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Sure, Teams is horrible - but at least it only affects people who use Teams. Whereas the abysmal UI and worthless templates in MS Word affects every person who has to read anything produced with MS Word too. It's designed to make documents ugly and hard to read.

I think every day about the productivity lost because people use Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint. Maybe even multiple times a day.

Amen. There were actually three Teams clients at the same time (the Windows 11-bundled Teams "personal version", Teams [for business] and Teams [the new version]). Not to mention they also have Skype for Business (which is actually Lync rebranded, which is Communicator rebranded) which is not interoperable at all with Teams even though it's also an Office 365 conferencing app. And of course, Skype for Business is a completely different code base than Skype. Aaand they had Microsoft Kaizala which was basically the same use case but a completely different and incompatible implementation for countries with bad connectivity.

It's a complete and utter shitshow and I can't fathom why heads aren't rolling at Microsoft. Makes me think of this email from Bill Gates back in the day. If he was CEO now he would be fuming.

Is America great yet?

Well it works fine in boost

"There's more than one way to skin a cat."

1. You have a cat.
2. You wish to remove its skin.
3. You realize there's more than just one method to accomplish this unusual task.
4. You state this proudly as a metaphor for problem-solving flexibility.

I agree. That response made me lose any trust I had and I actually went to check that I didn't still have Zen browser installed from some earlier test run. He sounds like a script kiddie.

Yes based on my experience with the world (and really just common sense), the most likely causal link here is that being lonely causes you to both talk with ChatGPT more and to use affective language in your conversation.

It's weird link to this issue with that title, since the problem is only referenced in the discussion. The actual backdoor issue is here.

What's the story with this guy?

That's not what is happening. The bot writes code and then I tell it what to change until it's close enough, then I make the final touches myself. It's like having a junior programmer do the grunt work for you.

Then try writing the code yourself and ask ChatGPT's o3-mini-high to critique your code (be sure to explain the context).

Or ask it to produce unit tests - even if they're not perfect from the get go I promise you will save time by having a starting skeleton.

Another thing I often use it for is ad hoc transformations. For example I wanted to generate constants for all the SQLSTATE codes in the PostgreSQL documentation. I just pasted the table directly from the documentation and got symbolic constants with the appropriate values and with documentation comments.

That seems like just wishful thinking on your part, or maybe you haven't learned how to use these tools properly.

As an experienced software dev I'm convinced my software quality has improved by using AI. More time for thinking and less time for execution means I can make more iterations of the design and don't have to skip as many nice-to-haves or unit tests on account of limited time. It's not like I don't go through every code line multiple times anyway, I don't just blindly accept code. As a bonus I can ask the AI to review the code and produce documentation. By the time I'm done there's little left of what was originally generated.

I mean Adobe is a piece of shit company and if there's any way you can ditch them, do it. If you can't, I get it. In that case a Mac is probably the easier way out.

Yes, there are certainly alternatives and there are several with a better UI than GIMP (see Krita and Pixel). But I've been told there are specific tools and workflows that are missing. Partly it's probably a matter of finding new ways of accomplishing your goal.

Ubuntu is the typical go-to replacement for Windows as it's arguably more plug-and-play than other distros.

alternativeto.net is a great place to find Linux alternatives to the software you use. Many products already work on Linux without switching, but some areas might be more difficult. For example depending on your needs you might not find a great drop-in replacement for Photoshop.

Please, you're wasting your time explaining. I know all this. I'm talking about how a libertarian would interpret the question due to its ambiguous phrasing. My only point is that of the original parent comment: the methodology of the researcher is bad.

No, 0.05$ is not a substantial amount of money. A 5 percentage points tax increase could be considered substantial. The question is worded so that it can be interpreted in the latter way, and it's also using a subjective word like "substantial". Somebody who is politically against taxes is likely to interpret it the latter way, and hence the poll's results are skewed by its vagueness.

If we want to measure math skills and understanding of the law, a better question would be by how many dollars the total tax would increase. This would also give us better information on how far off people are.

I mean I understand all of these things. But the question is worded in a way that can be interpreted wildly differently depending on the political affiliation of the person responding.