Son wants to watch "Naruto: Shippuden". Now I'm down the rabbit hole of wikipedia (what exists) + netflix's crappy search (just give me a list? nope!) + blog posts on how to see all the episodes, you have to have VPN with French or Canadian ips.
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Is Mastodon going to pressure me into learning German?
Archived poll · choose multiple
- yes, what's another language on the pile2 votes
- no, paste into google translate4 votes
- Jawohl5 votes
- nein7 votes
17 voters
6yo daughter gets tired of having to type so much & read so much when interacting with Assistant. If it wasn't for that, I think she would be a #ChatGPT fan.
9yo son is getting chess advice from Assistant, but doesn't sit down to interact unless I make him. (He'd rather play games & watch youtube)
#chatGPT - Assistant thinks #Haskell is way to difficult and is trying to discourage me from using it.
I have to talk it down from a ledge to get it to write the code, which it does. It apologizes profusely for the scripts limitations.
import System.Random
import Control.Concurrentdata Fish = Fish { x :: Int, y :: Int }
moveFish :: Fish -> IO Fish
moveFish (Fish x y) = do
dx <- randomRIO (-1, 1)
dy <- randomRIO (-1, 1)
return (Fish (x + dx) (y + dy))displayFish :: Fish -> IO ()
displayFish (Fish x y) = do
putStrLn (replicate x ' ' ++ "🐟" ++ replicate (80 - x) ' ')main = do
let fish = Fish 10 10
forever $ do
fish' <- moveFish fish
displayFish fish'
threadDelay 1000000♡ 0 ↻ 0this program is going to take forever, isn't it.
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#GithubCopilot knows how to help me write code but can't suggest code to delete.
How many text editors are
- terminal (TUI)
- #python
- run on windows
I think possibly babi and what else?
Everyone is writing linux only curses even though there is a way to do cursons on windows.
Almost all python TUI editors are curses based. Only babi imports windows-curses as a drop in replacement. But the drop in replacement doesn't work with existing curses-dependent apps because of even more linux-only imports.
Sigh.
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When my terminal outputs BEL, I don't want it to play a sound or flash the screen, I want to to electrocute the person who added BEL.
(Possibly Baudot who invented a number to letter system with a bell in 1870!)
A pity he's dead and wouldn't feel pain. The ASCII spec writer would be a okay too if he's still alive.
#chatgpt I haven't done enough variations on the same command, but I've seen Assistant respond informally without capitalization when I didn't capitalize i.
It is almost as if, "well, if you're going to ask like a Yahoo Answer's question, I'm going to answer like that"
This is cool font optimize for low vision (people for whom text is super blurry)
https://brailleinstitute.org/freefont
I think there is also a dyslexic optimized font https://opendyslexic.org/
@acdha you mean like ATARI error codes, the were always small 3 digit numbers. They would have been awful for googling.
https://atariwiki.org/wiki/attach/Articles/Atari_8-Bit_Error-Codes.pdf
IDEA: developers who can't be bothered to write a coherent error message should log, log.Error("Just google this guid... someone else will figure it out")
Ever wonder how the FDA comes up with serving sizes? (The real life counterpart of this guy is probably in the DC area and probably on Mastodon)
So you have to click "following" to get out of algo-feed hell. (Next to the new "for you") So for you == algo feed hell and "following" is real people. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1614077259685498880
Content warning: #twitter is algo-feed only?!
Do I really want "opposing" views injected into my feed from Babylon Bee, Boebert, etc? A good mix is like soup, some potatoes, some carrots. Injecting Babylon Bee is like adding some dog shit to your soup for variety, adding some piss to the wine so that you are exposed to different ways of doing things.
Content warning: #twitter is algo-feed only?!
