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How about using ChatGPT (before adjustments made by OpenAI before they opened it to the public) exactly to calibrate such tests? Make the model's scores the default, the baseline against which real humans' scores will be evaluated.

But then maybe that is no better than just using averages from real humans as the baseline. Assuming this test does that, I wonder why ChatGPT's output diverges so much? Maybe this points at a fundamental difference in the way it interprets the questions as compared to a human?

A bigger bed with a harder mattress.

It's silly I spend around 1/3 of my life there and hadn't thought to improve it for several years before that.

Not sure I understand your point.

Should I try to build my own car? Or my own CPU?

It's like the seat heater in a BMW or high performance mode in a Mercedes.

How can we fight it as consumers?

Maybe it's better to assume the best of people? Maybe we are just changing our minds in light of new facts rather than remaining "devotees"?

I think your perspective might change once you have kids (forgive me for assuming you don't yet).

That additional hour or two a day that you can spend with your family might end up being worth more to you than the prospects of social life and building a carreer with other like-minded people.

I really agree with the sibling comment about people having different perspectives and priorities. Perhaps you could find what you're missing somewhere else instead of trying to convince your colleagues to come back to the office?

What about the idea that, as a customer who bought and owns something, you should have control over that thing, not the other way around?

I am not saying this is the stronger argument. It's still an argument, though, and it surprised me to find this sentiment missing from the comments (granted, we're at only 7 comments right now). Why would something we want applied to smartphones and PCs not apply to cars?

When I imagine starting to learn C# right now, I think I would need to:

- install the newest Visual Studio with default config

- create a new console app project

- start writing code in the template's main function

Granted, I have to know whether I want to create the console app in .Net Core 3.1 or .Net 5 or whatever, but I imagine I can find the answer to that pretty quickly and move on. Usually the answer will be "the newest version you have installed".

Any language feature I want to play with is just one automatic import tip away, and most of the features I would explore as a total novice don't even need that.

The complexity of various Nuget packages, ASP.Net versions, older versions of .Net only arrives once you need to uplift older projects, maintain libraries to be used across different framework versions etc. Those are tasks for a more experienced developer, for a good reason, and I believe this is true for any technology stack.

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What worries me is that, apparently, there are many people with a lot of web dev experience who haven't moved on. Why haven't they moved on? I don't understand it.

I have yet to see a mid-level engineer using the same method when debugging C# code.

Despite all that, I try to refrain from strong statements about technologies. Just throwing around ideas.

I just think there are easier ways to debug your code than including logging statements between your lines. And in some environments I have never felt the need to do so.

I use the browser debuggers as well but I never saw a JS stack trace approaching readability of a C# stack trace, and there are also other things that make the entire debugging experience more troublesome. Maybe that's just because I have very little front-end experience (and no workflows and IDEs properly set up to work with particular frameworks). Or maybe it's because of the JS ecosystem. Threads like this one make me lean towards the latter.

I think the very fact that you have to rely on things like that when debugging speaks volumes about the language deficiencies. Or maybe it's just the tooling or environments where JS is executed?

In any case, the debugging experience is probably the biggest reason why I dislike modern web dev and tend to steer my career towards back-end.

The article reads like an exercise in the opposite

You're that ninja!

Do you have details of your process and recipes put online? Maybe some other useful links?

I didn't know spending this little time on cooking was possible, would love to learn it myself.

I think I will start calling all such devices microphones.

Came here to comment on the gateways vs gatekeepers as well. Ironically enough, it wasn't so long ago that Slack decided to stop supporting their IRC and XMPP gateways.

This reminded me about the Ride of the Valkyries scene in Apocalypse Now.

Does anyone know what the easiest way to make those windows movable and resizable (dynamic in general) would be?

Great work, I love this interface style!

I used Wekan a while ago when I wanted to try a kanban board for organizing my personal tasks at work. Trello was out of question since it stores the data externally.

I found the UX on Wekan and Trello were hard to compare, Trello being polished and hassle free while Wekan still felt like work in progress and many things were straight out broken.

This was like a year ago, though, so maybe it has improved since.

It makes me sad that people are so sensitive that reading a message like the one ESR wrote drives them away from participating in projects and communities that otherwise would interest them. At least this seems to be the narrative of the "PC supporters" here.

The world is full of assholes. I think it's better to get used to it than to shelter yourself, try to make every space safe or withdraw from interacting with other people.

I know I'm biased though. I am pretty thick-skinned so it's hard to see it from the other perspective.

What is the notation the author uses for historical prices? The one with the year in lower index and some other number in upper index? I tried <your favourite search engine>ing that but I don't know how it's called.

It's refreshing for me to read this thread. I've had the same issues, worries and irritations about Microsoft and Windows for a long time. I just never know how vocal I should be about them. I am surrounded by people who use Windows to write code, test software, manage, etc. every day, but they don't really seem to care or notice anything's wrong. This makes me anxious about sharing my concerns - what if they're just a personal illusion driven by some unconscious biases? My guess is I'm not the only one who feels this way.

Some might say that whining about these things is counterproductive. I disagree. I don't want Microsoft to fail. I don't want people to hate Microsoft. I want every company to make good products and expend its employees' efforts in a productive way. I believe filling out feedback forms is not the best way to go about trying to change the curremt state. I think that once enough people in our field know about those issues and voice their concerns, we can somehow push Microsoft back in the right direction. And even if that's a pipedream, our comments might help people forced to use Windows at work to go about it somewhat more securely and conveniently.

When it comes to my personal experience, I've recently had Windows: force me to update (gave me 20 minutes to save my work); install some software I don't need during the update and then prompt me to log in (namely, MS Teams); break bluetooth drivers (they work now but not as well as they used to); make the machine get stuck in the boot process (I had to reset it and pray no data was lost); change the wallpaper.

I just want to do my job. I don't need updates for that. I might need the security ones, but trying to install Teams on my machine and breaking other stuff in the process while all I need is Visual Studio and a working OS really grinds my gears.

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