I mean, we were all taught to use Macs in the classroom. That didn’t stop my parents from having a Windows machine, and from me preferring Windows my entire life (except for maybe the first 2 years of computer instruction at school or so). Sure it’s not OSS, but the skills are vastly transferrable & will serve you for the next couple decades until we have a new paradigm shift.
yea ik but i meant this one when u can’t get via \shrug like u can in dc
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Was quite confused that this is Microsoft Excel and not Excel Esports, the very real esports organization that competes in actual esports.
Maybe edit the title? I completely glossed over this and wondered what is a generic esports event doing in /m/technology for a while until I thought “wait is this maybe not about the esports org”
A little harsh on /kbin given that it’s been released for less than two months and the author doesn’t even mention this. Otherwise seems reasonable.
so, I’m just going out on a limb here, but instead of liking something, do you now “x-rate” something?
Keep in mind that it’s in a particular context. It seems a bit ridiculous as a headline, but if they were actively using the branding, it might not seem so ridiculous: imagine Facebook (I will not call them Meta) is already operating a social media site for posting short thoughts called X with the TLD social (hypothetically). And they’ve been operating it as X for 10 years. Then Elon does this. Clearly Facebook has a suit because that’s straight-up infringement.
This is a little more hazy because Facebook isn’t actively using their X trademark, and it’s not exactly the same as Twitter. But they do hold the rights to it (as far as I can tell from the one tweet (xeet?) about it). And it’s not (quite) as ridiculous as it sounds.
Also,
Twitter auto-replied to Insider’s request for comment with a message saying that the communications department would get back to us soon.
Is this a euphemism for the poop emoji??
Man, that show was terrible. One of the worst-characterized MCs I’ve ever seen, the quintessential “tell don’t show,” and a stupid, stupid plot. Even worse now that ChatGPT exists and there’s all this “AI” hype. I wish I hadn’t wasted 6 precious hours of my life watching that shit.
I’ve had Samsung phones for years and their software on my current phone has had me thinking I might switch to an iPhone whenever I upgrade (hopefully not soon), so, yeah. It was not this bad 10 years ago.
There’s already CIPA, which is bad enough. Let’s not add another one.
Current hypothesis: When you use it more heavily, you start noticing issues you didn’t see before."
Seems pretty sus to me. I use it pretty rarely and yet the decline in performance has been clear as light to me. Before: I ask it about a common library, it answers perfectly. Now: I ask it about an even more common library, it hallucinates and it turns out SO is more helpful than GPT which is actually quite surprising. In January I was able to teach myself typescript with GPT as my sole teacher. Now I can’t get a basic answer about the datetime library. lol.
…glad I gdpr’d my data
Massachusetts! wow. First I thought physics, then I thought Christian, then I clicked. The state never even occurred to me.
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I get where you’re coming from, but I don’t think that you’re quite understanding the role of school? In school they teach you one programming language so you can learn many. You might be the most comfortable with Java, but you’ll quickly see why you need to witch. And sure, we were taught how to use a bunch of Mac-only programs, but more than that we were taught how basic UX of programs works, how to use the internet, how to search with keywords, I think a bit later on Google existed and we were taught how to use the advanced search. All of this is very transferable knowledge, even if you feel most at home somewhere.
Also keep in mind most kids in school are not blindly doing what school says to do outside of school and building heavily into the ecosystem they were told to do. Certainly not those who are using APIs.
Anyway I guess my point is, it is much better to learn something than nothing, and foundational knowledge is the point. In this case, it does not matter so much what you learn, and you are best off deep diving into something kids already have a bit of familiarity with, so that they can build onto existing knowledge.
Edit: Although, I would agree with you if this is like, an advanced LLM programming class. In that case for sure an OSS version should be preferred. But this sounds like basic LLM literacy?