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Id recommend chatGPT plus unless you really want to use it purely within an ide. It's a little tedious copy-pasting code into chatGPT, but it gives more verbose responses and has wider breadth of functionality.

I have found myself using chatGPT more than Google now that I have pro. It's nice to just ask a question and get a thorough response without having to read the results myself.

Yeah, I've used that to good effect. My main quibble with copilot vs chatGPT is that chatgpt will remind me of side effect changes I need to make elsewhere in the file, which I haven't figured out how to make copilot do.

Anyone have good tips for getting more out of copilot?

Coding with AI has been amazing.

I am a pretty 'mid' software developer generally, have been working as a PM for the last 3 years so have gotten rusty. Got laid off in December.

In about 60 hours of work, I've built a MVP React webapp that is hosted on githubpages, uses firebase for a serverless backend, and integrates with OpenAI APIs to turn user requests into structured JSON that serves as a starting point for the users without having to code the complex logic manually.

Just used ChatGPT4 to figure out how to get a domain working with my githubpages hosting (turns out I skipped a step when I read the docs - and DNS issues can be confusing).

Each of those steps had me running into frustrating bugs that I could have spun my wheels on for hours - with ChatGPT4, it didn't always identify the fix immediately, but I was able to debug so much faster, usually resolving the issue in about 30 minutes. More than the time savings, I really appreaciate the effect it has on morale for me: I hate being stuck on a problem and not knowing what to try next. It feels like I have a senior engineer who I can slack a question and get a thoughtful response inhumanly fast at any time of day (even when coding at 2AM).

ChatGPT 4 has been a lot more helpful to me that Copilot, but I might just not know how to get the most out of copilot yet. Copilot is really nice for jumping past writing boilerplate, but ChatGPT 4 can synthesize entire solutions that span multiple files, which I haven't had success getting from copilot.

What's even cooler is that I had never even touched React before 3 weeks ago, and now feel like I'm moderately fluent in the general design principles. If I was doing self-directed study of React starting from the docs, I probably would still be playing with toy hello world problems, but instead I've gotten the project I was hoping to build to a viable prototype.

One source of delight is using AI to synthesize dictionary data. I have a bunch of ingredients that users choose from and being able to "autocomplete" a solid initial draft for new dict entries feels like magic.

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The core is all working and good enough, but probably have another week to get it to where I think it'll be ready to start doing some marketing.

What about this makes you refer to it as "science"?

Not really. It is inevitable such a system would lead to people spoofing the sensor to get fake images signed.

Society has "underpaid" artists for millennia.

I sincerely think you (in the thought experiment) sounds like an incredible hero.

Libraries are awesome and great for reducing inequality, using ads to support that cause and also funneling cash to UBI initiatives? Even better

Your argument is ridiculous, because it could identically be applied to "every human artist should have to pay a license to every artist whose work they were inspired by". That would obviously be a horrible future, but megacorps like Disney would love it.

Lol, did an AI write this? Literally no one buys books because they might one day recoup a fraction of the sticker price on the secondary market.

Baffling

> Probably mined from 3rd world country slaves (in the literal "owning people" sense).

Why do you think the device you're using to make this comment is better than a GPU?

Was your comment written by some new flamebait AI? You say so many arguments that fall apart under the slightest examination

It's like you are mad at gravity. That sucks you feel that way, but very unlikely to change anything.

Couldn't software gradually increase power to match the grip of the tires and prevent spinning? Or would that slow it down because a spinout 0-60 (not counting rollout) is faster that a "perfect throttle" 0-60?

Would be cool to make some of these that look like different things under red/blue light.

IIRC you should be able to download it and then put Steam into offline mode and it won't call home until you flip that toggle again... unless they changed how that works since I last fiddled with it. Might need to play once before flipping toggle off.

Our politicians do not serve their citizens, they only serve their patrons

I think there is probably a threshold of usefulness, local LLMs are expensive to run but pretty close to it for most use cases now. In a couple years, our smartphones will probably be powerful enough to run LLMs locally that are good enough for 80% of uses.

The NYT has a long history of being pro-war. People who dislike US using military force to enforce global hegemony would probably disagree with many of the editorial choices they are making behind closed doors.

* the sound of one hand clapping *

greenpowerscience is a fun channel who did a neat version of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1GV3FIOR6E

Meth is already legal. It's called desoxyn

Meth is legal, sometimes.

It's called desoxyn, and can be prescribed for ADHD or weight loss.

Also chirality-flipped meth is available over the counter as a nasal decongestant

How about an exponentially growing copyright relicensing fee

Often times, "all or nothing" is not the best solution to a problem.

Empty boat makes me think of support of digital services.

Google saves millions upon millions every month by claiming "it's an automated system, we didn't choose that action, so we aren't responsible". There is no chat support to complain to for most of their products.

This model is spreading across the economy: intentionally "leaving boats empty" so people feel like there isn't a person to be mad at.

But corporations are not faceless autonomous entities: they are collections of people willfully choosing to craft this facade of emptiness to avoid responsibility, costs, or even awareness of when they do harm.

These boats are not empty, but the people in them want you to believe they are.

This is super cool. Not usually a comic guy, but makes me want to read the series to be able to recognize what derivatives pop up in the future.

The penultimate paragraph of the article says almost exactly this

That's an odd nonsequitor strawman you constructed to knock down. Did someone suggest LLMs as the solution or are you just asserting superiority over an imaginary guy?

Here's a gallery of his work, NYT images weren't loading for me

https://www.craigkaviarforge.com/

Work in progress gallery: https://www.craigkaviarforge.com/work-in-progress

The iron pineapple might be my favorite: https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6a655b_d413aa154f0f4702ab...

The Worms video game series has a fun item: ropes.

These ropes are rigid but you can vary the length, so you can do a bunch of interesting pendulum behaviors to accelerate yourself.

If you had a long tether between two objects of different weights, and the whole system is rotating, I feel like you could get some interesting acceleration effects by rapidly shortening the tether (assuming its strong enough to not snap)