agentwiggles

3 anni fadiscuss

I could probably get behind that, I'm actually somewhat curious now if it's the higher framerate or only the algorithmic "motion smoothing" that causes the famous soap opera effect.

agentwiggles

3 anni fadiscuss

I agree wildly and I'm seriously shocked that the guy above is arguing in favor of it. I can't stand the weird motion smoothing on modern TVs and would not buy any TV where it can't be turned off.

agentwiggles

4 anni fadiscuss

I went with mullvad, which seems to be one of the more reputable ones.

agentwiggles

4 anni fadiscuss

I recently signed up for a VPN and raised the sails after hitting the limits of frustration while trying to find a few older movies that no streaming service seemed to carry.

I had a Plex server set up around a decade ago and decided not to deal with the hassle of it when I moved to a new city.

But man, it's just crazy how much easier and better downloading your own copy of media is. And with stuff like Sonarr/Radarr out there it's easier than ever before. I need to build up some more storage to really go all in, I've just been doing everything manually thus far. The experience is worlds better than dealing with the various bullshit of streaming.

agentwiggles

4 anni fadiscuss

> I'm currently mentoring a trainee, and I have to do a lot of hand-holding for them to get things right. ChatGPT can perform on that level.

It definitely can - I have a blog post written about playing with it where I describe it as "pairing with a smart junior dev who's absurdly good at remembering APIs and syntax."

If I had to predict one game-changing result of this thing, it's that it just became a lot harder to be a good junior dev. I can think of plenty of things I did very early in my career that took me days which ChatGPT could have done in 30 seconds. But at the same time, this tool is available to them as well, and it does more than just spit out code - it usually does a pretty decent job explaining the logic of its output. Maybe it will accelerate junior learning. Who knows?!

The future is wild!

agentwiggles

4 anni fadiscuss

Yeah, it's definitely not to the point where it can track complex details. Getting it to correct its output can be pretty frustrating.

Still though, I'm impressed with it. I have used it three times now to write out capturing regexes for Advent of Code problems. For the kind of thing where it's a few lines, you know exactly what you want, you just don't want the labor of typing it, it is pretty wild how handy it is.

agentwiggles

4 anni fadiscuss

I'm with you, at least provided it happens in a way that doesn't just build a Verhoeven-esque dystopia for all us serfs.

Bring on The Culture!

agentwiggles

4 anni fadiscuss

I'm not fully convinced, and I say this as someone who is wildly impressed by ChatGPT and reeling a bit at what it's capable of.

Over the past few days, I've tried a number of experiments with it.

I had it generate song lyrics. They were funny but not anything that I'd actually use .

I had it write a few stories featuring my son. We were both impressed by the stories and entertained. But none of them were very special or particularly good.

I had it write me a few regexes. It did the job essentially perfectly, I made some mild tweaks for things like capture group names, but the regexes it generated were perfectly functional.

I had it try to parse some Advent of Code inputs. It failed miserably on today's, but did pretty well on day 3.

I had it generate an AWS lambda function which uses the Spotify API to get a users recently played tracks and put them in a DynamoDB table.

I had it write a short incremental style game, which I deployed to GitHub pages with minimal modification.

So these are all impressive as hell in their own ways. But the thing is, I had to know what to ask it, and it also gave some incorrect results very confidently.

If I had to make a prediction, it's that this will make experienced developers more productive, but it won't turn juniors into seniors. It's not going to make someone who has no idea about coding into a developer. And it doesn't feel to me like it's going to obviate creativity in writing or lyricism or poetry.

It feels like an augmentation of productivity more than a replacement.

Now, who knows where we'll be in a decade, maybe I'm wildly wrong and unemployed in 2032. But if I think about the closest analogue I can - self driving cars - I'm reminded that the technology amazed me 6 years ago and still isn't to the point where I would trust it with my life. I suspect this is a case where the first 90% is incredibly impressive, maybe even game-changing - but that the last 10% is going to take a long time to attain, and may not be reachable with the current approach.

Feel free to argue the other direction, I'm not convinced either way yet, but as amazing as this thing is, I'm still confident I'll be working valuably for at least the next few years.

agentwiggles

4 anni fadiscuss

In theory, this adds at most 1 hour of darkness to your day, regardless of when you wake up.

agentwiggles

5 anni fadiscuss

I've always found this goofy copypasta version of the poem to be really funny, because even in the silly voice it assumes, it still manages to capture something of the essence of the piece. Even as written here, that last line has a certain power and resonance:

    I met a traveller from way the hell off
    who said: two gigantic, fucked-up rock legs
    be out there in the middle of goddamn nowhere
    right next to them covered in shit some kinda big face
    looked pretty pissed & upset & whatnot
    all damn covered in words
    “yo ozymandias here, this my shit”
    “better than your shit, get fucked buddy”
    not much else tho, just sand
    shitloads of sand all over the place

agentwiggles

5 anni fadiscuss

Overall I agree, but I actually quite like the ending of the series. I've read lots of folks online who absolutely hated what ultimately happens to Roland - I thought it was a cool ending which was very much in keeping with the sort of "cosmic cycles" theme of the books. That said, there is a _lot_ of junk in those final three books, and the seventh one in particular drops the ball in several disappointing ways before it ends.

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