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I’m a self-taught C# dev, I’ve found tremendous success specifically just describing what I want to do in dumb language that I’d feel stupid asking people IRL about and that aren’t googleable without knowing what both the terms “null-coalescing” and “non-merchandise supergroup” are describing.

There are a lot of patterns that don’t have obvious names and that aren’t easily described without describing a specific scenario in a way that might only make sense institutionally, or with additional context that your average person might not have. ChatGPT is fairly good at being the “buddy that you have a bunch of in-jokes with that can remember things better than you”. I can skip a lot of explaining why I need to do a thing a certain way like I can with my coworkers (who all aren’t programmers), and I can get helpful answers for programming questions that my coworkers don’t know the answers to.

It’s frustrating to see this incredibly advanced context-aware autocorrect on steroids get used in ways that don’t acknowledge the inherent strengths of what LLMs are actually great at doing. It’s infuriating to have that potential be actively misused and packaged as a service and have that mediocre service sold to you once a month as a necessity by idiots in suits watching a line on a chart.

Man, I never knew that my ISP was working so hard for me.

What?

I mean this sincerely, I’ve been loosely following this project and the OS it is from and would like to know more about what you know, because this is the first time I’ve heard such accusations.

I’m not saying your approach to how you spend your free time relaxing with the media you enjoy is wrong or bad.

I’d really like people to stop insinuating that my approach to how I spend my free time relaxing with the media I enjoy is wrong or bad, though.

I’d say it’s worth checking out a more recent episode or two to see if they’ve gotten better, but I’d also totally understand just being done.

Personally, I’m super glad I stuck with it because otherwise I’d probably also have dropped The Adventure Zone, and the newest Dracula arc has been really satisfying to me.

The most recentish eps (from about a month or so back) have been hitting me a lot better than their “during Covid” era for sure. I got into them late though, sorry to hear what they are now isn’t what you enjoy of them anymore. I had the same feeling about Game Grumps right around when they stopped doing episode numbering.

I don’t know what to tell you. Sorry that my preference isn’t your preference?

It’s light entertainment, who cares what other people like?

I also listen to music?

I can do more than one thing, and I enjoy listening to them.

I don’t get why this is getting pushback. It’s weird to refuse to understand that other people have different tastes in media consumption.

I listen to My Brother, My Brother and Me because I like to listen to the three brothers be funny at each other.

Some people don’t need or want intellectually challenging media all the dang time.

The Device is now more valuable than the organs and combined incomes of everyone in SubjectHometownHere.

He would’ve liked that. He was a real nice guy, always said I had a face for radio.

As my father always said: you may be a funny person, but looks don’t count for everything.

Ah gee dang, you’re right. Thanks!

It’s a quote from a Star Wars show movie.

It can be, sure. But when used in a limited manner where it makes sense it can be the more readable option. I’ve used it in a try/catch to retry the operation after changing a variable. One label (“reconnect”), one goto, totally easy to understand on a surface level.

The solar eclipse from Monday.

I genuinely had someone stop and ask me why you can’t see the moon during an eclipse because “it’s got light in it right”.

They’re soon to replace our HR manager.

It’s useful for UltraVNC to pass through key combos like alt-tab without triggering them on the local PC.

You certainly get to try I guess

As far as I understand it, they’re given equal weight in the order of operations, it’s just whichever you hit first left to right.