The name of chronological feed button changed & moved. now called "following'
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Has "show latest tweets" disappeared from the web version of twitter?
wow, makes yaml sound bad enough that it should be unsafe to use it without running it thru a linter?
https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2023/01/11/the-yaml-document-from-hell
@nshki yes, go to release page, view html search for rss or atom for example
Switching to a national sales tax (or VAT) is actually not a bad idea. It is robust to tax evasion compared to income tax. Abolishing the IRS is just nuts. Might as well abolish the military & law enforcement (no, the left doesn't actually support that, slogans notwithstanding) https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/1613564402615320576
#ChatGPT write me a program that proves if someone is (just) a human? e.g. captcha
<writes a series of challenges that both ChatGPT and a human can do>
uh...
#python Should you pin your dependencies?
Yes? No? No matter the answer, you're wrong!
#chatgpt I had Assistant write me a bunch of console fish tank apps & the #Golang
worked the best.
An emoji fish tank needs
- work on windows
- handle 2-byte emojis
- fast & low-level helps prevent flicker
Honorable mention to
- python
- ruby
- JS/HTML.
Dishonorable mention to
- c (unicode support is crap)
- lua (no batteries included)
- bash (is this even a language?)
- powershell (Assistant wrote bad ps1 & I couldn't fix it)
I suspect Rust would have done well for the same reasons as Go (modern native code) but I ran out of time to learn how to compile & run it.
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Just a reminder, there is another site where you can login to complain that you can no longer log in to Twitter with a 3rd party client.
Are choco tacos tex mex
Techie job working directly for Library of Congres
https://mastodon.social/@matt@ebooks.social/109659998005116841
re: "#chatgpt is just a markov chain or just a madlib. I am incandescently angry about it all"
me: Ok, you read the "tell it to me like I'm 5" & you think that is the whole story.
I think the relevant analogy here is, you think that calculators can't possibly do math like meat machines, so calculators aren't actually adding, so they must be unreliable, wrong and bad.
as if people were saying "a calculator is using 0 & 1, so obviously it isn't doing real decimal math"
Look at behavior. I don't and you don't understand how it was implemented and the implications. I don't think the developers at OpenAI understand the emergent properties of this thing either.
But we can look at behavior and decide if it is useful.
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@fran_kostella @scottify Your reaction is valid, but I don't think useful. I've seen people energetically ague that this is a madlib, but it is a madlib that write provably valid code & coherent limericks. You don't have to use Assistant if you don't want to.
Researching other chatbots.
Openai: Talk to Assistant! Please!
Netomi: Book a sales call with one of our sales reps.
Eliza: I'll turn the tables and ask you questions until you find you had the answer in you all along.
Post & mute thread. I know when I've lit a Molotov cocktail https://x.com/mistersql/status/1613237800010145801
Hey, listen up, I got a solution for homelessness in San Francisco. We will put all the homeless on sidewalks, where the homeless can eat, sleep & poop. Restaurant owners will spray down the sidewalks every morning to get the human poop off the side walk.
If anyone complains about it, they are "antihomeless" and should feel bad about it. We will talk about how billionaires will pay for homes for these people without addressing that no one is capable of taxing the rich or building any new housing stock.
♡ 0 ↻ 0We'll blame conservatives even though there isn't a viable party left of the Democrats in CA or SF. Rich upper middle class people will give out just enough cash and free food from their pocket too keep the homeless alive and on the sidewalks and feel good about what they do.
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I'm on the waitlist to pay for #ChatGPT
Time to look thru my subs and see what I can give up to make room
https://discord.com/channels/974519864045756446/977259063052234752
Dual use tech- Find all the places where you have an account but forgot about it
https://github.com/megadose/holehe
I think the most serious users are people who have stumbled upon the a password & email trove.
Phoenix Project (a book about devops) is free today
https://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Project-DevOps-Helping-Business-ebook/dp/B078Y98RG8
I'm an expert in Sentimental Analysis.
Excel spreadsheets make me cry.
I asked #ChatGPT to script a "Github Action Status script"
It did an it hallucinated method names. This makes people mad, but really, it is say, "You apes are so uncreative and predictable, with reading the manual, this is likely API"
Anyhow, it got it mostly right on the 3rd try. Can a human guess a libraries API in less than 10 tries without access to the manual?
All the anger and dismissiveness comes from reacting to Assistant's attitude.
Tip my server, they said.
Now the server rack is bent and production is down.