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PHOENIX — Arizona will not approve new housing construction on the fast-growing edges of metro Phoenix that rely on groundwater thanks to years of overuse and a multi-decade drought that is sapping its water supply.

In a news conference Thursday, Gov. Katie Hobbs announced the restrictions that could affect some of the fastest-growing suburbs of the nation’s fifth-largest city.

Officials said developers could still build in the affected areas but would need to find alternative water sources to do so — such as surface or recycled water.

OhFunny posted:

In a mix of economic and ecologic news.

Arizona limits new housing around Phoenix because of dwindling water supply

Vox Nihili posted:

One of many signs that the upcoming expiration of student loan forbearance is looking great.

BornAPoorBlkChild posted:

P-promoted.. twe--
https://twitter.com/educationgadfly/status/1663915735977164800?t=UipWanl02kPymBBsuwBXyQ&s=19
*starts screaming internally*

Slow News Day posted:

I used ChatGPT for work for the first time last week. I was asked to implement a new feature where we get some data from another system and need to replicate their analytics dashboard in our app. At first, given the raw data we are actually able to get from the other system, I thought it wouldn't be possible. So I told the product team as much. They were pretty disappointed.

Then, on a hunch, I opened ChatGPT that evening, gave it some random sample data that resembles the real data, and said, "hey, just curious... based on this data, would it be possible to calculate/infer X?"

It said "yeah definitely, here's some SQL that does exactly that... and here's what it does..."

I looked at the script it gave and was like, well, this is far more complex than any SQL I've ever written, and does a bunch of poo poo I don't understand, but still, I doubt it works. In fact it cannot possibly work - ChatGPT probably just threw together random bits of SQL that it thinks are relevant! So I copy-pasted it, replaced a few variables with actual bits of data, and clicked 'run'. Then I compared the result with what the other system shows, and lo-and-behold it was 99.9% accurate.

So then I spent the next three days asking ChatGPT to write me SQL scripts to calculate various other stats along with detailed explanations of what each one does at each step, integrating them into the code, tweaking it for performance etc. When I showed the final demo to the product team, I was hailed as a loving hero.

The funniest thing is that the only reason I had the hunch to ask ChatGPT in the first place was because earlier that day I had read a post in this very thread that totally shat on ChatGPT and called it terrible and useless or whatever, and I followed the principle that Goons Are Always Wrong. So thank you, thread.

Slow News Day posted:

I used ChatGPT for work for the first time last week. I was asked to implement a new feature where we get some data from another system and need to replicate their analytics dashboard in our app. At first, given the raw data we are actually able to get from the other system, I thought it wouldn't be possible. So I told the product team as much. They were pretty disappointed.

Then, on a hunch, I opened ChatGPT that evening, gave it some random sample data that resembles the real data, and said, "hey, just curious... based on this data, would it be possible to calculate/infer X?"

It said "yeah definitely, here's some SQL that does exactly that... and here's what it does..."

I looked at the script it gave and was like, well, this is far more complex than any SQL I've ever written, and does a bunch of poo poo I don't understand, but still, I doubt it works. In fact it cannot possibly work - ChatGPT probably just threw together random bits of SQL that it thinks are relevant! So I copy-pasted it, replaced a few variables with actual bits of data, and clicked 'run'. Then I compared the result with what the other system shows, and lo-and-behold it was 99.9% accurate.

So then I spent the next three days asking ChatGPT to write me SQL scripts to calculate various other stats along with detailed explanations of what each one does at each step, integrating them into the code, tweaking it for performance etc. When I showed the final demo to the product team, I was hailed as a loving hero.

The funniest thing is that the only reason I had the hunch to ask ChatGPT in the first place was because earlier that day I had read a post in this very thread that totally shat on ChatGPT and called it terrible and useless or whatever, and I followed the principle that Goons Are Always Wrong. So thank you, thread.

Slow News Day posted:

I used ChatGPT for work for the first time last week. I was asked to implement a new feature where we get some data from another system and need to replicate their analytics dashboard in our app. At first, given the raw data we are actually able to get from the other system, I thought it wouldn't be possible. So I told the product team as much. They were pretty disappointed.

Then, on a hunch, I opened ChatGPT that evening, gave it some random sample data that resembles the real data, and said, "hey, just curious... based on this data, would it be possible to calculate/infer X?"

It said "yeah definitely, here's some SQL that does exactly that... and here's what it does..."

I looked at the script it gave and was like, well, this is far more complex than any SQL I've ever written, and does a bunch of poo poo I don't understand, but still, I doubt it works. In fact it cannot possibly work - ChatGPT probably just threw together random bits of SQL that it thinks are relevant! So I copy-pasted it, replaced a few variables with actual bits of data, and clicked 'run'. Then I compared the result with what the other system shows, and lo-and-behold it was 99.9% accurate.

So then I spent the next three days asking ChatGPT to write me SQL scripts to calculate various other stats along with detailed explanations of what each one does at each step, integrating them into the code, tweaking it for performance etc. When I showed the final demo to the product team, I was hailed as a loving hero.

The funniest thing is that the only reason I had the hunch to ask ChatGPT in the first place was because earlier that day I had read a post in this very thread that totally shat on ChatGPT and called it terrible and useless or whatever, and I followed the principle that Goons Are Always Wrong. So thank you, thread.

