The Nineteenth Byte

I have an answer on SO that only had a few upvotes until like January, when it started getting one upvote per month (Jan 9, Feb 19, Mar 9, Mar 30). Should I be suspicious?

I guess one upvote per month for 4 months isn't much, but it's a random answer that probably won't show up when you Google anything relevant

Bbrk24

1:52 AM

@user Oh it's working for you on my end now, weird that it didn't before

Bbrk24

2:11 AM

Oh! It doesn't work after you leave the room

Rydwolf Programs

2:22 AM

Okay am I crazy or does Alt+Numpad use CP-1252 instead of Unicode

I have a custom keyboard layout so maybe that's the issue if it's supposed to be Unicode?

Or is Windows just bad

Can someone try Alt+0153 and see if it's the "™" symbol

As well as Alt+8482 since that's what it should be

I really miss having Chrome's Ctrl+Shift+U

It's a lil' janky but it definitely works

lyxal

@RydwolfPrograms alt-codes.net

It does use an OEM

Rydwolf Programs

ah

Okay yeah ChatGPT is totally capable of making up really convincing lies

It just walked me through a whole process to enable Chrome-style Ctrl+Shift+U on Firefox which doesn't actually exist in about:config lol

ui.key.inputmethod.chrome.enabled

lyxal

@RydwolfPrograms You're only figuring this out now? :p

Rydwolf Programs

I mean up until now it's been pretty great as a search engine for me :p

It's taught me a ton of physics already

lyxal

@RydwolfPrograms while chatgpt (and the underlying gpt3.5) is much better than the original gpt3 at giving correct information, it's still inaccurate

Rydwolf Programs

2:32 AM

Well yeah I know how it works :p

lyxal

You should try playing chess with it

It does all sorts of goofy things

Rydwolf Programs

I have

First thing I tried :p

lyxal

One thing about chatgpt is that it really likes calling me Kevin

Rydwolf Programs

It honestly surprised me just how bad it was. I mean, even for text generation, I'd think it'd have seen enough analyses of chess games to get an idea of what the board looks like and what's sensible to play

In an opening, at least

But it can't even do that

lyxal

I once got it to do 10 valid turns in an opening

Then it devolved into summoning rooks

Unrelated String

8:48 AM

@RydwolfPrograms yeah i'm not surprised it shits itself going deep into a game, considering it is ultimately just shallowly operating on the list of moves through deep general-language layers instead of anything that can actually construct and progress the game state, but it really should be competent with openings--the things that themselves shallowly depend on immediate context

Simd

10:36 AM

hello!

lyxal

howdy!

lyxal

10:49 AM

→ 18 messages moved to The Sand Trap

figured I'd move it to a more appropriate room

mousetail

The entire conversation before is even more off topic

Simd

@mousetail thanks

the rules used to be that you could be as OT as you want until someone wants to be on topic then you must stop

lyxal

→ 543 SIM cards moved to The Sand Trap

mousetail

I guess lyxal decided that for themselves

Simd

ah ok

I quite liked those rules as it stopped there being a lot of silence

lyxal

10:52 AM

@mousetail you said it yourself - it was off topic :p

Ginger

@lyxal I'm sorry 543?

lyxal

yes

mousetail

It's a great convo

you should read it

I am

12:22 PM

:O

@Seggan insert snark about how wolf projects don't get completed a lot of the time :p

Ginger

I for one welcome our new hivemind overlords

Seggan

12:49 PM

@lyxal starts writing se nitro

lyxal

1:20 PM

@DLosc could help but read that last sentence as "Guess that's because it's a golfing"

lyxal

1:42 PM

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Q: Don't say "user was removed," simply to prevent heart attacks

Don't say "user was removed". That will only cause heart attacks, reducing the number of users on the system. Yes, even if there is an explanation. Say "User who voted on your posts was removed." There's plenty of room for that. You see, the average user, upon first seeing it, will think it was ...

I mean I get where it's coming from

I'd be upset too if user was removed from the stack exchange

Ginger

2:15 PM

@lyxal this looks like a troll

specifically because of the fixation on heart attacks

hyper-neutrino

there's a very good point but unfortunately I think mentioning heart attacks made everyone believe they're trolling

and who knows maybe they are

Ginger

on the one hand I'm inclined to say "troll", but on the other hand that's a valid criticism of SE's UI

I'm going to assume good faith in the Wikipedian style

mousetail

It's entirely possible they packicked for a moment before reading the message properly

Ginger

I've retracted my downvote

also, this user's been a member of MSE for 10 years; it's unlikely that they suddenly decided to be a troll

Rydwolf Programs

2:49 PM

@Ginger it used to be one of our rules to assume good faith

They removed it which still bothers me

Rydwolf Programs

3:01 PM

@Seggan :o Guest author for a chapter?

Lmk if you want to that would be so cool

Ginger

YES

Rydwolf Programs

Can we do a long guest chapter featuring a few panels from every major Nitro enjoyer?

Y'all could collab in secret so I wouldn't know what you're doing

And since it's the penultimate chapter in the whole series, it'd make for a really interesting surprise ending since y'all wouldn't know how I'd continue it

Ginger

I'd assume we'd be given a plot to use?

also I wholeheartedly support this idea

Rydwolf Programs

Nope

You'd get to take it in whatever direction y'all want

And I'd figure out how to go from there and wrap it up

Ginger

~~gonna draw 10 frames of Ginger and GingerBot discussing Katlani linguistics~~

this is a great idea

now we just need people to participate d:

Rydwolf Programs

3:06 PM

You and Seggan probably, maybe emanresu?

Ginger

send out invites to the P4TC room

~~I'll let you do it so if people get angry it's not my fault~~

DLosc

3:37 PM

@lyxal It's-a me, Golfio!

user

4:09 PM

@lyxal lol, idk why that person talks about heart attacks, but that is some weird phrasing

Someone needs to edit that question into something that doesn't sound troll-y so it can get upvoted

Aiden Chow

5:14 PM

@lyxal holy thats a lot of msg

math scat

6:07 PM

Hi

I'm bck

Seggan

have you seen the latest se nitro updates

math scat

nope

took a break from everything cgcc related because I was stressed out from schoolwork and stuff like that

Bbrk24

7:55 PM

@Seggan I want to ask why you set your "pronouns" to that, but more to the point it's so long that it's messing up the spacing between messages

Seggan

8:20 PM

@Bbrk24 doing a bit of parody

Rydwolf Programs

Parody of what?

Seggan

pronouns. im defining pronouns in my bio, just not my pronouns

Ginger

doing a little trolling, if you will /s

Rydwolf Programs

Yeah but is it really responsible to parody the idea of posting and listening to people's preferred pronouns

Ginger

not really

Rydwolf Programs

8:25 PM

It's not as bad as attack helicopter jokes but still

Seggan

/shrug

Ginger

@RydwolfPrograms agh, don't remind me

Seggan

changed it

Ginger

cool

user

I don't see any pronouns for Seggan at all

Seggan

8:35 PM

there arent any now

user

Oh you changed it

What was it before?

Ginger

he/him IIRC

user

I meant the parody (but thanks)

Seggan

pronouns replace nouns in a sentence

user

8:57 PM

Ah lol

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