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What are your AI use cases?
  • It probably depends how many good examples it has to pull together from stack overflow etc. it’s usually fine writing python, JavaScript, or powershell but I’d say if you have any level of specific needs it will just hallucinate a fake module or library that is a couple words from your prompt put into a function name but it’s usually good enough for me to get started to either write my own code or gives me enough context that I can google what the actual module is and find some real documentation. Useful to subject matter experts if there is enough training data would be my new qualifier.

  • What are your AI use cases?
  • It’s perfect for topics you have professional knowledge of but don’t have perfect recall for. It can bring forward the context you need to be refreshed on but you can fact check it because you are an expert in that field.

    If you need boilerplate code for a project but don’t remember a specific library or built in function that tackles your problem, you can use AI to generate an example you can then fix to make it run the way you wanted.

    Same thing with finding config examples for a program that isn’t well documented but you are familiar with.

    Sorry all my examples are tech nerd stuff because I’m just another tech nerd on lemmy

  • Lemmy 100%?
  • After Apollo went down, made me realize how much unnecessary screen time I was wasting my life on. The smaller size and scope of the fediverse is probably better for my mental health than Twitter/Reddit were

  • Lemmy 100%?
  • I don’t use Reddit whatsoever. Being away from that site for 18 months has really shown how low quality the content there is. I know longer have any desire to ever interact with that site if I can help it, even if the fediverse is missing some of the active niche communities on reddit

  • Using AI generated code will make you a bad programmer.
  • I don’t have an encyclopedic knowledge of every random library or built-in function of every language on earth so what’s the difference between googling for an example on stack overflow or asking an LLM?

    If you are asking ChatGPT for every single piece of code it will be terrible because it just hallucinates libraries or misunderstands the prompt. But saying any kind of use makes you a bad programmer seems more like fud than actual concern

  • Halfway through the season... How is everyone doing in their leagues?
  • I have 2 leagues that I care about. My 10 team dynasty superflex+1IDP league I’m in first at 6-1 despite losing Nico Collins and Pacheco to IR.

    In my other league which is an 8 team keeper league, I am tied for 2nd at 5-2 after hanging on by a single point (vs McBride) last night. I have Mahomes in this league and am really deep at WR so I traded Jefferson (Standard Scoring) for Hurts and Kamara from the 1st place team. Hopefully I don’t regret it

  • Fantasy Football @lemmy.world TORFdot0 @lemmy.world

    Halfway through the season... How is everyone doing in their leagues?

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    My blog now has Lemmy comments
  • I did the same using Mastodon for my blog, ended up switching to Disqus (shudders) just because it supports more SSO options for accounts that my limited readership is likely to have

  • Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ?
  • I don’t refrain from participating in Lemmy.ml community unless the mods of that community act like the admins do. The majority of users aren’t my issue with Lemmy.ml at least on the non political communities, it’s the admin’s suppression of opposition

  • Former PlayStation exec says console arms race has plateaued
  • I buy Nintendo games but I don’t believe they have should have any right to block me from running their software that I’ve dumped myself on any device I see fit. How does that make me entitled when I purchased their software?

  • Lemmy's number one ambassador explains why Lemmy is an effective alternative to Reddit
  • The important thing about the fediverse is that you can federate with Lemmy but use an alternative platform. If you don’t like the devs of Lemmy there is mbin and piefed

    Reddit has its own “left-lite” communities (called left lite because they definitely aren’t as far left as grad or ml) that are very popular and hit the front page constantly. The difference is that Lemmy leftists are intolerant of liberals (and vice-versa). Hopefully a bit better balance is struck here but I’ve been able to curate my feed to make liberal-leftist conflict less visible.

  • Landlords do not provide housing
  • How does this work for land for agricultural use? It’s going to increase the tax burden on producers and increase the cost of food unless I misunderstand how this works and how it’s different than property tax

  • Fantasy Football @lemmy.world TORFdot0 @lemmy.world

    NFL Week 1

    The NFL season kicks off tonight. Best of luck to all the Lamar, Henry, Mahomes, Pacheco, Rice, Worthy and Kelce drafters!

    Full Week 1 Schedule-

    !

    Leave any comments about this weeks slate, start/sits, or waiver/free agent advice below!

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    NFL Preseason Week 2

    Games start tonight. Leave your comments below.

    Full Schedule-

    !Week 2 Schedule

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    NFL Preseason Week 1

    We already had the hall of fame game where we saw Brett Rypien and Collin Johnson ball out. Now we have the full week 1 slate starting tonight.

