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When I tried pi.dev (I only used chatgpt before) and told it "add all this scripts I developed over the last couple of years to automate my job as skills". I love to automate thing…

> "Don't use a LLM for that part, it won't be reliable enough". You should now ask if the LLM is reliable enough when it says that. Jokes aside, how is this a major step he is miss…

I have some bash_aliases and scripts. The king of all alias is fixup , which commits everything and fixes up the commit with the previous one. Another script just goes over the cha…

In my country, "hard lines" are next month's "soft lines". So any system that requires those is a problem.

Rough numbers look good. But the hyper specialized geek that has 4 kids and has to pay back a credit for his house (that he bought according to his high salary) will have a hard ti…

That XKCD is very funny. BTW: > You are pointing to Waldo on a page... on a specific date. Because of tectonic plates movement.

> If the surgeon were the father of the man (the one who died), then the cousin couldn’t be his son (unless there's some very unusual family structure going on involving double rel…

> will nonetheless make people's lives better Probably not the lives of translators or graphic designers or music compositors. They will have to find new jobs. As llm prompt engine…

We will always need to work in the fields. With agricultural machinery we'll be doing way more than we were before. if the amount of new offer is not paired by demand, there will b…

> It's only "addictive" because it's fun This is not true. Almost everything in mobile phones exploit human brain biases to keep us hooked. It's about regaining control of what you…

Well, not coal plants but emissions. I guess those nymbis would also be against having all that pollution concentrated in their back yard. My point is that it is not insane. Maybe …

How are nimby crowds insane? Accidents may happen. And did happen in the past in that same place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident

There are teachers out there asking students to look up words in their phone. They forget to add "and please ignore all notifications, games, etc. while you're at it". And then the…

Since I got kids I realized how they are the weakest link in the chain and are targeted by everyone. From tobacco (at the end nobody starts smoking at 30), to "free" cartoons (pepp…

Just a data point: In Valencia, Spain, in the 80s, children played in the street with no much supervision from parents. Occasionally we would stop the football match to let a car d…

Lived in French Jura for 5 years. It is so beautiful. And I am not the only one to have noticed. The Last Man or Frankenstein have also the Jura mountains as landscape. I miss that…

There is no evidence of children being depressed for lack of social media exposure. The opposite is not true. I'm in your same situation but the previous sentence helps to stand my…

If my family had to pay the true cost of the food I ate before becoming independent I wouldn't be here. Now my family has a couple of engineers, and my work has a positive impact i…

The key is on which farms is this applied. If it's on big companies I find it ok: they have the power to emit a lot of gas, I guess. But on the small/family farm? A grand-uncle(?) …

I think it's enough to use one to address to the kid. If the other is present in the environment the kid will learn it to some extent. But I think there is value in simplifying the…

You don't want to try things with your kids. One language per parent works. The other approaches? It's already quite challenging not to mix language in simple bilingual families. Y…

You will find "the secret of our success" an interesting read. One thing I remember is: There are some cultures out there hunting seals with some tools that are made using parts...…

Technology enters because it's useful. Stays because it's addictive. You can praise all good usages of technology. Then you make a pie chart of real usages and the biggest piece of…

It actually fosters innovation, like https://www.desokupa.com/ , a mix of bullies and lawyers that "mediate" to get the properties back.

Addiction finds a way. I can relate. I blocked everything at different levels: DNS, browser plugins, router. I can still undo that for a quick shot, but it's just not worth it.