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ChatGPT - How Long Till They Realize I’m a Robot?

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I tried it first on December 2nd... ...and slowly the meaning of it started to sink in. It's January 1st and as the new year begins, my future has never felt so hazy. It helps me write code. At my new company I'm writing golang, which is new for me, and one day on a whim I think "hmmm maybe ChatGPT will give me some ideas about the library I need to use." Lo-and-behold it knew the library. It wrote example code. It explained each section in just enough detail. I'm excited....It assists my users. I got a question about Dockerfiles in my teams oncall channel. "Hmmm I don't know the answer to this either"....ChatGPT did. It knew the commands to run. It knew details of how it worked. It explained it better and faster than I could have. Now I'm nervous....It writes my code for me. Now I'm hearing how great Github Copilot is - and it's built by OpenAI too...ok I guess I should give it a shot. I install it, and within minutes it'
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Rails on heroku

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Just found out that the new Rails 3.1.3 can be deployed to heroku using 'heroku create --stack cedar' instead of 'heroku create'.  By doing this, the only thing you have to change in the Gemfile is delete the line 'gem sqlite3' and add the following: group :development, :test do   gem 'sqlite3' end group :production do   gem 'pg' end then commit and push to heroku.
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Deploying a Rails 3.1.1 app to heroku using Ruby 1.9.3 and Ubuntu 11.10

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Hello friends. :P I (FINALLY) got a Rails app working on heroku!  But it took some doing - even the basic template rails app wouldn't work on heroku!  And the getting started walkthrough on the heroku website didn't tell me what to do about the errors.  I'm still not sure if it's my OS that makes this trickier than advertised, or if it's the version of Ruby or Rails that I'm using...or maybe it's heroku's problem?  Oh well.  But here's my setup, and if you've got the same then this tutorial should work for you.  This tutorial assumes you've already setup your heroku account. Operating System: Ubuntu 11.10 Ruby version : 1.9.3p0 Rails version : 3.1.1 Source control : Git  First off, if you haven't already, generate a stock app, and enter its directory : >rails new my_app >cd my_app Next, initialize a new Git repository, and add everything to it : >git init >git add . >git commit -am "Initial co
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