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Today I wanted to mute the bark on windows 11. Not knowing the terminology, Google was useless. I ask chatgpt and it tells me how to mute notifications, I cla

by TOMDM 4y ago

Today I wanted to mute the bark on windows 11. Not knowing the terminology, Google was useless. I ask chatgpt and it tells me how to mute notifications, I clarify "no the thing where you're typing and windows can't do it so it plays a sound" and chatgpt happily informed me on how to mute the windows hard stop sound. For situations where you don't really know what you're looking for, chatgpt is already competitive with Google. Failing abysmally in some cases, and far surpassing Google in others.

oefnak 4y ago
I wanted to convert a string to be used in an URL. I gave him the source string, the target string (spaces replaced by %20). It told me it was called URL encoding and gave me the code to do it.
- TOMDM 4y ago
  Another great example. I'm sure most people who have messed with APIs long enough could have told you that, but it's an annoying thing to learn the first time if you don't have someone to talk to. To me chatgpt is that over confident friend you can talk a problem through with, except they've used every language and library under the sun. It's like speaking to someone who is an amateur at _everything_ but a little too confident.
  - turmeric_root 4y ago
    While I've had fun using it to meme, I don't disagree with people calling referring to chatgpt as 'mansplaining as a service'. It feels like the model straight up ignores part of my prompts sometimes.
alar44 4y ago
Mute the bark? I've never heard this. Yeah GPT didn't know what draxxed and sclounsed means, but I wouldn't expect it to.
- TOMDM 4y ago
  It's semi common language in the Linux world. Here's someone using it on the mint forums https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=106218 https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=106218
  - alar44 4y ago
    No it isn't. That post is 10 years old. I've done multiple searches of mute the bark, Linux bark, etc etc. Can't find anything.

by TOMDM 4y ago

oefnak 4y ago

I wanted to convert a string to be used in an URL. I gave him the source string, the target string (spaces replaced by %20). It told me it was called URL encoding and gave me the code to do it.

TOMDM 4y ago
Another great example. I'm sure most people who have messed with APIs long enough could have told you that, but it's an annoying thing to learn the first time if you don't have someone to talk to. To me chatgpt is that over confident friend you can talk a problem through with, except they've used every language and library under the sun. It's like speaking to someone who is an amateur at _everything_ but a little too confident.
- turmeric_root 4y ago
  While I've had fun using it to meme, I don't disagree with people calling referring to chatgpt as 'mansplaining as a service'. It feels like the model straight up ignores part of my prompts sometimes.

alar44 4y ago

Mute the bark? I've never heard this. Yeah GPT didn't know what draxxed and sclounsed means, but I wouldn't expect it to.

TOMDM 4y ago
It's semi common language in the Linux world. Here's someone using it on the mint forums https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=106218 https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=106218
- alar44 4y ago
  No it isn't. That post is 10 years old. I've done multiple searches of mute the bark, Linux bark, etc etc. Can't find anything.