This is a classic trap for LLM's See it every day in my code assistants I do find that writing unit tets is a good fir for LLM's at the moment

The biggest war on small providers is waged by other small providers. They can be ancient and outdated or simply extremely picky. Which makes everything Google or others require a piece of cake, which it actually kinda is.

I developed a billing system for my own work and is getting some interest.

https://peterretief.org

Links me to a login page. Would be cool to see some screen shots or a landing page.

there is a demo user demo demo123 keep in mind it is running on my linux box at home :)

Looks really useful to document complex applications, I will give it a try.

I ask AI to generate diagrams in LaTeX, works well for me.

Wow that brings back memories!

I always thought the sentence was too extreme, he broke some laws he should do some time. Not life without parole.

How does one actually sign up?

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"Print a text file to STDOUT using ffmpeg" ffmpeg -v quiet -f data -i input.txt -map 0:0 -c text -f data - I tried this in a directory with input.txt with some random text Nothing.

So changed the verbosity to trace ffmpeg -v trace -f data -i input.txt -map 0:0 -c text -f data -

---snip-- [dost#0:0 @ 0x625775f0ba80] Encoder 'text' specified, but only '-codec copy' supported for data streams [dost#0:0 @ 0x625775f0ba80] Error selecting an encoder Error opening output file -. Error opening output files: Function not implemented [AVIOContext @ 0x625775f09cc0] Statistics: 10 bytes read, 0 seeks

I was expecting text to be written to stdout? What did I miss?

It's not working for me either, on FFmpeg 7.0.2. I suspect something has changed in FFmpeg since that command was shared on the Reddit post mentioned on the website. That was a few years ago.

However, from the same Reddit thread, this works:

ffmpeg -v quiet -f data -i input.txt -map 0 -f data pipe:1

EDIT: just verified the `-c text` approach works on FFmpeg major versions 4 and 5. From FFmpeg 6 onwards, it's broken. The `pipe:1` method works from FFmpeg 5 onwards, so the site should probably be updated to use that instead (also, FFmpeg 5.1 is an LTS release).

Thanks, yes they should update the site.

When I read that, it resembles very much the format of responses from copilot.microsoft.com

especially: point 4 is the final giveaway!

Ha, very literal answer, why not use cat to print the file, is that a bit of sarcasm creeping into the LLM's?

In fact, that LLMs are typically steered away from sarcasm or irony (i guess via system prompts stressing on formalism), makes it easier to identify their output. Its output is so formal, taking the question very seriously though it is obviously just an exercise, that it sounds ironical.

In retrospect it seems obvious now.

the launch of ChatGPT had an amount of hype that was downright confusing for someone who had previously downloaded and fine tuned GPT2. Everyone who hadn't used a language model said it was revolutionary but it was obviously evolutionary

and I'm not sure the progress is linear, it might be logarithmic.

genAI in its current state has some uses.. but I fear that mostly ChatGPT is hallucinating false information of all kinds into the minds of uninformed people who think GPT is actually intelligence.

Everyone who actually works on this stuff, and didn't have ulterior motives in hyping it up to (over)sell it, have been identifying themselves as such and providing context for the hype since the beginning.

The furthest they got before the hype machine took over was introducing the term "stochastic parrot" to popular discourse.