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I’m a self-taught C# dev, I’ve found tremendous success specifically just describing what I want to do in dumb language that I’d feel stupid asking people IRL about and that aren’t googleable without knowing what both the terms “null-coalescing” and “non-merchandise supergroup” are describing.

There are a lot of patterns that don’t have obvious names and that aren’t easily described without describing a specific scenario in a way that might only make sense institutionally, or with additional context that your average person might not have. ChatGPT is fairly good at being the “buddy that you have a bunch of in-jokes with that can remember things better than you”. I can skip a lot of explaining why I need to do a thing a certain way like I can with my coworkers (who all aren’t programmers), and I can get helpful answers for programming questions that my coworkers don’t know the answers to.

It’s frustrating to see this incredibly advanced context-aware autocorrect on steroids get used in ways that don’t acknowledge the inherent strengths of what LLMs are actually great at doing. It’s infuriating to have that potential be actively misused and packaged as a service and have that mediocre service sold to you once a month as a necessity by idiots in suits watching a line on a chart.

Nano is the tool that people use when they don’t have a need for TUI editors in general and therefore don’t want to have to memorize how people with teletypes decided things should have been done 75 years ago and who also don’t want to get dragged into endless pointless bickering arguments about which set of greybeards was objectively right about their sets of preferences.

I’m glad people enjoy the editors they use and also I just wanna change a single fuckin line in a config file every once in a while without needing to consult a reference guide.

Man, I never knew that my ISP was working so hard for me.

Last time I got Papa Johns, a literal child delivered my order alone while her DoorDashing mom watched from her car. I didn’t order through DoorDash. I left feedback informing them that I would not be buying pizza from somewhere that makes me question whether I’m contributing to breaking child labor laws.

I would order local takeout if it were cheaper and wasn’t consistently soggy.

Domino’s is the most consistently “worth the money” pizza near me, with Little Caesars coming in a distant second.

The Device is now more valuable than the organs and combined incomes of everyone in SubjectHometownHere.

He would’ve liked that. He was a real nice guy, always said I had a face for radio.

As my father always said: you may be a funny person, but looks don’t count for everything.

God, if this ends up with the steam deck 2 powering a standalone index 2 with redesigned knuckles 2 that can be used standalone as a Steam Controller 2…

It’s a fantasy, absolutely. The controller part especially probably wouldn’t work. But… I can dream.

Ah gee dang, you’re right. Thanks!

It’s a quote from a Star Wars show movie.

Form, not function.

And to top it all off, release codenames are Discworld references!

It’s a bit more consumer focused, easier for Grandma kind of thing. Syncthing isn’t hard, but does have in my opinion a bit more difficult of an initial setup with features like introducers that can make things difficult if configured wrong.

I mean, what were the warnings? “It’s hard to do it right”? Seems like a person warning about a problem and offering a solution from a position of knowledge.

Clown Siemens, you say?

IF I WANTED A COKE I- FUCK FUCK FUCK FUUUUUCK

Well, mine are configured for 5 seconds. I can’t really program it to know what theft is, only to know that it should expect to see a weight change in the bagging area after an item is scanned.

Hey, as someone who has a job installing and configuring and training independent stores with the NCR version, thank you for your basic ability to recognize cause and effect.

Genuinely, the number of people that hold something in their hands after scanning it and see and hear the thing telling them to put it down multiple times and then get mad because it won’t let them keep going while it is explicitly saying out loud to place the item down really makes me wonder about us as a species.

Like, I know that’s not how Walmart does it, because they turned off security as a consequence of only paying vendors on scan data. If a cart full of stuff goes out the door at Walmart, for the most part Walmart doesn’t pay for it either. Everyone else in the world needs to have some assurance against theft.

Anyways, have one person hand the other person stuff from the cart and the other person both scan and bag everything and you should get things done a bit quicker.

Edit: I know that traditionally, asking “wHy DoWnVoTe” is kinda a deathknell for the poster, but I am actually 100% open to hearing the criticism to this comment.

And yet, this is the issue that gets a response instead of a silent closed offtopic wontfix.

You certainly get to try I guess