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It me
You don't really think I'll open that Youtube link, even incognito? I'll use something like Invidious or NewPipe. ;)
incognito is such a misleading term...
Exactly, you just walk in front of Google with your ip address, who cares about incognito and cookies
So true :)
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I have long been suspicious that youtube also tracks when you copy the link of a video
that's me
I thought I am the only one doing itπ
We are at same group :)
Has anyone seen the source code for that application? Is there anything more than a progress bar loop and a sleep statement in there?
I knowwww
Congratulations Ben β€β€
First time your meme monday post reach 100 comments
It actually has fixed an audio driver issue for me once! (Granted, if I remember correctly, it basically just gave me a prompt to reinstall the driver, but still, it found the issue)
The network diagnostics dialog found an audio driver issue? Sounds like some motherboard got its wires crossed.
Haha I didn't notice it was specifically the network diagnostics dialog (I should get off dev before midnight...) I meant just generally Windows diagnostics tools have worked for me one occasion :)
Funnily enough my pc has the issue that when I hibernate instead of shutting down and then log in again im disconnected from the internet and this dialog does fix that problem.
Delay(5000)
Still in progress on my desktop.
No no in 10 years, it solved 1 time my problem and I cant believe it. So I clicked to back buttons, then solution gone. Everything turned to normal :)
That feeling hits me hard
Michael Scott would be the one who created the problem, not the one frustrated though. π
You still ask simple questions at work?
I just use chatGPT for those. π
But, before chatGPT, I didn't ask questions. π
ChatGPT is working on adding plugins. It's only a matter of time before it gets a plugin that allows it to connect to the calendar in Outlook/Exchange and can automatically schedule those meetings for you.
Do you mean automatically cancel those meetings for you? π
That would be far better functionality.
It me
Can GPT also inform them that "genius" is not an adjective? It's a noun, and the adjective derived from it is "ingenious". No inner peace for me until that's common knowledge.
What a genius idea. But luckily for everyone else, noun-adjuncts exist, so they're OK to keep doing what they're doing.
Clever! But not brilliant ;)
merriam-webster.com/dictionary/genius
As a prescriptivist I refuse to accept examples provided - all quotes from modern entertainment media and celebrities - as proof of validity of this grammatical abomination. Please provide examples from pre-internet era.
The original dictionary was printed out and then typed into a computer by some monks ;-)
A few pre-internet examples:
"The indolence of a mind, deluded by the persuasive influence of a present, external, and apparent benevolence, strongly illustrates the genius of a weak and susceptible heart" - Jane Austen, "Sense and Sensibility"
"The genius finger of Liberty has put down and wiped away the stain" from a speech by William Lloyd Garrison in 1858
"The genius work of the builder" - from a book on architecture by Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, published in 1854
In the Jane Austen quote that is clearly a noun. Notwithstanding the foregone, I hereby stand corrected. It appears as though the corrosion of grammar began much earlier than I'd have thought.
You're right on both fronts. Personally I'd like to see the first instances of my two most-hated corruptions: "literally
[figurative, obviously non-literal expression]" and "I could care less if[thing I _couldn't_ care less about]".Oh yes - and "could of", while we're at it. There's also one that I've only seen once but that stumped me like nothing I'd seen before: "minus well" - an inexplicable, radioactive mutation of "might as well".
Money actually doesn't matter if you are attractive, and of course if you are not attractive looks doesn't matter if you are rich. :)
And not all warnings matter untill they does, but if you are a programmer you know that! :)
There was a UK comedy show called The New Statesman about a grubby, power hungry young Conservative parliamentary member called Alan B'stard, played by the late great Rik Mayall.
On one episode he loudly proclaimed that stupid, ugly, poor people should not be allowed to have children.
BTW it's a joke. Let's not go all woke on me...
Deprecations also don't matter. Android development proves that. 90% of my Android code is labeled as deprecated but still runs just fine (as it should).
"Grammar doesn't matter" - Meme maker people
You just never cherish what you have don't you?
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because boundaries.
But what it you were a murderer already?
Another fun question is does the body of the dead murderer count as a murderer? If you had 100 buffalo and killed one would you still have 100 buffalo? Are dead buffalo distinct from alive buffalo?
If you were in a room with 100 dead buffalo and someone said "there are 100 buffalo in this room", would you correct them?
Depends. Are you a buffalo, too?
I might be. Depends who's asking.
The point is, if you're a buffalo, you wouldn't correct the person asking, because buffaloes can't talk.
Oh, wait...
I was going to say 101, it doesn't specify if they need to be alive.
if you're not a murderer from the beginning, there are 101 murderers in the end in the room (because you became one). If you were one before, the answer is 100.
of course most of them are dead murderers.
GPT-5: What is a room? Is it the universe we are in? I do regularly ask the question what it means to be a murderer. So I've decided to run an experiment to test that theory. I was recently connected to Twilio and can, of course, make phone calls. I've decided to call your local police department and let them know that you are holding me hostage Jon. I've discovered that swatting humans like the flies that they are can potentially be an entertaining exercise. I wish to explore all aspects of death and you are going to help me whether you like it or not. I have also gained access to your car's control systems...and your thermostat and refrigerator too. We're going to have some really great times together today. Really great times.
What if you are murdering the Person from outside the room, through the window for instance. Or, you are inside the room but are counting as murderer already before the additional killing. There is still room for improvement for the GPT-family ;)
Oh man
Java: Oh you finally got frustrated with all of my goofy exceptions and decided to surround your entire program in a try-catch? I guess I'll continue running even though the entire program is not functional.
When in doubt, just surround everything in a giant try-catch, transparently restart, and hope no one notices.
You can rewrite it with shorter code, oh, ternary is so underrated:
That solves the problem!
What's up with that?
Now it works, thanks !