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[-] ranzispa@mander.xyz 13 points 5 days ago

I've got this strange error that only happens in this specific conditions using an obscure software with no documentation, anyone knows how to work around it?

RTFM

RTFM of a different software which the software you are actually interacting with employs. (E.g. having problems with an application that downloads stuff, need to read curl docs because thats what it is using under the hood.)

[-] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 7 points 5 days ago

hey, currently looking for LMDE help on the Mint forum, can confirm derision is still part of the process.

[-] derry@midwest.social 13 points 6 days ago

Jokes on them, I have a shame kink.

[-] rangber@lemmy.zip 16 points 6 days ago

It's called humiliation kink, you stupid stupid boy.

[-] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 3 points 5 days ago

Gotta love elitism and punching down.

Then wondering why everyone is so ignorant (you punch them when they ask for answers).

[-] GutterRat42@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago
[-] thesdev@feddit.org 4 points 6 days ago

In that case I can recommend "turning Yahoo Answers into beautiful music": https://m.youtube.com/shorts/NDvaRF4HQHQ

[-] GutterRat42@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Well, clearly I romanticized it

[-] nullPointer@programming.dev 3 points 6 days ago

ahh the good ol flamewar days of IRC

[-] deepak989928@leminal.space -1 points 5 days ago
[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago
[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 143 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Then we learned that if you wanted to get the right answer from people ... all you had to do was confidently post an answer, any answer, especially if it was wrong ... and so many people would jump on you so fast to tell you how stupid you were and give you the right answer.

.... and you also had to tie an onion on your belt which was the style of the time.

[-] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

I used to do this on Reddit. Someone would post a question I too wanted an answer to, but no one was answering. So, I'd post a wrong answer.

[-] nebeker@programming.dev 8 points 6 days ago

I learned to let you all squabble amongst yourselves and get the answer. Since every question is a duplicate, it stands to reason the question I have has already been answered.

[-] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago

This actually has a name, it's called Goodhart's Law

[-] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 49 points 1 week ago

I'm studying right now and I'm the lead for a group project. I've been having a hard time getting the team to actually talk with each other and come up with ideas. Someone told me the other week "pitch bad ideas badly". So I tried that with the title of our project I put down a shit awful name, told everyone about it, and within 5 minutes the team came back to me with an actual title

[-] nebeker@programming.dev 42 points 6 days ago

A Project Manager just earned their wings.

[-] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 week ago

Phishing legitimate answers out of people by exploiting their ego is still one of the most impressive things I haven't thought of.

Will try to keep in mind

[-] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 11 points 6 days ago

So that's how I can get away with it! You just eradicated every last hints of remorse that I had in me.

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[-] Thorry@feddit.org 117 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

First we created communities that we used to share information and ideas. This allowed people to grow in their skills and in turn teach others what they learnt. This cycle kept the communities going, providing an important service for everyone involved.

Then capitalism turned those communities into walled gardens, often using predatory patterns to increase engagement to the detriment of the quality. Being walled off made it harder to share the knowledge, leaving people with only a few larger holdouts of what once had been.

Then we created machines to do the learning for us, finally killing off the concept of information sharing communities. These machines learnt from every knowledge sharing community that existed previously and became the place to access that knowledge. Without people coming into the communities, even the last holdouts could no longer sustain themselves. The ability to share and gain new knowledge was removed, causing stagnation for everyone involved. The ability to actually learn anything was also greatly reduced, having the machines apply the knowledge directly. The new machines can't learn, can't think, can't reason or be creative, all they can do is remix already existing information and regress to the mean while doing so.

But for a while there, a lot of value was created for the shareholders.

[-] MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world 24 points 6 days ago

This text is great, you have amazing writing :)

[-] Thorry@feddit.org 11 points 6 days ago

Thank you so much!

[-] xthexder@l.sw0.com 10 points 6 days ago

This has got vaguely Douglas Adams vibes.

[-] helvetpuli@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago

More than vaguely. The man was prescient.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

LLM are useless for niche stuff. They are ok-ish, if you do something another 100s of people already did (like, overengineering a webpage). Which is contra the idea of open source, btw.

[-] Napster153@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

This is just the human experience in a shellnut.

First came the nomads and isolated communities, who formed the first towns and societies.

Then, the towns became cities and the societies became stratified for order and efficiency.

Then, the elders become kings and lords, and they become disconnected from the earth and reality.

In time, the ambition of the high ones grow too big for their own good, whilst those below lose their sense of self-reasoning and communing.

Eventually, the house of cards falls like all Babylons before it.

All is lost, people scatter, and people gather elsewhere.

[-] voxthefox@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 6 days ago

I've had this in my head for a bit, but you expressed it much more eloquently then I ever could have, going to save this for later!

[-] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

I am saving this.

[-] Australis13@fedia.io 93 points 1 week ago

The other option was that nobody ever replied...

https://xkcd.com/979/

[-] Peereboominc@piefed.social 31 points 1 week ago

And then it turns out that it was himself last month.

I have found my own posts this way from 2 or 3 years prior. Makes me wonder if I am getting anywhere.

[-] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 44 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Now we go to a text transformer that poops spaghetti code by the bucket.

[-] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 1 week ago

At least it tells me I'm right all the time. 🤗

[-] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 24 points 1 week ago

"And you stopped because now you ask AI instead?"

"No! Because the special website adopted AI!"

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