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Comment The ChatGPT Email Loop (Score 1) 65

Thereâ(TM)s a funny [post on TT](https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tiktok.com%2Ft%2FZTRvcYKEJ%2F) showing the ChatGPT loop:
- Manager asks GPT to compose an email to employee based on a few bullet points
- Manager sends email
- Employee receives email
- Employee asks ChatGPT to summarize email in a few bullet points

But yeah, in general itâ(TM)s been faster to RTFM with it (as long as youâ(TM)re not working with an API documented after 9/21).

Comment Re:Tesla has a ~20% profit margin (Score 1) 214

> Hate how after all this time you can't edit posts...

I actually love it. I tend to re-send corrections on platforms that offer editing. It's humanizing to say "Hey, I screwed up. I'm cognizant enough to fix it too".

That said, why are you feeding the trolls? I dismissed the entire thread based on their sig.

Comment Re:A couple comments... (Score 1) 242

Bit torrent has no ads.

I'm old enough and can afford to pay for my content. There's nothing good enough to make me want to pirate it (or sit through ads) to get at it.

Also, oddly, Agents of SHIELD has no adds... on Netflix.

Agents of SHIELD is a 1 season behind on Netflix, the season that's currently playing on TV is only on Hulu.

I can wait a year for Agents of SHIELD and binge watch it on Netflix instead of dealing with Cable TV (which I don't own anymore) or a Hulu subscription with ads.

Comment Re:A couple comments... (Score 1) 242

Hulu says ad's allow them to provide their service at a lower price. Yet still refuses to offer ad free service at a premium.

That's not true anymore, they now offer an almost* commercial free experience for $11.99 vs the $7.99 subscription.

I canceled my Hulu account a while back sighting commercials as the reason.

I might try them again in a few months. Their show selection is not too compelling and I have plenty to watch on Netflix/HBO Now still.

* Exceptions:

Due to streaming rights, the shows below are not included in our No Commercials plan. You can still watch these shows interruption-free. They will play with a short commercial before and after each episode. The shows are:

  • Grey's Anatomy
  • Once Upon A Time
  • Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
  • Scandal
  • New Girl
  • Grimm and How To Get Away With Murder

Comment Re:Do not want (Score 1) 192

It is bad enough the car manufacturers intend to eliminate manual transmission as an option because the poor, coddled generation cannot handle the "complexity' of using the clutch, brake, accelerator, and gear shift

Jump to conclusions much? I drove a manual transmission cars growing up. I now own a car with a CVT, so no transmission so to speak.

I love it. I couldn't care less about having to shift gears while driving the car. To be honest I couldn't care less about the engine in my car, I don't even change my oil.

A car is a tool that gets me from point A to point B. Make me a better/safer/more comfortable one and I'll give you money.

But.. you're probably right. Go ahead and have feelings and nostalgic memories for an inanimate object, and blame the popularity of automatic transmission on the "damn kids".

I'd say I'm getting off your lawn right now, but I'm probably older than you.

Comment Re:Dyn.com (Score 1) 295

I've had nothing but a good, solid experience with dyn.com, but they're certainly not the cheapest

Seconded. Dyn is amazing and has been nothing but stable for me over the years.

They do not charge you extra if you host your own DNS or point it to another provider. They just charge the $15 per domain and (I believe) $10 for secret registration if you opt for that.

For hosting I've been using Digital Ocean.

You have to know your way around a Linux machine (they offer FreeBSD too) to configure the firewall and enable swap, selinux, etc. The default Ubuntu and CentOS VMs leave something to be desired in terms of security safe guards, but nothing that can't be remedied in an hour.

That said, their value proposition is great. $10 a month gets you 1GB ram, 1 CPU core, 40GB of SSD HDD (insane speed) and 2TB of outgoing bandwidth (traffic IN doesn't count).

Comment Re:Bring on the lausuits (Score 1) 599

Question for everyone: what are those rules?

Common Carriers Title II rules are on page 35 to 137 (102 pages long) of the linked PDF. The FCC currently classifies ISPs under Title I (first 35 pages of the same PDF), they vote tomorrow on whether or not the next 102 pages in the same Act should apply to ISPs.

Comment Re:Well, the jig is up for them now. (Score 1) 65

I don't think Casey (handmade hero) has anything to do with these guys. He's been streaming for 2 hours a day, 5 days a week since mid/late 2014.

His goal is to teach people how to build a game from scratch in C without an engine or much reliance on libraries. His stream is extremely informative and fun to watch, it feels like pair programming most of the time.

You can also pre-order the game (he's estimating 2 years to completion) which will give you access to the source code nightly to follow along.

An added bonus to watching the stream live (8pm PST) is that he does almost an hour of Q&A after each stream discussing ideas, explaining things anyone didn't get, next steps, etc.

I highly recommend starting his streams from the beginning if game programming interests you. There's a community already porting the code to Linux/OSX (which he intends to do later on as well).

Comment Re:Who's doing what now? (Score 1) 175

Other than that, what should I know about who this guy is? Because the summary (which is, I'm told, also the article) tells me nothing.

2007: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DL2SED6sewRw

2014: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DfMeH7wqOwXA

Comment Re:Maybe the Muslims will help us out... (Score 1) 173

That ad-hominem was added after a fairly lengthy post including several points. It doesn't surprise me that you've decided to ignore them all and skip straight to the last line.

I skipped to it because it seemed that I was going to waste my breath talking into the void (AC's do not get notified about replies, do they?).

Just so as you know, Einstein was also deeply religious, he saw his study of the natural world as being an investigation into the methods of God. Given that you seem to think that he was less religious than Newton (if such a thing could be quantified) then you are once again mistaken about the nature of a person you are referring to.

I'm aware of that. I do not have a direct quote, nor do I care to search for one. I was simply trying to get a point across that when we say "only god knows this", it means we're giving up and are not going to investigate further.

*Part 1, I have to head out, and I will get back to you in 6-7 hours from now*

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