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At least for me, I've found chatgpt to be a good Google replacement. It might be helpful beyond that occasionally, but it really excels in spitting out existing

by Salgat 2y ago

At least for me, I've found chatgpt to be a good Google replacement. It might be helpful beyond that occasionally, but it really excels in spitting out existing data.

shric 2y ago
For me it depends on what I need. Google -> stackoverflow is typically much faster than chatgpt. If you are a fast typer and can formulate a short question then you can often get from thought to answer in well under 10 seconds. With chatgpt there is a small thinking delay then often a long token sequence of filler before you get the few lines you're looking for. ChatGPT shines compared to stackoverflow for something you know that requires a dialog of prompts or you're asking it to write some specific code instead of just finding out how to accomplish a small task with very clear syntax.
- Salgat 2y ago
  It sounds weird but google seems like it used to be scary accurate back in the day, but results for me seem a lot muddier than they used to be in the past few years.
- cyberax 2y ago
  For me, Google started to fail when they decided to start dropping parts of the query. And inevitably, the crucial ones. E.g. I wanted to search for "CUDA on Fedora 41" and Google "helpfully" drops the "41" number from the query! So I have to notice that and click on "41" to force the search.
  - shric 2y ago
    I tried CUDA on Fedora 41 (no quotes) and got exclusively results around Fedora 41 without any changes required, weird.
    - cyberax 2y ago
      There's a bug/feature in DNF resulting in strange resolution problems, if you enable RPMFusion repositories for CUDA and install the `nvidia-container-toolkit` before installing `akmods`. You get a lot of unhelpful errors during the DKMS build. Which you shouldn't even _have_ because of akmods. Will publish details in my blog once I get the MD renderer to cooperate.
    - cyberax 2y ago
      Sorry, long day. Google is not consistent with its "suggestions". Funnily enough, your message is now near the top of the results.
    - cyberax 2y ago
      Just another example from a few seconds ago, I tried to look up "ghcr egress cost". Google changed it to "gcp egress cost".
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by Salgat 2y ago

At least for me, I've found chatgpt to be a good Google replacement. It might be helpful beyond that occasionally, but it really excels in spitting out existing data.

shric 2y ago

For me it depends on what I need. Google -> stackoverflow is typically much faster than chatgpt. If you are a fast typer and can formulate a short question then you can often get from thought to answer in well under 10 seconds. With chatgpt there is a small thinking delay then often a long token sequence of filler before you get the few lines you're looking for. ChatGPT shines compared to stackoverflow for something you know that requires a dialog of prompts or you're asking it to write some specific code instead of just finding out how to accomplish a small task with very clear syntax.

Salgat 2y ago
It sounds weird but google seems like it used to be scary accurate back in the day, but results for me seem a lot muddier than they used to be in the past few years.
cyberax 2y ago
For me, Google started to fail when they decided to start dropping parts of the query. And inevitably, the crucial ones. E.g. I wanted to search for "CUDA on Fedora 41" and Google "helpfully" drops the "41" number from the query! So I have to notice that and click on "41" to force the search.
- shric 2y ago
  I tried CUDA on Fedora 41 (no quotes) and got exclusively results around Fedora 41 without any changes required, weird.
  - cyberax 2y ago
    There's a bug/feature in DNF resulting in strange resolution problems, if you enable RPMFusion repositories for CUDA and install the `nvidia-container-toolkit` before installing `akmods`. You get a lot of unhelpful errors during the DKMS build. Which you shouldn't even _have_ because of akmods. Will publish details in my blog once I get the MD renderer to cooperate.
  - cyberax 2y ago
    Sorry, long day. Google is not consistent with its "suggestions". Funnily enough, your message is now near the top of the results.
  - cyberax 2y ago
    Just another example from a few seconds ago, I tried to look up "ghcr egress cost". Google changed it to "gcp egress cost".

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