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What they mean is "I couldn't write a 10-page paper without ChatGPT." And because they have very limited imaginations, they can't imagine other people being able to do something they can't.
Unironically, this. 👆
Too many people can’t see beyond their own little bubble, and have a difficult time if someone challenges their myopic world view. e.g. I see this all too often in software development where developers will make their software “opinionated” (read: it does what they want it to do, and not what’s necessarily good for their users).
I digress. 😅
I agree on software to a point. You need some opinions. "everyone will use a mouse and keyboard, fuck controller users" is bad. But you need some direction to get things done "what system will this run on? Everything! So I'm expected to make a rts game similar to statcraft 2 able to be played on the switch? Yes! And controllable with dpad, joystick, mouse, keyboard, touchpad and a paraplegic wheelchair? Yes! Ok, I'll need 20 years to write this, and I'll quit in 4"
Im exaggerating but there does need to limits. "this will be playable on Playstation 5" or "this will require a 2080 or better, we are not supporting a voodoo2 vfx card..."
I like opinionated software with very few exceptions like Apple killing save as
In other words: you like opinionated software so long as they share your opinion. That’s an important distinction.
It's hard to imagine not being opinionated, it's all just whether the opinion agrees with yours or not.
Drop down or radio button? It's an opinion about which is better. Braces and semicolons or spaces and newlines? It's an opinion about how to best format machine parsed stuff. Science fiction or fantasy being a better setting for your game, another opinion.
To the extent something might pusue being "unopinionated", I frequently find it tends to erode value. Refusing to pick a lane or even a default means the user has to do so much that the user might as well have done it themselves from scratch. Even in the attempt, they end up with opinionated implementation and documentation, as it's just unavoidable.
If there's only 2 or 3 options to select between, radio button. Drop down would be absurd; radio button requires fewer clicks to adjust.
If there's 4 or 5, you could go either way, probably more influenced by whatever is more consistent with the rest of the widgets in that menu.
If there's more than 5 options, drop down. Radio buttons would be absurd because it would just take up too much space in the menu to list all the options.
Correct and in open source there is a lot of choices that do the same thing so I have a plethora of options.
I mean, ruff is an opnionated code formatter. I don't always agree with it but I'm very happy I can shut down other people whining with "that's just how ruff does it".
Same with black
If more software would focus on it's corr function rather than trying to fit every relevant or irrelevant use case, we'd have a lot less problems with very large rats nests filled with problems
That’s actually an option you can revert.
How?
I combine two tricks:
Go to System Preferences > General and enable Ask to keep changes when closing documents
Option + Shift + Command + S or hold Option in the File menu and Duplicate will switch to Save As
Thank you, I'll give it a try when I get home.
Right wing "thought" in a nutshell right here too
"If I have not experienced [Insert thing here] it doesn't exist and is just a myth"
We used to have a tradition in this country. A tradition of looking up some other shit people wrote and dumping it into our own lazy, English 101 term papers with the hopes that the graders wouldn't notice.
Are we really so fucking lazy, as a society, that we can't even do plagarism properly anymore?
Unironically, if you aren’t capable of restructuring and consolidating other people’s ideas into your own format, how many modern office jobs are you even qualified for?
That's okay. Chatgpt is taking those jobs too.
I suggest we all get into plumbing. The potential for water damage makes robots less appealing there for the near future.
Waterproofing electronics and robotics is pretty much already a solved problem. And, really, any general purpose labor robot would already have to be waterproofed because, you know, what if it rains?
That said, plumbing repair is indeed likely to be one of the most automation-resistant jobs out there, along with most other renovation and repair jobs on existing buildings. Constructing new buildings could be automated much more easily, because you can control the environment the robots are working in and design the building around what the robots can and can't do.
A new construction plumbing robot, for example, can be guaranteed to easily traverse the construction site because the construction site was built for it, and it only needs the tools and skills to deal with one or two types of piping systems -- the types used in new construction.
A plumbing repair robot, though, would be much more challenging:
It needs to be able to access all kinds of places in all kinds of buildings -- cluttered basements, crawlspaces, attics, inside walls, underground, etc. And to get into those places, it will have to traverse every kind of obstacle imaginable ... and quite a few that the engineers never imagined. ("What do you mean the only way into and out of the basement is by climbing a rope ladder?")
It needs to have the tools and skills to deal with every type of pluming system -- PVC, copper, steel, PEX, etc, etc. (Including systems that use a combination of any and all of those.)
It needs to be able to diagnose and address problems, not just assemble things. Unclogging a drain, finding where a leak is coming from, diagnosing a malfunctioning toilet... It needs to be able to figure out all those kinds of jobs in addition to being able to assemble and install things.
They'll probably get there eventually ... but I'm betting that's one of the last sorts of jobs that robots will take over. Not that being a plumber will save you, though. Not at all. As many other jobs are lost, more and more people will be looking for and competing for the few jobs that are left. Being already in the job, already an incumbent with experience, will be to your advantage, but it won't completely insulate you from your employer laying you off and replacing you with cheap, desperate workers who are willing to do it for minimum wage as long as it keeps them off the streets. And then, to continue working, you'll also need to lower your standards and become one of the desperate, willing to work at minimum wage ... because once we get into a situation where there are far more workers than there are jobs, every job becomes a minimum wage job.
For the most part the way the average user is… well using chatbots and shit is basically just automated plagiarism on one level or another