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I bet c-suite uses Mac

Written in '05 and still very poignant. I'd love to see a follow-up of this article updated for how it's changed 20 years later. Seems like the scale and decentralization has changed the most.

RDR2 works great on my AMD Linux machine.

Yeah, same here except in Retail. All the hiring is in the Indian campus where they can pay junior devs 11/hr compared to the 80/hr billed by Kforce, InfoSys, et. al.

Yeah, it's kinda crazy people are brushing over the security issues. The nostalgia is huge, I get it, but Flash was terrible for browsing the internet at the time.

Yeah, I still like doing "weird" things wrt music and experiencing art, but I am not posting about it anywhere or paying much for it. Most of the really interesting things I've been to in the last 5 years or so have been very local, small, and not really monetized.

My big gripe with spreadsheets is just that there's a lot of bloat on top of the spreadsheet which makes large datasets difficult to work with.

Otherwise, I find them to be great deliverables.

I'm not surprised. Was part of an acquisition by a large F100 company. There were some "interesting" accounting calculations that we discovered 2 years after.

I agree with you that voice messages can die in a fire. Send a text, or call. I do not want to listen to a voice message.

How is this different than pymssql?

... or really any SoftBank Vision Fund backed startup

It's the false consensus effect.

I've been thinking about "accountability sinks" a lot lately and how LLMs further the issue. I have never heard of this book or author prior to this comment. I'll definitely have to read it!

It's highly task specific.

I've been refactoring a ton of my Pandas code into Polars and using ChatGPT on the side as a documentation search and debugging tool.

It keeps hallucinating things about the docs, methods, and args for methods, even after changing my prompt to be explicit about doing it only with Polars.

I've noticed similar behavior with other libraries that aren't the major ones. I can't imagine how much it gets wrong with a less popular language.

I would disagree. It's been shown recently how over-use of AI impacts cognition; "use it or lose it" mostly. I immediately ignore any "I asked ChatGPT..." comments because I do not know the prompt used, if the claims were verified by the poster, or the quality of the sources. If you want to offload your critical thinking to a black-box model, be my guest.

A google link at least allows me to verify sources and use my brain.

>But that's my 2 cents.

Or is it really ChatGPTs 2 cents? Copy-pasting LLM responses is as useful as posting a "let me google that for you" link. It's a lazy response at a minimum.

>but I think the important takeaway is that these situations are created artificially

Are they really though? It's easier than ever for an indie creative to create and distribute their works through the many channels. Problem is, people don't spend as much money as a whole on indie works compared to focus-grouped blockbusters.

How would you franchise out a product like software? I haven't really thought about that before.

It does make a difference. The big rock ice is great for whiskey and scotch the reason you mentioned; keeps it cold with minimal dilution. Crushed ice is great when you want dilution, like in a mint julep. It really depends on the style of cocktail and personal preference.

Professional therapists have to have malpractice insurance for this reason. LLMs currently don't.

Gaming in Linux is massively easier nowadays due to Proton. I haven't ran into an issue yet playing any of my games. One caveat to that is most of the large online competitive multiplayer games (CoD, Fortnite, etc.) won't work due to how they implemented their anti-cheat softwares.

I primarily use it this way or as a rubber duck. I pretty much use it as a replacement for going on a Google adventure. When I use it for code, it's mostly as a glorified auto-complete or write some boilerplate I can't be bothered to type.

The copilot integrations look sweet, as does the schema view. The MSSQL extension doesn't have those, but the rest of it looks similar to the Postgres one.

That's what Old School Runescape is for

I approach it the same way. My tattoos don't "mean" anything, and honestly I find the ones that have "meaning" to not be that great. My tattoos do remind me of where I was in my life. I also stick to American traditional style since they tend to age pretty well.

That's why there's such a strong push towards "alternative facts"

I've got a background in neuroscience and transitioned to data science a few years ago. Your comment about the rabbit hole of modern biology is spot on. I've been hearing for 10+ years about how ML like computer vision will revolutionize medical diagnosis and treatment. It hasn't happened yet and I think that enthusiasm comes from the fact that we built computer systems from the ground up and therefore know them deeply, whereas biological systems aren't fully understood.

Something minor that I found to greatly impact my screen usage was to remove all the icons from my phone so that I am forced to search for the app. That minor bit of friction was able to reduce my habitual usage by 70~80%

I'm still using my M1 MacBook Pro. The thing hasn't slowed down at all. It's a great device.

Migraines being more than a headache has been the norm for at least 15-20 years. I remember hearing about how cluster headaches could be treated with psilocybin. I'm not able to access the rest of this article, but what's the new thing here? We already knew for years its not "just a headache"