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Every prompt is hallucinations, it's fundamental to how the technology works.

One humorous one I found was whenever I did a typo looking for information on Microsoft's new dev drive or Resilient File System (ReFS), I put `demonstrate "Build, deploy, and develop faster by using an QeFS-based Dev Drive.`

and it will just go on about Microsoft's new Quantum-enhanced File System. You can continue to ask leading questions and it will keep going.

Sometimes you can switch out letters, if it doesn't do an online search it will do the same making up different technologies to fit.

I've found that when I attempt to automate some task via llm, I have to really focus, sit down, and think about exactly how I'm describing every detail. I have think about the wording and how I describe the concepts in such a way, where it takes more mental effort then just doing the thing.

It's even worse since the mindset of describing and writing in such a way is not within the same headspace as the technical portion, so by the end I'm only more tired from having to switch gears too much.

Just for level setting.

A huge amount of people who may be users of a platform such as Facebook are very likely able to watch a video generated using a technology such as this and not consider it possibly to be fraudulent.

Even if the content is somewhat strange or farfetched, these people, the majority of people are likely to not only "not notice" there's something off about the video, but believe what is being said.

They are unlikely to act on the information or regurgitate it unprovoked, but likely to just remember it as a small fact they have received in the past.

I didn't read this as a comparison against normal iPhone output

normal iPhone output is great looking just not "the look"

I prefer without a comparison of iPhones version.

I've done C# for a while and I really love what can be done with DI & reflection for cool cross cutting abilities.

I want to branch out to native stuff like C++ & Rust for memory management stuff, but they don't seem to come close in terms of the reflection abilities or probably the function is there, but just a nightmare to work with.

Anybody have any thoughts/opinions?

GPT-4o 2 years ago

and boy did the stockholders like that one.

I just started using an old laptop I was going to sell for my kids to be able to just slam on the keys and get interested. It's got windows 10 and man I forgot how nice it was just to turn on the pc and get moving.

Not all this garbage. Windows 11 is such trash everywhere.

I was worried when I found that I didn't have winget, but just installing windows terminal installed it with it. That's pretty much all I need.

as per chatgpt

This joke is a clever play on words that merges elements of computer programming and coffee culture. Let's break it down:

    New startup sells coffee through SSH: SSH stands for Secure Shell, which is a network protocol that allows for secure communication between two computers. In this context, the joke suggests that this new startup is selling coffee through a secure connection, presumably online.

    Is it /usr/locally grown and single .'ed?: This part of the joke is a play on the directory structure in Unix-like operating systems, where /usr typically contains user-related programs and data. "Locally grown" suggests that the coffee is sourced locally, and "single .'ed" is a wordplay on "single origin," a term used in coffee culture to denote coffee that comes from a single geographic origin. The /usr/locally grown part humorously combines Unix directory structure with the concept of coffee sourcing.

    How quickly can they mv it to my ~?: Here, "mv" is a command in Unix systems used to move files or directories, and "~" represents the user's home directory. So, "mv it to my ~" is a playful way of asking how quickly they can deliver the coffee to the customer's home. It's also a pun on the idea of moving the coffee to the user's home directory.

does anyone know a I don't know module or extension for vim that jumps to a text based file browser.

one that I can navigate with keys up/down, enter to open that file or drill into that folder, backspace to go up a folder

maybe page up/down to flip through pages of files on the screen.

I used to work with iseries and I miss that workflow for editing files through cli

No one buys books 2 years ago

Note that only having a certain chunk of text on the screen at one time may be a variable as well as the age/life-place difference as others have so politely hinted at.

Not to speak negative on you, most likely you have many years with C/C++, but I've been wanting to learn c++ for a long time. I learned the language but getting into a project or parsing through old code I'm still not getting into it.

But having picked up a rust book. Maaan. It's so nice. Just the ways it goes about so many things are so inline with the concepts I've already been incorporating into my code for the past 4 years or so. Just really brings a lot of things together into such a nice package.

Not to say that you should inherently like rust yourself, it's fine to be indifferent. Either way, heh. .... So... woohoo Rust?

I once was talking to somebody who was a brother in law staying on the couch sort of deal.

They were complaining that their battery life on their phone just got decimated recently and kept dying over and over. I believe I was helping to troubleshoot, so I had them turn on airplane mode, he flipped it and complaining of something else annoying happening and saying oh yeah my phone airplane mode doesn't work, I still get internet. I was totally baffled, it was all very weird to me.

A little bit of time later that person got busted as a part of a big local drug bust. I'm assuming that's how they tap phones.

me too I was into halo 2 modding when I was young and knew very little programming at all.

the concepts there blew my mind, almost, I was too green to follow how it worked even to start. it was so dynamic I fundamentally didn't understand how something could be like that.

how could a player position be within the same context as a weapon that had configurations and then effects themselves were in that same list.

a lot of the stuff I'm interested in very much circles around these same concepts.

That's not true either. Look at something like Carlie XCX - Pop 2, the autotune is doing interesting things. I'm sure it's not just the technology of it, but also the technique.

Also moving back to one of the most well known autotune users T-Pain is a great singer without the technology. It's obvious there's more to it then just auto-aim function.

Some people use it that way, but it doesn't mean the technology is fundamentally limited to that scope.

I've always wanted to learn C++. I have a great handle on C#, making large applications and architectures as well as legacy refactoring in C#, and I would love to learn C++.

I recently started at a company with a bit of a hairy c++ application that I would love to refactor or understand more thoroughly. Is this book a good place.

Note that I have read a very basic book on C++ much more learning programming book, but got me introduced to the memory management concepts.

As well I've been getting through Effective C++: 55 ways..., but this seems more like a tips and tricks and I don't think I'm getting much out of it.

Talking to some disconnected sets of people who are much more layman and not computer users, when I speak of some cool new AI app, they look at me with eyes of perversion and somewhat disgust with fear.

The way the information has been coming out and sold of ai to pump up stock prices is to the detriment of public opinion. Curious to see how things go.

Any more information on this?

I heard so much about the Kevin Roose stuff, is there a breakdown somewhere of what actually happened.

From the way that podcast presented it, Microsoft had the bing bot untethered in a way that it kepted taking in more and more context and was just taking it correctly.

This is against my current much less virgin, but very much simple, understanding of how llms/gpt works.

What actually happened there?