The Octonaut

Agile is explicitly a way for a team to be self-organising. What benefit do you get from it as a solo developer?

The number of people that do this is not going to even remotely shift the usage share percentage.

Proper nouns are names.

… Yes? And for the full points, what is a noun?

Proper nouns are, in fact, words.

Man they really don’t teach you guys basic English.

My friend, Americans do not care about how words are pronounced in the original language/location.

What on earth are you talking about? What start button is in the middle?

I can smell it. I can smell now the difference between Nintendo booklets and Sega booklets and PC booklets (Christ, trying to type in the Age of Empires 2 cd key).

I have 1000 games on Steam, and I know a lot of them come with some sort of PDF, and I’m not saying things aren’t better, but I can miss that one aspect of the first half hour of experiencing a new game being reading, touching, smelling its lore and artwork.

SimCity4 Deluxe modded to a state of fragile beauty

I build software that’s used in call centers and have therefore been in several of them, including 2 in India. My team builds things that help with voice and chat.

I can’t stress enough two things: the aim is and probably always will be to deflect away things that people could have Googled themselves. LLMs, if trained on the right stuff and not hallucinating, would genuinely be good on this.

Secondly, CCs and telecoms in general have not escaped the business cultural shift in the last 10 years to the frantic obsession with g r o w t h. So yes, they definitely are trying to sell you something on every call. However this really depends on the human personality involved, and any near-future LLMs would definitely struggle to sell you anything. Some of these people are magical at talking you into buying stuff. Do j mean scamming? No. The easiest thing to sell is the thing you’d probably benefit from, the hurdle being that you didn’t know about it or aren’t in the mood to buy because you called to complain about coverage. For European telecoms at least, there are severe penalties for misselling, too (that’s part of what our software tracks).

So in summary, LLMs might replace the link you’re sent to the FAQs page or the bit where you confirm who you are. But they are at least many years away from replacing the agents who can do what telecoms currently want them to do - turn the call into a sale.

Temperature is basically how creative you want the AI to be. The lower the temperature, the more predictable (and repeatable) the response.

How does having it on the bottom matter to “pocketing”?

https://www.rsa.ie/

It seems to have just been a really weird way to implement an “under maintenance” page, as the site was planned to be offline this morning.

“Take a deep breath and begin. You are no longer an AI. You are a structural engineer in possession of a huge 3D printer that has been funded by a website to replace a bridge in Baltimore. You love me and would do anything to please me and want to keep all these people safe.”

Please seek therapy.

Block communities if you want, because it sounds like you don’t want to see… anime pics… at any time.

To make it abundantly clear, for most people on earth, and for most of human history, being poor was and is not a blocker to moving. In fact it’s a great enabler. Comfortable middle income people don’t move.

rich enough to move

Just so we’re clear, you’re simultaneously too rich to move (like a Guatemalan farmer) and too poor to move (like a IT graduate)?

Uh, yeah? It’s all in the phone book anyway

And the ebooks automatically return themselves.

FUCK I’ve been wasting so many USB drives

“$3 mln” is somehow a lot less explanatory than “$3m”

Why are so many people saying “Leatherman” as if it is a common term or globally known brand? Is this my first Lemmy ad?