threeduck @ threeduck @aussie.zone

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Na it's belt driven, apparently the belt can lose teeth and require replacement, but it's rare, so I don't consider it a maintenance part like you would a chain

I had a Kawasaki Z 400 for about a year, good fun, absolutely enough to get yourself in trouble. Then I basically swapped it for a SuperSoco TC Max.

I prefer the electric even though it's a big power downgrade (about a 125cc equivalent).

It's considerably lighter (it's 102kg with the 22kg battery), so my 48kg Mrs has no trouble keeping it upright (she dropped her Honda Cb250 once or twice).

It's essentially silent (don't wake the neighbours at 5am), I can charge it at work, no chain/oil/fluids beyond brake fluid, and has a really neat power delivery. I bought it when electric bikes in were rare, nowadays I'd definitely go for something with more grunt like OPs braaap, or a Zero.

My logic is buy the game, now you have a perpetual license. I bought Abe's Oddysee on the PS1, I can now download any roms, any re-releases, any ports. Buy all new games, and if it gets taken off of steam, free reign to pirate.

Nice, I've noticed the ads and have been tempted, but your sentiment echoes all I've heard. I think some councils can recycle tetrapaks, I'll have to confirm that mine does... Otherwise I'm currently defiling my recycling bin...

"These phantom job postings aren't just wasting your time. They're stalling your career while destroying your confidence."

The most ghastly AI phrase, gave up reading right there.

Don't normalise him? He's the president...? I don't think a Lemmy boycott of reaction pics is gonna sway much.

You can login and it'll stop with the pop ups for a year.

I mean, it cited the exact line in the other hospitals EA, that's what deep research mode does. Methinks you don't know how far chatgpt has come, and are just basing it off of the original models?

helping along the death of the internet

Am I? Chastising those on Lemmy for using AI, are they the cause of the dead internet theory? Or is that caused by bot farms manipulating social media algorithms? Just because a hammer builds weapons doesn't mean one should ban the hammer.

You may not contribute to scraped sites

I disagree, AI is likely a solution to worsening forums and the like - boring old repeated questions will be answered by AI, anything more unique and interesting will be asked of real people.

I like gathering information

Unless you're doing your own physical research on every possible query and question, you're just as complicit as an AI user for gathering secondary information. You reading a blog post on a topic is no better than me reading an AI summary of 1,000 blog posts.

Bubble bursts

That's like getting angry at McDonalds for the 80s recession, because a bunch of secondary investors bet on it's perpetual success. Thats not the fault of McDonalds OR LLMs.

These are lazy, illogical complaints about a new technology from reactionary conservative thinking, the same thing was said about the internet when you were younger, of TV when your parents were younger, and of the radio, and of the phonograph, and of the camera etc etc. Get with the times OLD MAN.

I mean, sure, if you use it to write an essay of course it's gonna impede knowledge retention. But that's the equivalent of going "the ctrl-c/ctrl-v command is associated with reduced pre-frontal cortex activation".

I mean, I don't care if people refuse to get on board with new tech, but it screams a lack of understanding of the tech. People are going "musk bad, Altman bad, tech bro bad" and going "therefore chatgpt bad".

Na chatgpt good, handy, I fed it my current Employee Enterprise Agreement and the previous 2, and asked via deep research for a comparison of them all, against comparable businesses to see if our pay increases were fair. Ive got a meeting today to argue for increases, after ChatGPT found that we were a little under. What a brilliant tool!

Part of the learning process is working and searching for an answer

That logic can be used to poo-poo literally any study aid. Why is watching a YouTube video on how to tamp a post superior to a chatgpt summary?

Why take the train when you should "expend an iota of effort" and make the 3 hour walk to work?

This is unsound logic that I expect on Reddit, not Lemmy. Go continue your crusade against the spinning jenny, small-minded Luddite.

Fair enough, so why not use it while it's there?

Chatgpt helped me build my garden beds, build a lamp out of an old telephone, learn Japanese grammar quirks, improve lacklustre recipes, look after my plants and stop my dog from barking. That's this month.

I could have gone to Reddit or blogs and scrounged around for hours/days to find that info, but chatgpt had already aggregated it and neatly presented it.

The Luddites who refuse to use AI are simply that. You either don't understand it's weaknesses and learn to work around them, or you're becoming your techphobic grandparents.

Makes people less inclined to fight or ignore it when there's a time limit like that.

Oh good! Around 85% of the floating plastic in ocean currents is from fishing, and around 40% of fish caught are bycatch, killed and thrown out. Not to mention bottom trawling releases ~1 Gt of Co2 per year (more than all air travel).

Glad to see that's the direction we're moving in.

The obvious feedback is be honest and tell them, but then again Indian parents are a different deal. My friend is now married to an Indian girl, and they lied about their relationship for about a year. She was "hanging out with friends" pretty much every weekend. She was "looking forward to sharing a bed after the wedding". And it worked out for them, she didn't get her relationship meddled in and they're none the wiser.

Jeez I hope this has nothing to do with the yanks and their cooked out politics.

It got Snapchat in the end, there was some guy who made a whole bunch of missing apps, including a tinder app which worked better than the original.

Amnesiacs be like: "whoops"