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The problem is, management requires stronger language skills than engineering. While an engineer can usually get by with good English, a manager in a German company with German cli…

More pointedly, instead of prompting the AI to write something, just send the prompt. It will be concise and pointed, exactly what a message should be.

I wonder, could we use these catch phrases to track down what data was used dor training? They must have occurred in abundance in some training corpus. Perhaps some specific compan…

Current LLMs have been trained on extensive libraries of past code. Therefore, LLMs will for the foreseeable future work better for established languages than new ones. Especially …

> One compelling bit of information is there while there are neurons feeding processed visual information forward into the brain, there are more feeding back from that area to the …

Or Bastille, which folds without having to remove the front wheel: https://bastillecycles.com/en

You're right, I just remapped it with Karabiner, thanks.

Off the top of my head: Yesterday, my wife wanted to use Discord. It was right there in the applications folder. But MacOS couldn't find it. Launching it manually took minutes, for…

How is AI code generation a "innovation bazooka"? Last time I checked, innovation required creativity, context, and insight. Not really fast boilerplate generators.

Amazing! It couldn't answer my question at all, but it couldn't answer it incredibly quickly! Snarky, but true. It is truly astounding, and feels categorically different. But it's …

If you tell an LLM to maximize paperclips, it's going to maximize paperclips. Tell it to contribute to scientific open source, open PRs, and don't take "no" for an answer, that's w…

Exactly my experience. I've used TimeMachine with external USB drives, Apple's own TimeCapsule router (am I remembering that name correctly?), and various NASes. None of them could…

Camera apps. Everything else I agree with, but the Android camera APIs do not allow developers to build good device independent camera apps the way they are available on iOS.

These #+begin_export blocks were exactly the reason I prefer Markdown. Same with #+attr_html, #+caption, basically every complicated bit: in org, at best it just replicates HTML's …

Expressing complex HTML or LaTeX constructs in org-mode is more complicated than writing the raw HTML or LaTeX. So for complex things, I'll always fall back to writing HTML or LaTe…

The difference is, Europeans used to trust their US partners, and built a lot of infrastructure on US services. This trust has been betrayed, so things now need to change. It never…

- Visual Studio project files are XML files that are interpreted line by line, and can contain variables, branches, and loops. Hell on earth.

On a related note, I used to have a gaming PC. I don't game much any more, so every time I booted up the darn thing, I had to wade through a thick bramble of notifications, updates…

Here's your reminder that you can uninstall OneDrive in Europe.

Same here. I've not had any issues with my Surface Pro 11.

Last vacation, one of our phones broke. We bought a new one, popped in the old SIM, and went on vacationing. How does that work with an eSIM?

The only tangible difference between then and now is that many more problems have already been solved. This certainly leaves fewer holes where an enthusiastic developer can flex th…

I like mapy.com as a Google Maps replacement. It's essentially a very good OSM renderer, with a great website and app, including offline access, routing, and real-time traffic. Als…

This rings true to me, but I'm not a frontend dev. So I'm not a good judge if what makes good frontend code. Where I do know my stuff, I'm not at all impressed by LLM code. So perh…