That’s some Mussolini SI SI SI SI SI shit

Oh I’m 1000% in agreement with you. I think Copilot for programming is more expensive than it’s worth right now, both for my employer and for Microsoft.

OpenAI et al have done nothing to address the fundamental issue of hallucinations. In code hallucinations are pretty quickly evident: your IDE immediately throws up error highlights whenever the code complete fucks up.

The latest open AI model is to chain together a computational centipede to try and create reasoning structures out of stochastic processes. It takes longer and still doesn’t fix the issues. In their own demo video there are clear bugs with the “code” their 4o model writes.

Ish.

You’ll have assertions that are entirely new or different, other pieces of setup or teardown. It really is one of the best use cases for GH’s Copilot that I’ve run across.

In my day to day the intellij autocomplete is what I prefer.

Yeah my usage of it is similarly limited. But the plagiarism engine is more useful than it is annoying in my experience. Especially in writing kdoc or unit test variations. Write one, write the name of the next, have autocomplete fill it out with the expected conditional variation

The plagiarism engine effect is exactly what you need for a good programming tool. Most problems you’re ever going to encounter are solved and GenAI becomes a very complex code autocomplete.

An LLM constructed only out of open source data could do an excellent job as a tool in this capacity. No theft required.

For writing prose it’s absolutely trash, and everyone using it for that purpose should feel ashamed.

And I don’t see them serving Panda Express in Beijing. The point is not authenticity it’s that different cultures take what they perceived to be another culture’s food and bend it to their preferences.

But mostly I was making a joke because of its name.

As a programmer my soft skills are as important as my hard skills. I’ve never worked on software alone: coordination, coherent and clear communication, collaboration. It’s all integral to the role.

I believe it is most of what has led to me being promoted up to staff eng level. I’m very good technically but so are many other engineers.

That’s Pizza Americana though

It’s the correct decision that will never happen - Children have no rights⁺ in modern society.

Any zealous religious parent being told they can’t bring up their child in their religion would throw an absolute shitfit.

⁺The only “right” of a child is framed in terms of parental responsibilities.

It’s not a misreading at all. In many fundamentalist sects (such as the one I left) that’s the dogmatic truth of those verses.

Everything material is sinful and holding you back.

I have lived with and continue to love many religious people - that does not make them rational. That does not make their religious beliefs OK. With all the love in their hearts they still participate in evil and coercive control of others. They are particularly dangerous in that they believe in their heart of hearts that they are doing the right thing.

This is the reality of religion: it is dangerous, coercive, self propagating brain washing that forces people into shape. It creates panopticons. Window twitching neighbors that snitch and shun.

This is true of all religion. In Christianity it’s true of southern baptist and Lutheran’s and Christian scientists and episcopalians and Jehovah’s Witnesses and 7th day Adventists and Mormons and Catholics and Orthodox and …

I similarly left Christianity from a far more fundamentalist sect and yes: the coercion is significant on all levels. It’s scary once you realize what’s been going on.

It’s an incredibly controlling form of human culture and not given its due wariness.

all earthly possessions

Matthew 6:19-34 and Luke 18:22-25

Pretty unequivocal: give up everything and serve God.

there is no coercion within Islam to wear a hijab, kinda like how there is no coercion within Christianity to be a virgin.

The fuck there isn’t. Coercion in Christian sects is rampant. Your parents finding out you’re not a virgin will have you disowned in plenty of Christian households.

People who want to oppress women will do it regardless of means

And people who want to murder will do it regardless of means. That doesn’t allow us to throw up our hands and let murder cults exist. Instead we extirpate them, outlaw them, stamp them out both legally and culturally.

To distinguish them, just get their confidence and ask them in a safe environment.

Pragmatically speaking this is, unfortunately, the best we can hope for. I’m not talking about pragmatics here though: I’m talking about fundamentals. Theory. What is a truly polite society?

It’s not one where religious coercion is allowed to fester.

And Christians are supposed to give up all early possessions, renounce sex and serve God all their days.

What’s your point? Theory means fuck all.

Religions are coercive social structures. You cannot distinguish those doing it willingly from those corrected into “proper behavior”. As such a civil society can permit neither.

Re: downvotes - no idea why it’s not working, but your anger is obvious enough without it

Choosing to wear a hijab is totally cool, as long as it’s not because of a religion.

Religion uses coercion and indoctrination to control people.

It doesn’t matter if it’s state sanctioned or not: the social contract imposed by religion is violence. It doesn’t matter if it’s the government threatening jail time or your friends threatening social isolation. It’s coercive.

And you can’t distinguish between those who do it willingly and those who are forced: so a civil society can permit neither.

Fuck hijabs and Islam.
Fuck christofascists and tradwives.
Fuck hindu nationalists and caste systems.

Fuck any and every religion that insists they need to impose their ways on others to be in good favor with their God. Fuck them in any and every form.

TSMC is an exceptionally high paying job in Taiwan and they can’t go anywhere else.

You’re not abusing extremely high skill workers who can easily get a new job elsewhere. Not if you want high profit margins.

Americans in Massachusetts are able to install solar panels and run their house.

It’s not like a cloudy day means 0% generation

Here is a short list of things that Play Services do:

1. Scan for active malware
2. Nearby Share
3. App attestation (Required for banking apps)
4. Encrypted backup of your data
5. Autofill
6. All push notifications
7. Find my device
8. Basic telemetry (talked about elsewhere in this thread but it’s telling Google who you are and where you are)

Even if you remove all telemetry you’d need to have the services running 24/7 in the background maintaining a socket connection to push notification services.

CMV: all Linux files should be case insensitive, displayed as lowercase and mandatory snake_case.