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[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 67 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 26 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

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. 😅

[–] vrek@programming.dev 3 points 1 hour ago

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..."

[–] Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world -1 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

I like opinionated software with very few exceptions like Apple killing save as

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 14 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

In other words: you like opinionated software so long as they share your opinion. That’s an important distinction.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 1 points 2 hours ago

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".

[–] Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Correct and in open source there is a lot of choices that do the same thing so I have a plethora of options.

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

That’s actually an option you can revert.

[–] Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Thank you, I'll give it a try when I get home.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

What they mean is “I couldn’t write a 10-page paper without ChatGPT.”

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?

[–] binarytobis@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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?

[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

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.

[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 hours ago

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