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To clarify, I am not saying it's a bad thing. I am justifying why it might still make sense to buy an LG TV even if you disagree with their spying.

I mean if you think about it, you're "stealing" from them. They (probably) calculate the value of selling user data and use it to offset the cost of the TV.

If you take away the user data, you are "coming out ahead". I'm guessing the days of selling hardware at a loss are mostly over, but the margins are probably pretty tight.

Can I repeatedly press the button? Because then I'm pressing it, seeing what's up. Trying whatever low evidence/low risk method there is to "fix" it and then pressing it again.

Assuming there's no side effects to pressing the button of course.

> It’s all just physics and chemistry, and those are well understood.

Not really. We cannot model physics and chemistry to a level which allows us to accurately predict a humans action (even a tiny time-step into the future)

This is vastly different to an LLM, where the model is the model (for a lack of better phrasing).

There's definitely trade-offs. I actually prefer a proper SPA to pure HTML when on a slow connection and interacting with a site a lot.

Especially when trying to buy something. I much prefer to have a longer initial load and then have everything just work instead of waiting as I navigate between pages, the multi stage checkout, confirmation etc.

But yeah, if I'm just trying read a single article on a blog, preloading everything is pointless. A hybrid site with the initial page being server side rendered + progressive enhancement afterwards is theoretically optimal in my opinion.

I use it for all my non-professional work and I find it works well enough for me.

Mostly for things that I know are possible and have a vague idea of how I would do it, but it would take me longer. Some examples in no particular order:

* Made my wife's travel blog/site

* Chrome extension for Crunchyroll to allow multisubs + local translation for unsupported languages (so my wife and I can watch and she doesn't need to focus extra hard reading English)

* Same as above for Netflix

* Setup multi subs with mpv (some Lua plugin shenanigans)

* Setup proton for warcraft 3 + wc3 champions (unofficial ladder) on Linux

* Setup a bunch of xrandr aliases for my different monitor uses (I'm still on x11)

If you need a custom chrome/firefox extension or to create some bespoke Linux QoL stuff, it works great. This was all Gemini Flash 3.5-3.7 (been using it for a while). I suspect pretty much anything would succeed at these tasks, but I just stick with antigravity because it works for me(and I'm on some discounted plan).

I hate that I have to change the way I write to avoid AI-isms. I loved using "load bearing" to describe weird code that you think you can delete but is actually holding everything together.

Now people think I'm just parroting what Claude said. It sucks. I want my catch phrases back, I guess this is how em dash users felt

You are not wrong, Jenkins had many problems. But I would argue that the solutions were always grounded in the Linux userland.

And I also agree that you could use GitHub actions in a similar way to how I talk about Jenkins. I also think you could use Jenkins in a way that is similar to GitHub actions with an extremely convoluted Jenkins file that relies on Jenkins plugins etc.

But nowhere I worked did that with Jenkins, whereas everywhere I worked with GitHub actions does create extremely complex pipelines relying on 3rd party actions (with many being vendor supplied). I'm sure(hope?) the DevOps folks looked at what each action actually does by going to wherever it's pulled from and read it (and the actions it pulls in).

I'm not necessarily arguing that things are worse now. Just that you don't get a "free" understanding anymore by just having a good familiarity of the Linux userland. When there's a problem, I stick my head in the sand and let the DevOps people handle it.

I also haven't worked anywhere that uses Jenkins in 10+ years, so maybe if I went back, it would be the same as Github.

Yeah, the YAMLification of everything kinda killed my ability to understand "everything". Previously, if you knew the Linux userland well, I felt like you could figure anything out with enough digging.

Take CI for example, it was Jenkins and it ran a csh/bash/zsh whatever script and captured the output. Nice and simple (even if the scripts sometimes got insane).

GitHub actions is nothing like that. Weird home grown extensions to YAML with their own idiosyncrasies and dynamically pulling in plugins from god knows where. You can't just take a workflow and execute it locally like you could with a bash script.

Surely it ends with alternative clients? Seems much easier and more efficient. Facebook UI is crap anyway, just have something scrape the data and present it in a format that's not optimized for whatever KPI FB cares about and without ads.

Or with just not using these services.

> I was told I'm not supposed to read pull requests at my job anymore (we all do agentic coding now), I'm just supposed to click "approve" on PRs because for some stupid reason it still requires several humans to approve the PR.

That sucks, may as well auto approve with a script.

> Sure it is, but it may not cost what you think it should cost.

You can go on open router and see what 3rd parties are hosting open models for. There are some pretty capable models (not frontier, but probably opus 4.5 level) for pretty cheap.

Those companies have no incentive to lose money. They are nameless, they are making a profit just providing the service, and it's cheaper than the frontier models of today.

So I think we have a pretty good idea about what the price can be, even without VC subsidizing.

I guess it depends, but what are you doing with all your time if you aren't reviewing the code and trying to make it maintainable?

The time I previously spent writing code is now spent reviewing code and giving feedback so that it gets written differently if don't like it.

The skills required have changed completely imo. You need to be able to context switch efficiently and review "better". Also identify which tasks require lots of supervision of what the AI generates and which don't.

I think AI is here to stay. Open models keep the costs at a certain level. If hosted solutions get too expensive, people will selfhost. Even if models never improve beyond today, the open ones are good enough at this point to provide immense value.

Just my opinion of course.

Yeah, I was very skeptical and now I've drank the kool-aid. Got multiple parallel cloud agents with independent loops making PRs and me reviewing them. AI is also reviewing PRs and sometimes even catches useful things.

LLMs in 2023, from what I remember, were slightly better auto complete. It's pretty different now.

Today I learned about the Bortle scale. I was completely ignorant about it.

> If you've never seen truly dark skies, do yourself a favour and go see what they look like during true night

I think I went from only ever experiencing Bortle 5-6 to Bortle 1 when I visited Merzouga and Erg Chebbi. Blew my mind, made me really appreciate the extent of light pollution almost everywhere else I've been.