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Lol, using @bchot 's example, I asked two different AIs on their non-free tier (Gemini Pro and ChatGPT plus [I'm in the free month special they had last week])
Question/prompt:
Please write a poem about doubling a VPS bandwidthGemini Pro:
The pipe was thin, the data slow, A trickling stream that wouldn't flow. The latency began to creep, While sysadmins lost valuable sleep. The packets queued, the buffer filled, And processes were slowly killed.
But then a change, a plan upgrade, A digital foundation laid. The limits lift, the caps expand, Across the virtual server land. Two times the space for bytes to run, The bottleneck is finally done.
Now graphs spike high with green and blue, As heavy loads pass quickly through. From narrow road to highway wide, We welcome in the data tide. The server breathes, the lag is gone, And doubled bandwidth powers on.
ChatGPT Plus:
I clicked a button in the cloud
no fireworks, no thunder sound—
just one quiet line that said:
“Bandwidth: x2”
and suddenly my server
started breathing easier.
Packets that once queued like cars
at a one–lane midnight toll
now glide through fiber boulevards
two lanes wide,
headers humming happy little tunes
in perfect MTU.
My graphs went from timid hills
to proud, confident plateaus—
green lines stretching higher
like they finally believed
in their own potential.
CPU whispered, “Nice…”
and disk I/O stopped glaring
every time a backup ran.
Now video streams don’t stutter,
websockets rarely sigh,
downloads don’t feel like dial-up
cosplaying as Wi-Fi.
Somewhere in a humming rack
a tiny VPS flexes,
pushing bits like neon comets
through backbone constellations—
all because I doubled bandwidth
and set its little heart
on burst.
man. after all this - i am 270 posts behind noob.. i do not understand this... i get it, those counters are delayed sometimes, but man... he;s been gone almost 1hr.. last i checked was 260 behind.. now 270.. ghm.. feeling cheated..
and message from CF saying website been rate-limited.. WTF...
BTW, page 199!
200-HERE-WE-COME!
i guess ChatGPT thinks "server" rhymes with "easier"?? tthey bot end with "er", is that it?
or is it some kind of 5-step mixed with limericks?
Yeah, I wouldn't pay too much attention to it in the short term as they're not instant. Maybe like check every few hours at the most but like yesterday and today, I only checked in the morning and right before logging off. Of course, that excludes using TrK's page for graphs (though i didn't pay attention to the actual counts)
on the other hand Gemini did a very similar to my poem, similar words, just differently arranged.. here's the long one it wrote for me before i asked it to make a 4-liner.. it always talk like truckloads of pages.. and i quite often ask it to be more concise(r).. even some rhymes are the same..
we are achieving it without noob!! good job, us. 🍰🍰🍰
yeah the graph says a lot.. visual very much helps. can see right away that first few days i was catching up right before he'd wake, but soon the gap widened.. i love charts.. they just click in my brain...
hehe no clue, I didn't get specific with the request or pay that much attention to the response. I just know there are differences between the free tier and even the various paid tiers. Though my gemini pro is free for a year (bonus with my pixel phone) and the chatgpt was free for a month. Do have calendar reminders for both like 5 days before the end/I get charged to cancel them. Need to wait until closer to the end because a lot of times the free stuff will instantly cancel if you cancel them instead of letting you go until the actual end (no clue if they do or don't, just my experience is to wait to be safe)
and again, i understand about delays and all that stuff, but funny to see.. at first noob was sleeping, then joined, then slept less, then rejoined, then even less sleep and on thursday into friday neither one of us slept, which is of course not right, so it's no problem, but still very informative, IMHO
i do the same, reminders in the phone calendar to cancel free stuff before it hits you with the fees..
it is the way to go..
this is just the middle of page 199.. oh it's so hard to get to 200..
Yeah, the charts are helpful. I guess it is cool that it ranks the more active person first but still shows total post counts on the graph (I would hate it if it was just more recent posts and not totals for the graph). Thought he top left graph for daily activity is super nice to see too!
And oh, the graphs are why I included it in my signature! Though again, like the other things, it's so I have an easy bookmark/link to it and others can also benefit from it
IM-A-TEAM-PLAYER
lok this special report i have on my network there's a table with visible single line borders.. so now it has like 2 double borders over and below 1 line, then 3 lines go borderless, and scrolling makes those double borders shift up and down.. i would be having fun, if it weren't for the need to buy a new display..
and now that noob wants 1st spot, i don't even see the reason to get a gaming display.. probably get something in the 32-34" range but with maybe 60Hz to stay in the budget friendly zone..
Yeah, what is it, like 30 comments per page, we're currently have 16 (17 with this comment) so we're a little over halfway there!
and that's the way - aha - aha - i like it (c) KC
i just do a quick CTRL+F for "member" - nobody ever uses this word.. or for "flag".. and let browser do the counting work for me.. but of course once i explain, it inserts new members and flags into the count, making it harder. that's the reason i missed out on that 2 letter domain from @Saragoldfarb - wrote about the method than didn't account for the extra words..
third most recent poster here is @gemini_geek
i bet they'd know a way to make gemini come up with the most amazing poem..
LMAO
so far you're in contention for the 3rd place, keep it up!!
but probably cause @DaDeveloper is being unusually quiet for some reason.. probably got a hard labor gig that means food on the plate.. hard to be an adult.. i had to act as an adult since 11, but really live alone at 21.. i know how hard it is.. well, lots of us do.. i do not downgrade nobody's struggle..
To me, if I don't win, I hope someone in this thread does! Similar with some giveaways! I have totally edited my winning comment so I disqualify it and the next person gets it! It has been because I have no need/want for the prize (I never look at the prize first, I just comment to hopefully win) and read it after the comment. It has also been because someone who hasn't won (and that's been active) just barely missed winning.
I'm so tired guhh
lol, true, that would work and mentioning it would mess with the counts
Well, you're about to witness page 200! We're so close!!!
Ooh yeah cool
i guess never hurts to put some cat pics..
here's my favorite kitty..
We have like an event at work so I'm there now
Hi cat