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Yeah, GPT doesn't "deduce" anything, it predicts the most probable next word.

I think I'd rather go out swinging, but absolutely a reasonable requirement which might be preferable if actually in the situation.

If it goes that far, I'm definitely not worrying about gold, at that point it is more about who has the biggest stockpile of guns and ammo until that gives out. I'm not planning to be the one to survive if things go that far unless I get lucky and get in with a good group. My plans are for anything short of the point where it doesn't matter how much I stock, someone with a bigger force will take it.

I think I'd trust gold more than bitcoin, if both of them burst a bubble, at least gold has some intrinsic value in manufacturing to fall back on. That said if I don't trust the market I'd rather go to maybe bonds if I'm feeling like taking a chance, or else treasuries. Even with the present administration's efforts, I think if treasuries go belly up, there may be bigger concerns than having money.

I think that is accurate. Beverages I noticed with Sucralose don't seem to give me that effect, just result in me being ravenously hungry for the rest of the day...

All I know is whenever I drink artificial sweeteners I get a fuzzy head. Probably nothing to do with this and probably no long term effects, I just don't like it so I avoid them.

What, assembly gets you closer to the hardware!

I've been learning Rust and in some ways find it a little annoying with formatting warnings in the compiler. let my_result = ( my_variable == 1 ) -> produces a warning that parenthesis are unnecessary (didn't run this through the compiler so I think the "code" is written correctly). Sure they are unnecessary but to my eyes this makes it much easier to read that what is being assigned is the result of a comparison, without the parenthesis I'd have to read the line more closely.

At the same time the compiler errors can be very informative. I was somewhat abusing the parse method to parse a terminal string into an int by using unwrap_or after the parse. I was assuming that unwrap_or was just returning the parsed value, but I was getting errors when I tried accessing the original parse error after calling unwrap_or. Turns out the parse's ownership is actually transferred to unwrap_or (something like the unwrap_or clears out the error indicator from the original parse I think it might be?) and the parse result is no longer valid after the unwrap_or call. I should have probably just stored the parse result and checked if it was Ok or Err, but I tend to expect a status variable on either success or fail, and the corresponding result value is only valid if the status is valid. Regardless of my thoughts on how unwrap_or works, the Rust error was very informative that I was abusing how the language worked.

Agreed, all I use linked in for is figuring out where my coworkers are currently and reading what they post. Anything from LinkedIn itself goes straight into the trash.

Twenty years ago my career started thanks to my college having required internships and the college working with local companies to have students work a full year over a two year period between classes. After that there was only one job I was hired into because of my resume and I was working on a Master's degree in CS (though that company was a headhunter group that paid me the same hourly wage as my previous salaried job with no benefits), everything else I got the job because I had worked with people at the company in previous jobs.

I don't honestly trust a lot that I could pick up a job now if I did not already know people at the company.

I've had some great "discussions" with ChatGPT's voice interaction on topics where I needed a sounding board to throw ideas at. It worked much better than trying to type on a phone keyboard while I was taking a walk and I think provides a better way to just talk out ideas when I don't have a human.

That said I trained text to speech on a windows machine a decade or so ago and it became highly accurate. However I still found keyboard and mouse as a much more efficient way of interfacing with a keyboard, so it did not take long to discard.

I wonder what they would say

Most of my GPT prompts are asking for a critical review of something. I spend more time figuring out why the response is wrong than anything else. In this way I think going to a GPT for reviews makes me think more than I would otherwise.

That is a very reasonable perspective on this