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If it’s infinite without repeating patterns then it just contain all patterns, no? Eh i guess that’s not how that works, is it? Half of all patterns is still infinity.

Ffs you’re programmers, it’s probably super easy to get another job. It doesn’t have to be like this.

Who’s gonna tell them?

That’s incredibly inconvenient.

“relearning c++ arrays again”

Yes, it is good, but this step forward is only the result of an arguably bigger step backward, which is why people are bringing it up.

Not to mention we already had repairable wired headphones that we can’t use now if we get a fairphone.

I think part of the conversation is about how they got rid of the headphone jack shortly before releasing these. While it is good that these exist, it seems like they exist as a result of a popular anti-consumer business choice that people don’t like, and is thus tied to that choice.

Yeah, idk why people are downvoting you so hard. There are some seriously good passive noise cancellation buds out there. Kind of insane when you actually try them.

Ha, I’ve done the same thing

They’re getting away

That was an integral part to this whole thing, you always fact check the ai. I said this in both of my comments.

I totally get preferring textbooks or videos though. I just find that the ai saves me time since i can ask specific questions about things, and it often gives me concise information that i understand more quickly.

Yeah, it can speed up the process but you still have to know how to do it yourself when it inevitably messes something up.

Yeah, that is one thing it can do, but it’s not the only thing it does. I’m not sure how to get my point across well but, just because it gives you the wrong answer 25% of the time doesn’t mean it’s useless. In whatever you ask it to do, it often gets you most of the way there as long as you know how to correct it or check its work. The ability to ask specific or follow-up questions when learning something makes it invaluable as a learning tool (if you’re teaching yourself that is (ie. If you’re a university student)). It’s also very useful when brainstorming ideas or helping you approach a problem from a different angle. I can also ask it questions that are far more specific than what a search engine would get me.

It really comes down to if the human operator knows how (and when) to use it properly.

I disagree, because unlike those things, ai actually has a use case. It needs a human supervisor and it isn’t always faster, but chat gpt has been the best educational resource I’ve ever had next to YouTube. It’s also decent at pumping out a lot of lazy work and writing so i don’t have to, or helping me break down a task into smaller parts. As long as you’re not expecting it to solve all your problems for you, it’s an amazing tool.

People said the same things about 3d printing and yeah, while it can’t create literally everything at industrial scale, and it’s not going to see much consumer use, it has found a place in certain applications like prototyping and small scale production.

That programmer’s not a programmer, they’re a manager.

Good thing we have generative ai…

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They’ll tell you to sign up to small instances. Honestly ignore that advice. There’s a bug nobody’s fixed since 2016 that makes smaller instances nonviable imo. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/34