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Don't use AI for tasks where you don't have the qualifications to verify that the result is correct.
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The whole point of the article is to answer to that question.
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Apple have always been a hardware company, like Google have always been a software company even if they're doing hardware too now.
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Because for other workers the threat is much bigger. I'm not a painter, filmmaker or musician, but now I can make a picture, a short movie or a song. Yes it will be mediocre, but if I'm fine with mediocre I no longer need those pr
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by eloisant 1y ago
Ask people who thought compilers were stupid, generating wrong code and decided they preferred to keep writing assembly code...
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The worse is when writing comments. I'm writing a comment such as "Doing X because..." and it never get it right. I'm making a comment precisely because it's not obvious when reading the code, and the AI will make u
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by eloisant 1y ago
In my experience, AI generated code is much higher quality than code written by external service companies. For example it will look at your code base and follow the style and conventions.
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You're thinking of companies as teams where employees are members, but c-staff just see their employees as expensive suppliers.
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Apparently Python is now the language of choice for teaching programming, and I'm a bit worried about it because the type system is a mess. I think Pascal or ADA are better language to start learning about types with a good base.
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by eloisant 1y ago
> Google Chromecast: Wait, they killed Chromecast? I did not know that until I started writing this.. They have something called Google TV Streamer now, so for me it's more of a rebrand than really killing a product.
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by eloisant 1y ago
Yes, Google killing Reader was probably the first time they killed a popular product and what started the idea that any Google product could be killed at any time.
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by eloisant 1y ago
I wish Flash would have died sooner. It was a plague on the web, you couldn't zoom, select text, go back, just a black box ignoring everything about your web browser. Killing it was probably the best thing Jobs ever did.
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They would have gotten another modern OS instead of Next as the base for MacOSX (then iOS). Another possibility they were exploring was buying BeOS, which would have been pretty interesting because it was an OS built from scratch in the 90&
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by eloisant 1y ago
Fun fact: I once interviewed for a company offering a free VPN, which was actually using other users as endpoints for the VPN. Some kind of P2P VPN if you will. How did they make money? Easy: there were also selling a botnet! So if you used
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I think they got better, I'm watching geofenced Japanese content all the time with Proton. In the past I occasionally had to select a different server from whatever it picks by default but I've always been able to watch my content
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I would put that in the "geolocked data" category
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ProtonVPN
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Not saying that this is what I do, but a VPN is useful for things that are illegal but not serious. For example, France is spying torrent downloads of copyrighted content but they only look at the domestic consumer ISP IP addresses. They ig
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by eloisant 1y ago
You're thinking about Lasik, this is different from cataract surgery.
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That's exactly what we've been doing since the industrial revolution. Step in a car factory, plenty of robots but none of them are humanoids. We redesigned the whole factory around specialized robots, rather than have humanoids on
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It is very much cultural. In the 2000's I moved from Japan where they're very strict about public filming/taking pictures (it's something you don't do, period) to the US where people were uploading photos to Flickr
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by eloisant 1y ago
When I sent my Steam Deck for repair, Steam asked my to factory reset it, which I did. Now I think this is what I would do if I need to send any electronic device for repairs. All my data is backed up to cloud, yes setting it up again is a
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by eloisant 1y ago
I'm sure we can figure out stuff, but I guess my point is, why would we do that at all? How fucked up Earth needs to be than living on a floating oil platform above Venus is better? The point is already hard to make for the Moon or Mar
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by eloisant 1y ago
Pixel phones have a bump that stretches from left to right, so it leans on a flat surface slightly tilted up, but still stable. Unlike phone that have the bump on a corner only and will move if you tap it.
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No business travel is one thing, no vacation to see your family in your home country is something else entirely. I guess they really do want foreigners to move out of the US.
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Which is something the driver can do too, which is why this stupid restriction is making the system less safe.
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Still, there was value in having a laptop much thinner and lighter than what existed before. But a phone even thinner that what we already have? It's completely pointless.
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The first time I remember seeing "My" was "My Computer" on Windows 95. I hated then, still hate it now.
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To be honest there was a short period where it felt fresh and cool when UI started to talk casually instead of the cold factual language. Now the novelty has wore off and we should go back to those boring computer messages.
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Making it plural doesn't always mean "replace one word by another". The right thing to do it: add_one = "Add one thing" add_multiple = "Add {n} things" Then you'll provide the full sentence for each l

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