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This is a story about a program not getting off the ground in two years and then being cancelled by the political opposition. Is two years too slow? You could certainly argue that.
But this really isn’t a story about government incompetence wasting billions of dollars on a handful or charging stations. Money was allocated, but it never had the chance to be spent.
> Approval of funding does not necessarily mean the money has been dispersed. Only about $500 million of the $5 billion allotted for NEVI had been dispersed as of October, said Corey Harper, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering, who has conducted research into the NEVI program
Can I just about corral the LLM into producing working output? Yea, sometimes. From a technology perspective, that’s pretty cool!
But is it a productivity boost? Absolutely not. Like not even close. Every time it would have been faster for me to just write the code myself.
I really don’t know how to square the vast gulf between my experiences and many other peoples’.
As someone that you may characterize as one of these people, I can share some perspective.
First, I would question the premise that “love of technology” is not itself an ideology.
I do love technology, but not for its own sake. I love solving problems, I love tinkering, and I love craftsmanship and invention.
But technology can also be dangerous, it can set us backwards and not forwards, and its progress is never as inevitable as its evangelists claim. You need to view technology with a critical eye, and remember that tools are tools, and not panaceas.
So I guess I’d ask you — what’s so wrong with choosing to live in a cabin in the woods without a cellphone?
The world changes. Those changes cause a need, a job fulfills that need. The world changes again, the need disappears. Why should the job then persist?
Should this be at the application code level, or the ORM, or the database itself?
I mean, literally the same page — so if someone says “what did ya’ll think about this quote on p.156” I could actually get to it in time instead of scrambling to find the passage in whatever I printed out from Project Guttenberg.
For this reason my strategy to save book money was usually to get the assigned books from the library and camp out in front of the copy machine for an afternoon.
This guy is a philosophy professor, so if he is assigning a book every 1-2 weeks, in a 14-week semester, let’s say that’s like 8 books.
Buying 8 books for under $100 is cheap. It does sound like he takes care to craft an affordable syllabus.
Of course, if you are taking 5 classes a semester it’s gonna add up, but this is really not on the egregious end of things.
As in, Plex will prevent you remotely accessing your own server, even if you're not using Plex's services for that remote access. So this is purely extractive move, and not really based on their costs at all.
Could you clarify further if you meant one of these, or if you meant something else that I was not able to pick up on?
PMs want to hear that an OCR solution will be fully automated out-of-the-box. My gut says that anything offering that is snake-oil, and I try to convey that the OCR solution they want is possible, but if you are unwilling to pay the tuning cost, it’s going to flop out of the gate. At that point they lose interest and move on to other priorities.
On the subject of weird Star Wars musical adaptations like those on the second half of the album -- I've recently discovered the track "Dark Vader" by Instant Funk from 1979. I love this track as it really feels like it captures a moment in time, right before The Empire Strikes Back was released and Star Wars really became a franchise.
- The misunderstanding of the name, which was exactly what I called "Darth Vader" as a kid, seemingly was more prevalent back at the time
- The feeling of absolute hype that he was going to return on screen (I assume this track came out after initial marketing for Empire began)
- The popular conception of Vader as a Black man -- something that must have seemed obvious at the time with the voice of James Earl Jones, that was really thrown away with his reveal as Luke's Father in Empire
I think your point holds if it was in fact the latter, but with the lengths the author goes to to stress the important of diplomatic language elsewhere in the article, I think they were just being polite to their former contractors here.
I’ll admit that I was throwing some shade — but I was really just implying that “5-8 times a year” seemed like an exaggeration to me, not that you are a hermit.
Still, no need for that tone, so I apologize.