Yes. I have a good spatial thinking and memory. I know where I’ve seen my glasses last, I just can’t visualise it.
I delivered packages for the postal service one summer during studies. It took me two weeks to memorize all the streets of the town I had moved to two years prior.
I prefer to do my 3D modelling in OpenSCAD because 2D visualizations are harder to work with than math & code.
The touchpad on my late 2015 15" MBP stopped clicking because of a pillow that eventually bent the whole top chassis.
Any battery will pillow up if you run it hot and overcharged 24/7.
I can agree with most of the points in the thread. Especially the forced use of AI where it makes no sense.
I’m a software engineer going on my second decade in developing media streaming technologies.
LLMs are useful in my day-to-day work. They speed up development a lot, but I do realise that I am getting disassociated with my codebase. I know that the individual commits are on a level that I would’ve written myself, often even better. But I don’t know the codebase as intimately as if I actually wrote it myself. The cognitive load of reviewing two other people’s AI-assisted code is also very taxing.
But, we can hate it as much as we want. Pandora is out of her box, and it’s better to get ahead with it than be left behind.
You can use it all day and stay well below the quota. Small context, with the right model for the job. Surgical precision.
But… At some point you shut off your brain, use the most expensive model on the highest reasoning level with your whole codebase as context and just wait for tens of minutes while it burns all the tokens. To speed this up you then send six agents to tackle the same problem from all angles.
As I recall it’s pretty hi-tech, too.
Hardware permitting it’ll emulate every path your friend might take, and correct itself to the correct timeline when it gets friend’s input. Lag-free for everyone.
Also hepatitis A.
I think it’s spot on. Even if you use power tools you need to know what kind of screw goes where. But it sure goes a whole lot faster to use power tools.
Sounds to me from the article that this is a seasoned engineer who just doesn’t want to use the tools she’s being handed.
Remember back in the day when you’d see these little badges on websites saying Best viewed with Internet Explorer? And some sites just wouldn’t work right on other browsers?
Soon you went be using any of those shitty sites, either
No, I’d hire the one using power tools and PEX pipes. Not the one stuck in the 19th century.
If I was hiring for my hypothetical construction company I’d have a real easy time picking between an employee who gets the job done and one who refuses to use power tools.
I got my first car 24 years ago. A hand-me-down that my grandpa bought with 87kkm on it, that my brother crashed. It took a lot of welding to get that car to pass inspection.
Four cars later I still have never owned a new car. I aim to buy 10yo without a loan. My current one no longer gets updated maps for its built-in infotainment system.
If I buy a 10yo EV it’ll definitely need a new battery pack. That changes the economy completely. I guess it’s cheaper to drive so I’d shell out for 10yo of driving in advance.
I aim similarly. I have a CMF phone 1 by nothing.
I just want a phone that a) has minimal bloat b) long security updates 3) cheap enough that I can afford to lose it
Android One used to be a good deal while that program was running.
How about not rounding up hundreds of highly intelligent beings and their families to murder them for no reason.
If they’re so intelligent, why do they let themselves be rounded up to be murdered year after year?
Remember, Mario has a brother who wears green.
Because android means ARM
I miss the days when it also meant x86 and MIPS.
I’m a team lead. I have an engineering manager above me. He expects my team to be autonomous. He’s involved in quarterly planning, but otherwise I really just reach out to clarify what’s expected of my team.
As for my team. I expect the team members to be autonomous. We sync every other day. We share what we’re working on - not so much for micromanaging but to make sure we reach out for help if we’re stuck instead of wasting time silently. Its also for knowledge-sharing. It makes it easier to pick up Bob’s projects when he suddenly quits without warning. And others can learn to avoid his mistakes.
Currently we’ve got too much work that there’s no downtime for any major learning on the clock. My previous job had subscriptions to online learning platforms and I had quarterly goals to complete at least one.
The fuck is Starmer, prime minister of the UK supposed to do about it?!
I read it as he hadn’t issued a statement about the British citizens on the flotilla who were also abducted. That seems like a PM thing to do.
My bank(s) have their own 2FA apps which are used for the web as well.
Same apps are used to identify myself and digital signatures for taxes, credit, health care etc.
The worst of all is that a private company owns one of these 2FA apps and can in theory deny you service.
The EU should be rolling out their own later this year (or next). But for now, I need an up-to-date Android/iPhone not to make life more complicated than it has to be.
I spent some more time thinking about this. Me and a group of friends spent way too many years playing a MUD game back in the 90s. Some would jot down maps of areas.
I didn’t find maps particularly helpful, but I guess I felt like the rooms had a direction and would navigate by that. I could probably still find my way around there. I’d describe it like a vector database.