At current count, 911. I used to sit around 3000 but managed to shave it down, now it’s creeping back up.
Too many things I want to download or read later and not as much time as I used to have. I have been making an effort to use alternative methods though such as bookmarks, YouTube playlists, or just, you know, doing the thing in the moment.
The way people use tabs is bizarre to me. My ex would have so many open that it was really difficult to navigate between them. Seems like a better idea to use features like bookmarks or reading list.
I do programming and I need access to project management sites, communication sites, documetations (language and library) and tools sites opened.
When I am researching the topics I am not very familiar I usually read 4 or 5 sources. So in the middle of developing a feature I have at least tens of tabs.
When it combined with home lab servers, entainments, side readings and related readings I usually tends to end up with hundreds.
I used to have 20-30 open at a time when I was doing the same things, but I can't imagine building up to hundreds. Maybe I'd leave them open for the next day, but generally I try to stay more organized than that. When you have hundreds of tabs open you can't even see the titles so I find it a lot more difficult to navigate between them.
I don’t need to know which is which, they’re more or less sorted by recency. So I go through the most recent tabs and get the info I need or do the task associated, then close them, until I get back to the previous task or subject.
Sometimes I get interrupted with a new thing to look up or do, and more tabs get made and the cycle begins anew, regardless of how many already exist.
Some projects last days or weeks, and tabs related to them end up being longer-lived. If I get on one of those tabs and don’t want to work on the project right then, I’ll continue going back (leftwards) til I find something I can do or read in the time I have available. So I definitely have tabs that have been open for months but I do need to get to eventually.
Also, sometimes when I need to look at something I know I have (or had) open in a tab, I’ll just search for it (literally, i.e. Google) again in a new tab and handle it there. Then if I do come across the old tab, it gets closed quickly.
I’m “done” when I’m back at my inbox or calendar (first or 2nd tabs, pinned). This rarely happens and when it does I’m sure there is a something in my email or a new ticket in JIRA for me to start on…
So overall it’s not about knowing what’s in each tab, but having a system to navigate them that works for you.
I’m Canadian so I had this conversation about a month ago.
I agree with the stuffing … when you are preparing ten food items for a big supper, no sense in taking time to make complicated stuffing when all you need is a big packet and some hot water. Especially when the difference is negligible between instant and homemade.
I feel the same about frozen lasagna. Either my wife, myself or both of us can spend hours in the kitchen making a good lasagna recipe and it doesn’t taste much better than a store bought frozen one that didn’t take any work.
Now Turkey Gravy … that is a war I’m willing to fight.
The worst crime I ever witnessed was my mother in law’s Turkey Gravy, which I had to bear every Christmas for years. She dosed her roasted turkey in plain water, drained the liquid at the end, strained off the fat, leaving only mostly water and then added a flour slurry with no spices … it came out as a thin white pudding the same color as the potatoes and the whole family loved it. As much as they said they loved it, everyone heavily salted their food anyway.
That was about ten years ago and I’ve studied the gravy arts and become an expert at seasoning my turkey, roasting it with minimal liquid, carefully collecting drippings, making roux, seasoning and flavoring if I need to and making the creamest, tastiest, brown turkey gravy … even my wife raves about it now.
God that reminds me, I froze some leftovers into a dinner tray … I’m eating some today.
I feel the same about frozen lasagna. Either my wife, myself or both of us can spend hours in the kitchen making a good lasagna recipe and it doesn’t taste much better than a store bought frozen one that didn’t take any work.
Speak for yourself on that one. I can do a home made lasagna that’s far better than anything that’s available mass produced and frozen.
But I’m still gonna bake a Stouffer’s most of the time because it’s way less work.
I don’t deny it and I would love to try your lasagna.
But on average it takes about six hours to make a good lasagna … that’s cooking, cutting, mixing, boiling, preparing and then baking the food. Not to mention the expense of gathering good ingredients to make it.
I’m not saying frozen lasagna is the best … it’s like the turkey stuffing … I would rather spend five minutes making some instant store bought food that is decent quality rather than spend hours making something a little bit better.
ChatGPT behaves very much like the AI we’ve seen in fiction. You can use it pretty much exactly like the crew of the Starship Enterprise uses the ship’s computer.
In personally trying to use ChatGPT 4 for a job task (programming), I would disagree strongly with this sentiment. I have yet to find a task where it doesn’t partially fail due to no notion of the concepts underlying the topic.
In an example, I asked it to write an implementation of reading from a well known file type as a class. It had many correct ideas for certain operations (compiled from other sources of course), but failed with the basic concept of class instantiation. It was calling class methods in the constructor, which is just not allowed in the language being used. I went through several iterations with it to avail before just giving up on it.
In “normal” language tasks, it seems to be quirky, but passable. But if you give it a highly technical task where nuance and conceptual knowledge are needed? I have yet to see that work in any reliable capacity.
I use it for programming a lot too. You have to explain everything to it like you would a brand new engineer, and then it is often wrong with certain parts like you said. But if you know enough about coding to figure out where it’s wrong, and just write those parts yourself, it can still be a huge time saver.
Yeah, I’d agree that with sufficient iterations and clarifying remarks ChatGPT can produce something close to functional. I was mostly disagreeing with the original comment’s sentiment that it could be treated like the computer on the Enterprise. While they had several plot specific flaws, the duotronic computers were generally competent and didn’t need everything spelled out for them.
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