otacon239

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otacon239 OP , to datahoarder in A Data Hoarder, I Am Not

I’ve always been one for moderation. Plus, the big issue was just being able to find all of it. Everything was so scattered and in some cases I had half my Steam library downloaded onto two or three of the hard drives, all outdated.

Now I know where it all is and can easily back it up, where before I only had one copy of a lot of my most important files.

otacon239 , to Memes in When you go to the exam to just browse the questions

Aw man. They were so close, too!

otacon239 OP , to datahoarder in A Data Hoarder, I Am Not

I had a bad habit whenever I would go to reinstall an OS to just copy the entire user folder into one of many places on my largest hard drive. I had at least 4 or 5 of these. So tons of it was cache files.

otacon239 OP , to datahoarder in A Data Hoarder, I Am Not

There were some folders that were 50+GB that had like 3 txt files and a song worth saving in them. In some ways, I was impressed.

otacon239 , to Privacy in Copilot doesn't like it when it's questioned about Microsoft's certain actions?

ChatGPT provided a pretty good response to this, so MS likely added some clauses to avoid anything negative regarding themselves.

https://chat.openai.com/share/67d28f94-7788-4044-ab40-73f8e46a32c7

otacon239 , to A Boring Dystopia in AI call agents on phones.

Recently ran into this with an old phone Bill that was hanging around on my credit report. I didn’t know the number anymore and that automated system only would bounce me back and forth between “new customer” and “what’s your number” modes. No option for “I don’t know my number. Had to contact the new customer agent before I could get to customer service to clear it up.

God forbid you deviate even slightly from how they expect every call to go.

otacon239 , to Today I Learned in The ancient Romans made many attempts to fix the calendar year before landing on 12 months and leap years

A fun watch: https://youtu.be/vunESk53r5U?si=D_capAX5nr9ccQGZ

otacon239 , to xkcd in xkcd #2899: Goodhart's Law

I’d not heard of this before, but this explains a lot of why my call center jobs were such BS.

We were expected to resolve networking, MS Exchange and VoIP issues in 20 minutes or less on average, which just resulted in a lot more customers having to call back because all the agents had to try and rush to a solution without time to test.

otacon239 , to General Discussion in Remember when Google Music hadn't been killed yet...?

I would give anything to get back the I’m Feeling Lucky button for music. It generated so many fantastic spontaneous playlists.

otacon239 , to RetroGaming in Analogue's Nightmare: This FPGA Game Boy is Half the Price

At the time it came out, not really. There wasn’t really anything else to compete with it. If I’m not mistaken, it was the first handheld FPGA console.

otacon239 , to RetroGaming in I've been having a Burnout 3 obsession lately

Was just emulating this last night. Thank heavens for PCSX2 at 4k60. The art is so well done in this game it still looks awesome at high res.

I still get flashbacks to the Tropical Drive Westbound time trial with the F1 car. Took me years before I got good enough to beat it. Also one of the first games that I got 100% on.

otacon239 , to Asklemmy in Devs of lemmy, do you find ai chatbot helpful?

I’ve had the most luck with using ChatGPT for troubleshooting my existing code. I typically tend to lean more towards creative coding, and can provide it with my source code and a casual explanation of the issue and it can often explain how to manipulate things in a way I want.

I’ve relied on it a lot less for code generation and found it to be much more useful as a tutor for concepts that I can rework myself. I haven’t spent much time with Copilot since most of my projects are aiming for an uncommon goal.

Where I’ve found it to be less than useful in code generation is I’ll get caught in a loop where it’s trying an approach I’m not familiar with, so I feed it back the errors I’m getting and hoping it can solve it on its own, but it rarely is able to.

I don’t code professionally, but I’d probably hesitate to use it for anything used in production just based on what I’ve experienced.

otacon239 , to Cranes, trains, planes and excavators and stuff like that in World's fastest jet propelled aircraft

This is one of my favorite stories to listen to.

otacon239 , to Space in New Modelling Shows That Flat Protoplanets Might Be A Thing

Where’s the turtle and elephants?

otacon239 , to Asklemmy in What was the last great spoof film?

It’s a series, but The Woman In The House Across The Street From The Girl In The Window was a pretty fun watch.

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