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If you're good at interviewing I really don't think AI tools should make a difference tbh.

It doesn't matter whether it's shareholders or creditors in charge IMO. Neither party have your interests in mind.

If you don't have the firmware source and an unlocked bootloader you're only renting the device.

Nope. My last laptop has lower specs than modern phones.

OOM is only triggered when you actually run out of virtual memory. With modern phones that shouldn't normally happen unless you're doing something silly like compiling a web browser.

This was the issue I had doing anything interesting on Android in the past. It just randomly kills things so you can't do much more serious stuff than web browsing/social media on it.

I suppose normal GNU/Linux might have this issue as well if you run an OS with lots of background services that randomly consume large amounts of RAM or if your desktop environment does. I don't so outside of kind of insane environments like raspberry pi zeros or weird situations on servers I don't typically run into this. (and no. It's not 2010, phones are normal PCs not a weird embedded environment.)

I think they could cut close to 80% but they could have done it without AI as well.

The question is of course which 80%.

You should probably spend an evening learning to use eg Aider and llama.cpp. Maybe watch a few videos explaining LLMs and play with a very small one so you can grow a better intuition for how they fail.

There's no reason to think too much about it, there's not that much to learn unless you want to make them yourself and the market for that is tiny.

I will say the agent thing is mostly overrated if you already know how to program. You're much better off building scraping software like that the old fashioned way (or prompting an LLM to do it) than leaving an LLM unattended.

Good fences make good neighbors. Maybe they should try to have our state more distanced from theirs. People might be more friendly if they feel they have some say in the situation.

I love how the assumption is that everyone is abusive. This is exactly why no one will talk to each other anymore (other than actual abusers/psychos who don't care.)

Whatever personal policy resulted in expressing this idea is not only broken for you but it's literally tearing everything else apart. You should try to figure out what that is or avoid posting about this topic.

typing / in the pager doesn't work for you?

I think info probably would have been more popular if the local reader used HTML rather than info directly. Just the reader UI seems to turn people off to it.

Also man has "apropos" for search. It works pretty well IME.

That has always effectively been how government programs work, even if they launder it through poor people and immigrants first.

Well, the rest of us disagree. You need consensus for public institutions and no one on the left or the right has been willing to build that.

>that money is better spent giving folks like me a tax cut

The federal government now accepts donations if you don't want the money.

The internet is really a lot like the ocean, things left unmaintained on it are swallowed by waves and sea life.

We need something like the salvage law.

Telemetry toggles add noise to the data at the very least. IMO it's part of the reason you're actually better off with no client-side telemetry at all. Obviously they see it the opposite way.

Cryptography and password lock screens would be analogous to door locks. This is more like an automated airsoft turret.

Don't forget that the remote editing feature in VSCode has you install non-free binaries on the remote machines. It's not like netdir where it just wraps openssh.

I'm always surprised when corporate IT departments allow that given what's not allowed these days.

I love programming but I don't really enjoy figuring out how to consume other people's APIs.

The things I've enjoyed writing the most have always been components "good practice" would say I should have used a library for (HTML DOM, databases) but I decided to NIH it and came up with something relatively pleasant and self contained.

When I use LLMs to generate code it's usually to interface to some library or API I don't want to spend time figuring out.

I personally went through a phase where I compromised by doing one space per indentation level.

Realistically tabs are best when you're alone and spaces are better when you're collaborating IMO.

It's self correcting. Corporations aren't needed for the software industry, they were just the best way to structure things for a while. If collaborating that way continues to become intractable forward looking, creative people (the kind you need to write good software) will find other ways to collaborate.

If you're going to burn yourself out you better be paid millions because you'll need to afford the crash that comes after.

Independent as opposed to having a corporate or institutional job.

That's ok. You should start something in your country.

I don't think it's just pay. There are so many clueless administrators involved no one can actually communicate and collaborate with eachother.

The independent maker thing is probably the solution to this.

There isn't a whole lot left in the US economy to aspire to. Do you think wanting to be a day trader is better? Should they try to get a professional engineering job and join the 50% of graduates who are unemployed a year after graduating?

It will likely work the same way industrialization did: first capital owners and then things get crazy cheap and everyone benefits.

It's another "we got rid of families and nations so we need administrative policy to fix the problems" episode.

>Would you say the same about OHV firmware? Airplane firmware? Cubesat firmware? Amateur rocketry firmware? Starship firmware? Speedgun firmware? BGP router firmware? Consumer Wifi router firmware? Any wifi firmware? iPhone firmware? GPU firmware?

Yes.

Mandate open source firmware.

This should have been done long ago but now it's creating problems even for the government. There is no legitimate reason for non-free firmware.