I have never been able to read a book on a computer. It just feels completely unnatural, even though I read a ton of articles, forum posts, manuals, etc. on my phone or computer. Not a peasant because they could historically usually not read let alone afford a book, but I do love actual physical books.

I actually enjoyed that movie. I went in with zero expectations though, so that probably helped.

Not a developer, but I do a lot of scripting. I recently needed a yaml file with a whole set of parameters from an excel file for about 600 objects. Copilot generated it for me in about a minute. It took some iterations but it saved me a fuckton of time. Anyway, my point is you need to pick your battles. It’s a tool, so wield it like one.

I think you have lost all sense of how much a billion is from it being thrown around so much. 5.5 billion is an enormous sum of money. Think of how much 1 million is, then imagine spending that 5500 times. It’s an obscene amount. Sure, some people have more wealth than that, but it’s still an absurdly large amount.

The cries for violence here are quite disgusting. I understand our American friends are frustrated, but violence is only going to get you killed. The police in the US have been receiving military gear for decades now. If you want violence, you will get it.

Then there are some major misconceptions about the 3.5% rule. That is for persistent non-violent protests. Week in, week out, for months at a time, before this yields results. Violent protests drive away many of the people you need on board to achieve genuine change and make it exponentially harder to get to your 3.5%. Try getting a grandma or a family with kids to join when molotov cocktails are being thrown around.

So for everyone here calling for violence, you are idiots and you won’t achieve a damn thing.

Meh

I moved to sopuli.xyz, which is also run from the Baltics (Finland).

There will never be a time where truth does not matter, whether you believe it does or not.

I actually started finding use cases for copilot in excel. It is still dumb, but it can mass process data quickly so if you write your prompt well, it can save you a lot of time.

And that is exactly how “AI” should be used. It can boost productivity if used as the tool that it is.

The front of my car is pretty splattered with bug remains.