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rikudou , 3 months ago to Technology in The BBC Won't Use AI to Promote Doctor Who Again After Being Yelled at by Fans

People are so dumb they make me actually side with a fucking company. Luddites used to be fun to make fun of until people started actually listening to them.

rikudou , 3 months ago to Technology in Choose the planet, choose Ecosia: why you’re going to be asked to pick a search engine

Alongside our climate action, we have always campaigned for a fairer, more sustainable internet. We’re the only search engine that gives all of its profits to the planet and we compete with some of the biggest companies in the world, so we’ve been pushing them to give alternative search engines a fair chance. And it’s paying off!

Sure, fella, that was all you. I follow that issue very closely, can't say Ecosia has really been a driving force behind it. I've never heard of them, in fact. Why do they feel the need to lie? I wouldn't use them even if they weren't reskinned Bing just for the above paragraph alone, can't really trust a company that lies about stuff it doesn't even need to lie about.

rikudou , 3 months ago to linuxmemes in Russian delete

I did this once on my laptop with no backups. I was lucky. I also used the correct version with --no-preserve-root.

rikudou , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in Help a noob find what I'm looking for please. I have a bunch of IP addresses and I wanna give em names.

Avahi basically broadcasts to the whole network "hello there, my name is some-cool-domain.local". When you request that address, your router checks if someone broadcasts that name and uses their IP if so.

rikudou OP , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in Lemmy Schedule - an app for scheduling posts

Yes, indeed, it's your local timezone.

rikudou , 4 months ago to Technology in Many Gen Z employees say ChatGPT is giving better career advice than their bosses

Well, one more comment like that and I guess I'm gonna have to edit my original comment, because I don't want to explain again. I'm getting quite a lot out of LLMs (GPT-4, to be specific), it's just that they're very stupid. When they don't straight up lie, they don't know stuff. It's quite simple, really, I usually deal with very complex problems that few people dealt with, the AI has (close to) no data on that, so it runs in circles and is not able to help.

But when presented with questions that it has training data on, it's brilliant - recently I needed to use reflection to get all types implementing an interface in .NET with the caveat that the interface is generic. GPT-4 was able to solve that problem 3rd message in the conversation, while I'm pretty sure it would take me hours, because I'd need to learn a lot of .NET's internal workings before arriving at the quite simple solution.

So, a good career advice - which one do you feel like it is? A simple question with a straight correct solution, or a complex and nuanced issue where there isn't one general truth? Because the only correct answer to a request for career advice by someone who doesn't know your situation extensively is (a version of) "I don't know, what's your situation in detail?". Knowing GPT, it didn't ask that question.

So yes, LLMs are great! Just learn which use-cases it excels at and don't ask it for complex advice.

rikudou , 4 months ago to Technology in Many Gen Z employees say ChatGPT is giving better career advice than their bosses

Don't get me wrong, it saved me a ton of time. Just recently I needed some coding help that would probably take me hours of searching. Doesn't mean I'd trust it with advice, that's something entirely different than spitting out code that works half of the time.

rikudou , 4 months ago to Technology in Many Gen Z employees say ChatGPT is giving better career advice than their bosses

Well, I don't have any experience asking it for career advice, but I have worked with it quite a bit and it's quite shitty once you get to anything that starts resembling complexity. This is definitely not a tool I'd go to for any advice beyond the simplest ones.

rikudou , 4 months ago to Technology in Self-pay gas station pumps break across NZ as software can’t handle Leap Day

I honestly have no idea, it's been a while since I wrote it.

rikudou , 4 months ago to Technology in Self-pay gas station pumps break across NZ as software can’t handle Leap Day

It was millennia ago when I first read "don't ship your own date/time library". Guess these fellas somehow missed it.

(I did this thing a while ago, but hopefully it doesn't count since it's a joke library)

rikudou , 4 months ago to Technology in 10 Reasons You Should Switch From Chrome to Firefox.

Ah, the new Internet Explorer.

rikudou , 4 months ago to Technology in Gemini: Who negatively impacted society more, Elon Musk or Hitler?

He is exceptional in being a dick, though. Of course not on the Hitler level, obviously. But it always gets me when people think his weird tweets are really the worst he's done.

rikudou , 4 months ago to Technology in Gemini: Who negatively impacted society more, Elon Musk or Hitler?

That's really ignoring all the direct nasty stuff Musk did.

rikudou , 4 months ago to Technology in Gemini: Who negatively impacted society more, Elon Musk or Hitler?

Yeah, his tweets are the bad thing. Not that he does all he can to turn his employees into literal slaves. It's the tweets.

rikudou , 4 months ago to Technology in Don’t learn to code: Nvidia’s founder Jensen Huang advises a different career path

I think a colleague of mine made a great comparison: It's like having access to a thousand junior devs who can reply really fast.