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  • Pretending ChatGPT isn’t the biggest development in the history of commerce

    Let’s not get ahead of ourselves here. Is it neat? Yes. Is it a useful tool? Yes (when they haven’t put a million restrictions and performance limitations on it).

    Is it the biggest development in the history of commerce? Almost certainly not. LLMs are a highly-sophisticated game of mad libs, they work even better than many would expect (as Google learned when they bet against them) but they are not general AI or world-changing. It’ll have to be combined with a lot of other tech before it reaches the level we can say “biggest development in the history of commerce”




  • There’s no reason that standard should be MATLAB though.

    I can’t speak to OP’s field, but in my field (automotive and electrical engineering) and even within my company, MATLAB and Simulink are heavily used. The reason it’s the standard is that it’s an industry standard. MATLAB on my resume almost certainly got me the foot in the door for my first job.

    YMMV on if you could get an employer to let you use a different software, but big companies tend to be very protective of IP and are wary of that.


  • I found what really helps Jellyfin on my Chromecast is setting the player manually. There’s a setting to make it ask which player to use when starting a show and if one doesn’t work, 99% of the time the other one works fine.

    Sometimes switching players doesn’t fix subtitles for me, in those situations I usually have to toggle subs a few times or restart the stream and they actually work.

    In my opinion it’s a minor enough inconvenience given Jellyfin is 100% free and open source, whereas Plex is tracking you and charging you. But of course maybe your media is in some more difficult format than mine.