That makes them a great example. This person spent hundreds and couldn’t even grow strawberries.

My employer rolled out an AI-based bot which commented on code reviews. It was absolute garbage, and every single comment I ever saw it make was a false positive. Disproving the false positives was a huge waste of time. I hated it with a passion.

Recently it was upgraded with a modern model. Now I’ve only ever seen it give legitimate feedback. It’s like night and day. Sometimes the feedback is overly pedantic, and more often than not suggesting an improvement slated for later, but still legitimate feedback with an appropriate tone for the severity.

I believe recent sentiment from the curl project (who previously complained about drowning in slop PRs), is that their AI-based pull requests have also improved significantly.

I’m still not a fan of AI-generated code, since I mostly think in terms of code and AI fucks up the process for me, but I have to acknowledge that quality of output has improved greatly the past year or so.

“Accidental” and “conspiracy” aren’t the only alternatives. You don’t need to start a conspiracy with someone this easy to manipulate. You just nudge them in the direction you want them to go.

A big reason why there probably isn’t any conspiracy is that Trump would have blathered about it if there was one.

I’ve used Debian since 2001 or so. I reinstall whenever I have a new computer, unless I’m decommissioning another computer at the same time.

They don’t need to. There’s not a lot of other people willing to join them.

Last time I saw Linus in the news he was ripping into someone submitting a huge blob of code after the deadline, and said that would not be going into the next kernel. So he’s at least expecting humans to review things thoroughly, otherwise why allocate time for human review?

The context of the quote is not code generation, it is an AI-based code review tool which caught real issues which made it past human review. He’s not arguing for lowering the code quality standards, he’s acknowledging that in the past year, AI-based code review tools have started to provide real value.

He has vibe-coded at least one non-kernel hobby project, though.

Now I’m curious about what multiple health reasons depend on sunrise being an hour earlier or later.

I just have two measuring tapes. With the dual tapes the markings are on the least convenient side of the tape half the time.

I do rough measurements in SAE so I know what to get at the lumber store, then do the actual cutting measured in metric. Those measurements happen at different times at different accuracy, and do not benefit from being on the same tape measure.

Didn’t they do that a while ago, and no one wanted it? I read somewhere that they gave states blanket permission to switch to permanent standard time and they all wanted permanent daylight savings time instead.

In 2026 you need that juice for the web browser.

I don’t think this is the reason by any means, but I overheard a guy who had gold fillings until he had to remove them all in order to receive cancer treatment. I don’t know what treatment required him to not have metal in his head.

I’m not discussing the post. I’m making a general observation while responding to a statement in the comments.

Ridiculing it is fine. Going “How can you confuse Iran and Japan” or treating it as the definitive proof that his mind is cooked is weird.

Someone talked to him about Japan right before, wires got crossed. Biden did the same thing with some head of state, and people overreacted to that, too. Of all the dumb shit he says, this is a weird thing to make a big deal of.

It can’t be that bad. Sticking your head out the cockpit window is standard procedure if the window is obscured on Boeing aircraft.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTYT7ERrw_U&t=146

Of course, the fuselage is not designed for that sort of thing around the passenger windows, so it wouldn’t be quite as chill as in this video.

Yeah, and most of the time when you trip on a curb, you don’t die. Doesn’t mean we can’t talk about the fringe cases.

I’d much rather spend 30 minutes on public transport than in a car. This is a real tradeoff many places I’ve lived in Europe, particularly when considering you need to find parking for the car.

I’ve had commutes in the US where it was either 30 minutes by car or 90 minutes by public transport. At that point it’s not really a choice, you’re going to go by car.

You can have a 30 minute commute and still take a train through the alps if both your house and your job are in the alps.

Meanwhile, other people jump out of a plane with a broken parachute, land in a haystack and escape with a broken leg and some bruises. It’s wild how the human body can be so resilient and fragile at the same time.