As a professional honorary Internet Doctor, I’m prescribing OP a week off work with no Internet and an eighth of psilocybin mushrooms.

Get all your scrolls in tonight OP! I’ll be outside your house first thing tomorrow to cut the Internet lines and deliver your assigned crate of offline media. Stay hydrated and please do not resist your treatment!

Equal and opposite forces are a thing in culture. I think we’ll see it rejected even harder.

Give it time. Let MN cook here. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good

Looks like it’s working!

I’m not sure we disagree. I agree that LLMs are not a good source for raw knowledge, and it’s definitely foolish to use them as if they’re some sort of oracle. I already mentioned that they are not good at providing answers, especially in a technical context.

What they are good at is gathering sources and recontextualizing your queries based on those sources, so that you can pose your query to human experts in a way that will make more sense to them.

You’re of course in your absolute right to avoid the tech entirely, as it comes with many pitfalls. Many of these models are damn good at gathering info from real human sources, though, if you can be concise with your prompts and avoid the temptation of swallowing its “analysis”.

Exactly, just look at the dropoff on stack overflow recently

never forget.

0911, got it /s

Hot take, but lasagna noodles should never be crispy

I thought it was drop bears?

You can’t rely on LLMs to get actual answers for technical things but it can help avoid a huge amount of wasted time and effort, back-and-forth, going in circles, talking around or past the issues etc. that is seen in threads everywhere in these types of expert niche communities. Besides, maybe my question has already been answered.

When I don’t know the specific terms or framing, am missing context or am trying to get from A to C, but have no idea that B even exists, nevermind how (or who) to ask about it. If I can accelerate the process of clearing that up, I can go to the correct human expert or community with a much better handle on what it is I’m actually looking for and how to ask for it.

Most bottled water is tap water

Ha! That’s a paintball gun, not a firearm. The thing you’re asking about is the “hopper” from which the paintballs are gravity-fed into the chamber. Sorry, I don’t know the technical term.

There is such thing as healthy skin though. A lot of products will strip the bejesus out of your scalp and cause either dry or oily skin up there

He’s claiming to be Catholic, though, not just a garden-variety American Christian (which could be anything, really). This article seems to ask why he even calls himself specifically Catholic if he’s going to espouse these views and engage in this kind of behavior. I see two major possibilities:

• he doesn’t know what Catholicism is, and is just pretending to be Catholic for political favor
• he does know what Catholicism is, and is trying to fuck with it

All modern presidents/VPs have claimed to be “Christian” – it’s basically an unofficial job requirement at this point. So why not just generically claim to be Christian (like Trump does). Instead he claims to be Catholic, but clearly is not lol. So something is not being said.

Not gluten-free though

Only printers

I actually did detect the sarcasm but I was responding to the attitude they were making fun of. Which is still my autism showing, as you called out, just the extreme opposite end of the spectrum!

Oh, sarcasm detected. Responding correctly is a whole different matter

I’m throwing a cegger this weekend

More like “climate changed in your favor”. Sure the drought is over, but it had to be ended with severe flooding, which brings its own issues. The timing is convenient for this one state, but it’s IMO a bit disingenuous to frame things as positive.

Meanwhile, in my part of the world, we’ve been in an extreme drought for an unprecedented amount of time. Any longer and the ecosystems and landscape will start to change.