And the one dedicated to cute animal photos, xhamster.

From my experience it's great at doing things that have been done 1000x before (which makes sense given the training data), but when it comes to building something novel it really struggles, especially if there's 3rd party libraries involved that aren't commonly used. So you end up spending a lot of time and money hand holding it through things that likely would have been quicker to do yourself.

Yeah in my last role we were probably the biggest user of a certain storage service that was still kinda new, there were quite a few times we found bugs, features that straight up didn't work how the documentation stated, and aws sent us workaround scripts that seriously looked like an unpaid intern wrote.

I'm not sure if GCP/Azure would be much different though.

I'm somewhat of a programmer, but there's ideas everywhere in life. My bank came out with an API so I built an app that pulls it all down, stores it in a database, and makes some pretty graphs. Had no experience in fullstack or backend development before (I'm a sysadmin/cloud engineer), so it took me a really long time and I was following a course but adapting it to my project for a lot of it.

The other day I picked up an old game (Mu online) that is soooo grindy it even gives you an in-game bot to play for you, but if you die you just respawn in a safe zone. So I've started writing a script that reads the screen (character position is shown in x, y coordinates on screen), and those coordinates are within a given area (the safe zone) it will alert me. Again, had no experience with any of the window controls or image to text conversion (tesseract), but got chatgpt to help me a bit. Will it save me time? Maybe a little. Will I stop playing this game in a month? More than likely. Did I learn something? Absolutely.

I'm self taught but working in tech there's obviously more work related use cases to actually start learning, but there's every-day stuff you can do too.

Haha it happens to us all!

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Do you want wired or wireless? If wireless check out the Moondrop space travel, if wired then Moondrop Aria, linsoul tin t2, there's plenty of chifi options that'll outperform any name brand stuff.

Look at the first line of /etc/fstab.... Remove everything before the #

Honestly it might be Finding Nemo. I think it was the first DVD we had and my younger sister was obsessed with it, so I'd watch it a lot with her. Things I'd watch at my own accord it's probably LOTR or Harry Potter though.

Yep, bought one in the UK and have been travelling in it for 5 months, in Turkey now about to go to North Cyprus and wait out the cold before making my way back to Europe for spring.

MOBA games, I spent years playing heroes of newerth and Dota2, but as I got older and had less time to play it got increasingly harder to keep up with all the changes, and I realised it was just making me stressed playing it rather than enjoying it. Still enjoyed watching The International for a few years after I quit though.

Wordpress could have taken a survey of their highest paying customers, then created features they needed behind a private hosting service

Isn't this what WordPress VIP is?

What are you using to get Claude to write for you? I've been using it to write a full stack Go/javascript app but it needs a lot of handholding.

Not really, but the yen is very weak and they are facing a rapidly aging population crisis.

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I disagree with that, I've found it useful for programming, travel, and fleshing out creative ideas. I would say it's limited and isn't a real replacement for a proper expert, but as an always available service there's certainly value.

Fall of civilisations is my go-to as well!

Oh I didn't even know there were videos haha

Blanco White, British artist with Spanish/Latin influence. 'The wind rose' from his EP is such a good song and I think it reflects his style still. https://open.spotify.com/track/2B2iGPBD6RBWJ11uxtb34t?si=GidmWC2uSoSiDvwbw8XmyQ&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A18WIUFEZRfWSRDhfnmO9NB

"Giordano's dream" (both parts) are an amazing listen too. https://open.spotify.com/album/0ZiiZQCm1aez7Kt77j78QG?si=5e5wSsbETP2dNLOLlMVxhg

Weird, I signed up fine 2 months ago.

Yeah it's right-hand drive, not a problem but can be a bit sketchy merging onto roads where I don't have good vision to my left. Took the ferry from Dover (England) to Calais (France).

Also I've decided to go to Georgia instead of Cyprus, think I'll get bored there as I'll be restricted to the Turkish side.