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Don't you have to replace the batteries every few years though? That should be factored in the equation.

Was there ever a plan for an iPhone Air 2? They're struggling to sell the stock they have.

AWS ain't no Mercedes. Mercedes feels premium and isn't full of bugs.

AWS and Azure a charging an arm and a leg, but the offered quality is mostly perceived. Most of the bits and bobs they charge for are not providing much value for a vast majority of businesses. I won't even go over the complete lack of ergonomics with their portals.

The backend of Copilot is still called Sydney AFAIK

Office, or rather Microsoft 365 applications have had web versions for a decade now.

Reminder for anyone that doesn't know better: having good sleep is dependent on a few minor lifestyle adjustments. Like avoiding heavy (or any outside of fruit and vegetable) meals and exercise a few hours before going to bed. And avoiding caffeine after noon.

You don't need to be a health champion to have good sleep.

Freelance work is like car lanes, the more you build the more demand you have. There's no satiating the need for software. Lowering the bar to produce software will just motivate more companies and people to digitalize/automate more things.

I think they mean knowing that AI only looks to be good at something pulls back the curtain in a sense and afterwards all appearances of AI seeming good at something seem fake.

Highlighted text "no per-seat pricing" is unreadable in dark mode on the home page (dark blue on black). It's surprising for me to see someone use this as an example of decent design because I'm somewhat sure this front page text coloring was never seen/reviewed by a human.

If it was a Gnome issue it would also be a Fedora issue though, no?

At Microsoft this totally depends on the org and team. I've seen the full spectrum of quality here.

Vivaldi integrates Proton VPN into theirs. I think it's pretty useful.

I have a feeling F# would work great, but unfortunately we don't use it at work so I can't experiment with the fancy expensive models. Only problem might be amount of training data.

It's easier to be lazy now more than ever. Hard to blame them because the temptation to deliver and prove oneself as a junior is always high.

I can't count how many seniors have forgotten what it means to understand the code they're merging since AI coding tools became popular. So long as businesses only value quantity the odds are stacked against juniors.

Don't bother. They're going to claim that cosmic radiation can alter bits so compiler determinism is comparable to LLM. I'd rather AI evangelists claim determinism is not required to build decent software than perform the mental gymnastics required to make these comments.

By those metrics, Microsoft lost 20% of it's value due to hopping on the AI coding assistance train.

I'm not saying it is the case, just making it apparent how unreliable it is to measure productivity by comparing what's happening at the lowest level in a company to its financials.

Now if only companies knew how to correctly assess actual impact and not perceived impact.

We can indeed only imagine. For now, AI has been a curse for open source projects.

WordPad was discontinued.

They are trained on our code. Perhaps not if you don't have any of it open sourced, but it's so jarring to see someone say they don't care about our code.

Can't say the same for my colleagues' AI written code. It's overtly verbose and always does more that what's required.

My experience in the Teams org is the same. It's all about security, compliance, and recently AI. Fixing bugs and similar "non-flashy" work is a sure way of postponing one's promotion indefinitely.

You can create a lot of profit for your employer whilst contributing nothing to society or even be detrimental to it. Money has no bearing on that.

No offense, but you'd be a perfect Microsoft employee right now. Windows division probably.

Created a WYSIWYG editor or copied it off the internet like your average junior would, bugs included?

If that editor is very complicated (as they usually are) it makes sense to just opt for a library. If it's simple then AI is not required and would only reduce familiarity with how it works. The third option is what you did and I feel like it's the option with the lowest probability of ending up with a quality solution.

The execs probably got promotions for it considering the money saved. The real morons are the customers buying these cars. Brand loyalists don't buy based on logical reasoning.

As someone looking for an automatic why do you want them to make more manuals? Or was it sarcasm?

I'm not a "for the love of the drive" type of fellow, especially after living with an older 6-speed manual for many years, so I'm curious where the enthusiasm for manual comes from.

Economics don't work like that though. Google has the benefits of economies of scale and stable manufacturing partnerships, not to mention probably a lot more of the watch parts are designed in-house. I'd be surprised if Pebble could achieve anything close to the Pixel hardware for even twice the price.

It seems like Pebble is focusing on a niche market and this new product seems completely in line with that. There are plenty of other companies targeting the common folk who have no desire to optimize their life like this.

Pixel watch is an order of magnitude more powerful and expensive than a Pebble though. Raise to wake is not as simple as it may seem considering most big brand smart watches didn't have a decently working implementation of it until only recently. It seems like the author wanted to keep it within the Pebble realm.

>I'm much faster at quickly spotting an icon

Using the label-less example in the article with the 10x10 monochrome icons I doubt many other people feel the same.