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I've had good results getting AI to do create both an app guide, and do naive UAT testing - it sometimes gets lost in the weeds, and sometimes hyper focuses on things that aren't important, but it also clears the deck of knuckleheaded things that would waste human UAT testers time. I run it any time major features goes in, and it regularly clears up things well.

I feel like your suggestion would be a nice organic extension of that same practice (at the cost of more infrastructure/tokens)

It might be, when used sparingly, but when it's the first sentence in a wall of text as Claude goes way off the deep end on a two page description it becomes the easiest readily available tell that you're about to be frustrated.

Humans are very good at pattern recognition - Claude is _incredibly_ repetitive in the way it starts to struggle to communicate. I think there's also a ton of overlap in the Jargon instead of Usefulness that developers see in annoying middle management/salespeople. Circle back, synergy blah blah.

I don't think the individual turns of phrase are inherently problematic - but the process is triggering.

"Webmasters" - now there's a term I haven't heard since 1998!

The vast majority of bots are still failing the header test - we organically arrived at the except same filtering in 2025. The bots followed the exact same progression too. One ip, lie about the user agent, one ASN, multiple ASNs, then lie about everything and use residential IPs, but still botch the headers

I don't think #notAllTeslaOwners is going to convince people not to have these visceral emotional reactions. I'm not entirely sure what people expect when the worlds richest man makes a point of trying to make millions of people unhappy, trolling or otherwise. This is the natural outcome.

The article specifies those as the source

Have you seen the Xbox Adaptive Controller?

https://www.xbox.com/en-US/accessories/controllers/xbox-adap...

Hm. I thoroughly disliked it - 100 layers of abstraction, glue and duct tape in the cloud to construct a rube Goldberg machine that doesn't work. It felt like everything wrong with modern tech.

Haha I'm sure you mean "barcades", but that was amusing.

Yeah, I loathe it. I use Linux (of all stripes), Windows, android etc. So it's not brand loyalty. The UX is trash.

A quick google turned up this service - https://www.printme1.com/

I think you may have missed the joke - they were implying Github was using Copilot internally, causing the outages, due to poor output. Not that Copilot itself was unavailable (although that may be true, also)

While I agree with this as a general rule, it ignores an entire class of problem. I work in a data preservation space - if we let people delete things every time they wanted to, it'd be a disaster. Instead we 'tombstone' it (hide from everyone but admin), then let someone with some space from the process confirm it actually should be deleted. We've averted dozens of disasters this way.

I'd argue the user must feel in control, as you say, but not necessarily _be_ in control.

At least in our experience, it's graduated based on age and ability. Soft fruits and vegetables with a glorified shape cutter. Firmer things with a plastic or ceramic knife. Harder things with metal.

Not dissimilar to what you'd do at home, except supervised closely with peers and integrated into the classroom.

Edit: I should mention that gross and fine motor control is a really big focal point in general. Like how writing things down has been shown to improve memory, other forms of tactile interaction increase engagement and learning.

The missing part to the explanation is that Montessori teachers expend a significant amount of effort curating the physical space for learning. The classroom and the materials (with a strong focus on physical objects) constantly allow for the engagement in learning activities. This requires a lot of planning and maintenance. They're also not unattended - the scope is just longer durations. An hour, and afternoon, instead of 20 minutes for a worksheet.

Imagine putting a scientist in an excellent lab, with all the machines their domain required, fully stocked with reagents etc. Then in the morning, asking if three different tasks, which they'd like to do today. At the end of the day, asking what still needed to completed, and adding it to the three tasks for tomorrow. This is obviously a massive simplification, but hopefully it conveys the idea.

Smokeping sounds like a comparable product - https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/

Very useful for diagnosing ISP service interruptions

I believe you when you say your internet ceased working. Everything else seems to be conspiratorial reasoning without any clear evidence. No one likes Comcast, so people aren't covering for them. It's easy to make a configuration mistake - this just doesn't pass the smell test.

This is user error. Comcast doesn't care.

Oh it's definitely a mess, and I don't absolve Microsoft of responsibility at all. Money, tax breaks, whatever their reasoning is, donating to these PACs looks awful. However I believe we should have a bright line between responsible journalism and opinion pieces that disguise themselves as objective news.

That's an editorialized title. Microsoft donates to Republican PACs. Some Republicans are anti-abortion. That doesn't _make_ the donations anti-abortion. The article specifically asks Microsoft and the parties it donates to for more information and clarity so as to distance themselves from the issue, or clarify their position.

The title skips all of that for zero nuance and an outright accusation.

edit: Putting in the title as it stands of this comment before it gets ninja edited "Microsoft’s $3M anti-abortion donations under fire from activists, shareholders"

My job is building/maintaining a digital repository for university materials, a significant portion of which is thesis and dissertations.

It replaced a closed source vendor product. It's been very successful - however, there's a pretty consistent minority who are very vocal and unhappy about having their materials freely available. Embargo negotiation and publishing policy is a regular argument.

That was my experience too. Pretty underwhelming, and uncomfortable.

Envavo Heatbuff was invented to help this. Unfortunately they seem to have gone out of business

You're absolutely right. I'm in the same situation. 10/10 ipv6, but it took a lot of configuration. I'm sure if the parent commenter connected their device directly to their modem via ethernet they'd find they had a functioning ipv6 address. Comcast is terrible for lots of reasons, ipv6 isn't one of them.

I'd have someone check your rowing form - I can't really imagine how rowing could be too easy. If you're applying your legs as you should, and trying hard, it's as difficult as you want it to be

Yes, I had a job like that. At one point I literally had nothing to do, even after asking.

I made getting another job a priority, which was compounded by a 360 review (job feedback) that was meant to be anonymous, but turned out to be anything but. The fallout was my supervisor left (might be been asked to) and I got a job elsewhere - 50% better pay and infinitely more stimulating.

Find a way to the exit.

Left Australia in 2012, moved to Indiana for a job at IU. I had been stuck in yearly contracts at my Australian employer, and they were allergic to full time offers.

I really didn't think things through very much. Turns out starting life again with nothing but a bag of clothes is pretty hard. Met my now wife, who helped me buy things for my apartment (cutlery, dishes, furniture lol). Not having a car, drivers license, or social security number were pretty rough impediments to start with.

I got a great job in Boston, lived there for a few years, then moved back to Indiana when we were ready to buy a house and start a family (much more affordable). Been working remotely since before the pandemic.

I love living here. I do miss my friends back in Aus, but I could never afford this quality of life. My kids will be dual citizens, so if they manage to hit it out of the park salary wise they could always head back if they wanted.

Wired or wireless backhaul doesn't alter mesh capabilities? Multiple access points is merely range extending and is a much poorer solution, with no proper handoff and usually at half speed.

Fireworks I think neatly divide people. When you're in the right environment for them (no infant/toddler, scared dog, veteran) they're wonderful displays of sound and color, a celebration. If you're not they're a horrific disruption of life from people who fundamentally don't understand or care. It's perhaps the most obnoxious aspect of American "freedom" I've encountered.

Moderate neighbors simply wish people would use them on the weekend of a holiday, but people seem to buy hundreds for using weeks (months) before and after the 4th

I understand it must be comforting to issue a blanket statement like that, but I it's just simply not universally true. I was hired on an E3, next job transitioned to H1-B and now have a green card. My work has directly enabled the hiring of three Americans. Is the H1-B perfect? Of course not. But on both occasions there were no other candidates, and when I was hired on H1-B I got a mandated higher salary to meet expected pay rates.