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Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal (www.theregister.com)
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[+] -18 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Well, I mean it's not all marketing and hype. I was able to get it to write a piece of code to scrape a RSS feed and email me if it met certain perameters. I couldn't have done that without a real grind / if at all. This is effectively the only time I've used it, and I think it's atrocious the amount of petty shit people use it for.. but there can be a functional benefit to generative AI. Makes me shed a tear thinking of the energy demand though.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    i have been using "rss2email" for years. extremely simple, works great, deterministic. no need to reinvent the wheel for a simple use case, and thats half the point here - a lot of "solutions" being found were already solved.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago

    In this scenario it needs to read a 5 day forecast capture key elements and only send the email/ alert the first time and not the following 4 days(if the alert remains the same) so in my previous attempts at RSS reader apps already in existence, they didn't meet the need.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    People have been making web crawlers for the past 30 years. Why do you need to torch an acre of forest to do the same?

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago

    I'm sure people have been making crawlers for 30 years... But I haven't been, so I've been able to access "knowledge" and shape it for my use case. I think equating ~5 queries to torching an acre of forest is a bit hyperbolic which doesn't help anyone.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Wow, you managed to do something you could have done without AI, but used more resources to do it.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago

    I might not have been clear, no I don't think I could have done it. Or if I could it would have taken months and months of learning . This was generated in about 5 queries and a total of 25 minutes testing.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Jesus fucking Christ, man. RSS parsers and emailing are literally next up after "Hello, World" in programming. If that would have required "months and months of learning" as you stated elsewhere, then maybe programming just isn't for you — AI or no AI. It's OK not being able to do something! However, it's some next level 1st world entitlement shit to think that you're somehow entitled to be able to create programs without any effort on your part and with a complete disregard for the cost to the environment and the planet.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I have a low carbon footprint and my solar has exported 17,000 kWh more than my usage. Please tell me again how a 0.3 watt hour query is me completely disregarding the environment

    Edit: I have ai generated search engine summaries turned off.. I hope you do too

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