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I’m 20min by public transport and still much prefer my 3 days at home than my 2 in the office.

I think the thing people miss about RTO is that management are more likely to be extroverted. They’re the kind of people who thrive on being surrounded by people. I don’t think RTO is as nefarious as people here make out - it’s just extroverts wanting to mold the workplace to for them.

That makes them bad managers, but not necessarily bad people.

Being able to join an instance with its own culture, while still being able to connect outside that culture, is the only reason I use any social media at all.

I understand it can be confusing for people coming from Twitter or Facebook or wherever, the local instance culture is Mastodon’s greatest strength. That, of course, and the lack drive to turn a profit from users.

Joplin is quite good; I still keep it around for longer form writing. For everyday note taking I switched to logseq about a year ago. They're in a weird phase technically (in tye midst of a huge rewrite id the persistence layer) but it’s the first PKM app I’ve used that I’ve really gelled with.

Well, we already use password managers for all their benefits: autofill, syncing, password generation, passkey storage etc.

For a while we’re using `pass` which doesn’t have an easy way to share passwords, so my wife and I had duplicates of a handful of passwords, which was annoying when they changed, or when we needed to share a new one.

Moving to Bitwarden meant that we can have a set of passwords that are shared, and we can update or add to it. As the kids have gotten older, I’ve get them using it too, so we can share a small set of passwords with them (wifi, streaming services etc).

That’s… not how software works, no matter how it is produced. Complexity is the enemy; always.

We use Vaultwarden and Bitwarden to share passwords with the family. My wife has my master password and I have hers.

The bigger issue if I drop dead is all the nontrivial tech crap I have set up (self hosted Vaultwarden included…).

I agree. I’m using copilot more and more as it gets better and better, but it is getting better at the fun stuff and leaves me to do the less fun stuff. I’m in a role where I need to review code across multiple teams, and as their output is increasing, so is my review load. The biggest issue is that the people who lean on copilot the most are the least skilled at writing/reviewing code in the first place, so not only do I have more to review, it’s worse(1).

My medium term concern is that the tasks where we want a human in the loop (esp review) are predicated on skills that come from actually writing code. If LLMs stagnate, in a generation we’re not going to have anyone who grew up writing code.

1: not that LLMs write objectively bad code, but it doesn’t follow our standards and patterns. Like, we have an internal library of common UI components and CSS, but the LLM will pump out custom stuff.

There is some stuff that we can pick up with analysers and fail the build, but a lot of things just come down to taste and corporate knowledge.

As somewhat of an AI-agnostic, I disagree. Writing tests is one of the things I find most useful about copilot. Of course you need to review them first correctness, but (especially for unit tests) it’s pretty good and getting it right first-time.

Out of interest, what sort of products/systems are you building?

Thanks for putting in the effort with that comment. I understand what you’re saying, but it seems like a local optima problem to me: enshrining race differences in corporate policy and law may be optimal right here, right now, but it’s antithetical to the long term goal of removing racism. How can you possibly get there from here?

> A well serviced rolex in 2026 with laser cut gears drifts +/- 15sec per day.

Modern Rolex (and Omega et al) are more like +/-2s.

Maybe this is a generational thing, but that first sentence is nonsensical to me. DEI wants to enshrine race differences, so mocking DEI is… racist?

Of course naturally “trim” people don’t count calories - they don’t have to. Just like I don’t have to monitor my blood glucose level, but my Type 1 diabetic friend does.

You can’t apply to habits of one physiologic group to a different group and expect the same results.

There’s a whole field of research on this (look up Floyd Toole) - while any one individual can have skewed taste, on aggregate people prefer speakers that are as close to neutral as possible.

Often for me it’s not about not liking the book, but not wanting to read it right now. This is particularly true with philosophy, but also true of fiction (I’m currently reading and loving Infinite Jest, but I’m not always in the mood for it).