That’s solid advice. I think I have my identity wrapped up too much in my career, so when I dislike my job, I feel unsatisfied in life. I will try to see it as means to an end more than who I am.

I tried using VScode to play around with Golang. I had to quit coding to take care of something else. I hit save, and suddenly I have way fewer lines of code. WTF? Why did/would saving delete code? After much digging, it turns out because the all knowing VSCode thought because I had not yet referenced my variables, I never would, and since my code I wanted to save and continue later wouldn’t compile, it must be quelled. Off with its head!

Anyway, I decided to use vim instead. When I did :wq, the file was saved exactly as I had typed it.

I definitely have moments like this too. I have been reflecting more lately and trying to decide if the feeling is temporary or permanent. I have been pondering what else I would do. Are you considering a career change, and if so, what would you do instead? I don’t know if I could transition to something else without going back to school, and it would kill me a bit inside to take out more student loans.

For a long time, I wanted to get a PS5 or “the new xbox”, whatever the heck it was named. I was in a big box store and saw what I thought was one of the new ones when they were still hard to find. But, I had no cell signal in the store, so I couldn’t look up info on it. I couldn’t verify if it was the new one, or the old one, since their stupid naming scheme was so arbitrary and hard to remember if you weren’t already in their ecosystem. I didn’t buy it, and later found the one I saw was the newest one. I ended up eventually finding and buying a PS5. I doubt I am the only one, but even if so, they did not make a sale to one person because of their stupid naming scheme. With Playstation system naming, there is no confusion.

It’s also nice because I can charge my entire family’s phones all at once. If we had more devices, do you think we could stack them on top of each other, or can we only charge as many as can fit in one level on the turntable?

Letter to Grandma, The Bible, Vacation photo album, and Video Collection

cough android

Duolingo has dropped hugely in quality (for Korean anyway) just in the last couple months. The AI-generated voices mispronounce so much stuff. I spend more time reporting unclear audio or outright mispronunciations and grammar issues than I do learning. They seem to want their users to be their QA team, but then don’t even fix the reported issues. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/duolingo-lays-off-workers-as-it-leans-on-ai-tools-to-carry-out-more-tasks/ar-AA1mKgja

Everything I read was well worded and well reasoned. However, it seems like either my ADD got the better of me, or that was the article that has no end. I didn’t really realize before that my attention has a word count, but I now know that it is less than this article.

Something I have noticed in GPT 3.5 is that it seems something on the site itself, not necessarily GPT’s output, changes the text that GPT provides. I had an issue where I asked it for the links to websites it was sourcing. I could see a longer URL pop up for just a second before it got shortened to underlined blue text which was not a link. I asked it multiple times in multiple ways to give me tbe URL again. It happened multiple times where the URL showed up for just a second before getting converted to weird, non-URL format.

I finally got the URLs it was trying to provide when I told it, “Please provide the raw HTML of your most recent response.” Then I looked at the “a href” sections and found the URLs it had been trying to provide.

I wonder if the site itself and not GPT is changing three or more consecutive periods to one as well as some of the other issues you have reported.

Noy OP, but I canceled all of Prime. I haven’t used anything but video and shipping from it for months already. Almost everything I want to see on Prime Video requires renting/buying or getting a subscription to some other service through Amazon.

We didn’t buy enough stuff on Amazon last year to justify the cost via shipping either, even considering Christmas gift purchases.

I agree with them. Your review sounds like, “This restaurant’s food is terrible because the owner hit my car in the parking lot.”

I had this exact thought. It may actually be “The year of the Linux Desktop.”

You have made an assumption on the poster, and then called him out over your assumption. If you think trumpers need to be called out, why not wait for him to say something about Trump? If you have a legitimate criticism of what he has said in this discussion, why not bring that up?

I assume you are a racist, and that makes me angry. How could you? /s

This adds nothing to the conversation.

I have seen IBM do this multiple times. When they buy a company, they leave it pretty much alone for a year or two. Then they start to make their IBM changes to it, and change it enough to make anyone that knew the product before them hate it. IBM buying RedHat was the beginning of the end. I told my boss about it the day I read the news of the IBM buyout, “We need to stop using CentOS for any new systems.”

Check out these two top level comments, five minutes apart. It’s like comment(); sleep(300); comment().