If the purpose of a metric is to show adoption, the metric can be defined in a way to show adoption. Could be just an effect of promo driven culture, AI push and good’ol Goodhart’s law.

Like, how do you even measure when code is ai authored and when not. If you insert 25% of a variable name and the autocompleter guesses the rest of the name correctly, are the remaining 75% AI generated?

Do you actually need to share your bookmarks? I found that bookmarks in Firefox and an RSS reader hosted on my nextcloud are enough for personal use.

Meanwhile in the LLM “search engine” land: https://a2mi.social/@dave0/113031300914816116

Surely it is helping to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful

I run into this process every time I visit Poland (mostly because I visit so rarely that I forget) and every time I’m astonished how seriously fucked up it is.

The most annoying part is having to scan a receipt in order to exit the self checkout area.

In the stark contrast to the above self checkout process in Switzerland works so smoothly. Mostly because nobody is subjected to the bullshit described above. There’s even an option to grab a scanner, scan everything on the go and just pay at exit.

Swiss Post has this too!

I think ClownStrike is the name they deserve

Ugh, just reading the summary made me want to puke. What the fuck is wrong with those people. Who the fuck thinks that delegating the responsibility to computers is a good idea. Can’t they cope with the outcomes of their choices and need to outsource that responsibility to some magick software

Thanks, I hate it

So does Java. /me runs

He also did sawzall, but thankfully that didn’t get widely adopted

It’s called “data chauffered”: instead of following the data, tell it where it needs to take you

And nothing of value was lost

A phrase that gains a completely different meaning once one notices that aella is attending.

I’d rather drop the religion from that list. Some religions propagate harmful ideas too and historically sided with fascists.

“you’re holding it wrong” worked for iphones, so maybe it’ll work for llms too…

That certainly is an interesting take. I never thought about it this way

Basically means that it cannot be printed and must be done by hand, which originally implied being signed with ink.

Switzerland requires “wet” signatures too

Google has no maintenance culture. Maintenance is simply not rewarded. Instead in order to get rewarded one needs to launch new things to show “impact”. At some point the only way to move forward is to deprecate some unmaintained features or the entire product.