Maybe AI will boost open source development more than commercial development since open source devs don’t have the privacy concerns.

but why would you want to?

I visited a company that outsourced its IT to India. We were delayed 24 hours because the guy who could whitelist our computer on their network was asleep. It was the middle of the night where he lived.

Next week: cat pukes in the middle of the floor. Walks off like nothing happens. Cut to obviously wasted McGonagall getting lectured.

Ogion wouldn’t have been fooled.

Me: <starts a heredoc>

jetbrains: This heredoc goes on FOREVER!

Me: I’m going to close it…

jetbrains: <dies>

If you work at the same place long enough, you’re forced to remember over and over again.

What’s the meaning of a fractional “Degree of Kevin Bacon”?

In the future you’ll be able to change back and forth when ever you want.

Would Harris run against Newsom? Id bet.

If biden dies for sure someone jumps in.

Al Gore.

“don’t attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity” is good advice for friends and family.

It’s bad advice for salesmen, politicians, corporations, etc. They are more sophisticated than you and will take advantage of your willingness to extend trust after bad behavior.

You’ve probably hit upon a good metaphor for what’s happening.
I believe each time we sleep parts of our personalities are torn down and rebuilt slightly differently.
Whatever the mechanism, you aren’t really the same person you were years ago, you’re a different person with many of the same memories. The “self” is a useful simplification of reality. At the fundamental level, its not possible to define “you” and “not you” at a moment in time, much less across spans of time.

Good article, but I’d guess the reality is more like 25-50x as much work as non-technical people assume, and a good interface takes about 5x the work of everything else.

They don’t merely underestimate the non-interface work, they greatly underestimate the interface work as well.

What’s a stream of packages?

They have quite a lot to gain by it. Getting the other side stuck in a quagmire has been the preferred strategy for both sides in US vs. Russia for decades.

The West would like Ukraine to win, but it’s more important to the West that the war drag on and be a drain on Russia’s resources.

Til US airforce killed Mao’s kid.

This reeks of normal human stupidity.