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by alternatex 6mo ago
AWS ain't no Mercedes. Mercedes feels premium and isn't full of bugs. AWS and Azure a charging an arm and a leg, but the offered quality is mostly perceived. Most of the bits and bobs they charge for are not providing much value f
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by alternatex 6mo ago
The backend of Copilot is still called Sydney AFAIK
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by alternatex 6mo ago
Office, or rather Microsoft 365 applications have had web versions for a decade now.
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by alternatex 6mo ago
Reminder for anyone that doesn't know better: having good sleep is dependent on a few minor lifestyle adjustments. Like avoiding heavy (or any outside of fruit and vegetable) meals and exercise a few hours before going to bed. And avoi
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by alternatex 6mo ago
Freelance work is like car lanes, the more you build the more demand you have. There's no satiating the need for software. Lowering the bar to produce software will just motivate more companies and people to digitalize/automate mo
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by alternatex 6mo ago
I think they mean knowing that AI only looks to be good at something pulls back the curtain in a sense and afterwards all appearances of AI seeming good at something seem fake.
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by alternatex 6mo ago
Highlighted text "no per-seat pricing" is unreadable in dark mode on the home page (dark blue on black). It's surprising for me to see someone use this as an example of decent design because I'm somewhat sure this front
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by alternatex 6mo ago
If it was a Gnome issue it would also be a Fedora issue though, no?
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by alternatex 6mo ago
At Microsoft this totally depends on the org and team. I've seen the full spectrum of quality here.
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by alternatex 7mo ago
Vivaldi integrates Proton VPN into theirs. I think it's pretty useful.
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by alternatex 7mo ago
I have a feeling F# would work great, but unfortunately we don't use it at work so I can't experiment with the fancy expensive models. Only problem might be amount of training data.
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by alternatex 7mo ago
It's easier to be lazy now more than ever. Hard to blame them because the temptation to deliver and prove oneself as a junior is always high. I can't count how many seniors have forgotten what it means to understand the code they&
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by alternatex 8mo ago
Don't bother. They're going to claim that cosmic radiation can alter bits so compiler determinism is comparable to LLM. I'd rather AI evangelists claim determinism is not required to build decent software than perform the men
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by alternatex 8mo ago
By those metrics, Microsoft lost 20% of it's value due to hopping on the AI coding assistance train. I'm not saying it is the case, just making it apparent how unreliable it is to measure productivity by comparing what's happ
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by alternatex 8mo ago
Now if only companies knew how to correctly assess actual impact and not perceived impact.
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by alternatex 8mo ago
We can indeed only imagine. For now, AI has been a curse for open source projects.
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by alternatex 8mo ago
WordPad was discontinued.
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by alternatex 8mo ago
They are trained on our code. Perhaps not if you don't have any of it open sourced, but it's so jarring to see someone say they don't care about our code.
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by alternatex 8mo ago
Can't say the same for my colleagues' AI written code. It's overtly verbose and always does more that what's required.
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by alternatex 8mo ago
My experience in the Teams org is the same. It's all about security, compliance, and recently AI. Fixing bugs and similar "non-flashy" work is a sure way of postponing one's promotion indefinitely.
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by alternatex 8mo ago
You can create a lot of profit for your employer whilst contributing nothing to society or even be detrimental to it. Money has no bearing on that.
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by alternatex 8mo ago
No offense, but you'd be a perfect Microsoft employee right now. Windows division probably.
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by alternatex 9mo ago
Created a WYSIWYG editor or copied it off the internet like your average junior would, bugs included? If that editor is very complicated (as they usually are) it makes sense to just opt for a library. If it's simple then AI is not requ
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by alternatex 9mo ago
The execs probably got promotions for it considering the money saved. The real morons are the customers buying these cars. Brand loyalists don't buy based on logical reasoning.
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by alternatex 9mo ago
As someone looking for an automatic why do you want them to make more manuals? Or was it sarcasm? I'm not a "for the love of the drive" type of fellow, especially after living with an older 6-speed manual for many years, so I
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by alternatex 10mo ago
Economics don't work like that though. Google has the benefits of economies of scale and stable manufacturing partnerships, not to mention probably a lot more of the watch parts are designed in-house. I'd be surprised if Pebble co
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by alternatex 10mo ago
Pixel watch is an order of magnitude more powerful and expensive than a Pebble though. Raise to wake is not as simple as it may seem considering most big brand smart watches didn't have a decently working implementation of it until onl
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by alternatex 10mo ago
>I'm much faster at quickly spotting an icon Using the label-less example in the article with the 10x10 monochrome icons I doubt many other people feel the same.
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by alternatex 10mo ago
Unironically Proton. Seems like they are slowly building their own suite of office tools.
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by alternatex 10mo ago
How is it opposite. In my mind they all fall under the same libertarian fantasy umbrella. The post mentioned the idea of casually sending a billion dollars. Was that ever possible with Bitcoin? AFAIK it's less ergonomic to send money u

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