I am but a cog in a machine. A lazy one though.

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  • I’m from Europe so my experiences are mostly from here:

    My experience is that if you check in immidiately when you can and being at the airport early enough will be enough to get on. It’s usually the late bees that get notified of overbooking issue.

    Just check in asap when it becomes available and be at the airport early enough to be at the top of the line during boarding. I always check in 24/48 hours before the flight and have only once been notified of overbooking and possibility of not getting onboard. I immidiately went through security and was waiting for boarding close to the gate - got in.

    Edit: also have only once selected seats in advance, didn’t do so on Ryanair flight.


  • It’s also about the barrier of entry. Discord has a barrier, but it is not high. The fact that this platform is their commercial product ensures that issues are minimal (well…). For non tech-savvy people and those who don’t have time / don’t want to put in time to troubleshoot and figure things out this is the reason they go for these commercial solutions.

    Just my observations from trying to switch friends and family over to free open source alternatives. It was a huge hassle to even get people to try out and move to signal, but signal has lowered the barrier quite a bit and now it’s stable (was not always as fast and stable as now).











  • Lazycog@lemmy.onetoChat@lemmy.oneAre you doing your part?
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    Better start contributing yourself first :) We all flock to content and building a community takes time.

    I started by posting into my favourite communities [email protected] and [email protected]. Starting to feel like it’s getting traction now. I’m sure many checked the communities out and didn’t stay because there was nothing to comment and no questions, and creating a post can be intimidating. Go for it!!

    Breakfast: Air and water because I wake up too late to work every morning…


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    Uh oh! Hmm… well Bing chat does have three settings for “answer accuracy”: creative, balanced and strict. Don’t know if ChatGPT has something similar? I usually leave it on balanced or strict and haven’t noticed anything weird, but I haven’t really tested its limits either. Give it a go!


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    I usually double check, especially with critical cases. With online searches the most useful part of bing chat has been the references which it adds to the answer which I usually go check out (but the summary is still nice from bing). It’s quite clear when it doesn’t know the answer, but often the references still help pointing me towards resources!

    Overall it is not doing my job for me, but it speeds up the process significantly. Definitely made me feel like my job is still secure because the questions need to be very specific and still require double checking.

    Edit: I’ve been so curious about ChatGPT. Do you notice a significant difference between Bing and ChatGPT itself? I did notice bing does sometimes atleast admit that it does not know. I heard ChatGPT just boldy gives an answer even if it doesn’t know it.


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    Of course, no problem! The best example of its usefulness is that I can open a PDF in edge and ask bing to use the PDF to answer my questions. I often get documentation PDF’s that are 2000 - 5000 pages long and searching requires me to still read separate chapters to put the info I need together.

    Another example: I work in industrial automation, searching for information by googling is a pain and very rarely gives me good results unless I really put a lot of time going through forum threads and manufacturer’s links that most of the time just ask you to contact support. Bing chat has been a life saver by finding answers from these forums and sometimes manufacturer’s pages which are several layers deep on their webpage and don’t always show up in google search.