I could definitely write it, but probably not as fast, even with fighting it. The report I got in 25-30 minutes would normally take me closer to 45-60, with having to research what to analyze, figure out how to parse different format of logs and break up and collate them and give a pretty output.

Dude forgetting stuff has to be one the most frustrating parts of the entire process . Like forgetting a column in a database or just an entire piece of a function you just pasted in

It was actually worse. I was pulling data out of local logs and processing events. I asked to assess a couple columns that I was struggling to parse properly, and it got those ones in, but dropped some of my existing columns. I pointed out the error, it acknowledged the issue, then spat out code that reverted to the first output!

Though, that wasn’t nearly as bad as it telling me that a variable a couple hundred lines and multiple transformations in wasn’t being populated by an early variable, and I literally went in and just copied each declaration line and sent it back like I was smacking an intern on the nose or something…

For a bit designed to read and analyze text, it is surprisingly bad at the whole ‘reading’ aspect. But maybe that’s just how human like the intelligence is /s

Or trying to change things you never asked it to touch. So freaking annoying. I had standing instructions in it’s memory to not leave out pieces or modify things I didn’t ask for and will put that stuff in the prompt and it just does not care lol

OMFG this. I’ve had decent luck recently after setting up a project and explicitly laying out a number of global directives, because yeah, it was awful trying to figure out exactly what changed when I diff the input and output, and fucking everything is red because even the goddamned comments are changed. But even just trying to make it understand basic style requirements was a solid half hour of arguing with it (only partially because I forgot the proper names of casings) so it wouldn’t make me lint the whole goddamned script I just told it to analyze and fix one item.

Is this anything like last week’s ‘Moscrosoft investigates Chinese support for government contracts’? You know, something they knew they were doing, and knew it was explicitly against their requirements?

Yeah, LLMs are decent with coding tasks if you know what you’re doing and can properly guide it (and check it’s work!), but fuck if they don’t take a lot of effort to reign in. I will say they’re pretty damned good at debugging the shit I wrote. I’ve been working on an audit project for a few months and 4o/5 have helped me a good bit to find persistent errors in my execution logic that I just kept missing on rereads and debug runs.

But new generation is painful. I had 5 generate a new function for me yesterday to do some issues recon and report generation, and I spent 20 minutes going back and forth with it dropping fields in the output repeatedly. Even on 5, it still struggles at times to not give you the same wrong answer more than once, or just waffles between wrong answers at times.

Right? I still remember the bollocking I got from a professor in front of a class about the awful state of classroom equipment, all because the man couldn’t find the PHD (push here, dummy) button to turn the computer on…

🅱️lue🅱️e🅱️ry

Clearly I need to pull myself up by my bootstraps and checks notes change how large portions of the Internet get their compute.

I’m gonna use up all the fresh water just popping down to the data center for some AWS compute time, as a treat.

I’ll give that a look, thanks!

What do you do to protect your micro’s m.2 disks? I had one that cooked itself, and I haven’t put much load on it since I replaced the drive.

https://lidarr.audio/

It’s not necessarily your music though, it’s the closest that they found in their library sometimes. I have tons of tracks that I uploaded the explicit copy of to gmusic but my library downloads only had the censored/radio version.

Found that out the hard way after a drive crash a few years back. Have spent a bit of time reacquiring the stuff I cared about.

A game of telephone involves the message changing from each person. In this case, everyone but Visa/MC are blaming Visa/MC (valve, game stores, and collective shout).

It’s more like a game of calvinball, only Calvin is claiming the rule they made up doesn’t exist

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Normal people can, yes, but .ml isn’t full of normal people. There’s a good reason for the instance’s stereotype.

You have to have a Cloudflare captcha solver for some of the *arr stack to work with certain indexers or something, idk. When my old *arr stack died and had to be rebuilt I ran into that problem, and after a short investigation, I promptly said fuck it and learned usenet. So happy that I did.

I just wanted to point out that the notion of the general public, especially if conditioned to distrust scientists and authorities, not noticing changes isn’t the outlandish part.

I figured, which is why I framed my comment the way I did. You may be able to discount the scientists, but can you discount them, plus citizens complaining about their solar output, power plants having to raise rates due to falling solar generation, crop impacts, and even just other citizens posting raw data all coming out with similar data over time saying it’s a problem?

Having said that and looking at the state of climate change, I have a hard time not seeing the parallels against my argument. But falling solar output would have a much more immediate effect on us than climate change (and would likely reverse it to some extent).

Vincent? Vincent Adultman? I haven’t seen you since business college when we took company 101 together with Professor Realguy!

How have you been?

You’re right when talking about the average person with nothing but their eyes. But there are tons of companies and members of the public that have bits of tech that would call that out easily. Solar panels, environmental logging equipment, etc, would notice the drop in light levels fairly easily, and would be apparent when reviewing historical vs current levels, and the power grids would definitely notice the sun dimming dropping their power outputs.

Without going into conspiracy theory territory, there’s no realistic way to hide that from the public.

I’ve never seen open support for Nazis being left up after being reported on instances that haven’t been defederated, so it’s better without question.

Seems like a strange place to push right-wing propaganda.

Gamers are easy to rile up, already have exposure to a lot of counter culture language in VC, and generally young or ignorant enough that they can’t see the obvious propaganda they’re being fed. Add into that content creators that intermix rightwing talking points and you can slowly poison their minds into becoming Nazi shitbags.

As the other commenter mentioned, gamergate is where all this shit first came up, and I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t there with the people who fell for the poison. I was just aware enough of what I was seeing to pull away from that culture before it really poisoned my mind.