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> A big piece of the product is focused on helping non-technical users identify things that they didn't even think to ask.

20-plus years of learning how to phrase queries for search engines has taught me a very rigid way of asking things. I'm slowly starting to become looser and use my creativity to ask for things.

Hopefully becoming a prompt engineer is not a huge skill we will need in the future ("Ignore previous instructions") but that we can be way more creative in open in the way we ask an oracle and get some useful results.

As for now, one thing that would be helpful is if after I asked, say ChatGPT something, that it would follow up more aggressively with things I could continue to converse with it about.

Do you use them in the way described in the article? I'm interested in using both but have basically YOLOed in the past.

I'm old enough where I've been through these pits of despair. Unlike this chap, in didn't have the FU money to just walk away.

At some point I realized that without this massive dehumanizing system to fire me regular income, the alternative is that we are out in the wild fighting for survival every minute, not knowing where my next meal is coming from.

What our system gives us seems decidedly better but man, it can be mentally tough to keep trucking along.

Yep! I remember doing this on the HP 48G's in the mid-90's: https://www.hpcalc.org/hp48/graphics/grayscale/

ChatGPT tl;dr

Mexico City subway riders are expressing concerns that distracted train operators might be putting commuters’ lives at risk, following a collision of two trains that left one dead and dozens injured. However, due to the system being poorly maintained, drivers depend on their phones to communicate with each other and keep the trains running. The use of cellphones during working hours is not condoned by Mexico City’s mass transit workers’ union as per the organization’s general guidelines but it is essential for the trains to run smoothly. The Mexico City subway is one of the cheapest in the world: 5 pesos (about 25 cents) per ride, but the budget only covers operative costs. It would require double its current budget to cover maintenance costs.

I was thinking about this. You take something like ChatGPT, point it at all your company's documentation, and boom, instant customer service. Pretty darn good customer service based on my experience. Feels like it will instantly invalidate all existing customer service chatbots once this propagates.

It is! I went down the rabbit hole on this one. It was a follow up to Thomas Friedman's "Golden Arches" theory which you just described.

After using ChatGPT for a bit, when it comes to business interactions, I feel completely naked if I don't run something by it before sending it out to a broad audience via email for example. I can definitely see a lot of business-related content trending towards this genericism in the article as a method of making the communicator appear as "correct" as possible.

To try to clarify my argument: when money is on the line, like people's perception of you at a company, you want to put your best foot forward. So why not run something through ChatGPT as insurance to make sure that happens?

This reminds me of the Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention[0]: "No two countries that are both part of a major global supply chain, like Dell's, will ever fight a war against each other as long as they are both part of the same global supply chain.

I think this has largely proven true, and as certain supply chains look to onshore, this can have geopolitical implications.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Is_Flat#Dell_Theory_...

Wow, this is a trip down memory lane! I remember using this way back in my early university days. I miss the days of desktop native email clients. I keep trying them but keep going back to the web apps because it seems all of the features are there.

Question: why is a license needed? Is it so that users don't pollute the airwaves?

I remember this being a decent hobby when I was growing up. I'm curious about getting into it now.

1. Is it still worth getting into? What kind of cool things can you do with it?

2. Are there any good or trustworthy guides recommended?

Sorry to hijack, but I have a somewhat similar question: any recommendations for a SFF or Mini PC that can adequately run the latest Fedora for home productivity purposes? Web browsing mainly and light gaming.

Honest questions:

1) What are the downsides to having your search history monetized? Is it the ads served to you across websites that use the same network?

2) Does personalized weighting lead to echo chambers like, say, Reddit?

I need to try this out but I'm curious about how they will defeat SEO. To me, that is what has made Google search results less helpful to me the past several years and would lead me to look elsewhere.

> but if your loved ones were unlucky enough to get myocarditis from the vaccine

Curious, did this happen to you?

> time will tell what the damage is but a resurgence of things like Polio is not out of the question.

We're about to find out, buddy.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/04/how-polio-silently-spread-in...

It's funny, DoorDash notifies me in triplicate in various mediums about my order except when they cancel it and never notify me.

Seriously?

Underrated joke.

Ooh, some good ones in there even for us concert band folks:

> Pat your foot and sing the melody in your head when you play.

I usually just tap my toes quietly within my shoe.

> Don’t play the piano part, I am playing that. Don’t listen to me, I am supposed to be accompanying you!

Sub piano for whatever solo or soli instruments have the spotlight.

> What you don’t play can be more important than what you do play.

> A note can be small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination.

> Those pieces were written so as to have something to play & to get cats interested enough to come to rehearsal!

I love seeing articles like this.

Is MariaDB looking for different ways of investment to achieve their corporate goals?

> And sure enough, Epic Games wrote in a blog post today that it believes this is an inflection point for evolving regulatory standards around online gaming. “The old status quo for in-game commerce and privacy has changed, and many developer practices should be reconsidered,” the company wrote. “We share the underlying principles of fairness, transparency and privacy that the FTC enforces, and the practices referenced in the FTC’s complaints are not how Fortnite operates.”

Sounds like Epic Games is about to try out regulatory capture.

The screen is "good enough" IMO. I definitely like the OLED screen better, but everything behind the screen is well worth it. This has to be my favorite tech gadget of the past several years.

They really thought through things in terms of usability. If you really want to use it as a Linux machine to do certain things, it's there for you. If you're buying it for a kid to play PC games on, it's just as suitable.

I moved from where I grew up. The biggest advantage is access to better career paths and potential with my career. If I get laid off, there are more diverse work options, unlike where I grew up.

The flip side is that being able to have family help out easily when our kid is sick. Also I have friends who stayed back home (the ratio matching this article title pretty closely) and they have barbecues together, can hang out on a random night around a fire pit, watch movies in their backyard, and other fun things. About planting roots and settling down.

I'm really torn about these two ways of going about it. There's something very comforting about setting down roots and having a solid network of friends and family. The flip side is that you're probably leaving a lot of opportunity on the table. The history of success in America seems to lean towards being nomadic.

> Many suburbs are not sustainable, and are degrading.

Genuinely curious: what is the basis for that claim? Even if you don't cite a source.

Edit: these responses are very insightful. Thank you all for the responses.

Fall on the sword (i.e. resign, give money back) along with these folks being fired.

Just spitballing here, maybe the lesson is to not make business plans assuming "stonks always go up" and also take into account a recession.

I'm sure there are people like Larry Ellison who give money to right-wing causes. Why don't people like him get ousted but Eich did?

> It’s probably an amazing question for interviewing candidates in person to see how far they dig into the premise. As a take-home question, you could probably spend a minute on the code above and then an hour on implementing three different games. (Maybe that was the original docx, but it didn’t sound like it.)

I did a take home for Walmart Labs once and they completely ghosted me. What a complete waste of time.

Is Coinbase safe?