I felt pretty good this morning so got the bike out for a ride and managed to get 5 miles in under 30 minutes, which has been a goal for a while! Finally got my average speed over 10mph. Whew!
@fistfulofdave Nice! My longest ride is still just 10 miles but I do hope to get further as the months progress. Weather was great, shorts & a t-shirt was perfect.
Work has been crazy busy recently and will be for the next month, which is good, as it feels like we’re doing a lot of good work. I’m still taking a few days off during the busy period though because I wanna take a train trip… in the US!
I typically only travel by train in the UK but there’s a new train that goes from Chicago to Milwaukee to Minneapolis. Sadly it’s not high speed rail due to our former fuckwit governor, so it take about the same amount of time as driving, but why drive when you can take a train?
@rasterweb I saw one on my way to work the other day and it is the dumbest looking thing I’ve ever seen. “Tell us you’re a douchebag without telling us.”
@rasterweb of course. Due to the things I do and tools I use, people are constantly "curious" about my choices. And many times insist that I'm doing things wrong by not using the popular thing. As you may have guessed, this gets exhausting quickly.
Me choosing different tools/whatever doesn't mean I'm obligated to define why I chose to use said tools to anyone.
Even when I've tried to be like "personal preference" someone wants to debate me on it..
For the past few days I’ve just felt exhausted every morning… besides my bike ride and short walk over the weekend I haven’t had any energy to got out and do anything. I did yard work Sunday and that exhausted me. Maybe I should see my doctor…
@mzyw A few people suggested a day of heavy yard work may have been the culprit, which was probably the case. I felt much better by Thursday. (And now it’s the weekend and time for yard work again!)
@rasterweb why is this any better than just asking chat gpt in a browser and pasting the results into bash?
I see two ways it is worse. It requires money. It requires an api key. And if I don't have to copy and paste, I'm more likely to run a command I didn't vet carefully.
AI saved you hours of work? Great! If you work for a Capitalist corporation how were you rewarded? Were you given even more work to do? Did you get to leave early and spend time not working due to your increased productivity?
The failing of AI isn't that it gives wrong answers, it's that it mostly serves huge Capitalist corporations that do harm to people and the environment for their own bottom line.
If AI can actually improve the lives of ordinary people, I welcome it! But I've yet to hear about how that is happening...
@rasterweb I know it's incorrect because I mistook it as something worth my time when it first popped up.
As an Open Source developer writing C code, the vast majority of my web searches are related to that and even though C is nearly 55 years old, all "AI" gets it horribly wrong and I can't see how they'll be able to fix that in the future as they haven't been able to already despite its history and the vast collection of open source C code whose licenses they've violated.