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Well, here we go! An absolutely fascinating year for the Flames, and I can't help but wonder what kind of team we're going to see.

Discuss.

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Devastating news from the Snow family

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The 21st captain in franchise history is Mikael Backlund!

[-] Zamboniman@lemmy.ca 264 points 11 months ago

...Kernel patch at age 4. Sigh... What have I done with my life?

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Zamboniman@lemmy.ca to c/calgary_flames@lemmy.ca

The article is in Swedish, so you'll have to use translate if you don't understand Swedish. But the video has English subtitles. Both the article and the video are worth a look.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Zamboniman@lemmy.ca to c/chatgpt@lemmy.world

As a brand new user of ChatGPT, I have never been so incredibly impressed and rage-inducing frustrated at exactly the same time with any new tech I've ever tried.

I was using it to help create some simple javascript functions and debug some code. It could come up with working functions almost immediately that took a really interesting approach that I wouldn't have thought of. "Boom," I thought, "this is great! Let's keep going!" Then, immediately afterwards, it would provide absolute shit that couldn't and wouldn't work at all. It couldn't remember the very code it just outputted to me on multiple occasions, and when asked to make a few minor changes it constantly spouted brand new very different functions, usually omitting half the functionality it had before. But, when the code was directly typed in by me in a message, every time, it did much better.

Seems with every question like that I had to start from scratch every time, or else it would work from clearly wrong (not even close, usually) newly generated, code. For example, if I asked it to print exactly the same function it printed a moment ago, it would excitedly proclaim, "Of course! Here's the exact same function!" and then print a completely different function.

I spent so much time carefully wording my question to get it to correctly help me debug something that I ended up finding the bug myself, just because I was being so careful in examining my code so I could ask it a question that would give me a relevant answer. So....I guess that's a win? Lol. Then, just for fun, I told ChatGPT that I had found and corrected the bug, and it took responsibility for the fix.

And yet, when it does get it right, it's really quite impressive.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Zamboniman@lemmy.ca to c/cfl@lemmy.ca

After bribery and threats, @streetfestival has grudgingly acquiesced to help out with moderating here, especially with regards to the weekly threads and game threads.

A warm welcome to /u/streetfestival!

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Zamboniman@lemmy.ca to c/cfl@lemmy.ca

Having some interesting articles relevant to the CFL and other 3 down football is awesome, but not when the community is still small but growing. Those posts seem to take over, as there's at least two or three every day, and so that's all that ends being on the main page in the community. So, I may manually post some of the more interesting articles from that feed, but for now the rest of them are going to stop. Obviously, community members are encouraged to give any and all feedback on this and other matters.

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[-] Zamboniman@lemmy.ca 58 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

So far I have to create a new username/password on each instance and subscribe to all the things I want to on that new account.

Why are you needing to do that? You only need one account on one instance and you can subscribe to all the things you want on every instance (assuming that it hasn't been defederated for some reason). That way you'll only have one account with one list of subscribed communities instead of differing ones on different accounts.

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submitted 11 months ago by Zamboniman@lemmy.ca to c/openstreetmap@lemmy.ml

I've seen this done in almost every combination imaginable, and would like to know what the 'correct' way to do this is. I've seen the building marked as 'retail' with a point at the pumps for 'gas station' and a point in the building for 'convenience store', I've seen the building itself marked as one with a point added for the other, I've seen the pumps area marked as the gas station and the building marked as the convenience store, and on and on.

What's the recommended way to do this?

[-] Zamboniman@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That’s an interesting perspective! Care to share some data?

Well, of course the data on what our actions (much of which are due to and based upon capitalism) are doing to are environment and climate, and inevitably must lead to given the implicit but incorrect assumption of infinite resources of that system, is everywhere and basically impossible to ignore these days, isn't it? And, almost as easy to find is the data on other cultures killing themselves off (in the, at the time, limited scope of their part of the planet) due to their actions, such as Easter Island.

[-] Zamboniman@lemmy.ca 68 points 1 year ago

Well I mean it’s unclear to me that we’re much worse than previous points in history.

That's interesting, because to me it's very clear. After all, small isolated pockets of people ruining their economy and the environment they depend on is quite a bit different from all of humanity everywhere doing this.

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submitted 1 year ago by Zamboniman@lemmy.ca to c/kootenays@lemmy.ca

I'm glad to see this community pop up here. While I don't live there, I have family in the Koots and spend considerable time there every year near Slocan. Absolutely beautiful country, and wonderful people around there!!

[-] Zamboniman@lemmy.ca 74 points 1 year ago

A Russian commander with an apparent habit of posting his running routes on social media has been shot dead while jogging in the city of Krasnodar.

Excellent OpSec, those Russians have!

[-] Zamboniman@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How would you design a test that only a human can pass, but a bot cannot?

Very simple.

In every area of the world, there are one or more volunteers depending on population / 100 sq km. When someone wants to sign up, they knock on this person's door and shakes their hand. The volunteer approves the sign-up as human. For disabled folks, a subset of volunteers will go to them to do this. In extremely remote area, various individual workarounds can be applied.

[-] Zamboniman@lemmy.ca 39 points 1 year ago

WTF, I ain't watching an hour long video on a stupid fridge! I'll just watch the first few minutes and see what's up.....

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One hour later.....

Okay, that was really interesting. I really love this channel.

[-] Zamboniman@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's awful, but perhaps better than stuck for hours or days inside of a dead, dark, cold submarine at the bottom of the ocean as the oxygen slowly runs out.

[-] Zamboniman@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 year ago

User migration as well as community migration in case of instances going into a black hole would indeed be useful features.

[-] Zamboniman@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lemmy developers: Please fix the scrolling bug ASAP

They are.

The release candidate for 0.18, in which many bugs including this one are fixed, is being tested now.

[-] Zamboniman@lemmy.ca 57 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I've read the 'hot' is broken. Lots of bugs still to be ironed out. They're working on it.

[-] Zamboniman@lemmy.ca 36 points 1 year ago

Not a bad article. A bit light on details and the effects and consequences of Reddit's changes. However, many articles I've seen from other mainstream news organizations were slanted towards the corporate bias and made it sound like the concerns were no big deal.

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