The endgame is clear. Mass surveillance combined with AI agents. Would almost be like having a personal government spy watching each individual person.
Zip codes do not have a one to one relationship to cities in the US. It's a common misconception. It's true about 90% of the time, but there are a lot of outliers. I used to work with GIS data and there are a ton of exceptions.
I'll do you one better, imagine a CPU that runs entirely in an LLM.
You’re absolutely right! I made an arithmetic mistake there — 3 * 3 is 9, not 8. Let’s correct that:
Before: EAX = 3
After imul eax, eax: EAX = 9
Thanks for catching that — the correct return value is 9.
Even if apple is losing money on these devices, they shouldn't care. Low cost laptops are the main reason why people buy Windows laptops instead of Macs. They need to get people into the Mac ecosystem.
To be honest, if both Android and iOS were walled gardens, I'd choose iOS every time. I choose Android specifically because of its openness. But if that weren't the case, I'd prefer the smoother UX and stronger Apple ecosystem.
What made the most difference for me was strength training a few times per week. I do circuit training classes where you spend 6 minutes per station. I didn't change my diet that much, and I really didn't lose much weight. But the muscle displaced the fat and I'm slimmer and look better.
Besides payment kiosks having tipping on by default, I wonder how much of this is an indicator of inflation over the past 5 years. Businesses have dramatically broadened tipping on payment kiosks to avoid having to increase wages. "We'll still pay you 12 dollars an hour, but now you get tips!"
This is obviously a death march project. Just delay it indefinitely until the Google Gemini based Siri chatbot is ready. Why ship something half-assed?
Once you have a kid, it's obvious why even besides the costs involved. There's not much sense of community, particularly in the white middle class. People are very individualistic and distrusting of others. There's a good reason for some of this, but to have a community you need to be a community member. And that means letting people in, trusting others and being trustworthy, and being out for the group instead of just yourself.
It's tough convincing people that Google AI overviews are often very wrong. People think that if it's displayed so prominently on Google, it must be factually accurate right?
"AI responses may include mistakes. Learn more"
It's not mistakes, half the time it's completely wrong and total bullshit information. Even comparing it to other AI, if you put the same question into GPT 5.2 or Gemini, you get much more accurate answers.
I've gone through this cycle too, and what I realized is that as a developer a large part of your job is making sure the code you write works, is maintainable, and you can explain how it works.
I loved Dilbert in the 90s, and had no idea that Scott Adams got himself embroiled in controversy towards the end. Another funny guy that let his right leaning views become his entire personality.
I really wish Lyft invested in maintenance. I used Citibike this week for the first time in about a year, and the Hudson River Greenway dock by NY Waterway had 1/3 of its empty docks broken with flashing red lights, then about 5 ebikes that needed service.
As a a developer, you're not only responsible for contributing code. But verifying that it works. I've seen this practice be put in place on other teams, not just with LLM's, but with devs who contribute bugfixes without understanding the problem
The way Git took over wasn't Git vs Mercurial (although that was a small part of it), but much more Git vs SVN, CVS, and people that never used source control before. It's similar to how Chrome became the dominant browser over Firefox. It was much more converts from Internet Explorer and Safari than advanced users that were already on Firefox.
Gamers are overwhelmingly negative of using Gen AI to replace what artists and designers would normally do. It feels artificial. What they could try doing instead is to use Gen AI for dynamic content generation during gameplay, like how Minecraft generates chunks. But more deliberate and intelligent rather than purely an algorithm. Gen AI is good for replacing not what humans would normally do, but what algorithms would normally handle but aren't great at.
Not really. You still see celebrities and influencers use it occasionally. But it's fallen off dramatically compared to where it was just a few years ago. TikTok has largely replaced it.
Takes for fucking ever. I worked with my girlfriend -> fiancee -> wife through her transition between student visa, H1B, green card, citizenship. The whole process took about 7 years.
We shouldn't be having critical internet-wide outages on a monthly basis. Something is systematically wrong with the way we're architecting our systems.