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But it's Meta, yuck! Better use Signal or Telegram.

Raspberries are cool for tinkering with hardware, learning how to write kernel drivers etc. But I think this is how maybe 30% of Raspberries are used. People do uncanny things to turn those boards into something we already have on the market - mini PCs, and thin clients. For my home server, I replaced Raspberry Pi with a used HP T630 I bought for the quarter of the Pi's price, and that was a good decision.

Frequently used argument against mini PCs is lack of GPIO. There are adapters based on FT2232H. The drivers are lame or non-existent, though, so I wrote one by myself, so the chip appears in system as native GPIO port which makes it easier to use with various programs. "itachilab/ftdi-gpio" if someone is interested.

People easily forgot how they laughed at wizards in Harry Potter series who said "You-Know-Who" instead of "Voldemort". Now they are doing exactly the same thing.

At this point it's easier to just write the code. If my prompt is to be longer than the code produced, why bother with explaining that to LLM?

Sounds very depressing.

I used to code at night with a kerosene lamp sitting on my desk. I love the light spectrum of a live fire.

"Portable" (they couldn't even fit in a pocket) CD players were the worst thing imho. Too sensitive to even small shocks, which was particularly annoying while taking longer walks, and draining batteries like crazy. I switched from cassette players to MP3 players, almost completely skipping the era of CD players. I've tried it once or twice because my sister had it, and never again.

What other social interactions are needed more than: "One flat white to go, please", and "Thank you"? Asking genuinely, because I don't know what else I can say.

> whatever ultimately gets you to where you want to be

Money.

> classifying people is utter BS, and assigning labels is very hurtful

Is saying "you have cardiovascular issues" labeling or diagnosis? Where would you draw the line? We have a definition of a healthy heart, likewise we have a definition of a healthy brain. If I suffered a stroke, it's not because my body is unique, it's because of a disease.

Ironically, we chose a work style that requires maintaining prolonged focus, which sucks without meds (especially when dealing with boring tasks).

Never happened to me. And I'm using Mac and iPhone.

Nice, but what does it mean? Are you gonna replace a group of specialists in their fields with prompts to LLM?

Can't tell what would be the best case (pun intended) for you, depends on the language you use. Yes, it will eventually end up as some sort of look-up table, though switch statement is the last option I'd use (assuming you gonna have more than 20 cases or so).

The good thing of programming without generative assistants is that it makes you think how to make the algorithm and the code better to avoid too much manual work. Laziness of engineers is crucial for automation and optimisation.

I really enjoy doing the dishes now that the dishwasher does ~100% percent of the work.

Maintaining a switch for all possible TIFF tags doesn't sound like a good programming practice, though.

So... Mindless coding is it? The best part of coding is doing research and learning. Coding, for the pure sake of finishing the project as soon as possible with the least involvement, sounds like doing unpleasant chores.