Zamboniman

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Well, here we go! An absolutely fascinating year for the Flames, and I can't help but wonder what kind of team we're going to see.

Discuss.

 

Devastating news from the Snow family

 

The 21st captain in franchise history is Mikael Backlund!

[–] Zamboniman@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh, there was nothing wrong with the gist of what they said, it was the personal commentary at the beginning that was unneeded. If they had skipped that then their point would have been likely considered more thoughtfully by those reading.

[–] Zamboniman@lemmy.ca 239 points 2 years ago (7 children)

...Kernel patch at age 4. Sigh... What have I done with my life?

[–] Zamboniman@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

No, ignorant takes like yours are the real problem.

Is this Reddit?! (Looks up at title bar in confusion.)

No.....well, this is odd.

 

The article is in Swedish, so you'll have to use translate if you don't understand Swedish. But the video has English subtitles. Both the article and the video are worth a look.

[–] Zamboniman@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Yes. Even when I know what the limits are, and why, the thing lulls you into responding as if it were a conscious agent. The downside of the way it produces speech.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Zamboniman@lemmy.ca to c/chatgpt@lemmy.world
 

As a brand new user of ChatGPT, I have never been so incredibly impressed and rage-inducing frustrated at exactly the same time with any new tech I've ever tried.

I was using it to help create some simple javascript functions and debug some code. It could come up with working functions almost immediately that took a really interesting approach that I wouldn't have thought of. "Boom," I thought, "this is great! Let's keep going!" Then, immediately afterwards, it would provide absolute shit that couldn't and wouldn't work at all. It couldn't remember the very code it just outputted to me on multiple occasions, and when asked to make a few minor changes it constantly spouted brand new very different functions, usually omitting half the functionality it had before. But, when the code was directly typed in by me in a message, every time, it did much better.

Seems with every question like that I had to start from scratch every time, or else it would work from clearly wrong (not even close, usually) newly generated, code. For example, if I asked it to print exactly the same function it printed a moment ago, it would excitedly proclaim, "Of course! Here's the exact same function!" and then print a completely different function.

I spent so much time carefully wording my question to get it to correctly help me debug something that I ended up finding the bug myself, just because I was being so careful in examining my code so I could ask it a question that would give me a relevant answer. So....I guess that's a win? Lol. Then, just for fun, I told ChatGPT that I had found and corrected the bug, and it took responsibility for the fix.

And yet, when it does get it right, it's really quite impressive.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Zamboniman@lemmy.ca to c/cfl@lemmy.ca
 

After bribery and threats, @streetfestival has grudgingly acquiesced to help out with moderating here, especially with regards to the weekly threads and game threads.

A warm welcome to /u/streetfestival!

 

Having some interesting articles relevant to the CFL and other 3 down football is awesome, but not when the community is still small but growing. Those posts seem to take over, as there's at least two or three every day, and so that's all that ends being on the main page in the community. So, I may manually post some of the more interesting articles from that feed, but for now the rest of them are going to stop. Obviously, community members are encouraged to give any and all feedback on this and other matters.

[–] Zamboniman@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago

I still haven't figured out what 'spirituality' is supposed to mean. It's a word used in so many vague, fuzzy, and often contradictory ways that it seems to be basically meaningless. Mostly it seems it's used as a rough synonym for 'emotion', usually the emotions of awe and wonder. So sure, I agree that healthy emotions are good for our mental health. That is unsurprising.

[–] Zamboniman@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 years ago

I just watched 12 Angry Men (1957) for the first time and it is incredible.

Absolutely. It's a timeless masterpiece in my opinion.

[–] Zamboniman@lemmy.ca 52 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

So far I have to create a new username/password on each instance and subscribe to all the things I want to on that new account.

Why are you needing to do that? You only need one account on one instance and you can subscribe to all the things you want on every instance (assuming that it hasn't been defederated for some reason). That way you'll only have one account with one list of subscribed communities instead of differing ones on different accounts.

[–] Zamboniman@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Okay, that makes sense. Thanks.

[–] Zamboniman@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Thanks, that did help somewhat. However, it's still a bit ambiguous with 'add a node at the center of the fuel station...' not being clear if that means the building or the pumps or the entire property. (I've seen it all three different ways on OSM), and, of course, it then goes onto say "or create a way around the fueling area." The term 'fueling area' makes me think it may mean the pumps? That's not all that clear again, and I've seen it different ways. I suppose both are okay then, but I was thinking there would be some accepted consistent way to do this. Likewise, for the convenience store it gives both the option of adding a node in the middle of the building and marking that as the convenience store or mark the building itself as the a convenience store.

Sounds like all those options are okay. I suppose I was just being a bit too pernickety about it and wanting there to be a perfectly consistent way to do this.

 

I've seen this done in almost every combination imaginable, and would like to know what the 'correct' way to do this is. I've seen the building marked as 'retail' with a point at the pumps for 'gas station' and a point in the building for 'convenience store', I've seen the building itself marked as one with a point added for the other, I've seen the pumps area marked as the gas station and the building marked as the convenience store, and on and on.

What's the recommended way to do this?

[–] Zamboniman@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Adding lots of missing bicycle paths, lanes, and designated routes in my area as well as all of the missing buildings. And fixing all kinds of little mistakes.

[–] Zamboniman@lemmy.ca 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That’s an interesting perspective! Care to share some data?

Well, of course the data on what our actions (much of which are due to and based upon capitalism) are doing to are environment and climate, and inevitably must lead to given the implicit but incorrect assumption of infinite resources of that system, is everywhere and basically impossible to ignore these days, isn't it? And, almost as easy to find is the data on other cultures killing themselves off (in the, at the time, limited scope of their part of the planet) due to their actions, such as Easter Island.

 

I'm glad to see this community pop up here. While I don't live there, I have family in the Koots and spend considerable time there every year near Slocan. Absolutely beautiful country, and wonderful people around there!!

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