Ayn Rand here ain’t black

Ok.

Say the N word then.

Go yell it at people.

Do it.

Go on.

Are you sure the parental abuse isn’t why? Not even a little?

Is it a home you own or rental? Apartment?

If it’s a single family home you should seriously consider the pricey upgrades to insulation. It could cut hundreds off your bill.

But it could also be a better investment to get solar panels in that case.

Oh I’m 1000% in agreement with you. I think Copilot for programming is more expensive than it’s worth right now, both for my employer and for Microsoft.

OpenAI et al have done nothing to address the fundamental issue of hallucinations. In code hallucinations are pretty quickly evident: your IDE immediately throws up error highlights whenever the code complete fucks up.

The latest open AI model is to chain together a computational centipede to try and create reasoning structures out of stochastic processes. It takes longer and still doesn’t fix the issues. In their own demo video there are clear bugs with the “code” their 4o model writes.

Ish.

You’ll have assertions that are entirely new or different, other pieces of setup or teardown. It really is one of the best use cases for GH’s Copilot that I’ve run across.

In my day to day the intellij autocomplete is what I prefer.

Yeah my usage of it is similarly limited. But the plagiarism engine is more useful than it is annoying in my experience. Especially in writing kdoc or unit test variations. Write one, write the name of the next, have autocomplete fill it out with the expected conditional variation

The plagiarism engine effect is exactly what you need for a good programming tool. Most problems you’re ever going to encounter are solved and GenAI becomes a very complex code autocomplete.

An LLM constructed only out of open source data could do an excellent job as a tool in this capacity. No theft required.

For writing prose it’s absolutely trash, and everyone using it for that purpose should feel ashamed.

As a programmer my soft skills are as important as my hard skills. I’ve never worked on software alone: coordination, coherent and clear communication, collaboration. It’s all integral to the role.

I believe it is most of what has led to me being promoted up to staff eng level. I’m very good technically but so are many other engineers.

TSMC is an exceptionally high paying job in Taiwan and they can’t go anywhere else.

You’re not abusing extremely high skill workers who can easily get a new job elsewhere. Not if you want high profit margins.

How are you liking the ANC? I feel like it’s a cool concept that can work well but that my noise isolation from a tight fitting pair of plugs works nearly as well without the complexity or extra battery requirements

What do you mean used to? I still do. IEMs with replaceable cables are nigh on indestructible.

If someone has the email account password your security is already fucked. If they don’t then there’s no way to pop your oauth unless the client is shit. If the client is shit you shouldn’t give it your credentials.

SSO is not a security vuln.

Here is a short list of things that Play Services do:

1. Scan for active malware
2. Nearby Share
3. App attestation (Required for banking apps)
4. Encrypted backup of your data
5. Autofill
6. All push notifications
7. Find my device
8. Basic telemetry (talked about elsewhere in this thread but it’s telling Google who you are and where you are)

Even if you remove all telemetry you’d need to have the services running 24/7 in the background maintaining a socket connection to push notification services.

Gmail account is firstname.lastname and neither of them are rare.

Even though I don’t use Gmail anymore I keep that account alive.

CMV: all Linux files should be case insensitive, displayed as lowercase and mandatory snake_case.

What they’ve done is flattened and encoded every aspect of the doom game into the model which lets you play a very limited amount just by traversing the latent space.

In a tiny and linear game like Doom that’s feasible… And a horrendous use of resources.

ML means you need a beefy GPU. That could always be a secondary addition though - add it in later as an external GPU and call it good.

I bought an expensive chair 8 years ago and it’s as good as the day I bought it. I’ll easily get another 8 out of it and it will likely last 30+ years of heavy use.

Which makes it cheaper than buying a $120 chair every 3 years.