devin

For my part, I will not be purchasing a new car until they bring back physical controls and dump the spyware.

or a separate hard drive in a fireproof safe or something.

You can see my reply to a sibling, but: no, of course not.

However, would I regret not being fit enough to go for a hike in my 60s? That's another story, and it is one which many do have the ability to intervene on.

Treadmill time as an enabler of other experiences may well be worth keeping, even if the time spent on it doesn't satisfy some imagined "will I think of it on my deathbed as time well spent?" bar. I imagine there are a great many things I won't think about on my deathbed which on their own are unremarkable or even gasp not very fun, but that is of course not a reliable measure of whether something is worth doing.

"unless you have obvious problems" is doing a _ton_ of work. Most people _do_ have _obvious_ problems. Their weight, their cholesterol, their alcohol use, and on and on.

Saying "if you're healthy you shouldn't worry about your health" is a meaningless thing to say. The point is that most people _do_ have obvious room for some kind of health improvement, and as other commenters have pointed out, if it's not in the clear "this will help me live an additional N years" way, then very likely it is in the "this will make my life suck less as I age" way. Eg; Being able to walk up a flight of stairs without getting deeply winded.

So is this what you tell yourself to justify sitting in your chair eating doritos and mountain dew while blasting cigs and chugging beers?

What are you even talking about?

My pet theory is that the vast majority of people have dopamine tickling devices that they carry around in their pockets, so alcohol use is subconsciously understood as _an addition to_ the negative behavior most people are already engaging in daily. And, in addition to that, scrolling keeps you occupied when you might otherwise be bored enough to crack open a cold one.

I hear you, but I also think it is this kind of attitude that leads a lot of otherwise intelligent people to not even try. I've talked to people who listened to the Maintenance Phase episode on the complexities of calories in/calories out take the information as an excuse for not even attempting to try to improve their weight problem.

If true, there is no doubt a patch incoming.

Maybe because they know more about the domain than you do, and it will take you a lot more back-and-forth with your clanker than it would for them with their clanker.

Willful negligence or gross negligence, then.

"Possible" and "faster than a human with know-how doing it" is the entire question here.

A perfectly reasonable explanation is that this SVP needs to explain in a different room what steps are being taken to prevent it from occurring again.

I dare you to try and get heavy CPU cache-level performance optimizations you might see in tried and true HFT code written this way.

I would think it's that the kinds of places which value this kind of knowledge often have major disincentive to share it. I'm thinking of HFT firms as one example.

This is no doubt part of the reason why the farm bill loophole is being closed: lobbying pressure from those whose bottom line has been impacted.

This is pretty great. Having the physical knobs to do the step locking tweaks makes the experience a whole lot better, but the fact that this is exists is great. I have an MK1 and this is pretty darn accurate.

Good lord, man. Just absolutely dripping with passive aggression. And mischaracterizing my position to boot!

This is a completely laughable comparison.

Sure, but I wouldn’t call this a “well-informed plan”. I’m a programmer. Learning new shit has always been the job.

Maybe I'm just light on imagination or something, but I honestly wonder what you would qualify as a "well-informed plan" in the current scenario? I've thought a lot about it and the whole "potential for the mass unemployment of knowledge workers" thing makes a lot of planning kind of useless IMO. If you are affected, it's going to be a bad time. If you're unaffected, the people who are will inundate your profession with cheap labor anyway.

It may not have been responding to anyone in particular, to be honest with you. I think it's important that people remember that a big chunk of what writing is, is the time spent thinking about the topic you're writing about. People take writing for granted. They forget that it is a technology itself.

To be sure, you absolutely can do this. I did it all the time as a kid. Nothing bad happened from being out of constant communication for hours.

I’m not sure acceptance buys you much. “Well-informed plan” at this stage feels like a useless exercise. It is changing fast, and the world only needs so many electricians. Besides, I don’t think “accepting” the fact that these big companies are pillaging human contribution and selling it back to us is good, even if “it works”.

Not really. It's an iPad + iPhone. That's hardly exotic. Both of those product categories sell very well. People who own an iPad mini and an iPhone have every reason to consider this for the merged cost.

Read Ong's "Writing is a Technology that Restructures Human Thought".

Emitting words is not really what "writing" is.

https://twinada.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/708...

That seems like a tough road. They've never been able to enforce that iPhone app makers build an iPad-compatible version or vice versa, and this looks exactly like that scenario.

I'm not fangirling over it, but comparing it to Vision Pro is ridiculous.

I think a lot of people will tell you that now it's much easier because they can just ask their LLM how it works, but in practice I don't think people are able to absorb enough from these purely need-based interactions to arrive at understanding that translates into sustained long-term increases in productivity for large projects.

The thing I keep seeing is greenfield AI projects built by ill-conceived, self-styled software factories. They grow incredibly quickly, and then reality sets in and the pace slows. Demonstrating this is difficult. There are real productivity increases to be had here no doubt, but the long tail is still expensive.

At an even more fundamental I tend to think about software as managing _risk_, where complexity is just one component. A large portion of my career has been about making difficult decisions around accepting particular sorts of software risk to reduce other types of risk, like my coworkers continuing to receive paychecks, for example.

I agree, but it seems that some people actually need to be told that copy/pasting a bunch of LLM slop into chat is like farting on an elevator.

I wouldn't even say that it comes down to "social skills" in a lot of cases, it's just people who seem to be performatively using AI. I'd classify them as corporate climber "yes, boss" types more than lacking in social skills.