" who will be allowed travel without needing a passport, a bit like how it already works for the British monarch (and probably others I don't know for sure about).
People have limited attention spans and a headline needs to be short and to the point, even if there aren't any space concerns, or else people won't read the headline, the gateway to reading the article.
Basically, you've got to get a reaction in about 20 characters or else the rube reader won't receive programming click / buy / read.
That doesn't leave a lot of space for innovation, so the old faithful few are re-used over and over.
Depends on what you mean by "stop using". We never even had Internet at the house I grew up in, but for at least one job around 2000, we had dial-up on standby in case the ISDN went down, and occasionally used it for side projects even when the ISDN was working. (In fact I'm not sure we ever needed to fail over in the time I was there.). One of those side projects was mine, which means that ~2000 was the first and last time I was a dial-up user.
But then there's provisioning dial-up, which is kind of using it from the other end ...iiif you squint a bit. In that case people were still occasionally signing up with another company I worked for circa 2014. I could probably have found the usage stats back then, but was never curious enough to check and never had the need to, and I've since moved on.
Best as I can tell, that company no longer offers sign-ups to old-school dial-up service. Can't say I'm surprised. I do wonder if they've any old accounts grandfathered in though. I don't remember the dial-up number to check if there's something modem-y on the other end.
Apologies for what could well be a dumb suggestion: Herbal / nicotine free cigs exist. They might be an avenue of escape if you haven't tried that already.
Smoking isn't just the nicotine fix, it's the whole ritual of getting away and doing something else for a while. Scratching that itch might work.
Of course there are other ways to get away and do something else for a while, but those are for later.
Obligatory impractical / intangible: Four decades of excellent, indefatigable mental health.
Outlandish: The double glazing is overdue for replacing.
(Follow-up: Someone to clean up the inevitable mess that would make.)
Practical: Cotton boxers. I asked for slippers instead.
(If this startles you from some kind of reverie, and the double glazing thing wasn't a hint, I am British and middle aged. Slippers are a necessity.)
Missing specifier. You each fall in love with other people.
get married
Missing specifier. You each marry neither your perfect matches nor the other people you each fell in love with.
live happily
Mental illness can provide happiness. This seems almost good, and yet...
ever after
Insufficiently specific. You both die in the same mass road accident, travelling in separate vehicles with your respective spouses, not long after you're each married.
So I don't get to the cinema much, but I got to see The Muppets when it came out (over a decade ago, good grief), and Kermit singing Pictures In My Head totally broke me.
Dunno whether it will work for anyone else, but like many of a certain age, I grew up with the original Muppet Show on TV and it hit too damn hard.
The ability to deal with the rush and then persistence of negative feeling whenever anything bad happens, my routine is thrown off, or even I have to do something I'd rather not, because I do not cope well with any of those, and it causes me to shut down.
The usual advice is to "bury it", "hold it" or "suck it up" for some unspecified later time, but that was basically my old coping mechanism and It Does Not Work™ any more.
So I'd like the upgraded version of that. Whatever it is. Preferably a version that won't break or occasionally malfunction (we call those "Warning signs", kids) like the original one did.
They're insulated from a lot of the bad things that happen under either form of government, so all they see is a "grass is greener on the other side" situation. They haven't lived under a dictatorship and they think they can influence the transition and running of it to be in their favour, so they push for the change because they think it will make things better for them.
Whether it will or not is entirely dependent on various unspecified factors, some of which may or be outside human control, or even human reckoning without the benefit of foresight.
I'm fairly certain this means that in a world full of dictatorships - and by the gods, we're trying to do that like the silly little idiots we are - the billionaires might well push for a democratic society for exactly the same reason.
But only if they're not in the dictator's inner circle, which is why dictators like to have the rich people on their side.
Many of an engineering bent, including programmers / coders / developers / whatever we're called this week, have an innate desire to tinker with things and add "just one more feature". This is known as "feature creep" as more and more metaphorical little bells and whistles are added. See also: "Bells and whistles" itself, "creeping featurism", "feeping creatures" (ho-ho), and variants thereof.
Searching some of those actually finds other terms that other responders have mentioned.
Most of my stuff over the years has been hobby or job-adjacent rather than my actual job to produce the tools I did, so I think what really helped me to stop working on the very few things that were requested by other people was not being a user of the tool I created.
I still had to "use" things to test them, but once they were in real use, I didn't have to see them all the time and think "I could just add this little thing here / there / etc."
It was only at the request of the users that specific new features were added.
Getting someone else to design the interface is often helpful, assuming they're not an absolute fool.
A few years later, a very similar tool I made, one that I was a user of, got a lot more tinkering and feature churn. Maintaining backwards compatibility reigned some of that in, but there were a couple of times where that wasn't possible.