lolive

unfortunately for terminal lovers, the best .gitconfig snippet is still this:

  [diff]
    tool = intellij
  [difftool "intellij"]
    cmd = idea diff \"$LOCAL\" \"$REMOTE\"
  [merge]
    tool = intellij
  [mergetool "intellij"]
    cmd = idea merge \"$LOCAL\" \"$REMOTE\" \"$BASE\" \"$MERGED\"
    trustExitCode = true

We made an under-the-radar optimization in a data flow in my company. A given task is now much more freshData-assisted that it used to.

Was a LLM used during that optimization? Yes.

Who will correlate the sudden productivity improvement with our optimization of the data flow with the availability of a LLM to do such optimizations fast enough that no project+consultants+management is needed ?

No one.

Just like no one is evaluating the value of a hammer or a ladder when you build a house.

Didn't rewatch it for decades. But isn't this romance a very background narrative arc until the very latest season?

Save the Borgias !

They can buy Open AI.

Tried an android phone given by my company. Gemini is at your fingertips, with a single button press. That’s INCREDIBLE! [everything Siri never delivered]. Put that into a headphone or headphone-enabled glasses. Plus a ring. And the need for an advanced UI-based phone fades away for many usages.

In my company, [enterprise IT] architects are separated into two kinds. People with a CV longer than my arm who know/anticipate everything that could fail and have reached a level of understandind that I personnally call "wisdom". And theorists, who read books and norms, who focus mostly on the nominal case, and have no idea [and no interest] in how the real world will be a hard brick wall that challenges each and every idea you invent.

Not being hands-on, and more important not LISTENING to the hands-on people and learning from them, is a massive issue in my surroundings.

So thinking hard on something is cool. But making it real is a whole different story.

Note: as Steve used to say, "real artists ship".

May be we will have at last the AI to do literate programming. So it can properly reread and connect big chunks of code it wrote magically in isolation. From that perspective, the AI is following the path of a experienced programmer: specs and docs maintained in parallel of the code will save your .ss in the long run.

Lol, a GooglePlus URL was mentionned on a webpage i browsed this week.#blastFromThePast

And then what’s the next comeback, you boomer? BBS? Tabletop roleplaying-games? Reading books? #comeOooon

I still pay for Spotify, but nowadays 99% of my music consumption are local FM radios, plus mainstream webradios [radioParadise, FIP, BBC6, NTS]. I sometimes Shazam things, but rarely have the time to listen them back on Spotify. My attention time is limited by other things [:those stupid real-life stuff every normal person was praising in the old times: kids, family, work, burnout, failing cars, gardenning. And sleep!]

Never saw a subcontracting requirement document, stating "the solution is for a bozo-project. so don't spend ages making it robust for the future"

How does an engineer know that he is involved in a bozo-driven PoC or in a technical deathtrap that will end up as the core business of the company?

Thank you!

Bizness needs to understand that scalable reliable durable solutions take time to craft properly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9wn633vl_c

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Be careful, engineers, when interacting with soft skill experts not to join their reality distortion field where it’s all about coordination, alignment, bizness strategy, clever planning. Whereas the real stuffs are just implémentation details, quickly solved.

In the end, they might convince you that 2+2=5.

Can we switch to it, on the website, to test its capabilities?

No need to go to Gemini, you have said it all.

What happens to on-device intelligence? Does it stay a massive part of the Apple Intelligence offer? Or can we expect everything to be offloaded to the cloud?

Probably off topic question [coming from someone who spends 99.99% in i3+iOS+maximed windows in W11]: when do you need to have overlapping windows, or even windows that you resize by hand? Windows should take a zone in your screen. Punto. Even W11 has understood that by now.

I switched from my Twitter addiction to a Bluesky addiction. Still scrolling to death, but now my opinion is mine again. #dontDoGrok

Utilities to circunvent the stupid original design. Even Microsoft is forced to use this pattern to correct itself. But hey, you know what they say: "Selling the disease and the cure is the best bizness plan ever".

Photo, or it doesn’t exist !

Venezuela is the new Africa [or India [or Philipins]]

For what it is worth, here is my experience with Facebook, [a platform that I have learnt to love after my Twitter ban]: I go to the main page, I immediately click the magnifying lens, so I get the list of unread posts of the 10to20 groups I follow. I read them quickly. Then leave. I do that, on a daily basis. Time spent: usually 20 minutes.

Reddit is 99% search only. I go there only on a purpose. [might be replaced by Gemini, eventually]

HN and Alterslash are probably the only source of random info that I still consume.

May be that information containment is a reaction to my 15+ years of addiction to [the good old] Twitter. Or because I have reached age 50.

But the consequence is that I get the news late, and usually because of a search I did. Not because of a proactive algorithm.

Additional thought: in the end I suppose my information un-déluge is the proof that algorithms eventually failed to deliver [i.e point me at things meaningful to me]. The biggest example is Spotify proposals. That is 1% of my music discovery, whereas traditional non-commercial radios and dedicated podcasts are [human curated and] much more diverse.

The forum where Skynet becomes self-conscious :)

Will ChatGPT generate the Star Wars scripts from now on?

[Ahem… And can it make them interesting?]

I second that. My company is really changing its point of view on data at scale thanks to their tools. [note: SAP announces DataSphere for 2026, and their stack is surprisingly similar :)]

Bigger is not always better. [Gemini told me that yesterday, during my daily psychotherapy]