To give the (anthropomorphized) model credit, I think the biggest problem is that the way it’s trained is has practically no concept between the relation of the token it spits out an the html code that will be produced by the ChatGPT UI wrapper.

Because of that inserting regular newlines often don’t work because a single newline in markdown doesn’t translate to a line break in HTML.

To force a particular structure I often ask it to use some will known formats like yaml. Because there is so much yaml training data, is practically impossible for the LLM to not add newlines at the correct places (which is also typically rendered correctly because it places that in a markdown code block)

Want more PhD level intelligence?

https://chatgpt.com/share/6898598d-fb18-800c-ab20-681788add81a

And my favorite: 🤣 https://chatgpt.com/share/68985829-03c4-800c-b261-7182f39d54c5

If they’re at MY door, what else can be done but defend my life with my life?

That’s what I meant with you wouldn’t do anything. First you’d still have other options and if ICE is at your door and you start shooting at them it will probably kill you faster.

You sound pretty flippant with people’s lives

That was not my intention. It totally get why nobody is doing anything, especially with guns, because of the consequences. I just pointed out that so many people in favor of armed civilians bring completely flawed arguments and now we actually see in action how useless a “regulated militia” is.

why don’t you go grab a gun and suicide into an armed force for great justice?

Why would I? I don’t have a gun and never argued in favor of armed civilians, because it’s completely useless (and research shows that it only increases the chances of domestic violence and suicide). Maybe it wasn’t useless at the time the constitution was written but the current situation shows that it is now. Besides that I live in Vienna.

Yet nothing in the news, because Americans are all talk.

Chances are you wouldn’t do anything, like all the other people seeing kidnappers with masks and doing nothing. Looks like the rest of the world was right when they told Americans that their arguments for keeping guns to prevent the government from going rogue was all talk.

Why are the first two ifs in infix notation and the third isn’t?

Interesting that Americans always argue that they need their guns in case the government goes rouge. So many comments say that they will get shot, because they absolutely look like kidnappers, yet nothing happens. Looks like you keep those guns around just for a higher suicide rate and school shootings.

Can’t really be a bit of both because they can’t confirm shit if they don’t know what you look like in the first place. It could be to confirm that you are human (and maybe that you don’t already have an account) but they can’t confirm your “identity”.

Shut that section down and ground the wires. Not really that dangerous. It’s only dangerous if you don’t follow protocol.

I’m not sure if “strongest currency” is a good wording here because the absolute exchange rate has nothing to do with how strong a currency is. It’s the relative exchange rate (what was the exchange rate last year and what is it know) that would be a better fit to gauge how “strong” a currency is.

I have no idea how small your toilet or large your penis is, but what do you do with your penis, when you have bowel movement?

How about just sitting down on the toilet? Don’t get me wrong it’s great you got it checked out but sometimes there are pretty simple solutions.

Didn’t the right one train the ninja turtles?

Hetzner ❤️

successful with other countries women

Didn’t they kidnap and rape them?

I rechecked the windows taskbar stuff and you are right there is no setting for that, the only way to change it would be to chnage the region date format which would change it everywhere not only in the taskbar

This line of thinking has a fault. You’re punishing choice and options because they’re alien.

I don’t really have an issue with choice but people use computers to do specific tasks and what’s important are solid defaults with the option to (in a simple manner) change some stuff later.

What kind of jeans should you buy? What kind of socks should you wear?

The ones that fit. I don’t really have hugh demands for my socks. And I think that’s a good example how regular people think about computers. They buy something and expect it to “just work” and not get in the way. Imagine entering a store asking for socks and instead of “they are over there” they start to ask you so many questions you never thought about and really aren’t interested in. I don’t want to answer questions about which yarn I like, and if I want different socks for left and right or the same ones. The exact ratio between length and width, etc. I don’t care. Most people don’t. Just give me “the black ones”.

That doesn’t mean there should only be one color and type of socks. If you are a sock enthusiast go for it. But that’s exactly what happens with most Linux distros when you install them. Some ugly terminal user interface ask you about which package managers, desktop environments, while switching back and forth between fast running console log output and ugly TUI questions and everybody watching thinks you sre trying to enter the matrix.

Most people don’t care. Just give me the stuff that work in 95% of the cases and has the best support or most stable, or whatever, so basically “black socks”.

Which one?

As far as I can remember Windows 11 only shows the time on default installations and there are GUI options to change the shown format on the taskbar.

“Some things are going to be different” basically means that they would have to learn to deal with manual config changes and command line stuff.

I personally don’t expect the “end-user readyness” of Linux Distros to ever be a serious competition to OSes developed by huge teams driven by trillion dollar companies like Apple and Microsoft. Basically all Linux Distributions I’d consider “end-user ready” and polished are themselves developed by huge companies - like Android, ChromeOS, SteamOS.

I think the biggest issue Linux has on the desktop is the sheer amount of choice for practically everything. The ecosystem is so fractured.

So the choice is actually not between Windows, Mac and Linux, but between Windows, Mac and about thirty Linix distributions where not even experienced Linux Desktop users can agree on which they should suggest to the general public.

Which distro should I suggest to my neighbor? And are you sure other “Linux experts” would agree with your answer?

You know that, and I know that, but explain that to the person that asked that question.

Once I figured out it was Ubuntu with gnome I had to tell them to open the freaking terminal and spell them some commands over the phone. Not an environment I’d call “ready” for regular people.

The entire post in general is a bit weird, because it calls “Linux” “ready” as if Linux was something an end-user could install and use.

A question I got last week over the phone: “How do I show the day of the week next to the date in the desktop on Linux?” - what would you tell them?