Comments by "Bob" (@bobs_toys) on "Count Dankula" channel.

@williwonti Protestant first. Japan's Christian influence was catholic via the Portuguese. As Lady Whiteadder said. Cold is God's way of telling us we should burn more Catholics.
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I started working in an ISP in 2000 or 2001. You could see lessons had been learnt. It was taken seriously. Although numpties relying on a single cheap dial up account up be high stakes day traders were common. Working for a high frequency trading firm now makes me wonder WTF they were smoking up not pay someone else ANOTHER 5 dollars a month. Even a few years (2016 to 2018) ago, I was working in major companies as a contractor and just got used to the sight of people being let go while I survived.
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oneslimeboy rimuru tempest grab a copy of Shogun. Fiction based on history. Based on the rise of the Tokugawa shogunate. There was also an English samurai. He was the pilot of a Dutch ship. Might be the person you were hearing about, or it might be a Dutchman who was with him.
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The new custom GPT models are impressive as well. My wife is studying data science. It took me about two hours to get all her study notes into one place, give the GPT instructions on how to behave (including what the course was and from what material and that it should confine what it discusses exclusively to that) and generate a tutor to help with her exam prep. Most of the time was spent getting everything into one PDF because there was a bug that killed it when you gave it more than nine documents. And it worked about as well as I could have hoped. Next semester I'll start feeding it all her course material as she gets it each week and have it be an ongoing thing. It can also be told to remember other conversations to improve its responses now.
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We also turned to drink. Despite me being underage at the time. And went away from any houses. Mostly related to celebrating the new year, though. Party down by the river. And the radio station we were listening to cut off right on midnight.
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Same, but it's a very low bar.
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@Lord Of Onions technically I quoted Whiteadder. The Great Boo is up.
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@selphconscious I prioritise what I enjoy. Rather than what I need to in my off hours. Especially on the train. If I enjoy something, I'll put an ungodly amount of time in it. Which is why I'm running a media server that's cost me as much in time and hardware as would justify signing up for every streaming service going. Repairing my frying pan (or my car) myself? That's a hard pass. It doesn't interest me. And I know I physically don't do more than my father did. Or my grandparents. At the same time, my productivity (and pay) are more than they could have dreamed of. And mental work is work. None of them created something that performed tasks on thousands of machines around the world every minute. They did things once and had the results of that action occur once. I do things once and years after I've forgotten it was me that did it, those things are still doing their job.
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@jacobgentile3351 for plenty. It was a great joke. I'd done work experience at a local university the year before. A large amount of what I did focused on preparedness. It was taken seriously and a lot of work was done to avoid disaster.
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@jbo8540 from what I've seen, not really. Considering how big a game changer the LLMs are, we're being pretty restrained about how we go into it. People who think it's magic can try it for themselves and see that it's not. However, people who are willing to put the time and effort into using and understating it (at least its behaviour) are finding it incredibly useful. As an example, you learn to be very specific in what you ask. It's almost just the next abstraction of a programming language. Even in my area, I'm a Linux engineer and developer. Most of my coworkers still barely take an interest in it or still barely view it as more than a browser extension. I think I changed that yesterday when I converted his python script into ruby in about five minutes and had it working on the first run. This was an easy task for it, though, because a well written script is about as specific as you can get. And then there's copilot. I love copilot. It would be useless if I didn't know how to program, but because I do and can understand its output, I can do in minutes what took me a day. Most of my attention is focused on design now, rather than nuts and bolts.
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This is where I'm finding the GPT changes over the last year interesting. It's an absolute game changer, but anyone who's likely to think it's magic can jump on, play for themselves and be disillusioned. Particularly with the free model. Particularly if they tried it early in the year and were turned off. For the people likely to treat it as a tool, really work with it and get to know its flaws, advantages and logic, it's five kinds of amazing. Same with github copilot. No, it's not perfect, but it's pretty incredible once you've accepted it is what it is (a glorified text predictor. Not a tiny genius human trapped in your screen)
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@selphconscious my job is automation. It's a huge performance improver, but there's just so much to do (and then what's done needs to be maintained and updated as more improvements come out) it keeps you insanely busy if you're the one doing it. As far as build to last goes. We can, but the cost of doing it in a way that'll last a lifetime vs the cost of doing it good enough is vast. We also don't need to put the effort in to fixing stuff like, say, the east Germans did with their irreplaceable Trabant. There's massive amounts of things that simply aren't worth my time. Unless you've got everything on hand, even thinking about fixing something is probably going to take an hour (I've found no single task takes less than an hour, when you factor in context switching) If you can replace it for what you earn in half an hour and have it turn up on your doorstep the next day, why bother repairing it? And that's simple things. Think of the time it would take to repair a TV if that wasn't your bread and butter. Then think of the TV you could buy with the value of that time.
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@selphconscious what comment did I delete? And what he said was we work more than ever. That's different. The one day week remains a fantasy. Ah. More jobs isn't the same as more time. I'll let him confirm, but it also means more variety. Which there is.
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