    Some games of interest for me-

    Panthers - Patriots to see how Maye does and how their WR room shakes out.

    Texans - Steelers to see how Fields does and whether he is a stash to see if he can beat out Russ sooner rather than later

    What games are you interested in watching this week. About a month left until Week 1 is here!

    Full Preseason Schedule-

    !W1

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    Lemmy user succinctly explains why Prom became such a prominent US teen tradition

    lemmy.dbzer0.com Can someone explain me USA obsession with prom and similar school rituals? - Divisions by zero

    I just don’t get it… Why is that important, especially for kids now, that feel like they need to do a YouTube video asking for a date or doing some meme stuff. Some teens even hire the hottest celebrity or ask them to appear in their prom? This is so bizarre for me, all that just for a frivolous nig...

    A really good explanation that I felt deserved to be highlighted.

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    Afterplay.io now has RetroAchievements support!

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15246802

    > Afterplay.io now has retroachievements support! > > Afterplay.io is a web-based retro gaming emulator with support for SNES, GB, GBC and GBA (Premium includes support for even more consoles including N64, PS1, and DS). > > The latest update just added retroacheivements support. As far as I know, it’s the only emulator that supports them on iOS that doesn’t require sideloading.

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    Afterplay.io now has retroachievements support!

    Afterplay.io is a web-based retro gaming emulator with support for SNES, GB, GBC and GBA (Premium includes support for even more consoles including N64, PS1, and DS).

    The latest update just added retroacheivements support. As far as I know, it’s the only emulator that supports them on iOS that doesn’t require sideloading.

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    When the TV itself was a piece of furniture

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    Best iOS for creating gifs from mp4s/videos from camera roll?

    I’m looking for a recommendation for making gifs on iOS. Preferably one that lets you add text and with the option to remove the watermark with a one time purchase instead of a subscription.

    Does this community have any advice? I tried a bunch on the App Store but there’s literally dozens and most of them either don’t let you add text or have like a $20 a minute subscription or obnoxious ads with no option to remove

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    Fantasy Football @lemmy.world TORFdot0 @lemmy.world

    NFL DRAFT MEGATHREAD

    The draft starts tonight. Some pretty good WRs and QBs in this draft and trades to be made that will shake up things in fantasy for sure

    Leave your comments below!

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    Google is killing Retro Dodo and Other Independent Sites

    retrododo.com Google Is Killing Retro Dodo & Other Independent Sites

    It honestly breaks my heart to write this article, but I want to be as transparent as possible with our readers because you are the ones that have quite literally…View Post

    Google Is Killing Retro Dodo & Other Independent Sites

    I know that the source is more focused on retro gaming as a topic but the topic of this post is Google and its pagerank algorithm which is more appropriate for this community.

    We’ve all noticed the enshittification of Google Search over the last few months, but it’s still hard to hear how it is affecting content creators and putting them out of business so we can see 20 AI generated spam pages about whatever our query is.

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    Stefon Diggs to the Texans

    www.nbcsports.com Bills trade Stefon Diggs to Texans

    The Stefon Diggs era is over in Buffalo, as the receiver is headed to Houston in exchange for draft picks.

    Bills trade Stefon Diggs to Texans

    cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/[email protected]/t/680075

    > Bills trade Stefon Diggs to Texans > > The Stefon Diggs era is over in Buffalo, as the receiver is headed to Houston in exchange for draft picks.

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    Opening Day!

    Royals and Twins. Currently top of the 8th down 2-1, Royals need to find their bats if we are going to pull of a W on opening day

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    Another Zelda game down!

    I conquered Koholint island finally! I really enjoyed my time playing Link’s Awakening. I can’t believe they fit a whole Legend of Zelda game on Gameboy! I really enjoyed it

    I ended up getting stuck trying to get the bird key. I could not figure out how to get the flying rooster. I tried bombing the weather cock, lifting the weather cock, pulling, using the hook shot, using the magic rod, digging every tile in mabe village, getting the boomerang, giving back the boomerang, tried every key item I could think of. I ended up beating level 8 before level 7. I even made this map of the entire game in google sheets to try to figure it out.

