BenVimes
@BenVimes@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 1 week ago:
My own experience, as someone who is not necessarily tech illiterate, but also not an expert either:
I decided to check out some basic Linux stuff, and found a post directing newcomers to a website that was supposed to be a top-notch beginner’s guide. This guide started with a history of Linux, written in the style of an early 2000s GameFAQs guide. It then jumped immediately into selecting a distro, and started describing each option with terms like "lightweight"and “robust” without explaining what those terms meant in that context - or even defining what a distro was in the first place.
As someone who has used Windows for around 3 decades, I could make some inferences to fill in the gaps. But I imagine someone with less experience with PCs would get completely lost.
Now on the flip side, I’ve also shared in another thread the story of how I lost interest in programming partway through my introductory university course, and mostly received positive feedback. The folks in that thread seemed happy to hear the perspective of an outsider.
- Comment on USA 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸 USA 4 weeks ago:
Assuming you were aiming for the French phrase for ‘seafood’, I think you meant ‘fruit de mer.’
‘Fruit de la mere’ would translate to, ‘fruit of the mother.’
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- Comment on After Copilot Trial, Government Staff Rated Microsoft's AI Less Useful Than Expected 5 months ago:
I can think of a bunch of other things that Google should be embarrassed about, but Gemini is uniquely humiliating because of how proud they are if it and how hard they are pushing it.
- Comment on After Copilot Trial, Government Staff Rated Microsoft's AI Less Useful Than Expected 5 months ago:
Copilot is one of two LLMs I’ve briefly tried. It was noticeably better than Gemini was at the time, but still seemed entirely redundant. Nothing it (and Gemini) offered to do were things I wanted help with. I like research and writing, so why would I outsource those things and burn down an acre of rainforest in the process?
