2020 was… truly unique. It was so hard to stay away from doom scrolling, and I (and many others) were pretty disillusioned by the sad fact that so much of our country legitimately supported the Orange Man. I didn’t get a wink of sleep the night of the election because I genuinely considered it to be a make or break decision...
Honestly there’s not that much one can do, but I will:
Hope Trump is thrown in prison
Vote straight ticket Democrat
Hope another Jan. 6 doesn’t occur
Try not to lose my shit when idiots say stuff like “both parties are equally bad”
I live in a solid blue state, so my national-level votes don’t do much (though I’ll cast them anyway).
In past years I’ve thrown a few hundred dollars at close senate and house races. In 2020 I volunteered for a phone/text bank sort of deal to make sure people were registered to vote.
help with learning a new programming framework/language
questions about basic home repair and issue prevention
when I feel anxious or vaguely depressed but can’t put my finger on exactly why or what’s causing it, it’s a great sounding board
nutrition questions about specific foods or meals
things to add to a simple meal to make it more interesting / complete
weighing pros and cons for an important decision, getting ideas I may have not thought of
conducting a mock interview for me when I give it a job description and my resume
random *nix commandline recipes where I don’t want to spend 10 minutes googling and inevitably landing on SEO garbage blogs and just need a quick snippet
It’s good to be cautious. I agree. Indeed, as I have deep expertise in programming, I recognize when it is over-complicating things or outright hallucinating. And I’ll double check output when it’s important.
But that doesn’t discount the incredible usefulness of these tools. I’ve noticed a 20-30% productivity boost in my work, and googling for things now feels like a step back to the dark ages. Stack Overflow laid off 28 percent of its staff.
Even as just a sounding board, mentor, coach, and idea generator, the tools are so helpful. And that aspect doesn’t require 100% accuracy. And if you think about it, it’s not like pre-LLM documentation on the web or chatting with colleagues was ever flawless. We’ve all run into a post online that was confidently wrong, or a coworker that stubbornly insisted on something stupid.
Here’s another thing to consider: while the tools have flaws and limits, this is the worst they’ll ever be going forward. There’s constant new improvements, like like tree of thought prompting and multi-modality. Just the other day, I took a photo of a wire mess near my home router with GPT Vision, and I had the LLM suggest cable-neatening products and methods (I’ve always struggled with cable management).
In fact, the biggest limit I’ve noticed is simply people’s lack of creativity in using the tools (or willingness to use them), not the tools themselves.
They’re here to stay. ChatGPT became the most-used / most-quickly adopted product of all time for a reason. Those who are willing to work with them and learn about them (both their strengths and weaknesses) will benefit, and those unwilling to do so, and who are too-dismissive, will fall behind.
While Take-Two is riding high on their announcement that a GTA 6 trailer is coming, its CEO has some…interesting ideas on how much video games could cost, part of a contingent of executives that believe games are underpriced, given their cost, length or some combination of the two.
jesus christ murders an innocent man inside of a walmart. captured thanks to the CCTV cameras (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
What do you not understand about humanity?
T-Rex problems (i.imgur.com)
[Community Challenge #13] ''Old Gods, New Jobs'' (lemmy.ml)
It’s my turn to set the Community Challenge for this week…...
Check on your male friends to see if they need help (slrpnk.net)
Starfield's been left out to dry at The Game Awards—and even dedicated fans are 'not terribly surprised' (www.pcgamer.com)
Americans of Lemmy, what is your approach to next year's election?
2020 was… truly unique. It was so hard to stay away from doom scrolling, and I (and many others) were pretty disillusioned by the sad fact that so much of our country legitimately supported the Orange Man. I didn’t get a wink of sleep the night of the election because I genuinely considered it to be a make or break decision...
You all have got me obsessed with making cute little papercraft / toy model scenes - like this forest hermit and her cat
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/07281bde-3841-4e46-aa8a-bccdecfbc945.png
Mansion submerged in Dark (telegra.ph)
Prompt: dark bleak gothic english manor on blustery Yorkshire moors in a travel poster style...
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AI art challenge: show me your best 'a hearse if it were a ____'
GTA 6’s Publisher Says Video Games Should Theoretically Be Priced At Dollars Per Hour (www.forbes.com)
While Take-Two is riding high on their announcement that a GTA 6 trailer is coming, its CEO has some…interesting ideas on how much video games could cost, part of a contingent of executives that believe games are underpriced, given their cost, length or some combination of the two.