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31.
by sanitycheck 7mo ago
Well, and that service then inevitably being hacked and your ID being distributed and/or sold to miscreants online. I'm in the UK, I'm normally connected through a VPN these days.
32.
by sanitycheck 8mo ago
I bet not many of us would be here now if we hadn't had our own computers before age 16.
33.
by sanitycheck 10mo ago
I have a Samsung tablet in a non-flammable container waiting to be disposed of after being mostly plugged in for 3 years then suddenly swelling quite alarmingly. YMMV.
34.
by sanitycheck 1y ago
All the normie podcasts now falsely advertising VPNs as panaceæ for every possible security problem are cashing in too.
35.
by sanitycheck 1y ago
1 Is easy enough for trivial tasks but in a complex (typically horrible) production codebase nearly all the work is investigation and debugging. However good the initial prompt is, soon the context becomes flooded with log output and code a
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by sanitycheck 1y ago
Not sure I agree with 3. I can have Claude write stuff that does basically the right thing and actually works but, as so many people say, it's like working with a junior dev. The only way I'm going to get code I'd want to pre
37.
by sanitycheck 1y ago
I can't pick a favourite, but "Consciousness" (1999) definitely sticks in my mind as one of the most amusing due to the prickly debate.
38.
by sanitycheck 1y ago
That's the only way they managed to cover such big subjects in relative depth in such a short slot! All the guests are used to waffling for a full uninterrupted hour to captive audiences about tiny segments of each topic; without that
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by sanitycheck 1y ago
Eh, Claude is like a magical spaniel that can read and write very quickly, with early-stage alzheimers, on amphetamines. Yes it knows a lot and can regurgitate things and create plausible code (if I have it run builds and fix errors every t
40.
by sanitycheck 1y ago
Then it'll be no different than when they bounce their bad ideas off their human subordinates.
41.
by sanitycheck 1y ago
There are jobs in which one may find oneself where doing them poorly is better for the world than doing them well. I think you and your colleagues should sit back and take it easy, maybe have a few beers every lunchtime, install some video
42.
by sanitycheck 1y ago
Another cat (formerly) in UK politics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catmando
43.
by sanitycheck 1y ago
Is this a known thing? I've called myself 'immune to charisma' which seems at least related, and I've thought perhaps it's an autistic/aspie trait but have never come across any studies or articles mentioning i
44.
by sanitycheck 1y ago
I sympathise with the author but I fear what he's doing here is adding one more item to that list of thoughts: "I'm in a trap" There's a lot of stuff I started writing from personal experience but I've just del
45.
by sanitycheck 1y ago
Every update is worse than the last. I did the same, and I'm particularly loving turning bluetooth on or off requiring a swipe and three button presses instead of one. And I thought the quick settings regressed in 14 when they went fro
46.
by sanitycheck 1y ago
Be serious, devs doing only useful work would lead to absolutely massive layoffs.
47.
by sanitycheck 2y ago
"X and Y were in the garden, Y noticed the ripe tomatoes as they went into the greenhouse". Is X in the greenhouse? I'm way woker than the average person but I have to admit encountering a singular 'they' breaks my
48.
by sanitycheck 2y ago
More likely they didn't care and nobody wrote an automated test for it because that would be hard, no human testers are employed (because who even does that now?), and only two users got all the way through the labyrinthine process to
49.
by sanitycheck 2y ago
Contracting will do it. (Caveats apply - understand IR35, keep 6+ months of money in the bank, be able to temporarily relocate, YMMV)
50.
by sanitycheck 2y ago
It's very surprising to me that this needs to be said - but maybe that's because I've mostly worked in, let's say, 'resource constrained' environments. You focus on the stuff that keeps the money coming, or peo
51.
by sanitycheck 2y ago
I do all that, and don't use any Facebook products. It's not so hard, and has the benefit (to some) of never being invited to a WhatsApp group.
52.
by sanitycheck 2y ago
Sadly we can explain most bad things that happen by understanding that most people are f*cking idiots.
53.
by sanitycheck 2y ago
Non-Chinese iCloud accounts seem to work fine in China without a VPN. (A VPN is needed for Google's services, though.)
54.
by sanitycheck 2y ago
Apple cares about profits, and only about users to the extent that it can profit from them. The touted security and privacy aspects of their service are useful for marketing, but they are not primarily why people buy Apple devices. They alr
55.
by sanitycheck 2y ago
Any evidence the reproduction rate is higher among tech workers, or even among the wealthy in general? From what I've gathered in the past autistic people are more likely than average to not reproduce.
56.
by sanitycheck 2y ago
If the US government is "chucking all their secret data" into OpenAI servers/models, frankly they deserve everything they get for that level of stupidity.
57.
by sanitycheck 2y ago
This was my reaction upon seeing the question in the post title, too. I've chosen not to have kids (my childhood experience of other kids being one contributing factor) but if I did I would not want them to be anywhere near a UK state
58.
by sanitycheck 2y ago
Also, there's no such thing as sculpture productivity because all sculptors are doing is removing material.
59.
by sanitycheck 2y ago
My first thought was similar, though followed quickly by "...but it's Apple, so what's the catch?" The relevant extra things to know are that the SSD is soldered, there are no slots for extra SSDs, and choosing a sensibl
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by sanitycheck 2y ago
Seriously. What does "screen time" even mean if it doesn't include the 9 hours a day I spend staring at 8 square feet of monitors and the ~45 mins the TV is on during meals? If they mean "phones" say "phones&qu

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