OhFunny posted:

In a mix of economic and ecologic news.

Arizona limits new housing around Phoenix because of dwindling water supply

Homeless Friend posted:

lmfao at computer toucher goons being like "this is impossible" then it being so easy white noise machine figured it out

mawarannahr posted:

playtime never stops in Houston
Houston leads nation in dogs biting letter carriers | Federal News Network

Irony.or.Death posted:

im coming around to the idea that the number of computer touchers who don't know how to do anything but write bad sql is much, much larger than previously suspected

i know all the job listings that pretend it's more of a skill than ms office should have tipped me off, it's just so impossibly stupid that it's tough to internalize

Elman posted:

Especially when that headline is ragebait that has nothing to do with the article's contents but throws more fuel into the alt right dumpster fire

palindrome posted:

Computer person reading chatgpt output.

"Let's see here... SELECT? ...JOIN?!?! What the gently caress is an INNER, I don't understand any of this"

Frosted Flake posted:

Also OpenAI now has that code somewhere, if I understand correctly.

err posted:

Computer people might need to start training to become ChatGPT technicians. Starting at $45k a year.

Centrist Committee posted:

I think you could turn this around the other way: the means of production are so advanced and there is so much capital sloshing around that the difference between what people need to live and the rate of profit the imperialist class expects is approaching a rupture. conditions may soon allow for goofy ideas like a solidarity economy to take off, where normal people exchange goods and services at somewhere near their nominal labor cost while the rest of so-called economy implodes chasing the whales hoarding all the money

Microplastics posted:

Yeah there's a few people that are "it's not real AI! (true) therefore it's useless (false)" but they usually come around when they start using it

I've been enjoying using chatgpt to completely redesign my website. What used to be a collection of bare-minimum html pages is now bristling with all kinds of php functionality that frankly I don't even understand, but it works and my website is better off for it.

The best thing about using it to write code is it usually doesn't matter if it makes mistakes because you usually get instant feedback when you run it (especially with webcode)

Azathoth posted:

brap posted:

once you run some code and it looks like it’s doing something correctly, then the code is definitely correct and you never have to think about it again. everybody knows this.

palindrome posted:

You're both hired, welcome aboard!

Oh I forgot to ask, can you tell me how many golf balls can fit inside a school bus?

Slow News Day posted:

I used ChatGPT for work for the first time last week. I was asked to implement a new feature where we get some data from another system and need to replicate their analytics dashboard in our app. At first, given the raw data we are actually able to get from the other system, I thought it wouldn't be possible. So I told the product team as much. They were pretty disappointed.

Then, on a hunch, I opened ChatGPT that evening, gave it some random sample data that resembles the real data, and said, "hey, just curious... based on this data, would it be possible to calculate/infer X?"

It said "yeah definitely, here's some SQL that does exactly that... and here's what it does..."

I looked at the script it gave and was like, well, this is far more complex than any SQL I've ever written, and does a bunch of poo poo I don't understand, but still, I doubt it works. In fact it cannot possibly work - ChatGPT probably just threw together random bits of SQL that it thinks are relevant! So I copy-pasted it, replaced a few variables with actual bits of data, and clicked 'run'. Then I compared the result with what the other system shows, and lo-and-behold it was 99.9% accurate.

So then I spent the next three days asking ChatGPT to write me SQL scripts to calculate various other stats along with detailed explanations of what each one does at each step, integrating them into the code, tweaking it for performance etc. When I showed the final demo to the product team, I was hailed as a loving hero.

The funniest thing is that the only reason I had the hunch to ask ChatGPT in the first place was because earlier that day I had read a post in this very thread that totally shat on ChatGPT and called it terrible and useless or whatever, and I followed the principle that Goons Are Always Wrong. So thank you, thread.

palindrome posted:

You're both hired, welcome aboard!

Oh I forgot to ask, can you tell me how many golf balls can fit inside a school bus?

Centrist Committee posted:

I think you could turn this around the other way: the means of production are so advanced and there is so much capital sloshing around that the difference between what people need to live and the rate of profit the imperialist class expects is approaching a rupture. conditions may soon allow for goofy ideas like a solidarity economy to take off, where normal people exchange goods and services at somewhere near their nominal labor cost while the rest of so-called economy implodes chasing the whales hoarding all the money

Xaris posted:

so a few things over seeveral posts here. There is indeed an increasing bifurcation of economy where the focus is on the whales; however, adtech is largely garbage with negative ROI. Just no one wants to peek behind the curtain to find that out because its the modern house-of-cards thats propping up all of the internet web2.0 garbage.

another thing, using people for advertising doesn't really work because of class association: that is, people may be actively swayed against Brand if they see a poor person wearing a Lululemon ad shirt. corpos also know this. There's very limited utility, negative utility even, in using the bottom percentiles to market to the top percentiles

The Demilich posted:

I go out of my way to not buy poo poo that is in ads cause ads themselves piss me off.

atelier morgan posted:

you're not rich so it doesn't matter what you (or any of the rest of us posting in cspam) buy

our dollars are monopolized by food, energy, rent, healthcare, taxes

comedyblissoption posted:

my boss has already fired half the department. all im doing at this point is copy pasting from chatgpt for a few hours straight every day. it's only a matter of time.