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Imagine pair programming with an intern who memorized your database schema. You don't need to go back and forth between schema and your code, you can keep your focus at the cursor. It's great for automating the boring stuff.
I would love if Github provided an API for Copilot. Imagine integrating Copilot with your shell.
Anyway, my advice: Treat your current username and your real name as if they were the same. Make a new username and don't connect it to your real name again if you wanna be anonymous.
Here's an alternative: progressively release better and better models (like 3B params, 10B, 50B, 100B) and let people figure out the best way to fight against bad actors using them.
Combine that with the fact that PyTorch recently added support for Apple silicon GPUs.
I wish websites were less lenient on letting users delete posts/comments. I much prefer the HN model - no delete button, you have to contact moderators and you need a good reason, you can only delete individual comments, not an entire account.
Next time when I'll be looking for a new Android phone to buy, stock Android will be a hard requirement. I was stupid to pick my Xiaomi phone for it's hardware, I should've just gone with a Motorola.
For many essential and security critical apps to work, like bank apps or the McDonald's app you need to hide the fact you're using a modified system, because of SafetyNet.
This hiding/bypass works for now, because it tricks Google into thinking your device doesn't support hardware attestation, and fallbacking to Basic attestation, which is easier to bypass. Google can at any time flip the switch to require hardware attestation, and your apps will stop working, with no way around it, other than flashing back the stock ROM your device came with and locking the bootloader. At that point I will probably just buy a new phone.
I really dislike when companies do this. It's very time consuming and psychologically/emotionally draining.