Im a software developer and im not sure of another forum site to use and when I was learning my trade Stackoverflow was a hostile place full of arrogant people.

This will probably be downvoted cause LLMs bad, but our small company of 7 including owners have embraced LLMs. So I use CoPilot in Vidual Studio Professional and ChatGPT.

Now it should be understood that if you ask questions about software development it is going to: 100% correct, mostly correct but you need to refine it, or it’s just plain wrong.

I don’t know how useful it will be in learning and I guess it depends on how good you are right now, but as an experienced dev I have found it invaluable.

My boss who is the lead engineer and the smartest person I’ve ever met believes using LLMs has done the work of one employee for us, in terms of time saving and having less experienced devs like me use CoPilot means I am taking less of him time every day for problems I can’t quite solve. We do have some tools that utilize LLMs, for instance I can create a C# Model and our tool will go and create the schemas and a graphql layer and some basic views as we use a lot of boilerplate which is boring to keep writing out and a waste of time. We should be solving new problems not already solved ones.

Finally if you ever need any help or just want to ask a dev some questions about code or the industry in general, then reach out.

Edit: It is interesting to see this being downvoted and upvoted about evenly. Wish people would voice why they downvote. Like what are they downvoting exactly.

No I wasn’t accusing you of downvoting. Just speaking generally here.

I guess you’re correct.

Long delay in replying here, but we did have limits in the number of gift cards combined value you could buy, not that they couldn’t keep buying them in different stores.

I think this was to curb people using stolen cards to buy them rather than to prevent people sending gift cards to scammers.

I accept that as you gave your reasoning.

Thanks.

I feel it would be constructive if people who downvoted the OP (I am not them) told them why. As then the OP can learn what this community expects and people who stumble across comments being downvoted, we can clearly see why and learn more from it.

I wish when people downvoted comments they explain why. So we can learn.

Which side were you arguing?

I think if something is described as deceptively shallow it means that it looks deeper than it is. IMO

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Thanks dude.

Thanks.

This is useful as I didn’t really know what “transcoding videos” meant and why I might need to be concerned with it.

I now know that it the process of converting a video from its original format, resolution, or bitrate. And that this can be important if one of my friends is using a device that say isn’t 4K compatible and all my content is 4K.

I know you probably already know this, but I thought I would add for others that may stumble across this.

Thanks. I’ll try look for places local to me that might e-cycle or somewhere that handles old tech at companies or universities.

Hey, thanks so much for looking at the listing and also providing some resources.

This alone gets me on the right track and I really appreciate you taking the time.

I was going to have potato for tea, but I guess not now.

Interesting. The first listing I look at had the price ranging from. £80 - £185. So either very inflated price or newer model.

eBay

Oh that’s great to hear, that things are still running on a decade old hardware. I will factor this into my choices when weighing price points.

Thanks.

After a very quick scan on eBay it seems these are quite cheap. Which is nice.

That’s great to hear! I see a lot of positivity for the Bambu printers.

Thanks for this.

I have been out of the game for a bit too. Saving for a Bambu Labs printer as I spend more time levelling my Ender than printing 😂

Thanks for adding the extra detail.

I have since noticed OP has only been printing two weeks so perhaps they don’t want to go down this route just yet, but it is another fun project and they will need to print some things to hold the web cam etc so could be something to focus on.