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Cake day: January 24th, 2024

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  • YouTube tutorials for the most part are garbage and a waste of your time, they are created for engagement and milking your money only, the edutainment side of YT ala Vsauce (pls come back) works as a general trivia to ensure a well-rounded worldview but it’s not gonna make you an expert on any subject. You’re on the right track with reading, but let’s be real you’re not gonna have much luck learning anything of value in brainrot that is newspapers and such, beyond cooking or w/e and who cares about that, I’d rather they teach me how I can never have to eat again because boy that shit takes up so much time.


  • Yeah this is my experience as well.

    People you’re replying to need to stop with the “gippity is bad” nonsense, it’s actually a fucking miracle of technology. You can criticize the carbon footprint of the corpos and the for-profit nature of the endeavour that was ultimately created through taxpayer-funded research at public institutions without shooting yourself in the foot by claiming what is very evidently not true.

    In fact, if you haven’t found a use for a gippity type chatbot thing, it speaks a lot more about you and the fact you probably don’t do anything that complicated in your life where this would give you genuine value.

    The article in OP also demonstrates how it could be used by the deranged/unintelligent for bad as well, so maybe it’s like a dunning-kruger curve.


  • Okay, challenge accepted.

    I use it to troubleshoot my own code when I’m dealing with something obscure and I’m at my wits end. There’s a good chance it will also spit out complete nonsense like calling functions with parameters that don’t exist etc., but it can also sometimes make halfway decent suggestions that you just won’t find on a modern search engine in any reasonable amount of time or that I would have never guessed to even look for due to assumptions made in the docs of a library or some such.

    It’s also helpful to explain complex concepts by creating examples you want, for instance I was studying basic buffer overflows and wanted to see how I should expect a stack to look like in GDB’s examine memory view for a correct ROPchain to accomplish what I was trying to do, something no tutorial ever bothered to do, and gippity generated it correctly same as I had it at the time, and even suggested something that in the end made it actually work correctly (it was putting a ret gadget to get rid of any garbage in the stack frame directly after the overflow).

    It was also much much faster than watching some greedy time vampire fuck spout off on YouTube in between the sponsorblock skipping his reminders to subscribe and whatnot.

    Maybe not an everyday thing, but it’s basically an everyday thing for me, so I tend to use it everyday. Being a l33t haxx0r IT analyst schmuck often means I have to both be a generalist and a specialist in every tiny little thing across IT, while studying it there’s nothing better than a machine that’s able to decompress knowledge from it’s dataset quickly in the shape that is most well suited to my brain rather than have to filter so much useless info and outright misinformation from random medium articles and stack overflow posts. Gippity could be wrong too of course, but it’s just way less to parse, and the odds are definitely in its favour.







  • DOM? CORS? JSON? What’s that bro? Here’s ten thousand random libraries and 3 frameworks and two package managers so you can deploy a react framework hello world CRUD in electron on windows phone to communicate with a serverless compute code block on AWD running healtcheck for your kubernetes cluster with minimal effort for less than £59/month no code required.

    /s

    Jokes aside, I’d also like to know.

    There’s gotta be something between HTML you’re taught in Y1 CS and hack frauds on YT shilling their worthless crap for various wannabe techbro startup losers and a decent more specific tutorial that for some reason assumes you already know JavaScript and what the DOM is and what the latest top 10 libraries, dependency managers, runtimes, linters, issues and frameworks are in web dev etc. or a tutorial that explains nothing useful and assumes you don’t know how a computer works, like bruh, I know Python/Java/C#/C okay-ish, I even played around with React (like 2 abandoned Spotify frontend projects lol), I can read x86 assembly, just give me a rundown of the concepts involved and I’ll be on my way, I don’t intend to become a web dev but I got gaps in my knowledge that are hurting me, MDN is great but it’s more documentation than guided learning and I ain’t got time as an adult to stumble around googling every word like a kid, I have about 4 hours to dedicate to it total, and I ain’t watching no video either like some brainrotten troglodyte so it better be nice and written.