chickenf622

joined 2 years ago
[–] chickenf622 4 points 1 week ago

I think I mix them interchangeably. Much to the chagrin of my English teachers.

[–] chickenf622 14 points 1 week ago

I've always known it as "Idiots Out Wandering Around"

[–] chickenf622 6 points 1 week ago

I'm having to make sure my friends aren't giving me the AI result when they look something up now. I wish this shit wasn't enabled by default since it's not ready for that (and honestly I'm not sure it ever will be).

[–] chickenf622 102 points 1 week ago (11 children)

So is your wife single?

[–] chickenf622 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I think that can easily be abused for harassing users. This is something I feel you should bring up to the admins of both your instances and theirs. That tool is super handy though for dealing with bad actors yourself though, thanks for sharing that. Stealth edit: fixed a typo

[–] chickenf622 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Of course they re-invented the bus. It's like carcinisation but the end product is always trains or busses., but if this means less cars on the roads I think I'm for it. As long as cities don't get lazy and use this an excuse to cut their bus programs.

[–] chickenf622 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I appreciate the straightforward answer of you're not sure answer (no sarcasm) . I just want to make sure paranoid people like me can still participate and I keep their level of privacy

[–] chickenf622 14 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Does this include people that use email aliases to keep the connections between accounts harder to make? I pay for this service so it's genuinely not a throw away account. Just a way to maintain some privacy.

[–] chickenf622 20 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

What's a scroll saw? I know I can look it up, but it's more fun to engage in conversation with people that nerd over specific things.

[–] chickenf622 18 points 2 weeks ago

Quote from the 2nd paragraph.

This is one area in which I applaud Medium. They have created a site where anyone can create an aesthetically pleasing blog with minimal effort. The platform provides enough autonomy for blogs to be distinct while still having enough constraints to keep all the posts as visually appealing as possible.

[–] chickenf622 9 points 2 weeks ago

Why would I leave one walled garden for another walled garden?

[–] chickenf622 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You learn so much more doing it yourself instead of having AI write code for you. When I first learned how to admin an Apache server I had 0 understanding how it worked, but with some effort I'm now confident enough to do a simple setup on my own. I did follow along with tutorials and examples configs, but I made sure I knew what each part did at least on a high level. The reason I'm confident in this is that I know how to read the docs and how to troubleshoot issues when they happen.

When you let AI do all the work you don't learn the inner workings of a system and are only hurting yourself. If you want to use AI use it for writing some boiler plate you've already written hundreds of times or taking simple functions and converting them to another language. I use AI for basic and repetitive tasks, which is something it's great at. I don't use it for making large design decisions since that will (not "if", but "will") bite me in the ass later on when something breaks. Examples of good uses of AI (in my opinion): generating a list of US states in JavaScript, take a function that converts a strijg to a date object and try to translate it to another language, use it as a tool to bounce some high level ideas off of when you're at a development block.

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