    Tap for spoiler

    Turns out you can just push the statue

    Oh well, I don’t count it as time waste. If anything else it was a great excuse to keep playing. I’ve never played a 3D Zelda before so I am looking forward to OoT

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    How I hosted my blog on Google Sites

    www.kmstrube.net KMSTRUBE.NET - How I hosted my blog on Google Sites

    I've always been something of a tinkerer. In high school and college, it was messing around with the game files of Call of Duty and Call of Duty: United Offensive to create multiplayer mods for myself and my friends. This might sound hard to believe, but in the late 00s and early 10s; Stack

    KMSTRUBE.NET - How I hosted my blog on Google Sites

    I hope a little self promotion is ok. Thanks to all of your help a few weeks ago, I was able to get an RSS feed set up for my blog. For reasons I still don't fully understand, a year and a half ago, when I moved my personal website from github and Azure App Services to Google Sites; I decided to just hack Google Sites into a blog rather than do the logical thing and start a blog on Wordpress or Blogger.

    As I was documenting the process of hosting a feed using Google Drive and automating it with Google Apps Script, I decided to turn it into a full blog post on the journey I took to get things working.

    If you do have some morbid curiosity on the actual steps to take to host, automate, and update RSS using Google Apps, I do have a full guide with instructions but can't say I recommend doing things this way to anyone but the truly delusional.

    The whole post is about a 20 minute read. Despite having started my blog 18 months ago, this is only my 11th post, I'm still kind of new. I'd appreciate feedback for anyone that would be willing to offer it.

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    NFL Free Agency Mega Thread

    Free Agency is here and today has been crazy so far and it’s just the legal tampering period not even the official start. I’ll try to list all the fantasy relevant movement as I can. Be sure to put updates, and discussion in the comments.

    Russel Wilson to the Steelers.

    Josh Jacobs to the Packers

    Saquon Barkley to the Eagles

    Deandre Swift to the Bears

    Tony Pollard to the Titans

    Baker Mayfield Staying in Tampa, Evans resigned as well

    Kirk Cousins to the Falcons

    Ekeler to the Commies

    Gus Edwards to the Chargers

    Pittman resigns with Indy

    Minshew to the Raiders

    Brissett to the Pats

    Antonio Gibson to the Pats

    Devin Singletary to the Giants

    Gave Davis to the Jags

    Calvin Ridley to the Titans

    Higgins tagged by Bengals but requested a trade

    Mixon TRADED to the Texans

    Zack Moss to the Bengals

    Aaron Jones to the Vikes

    Darnold to the Vikes

    Gesicki to the Bengals

    Darnell Mooney to the Falcons

    Derrick Henry to the Ravens

    Dionte Johnson traded to Panthers

    Jerry Jeudy to the Browns

    Mike Williams CUT and on the market

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    What's the deal with "Scaled" sorting?

    Lemmy.world finally updated to v19 and I see that I have the option to do scaled sort. Typically I sort by “Top 6 hour”, “Top 12 hours”, and then “Active”.

    None of these options are really like the old “Hot” sort on Reddit. So how does the scaled sort work? Is anyone who has been on v19 a while using it much?

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    How to set up RSS for my blog?

    I've never dealt with RSS before on a personal level. I've pretty much always used social media to discover blog posts. I'm wanting to set up RSS for my personal blog but since I have no experience, looking for some guidance for best practices. I'm currently setting up a script to automatically update the xml when I publish new posts.

    Am I supposed to include the entire post in the description field? Or just a summary? How do I handle the markup and formatting of the post?

    Am I supposed to delete items from the feed or do I just keep appending items to the bottom of it?

    Its it good practice to include a thumbnail image or anything with the item in the feed? How is that possible.

    How do I distribute the feed beyond adding a button on my site?

    Thank you in advance to anyone for their advice.

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    Apple releases new "Apple Sports" app

    www.macrumors.com 'Apple Sports' App Announced With Personalized Scoreboards and More

    Apple today announced "Apple Sports," a new free app that provides real-time statistics, scores, and more. Apple Sports features a...

    'Apple Sports' App Announced With Personalized Scoreboards and More

    The app is available in the US now. It links to appropriate Apple News articles, Streaming services, has scoreboards and more.

    Makes me curious if we see Apple lean more into live sports for their Apple TV+ packages, especially with the NBA contract coming up to match their current MLS and MLB offerings

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    Played and beat A Link to the Past for the first time!

    As a big Zelda hater as a kid, I skipped the series completely. I’ve been going through to experience them all in order now. I really enjoyed the first two games of the series so I expected to like this one too. What I didn’t expect is was that it really is one of the best games on the Super Nintendo if not one of the best games of all-time.

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