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Really? Do autopilots diagnose threatening situations in the main cabin? Understand something unexpected happening on the ground? Visually diagnose situations? Properly identify threat levels?

It's genuinely worrying to me to see statements like this. As engineers, we of all people should know that there's 1 billion variables that could go wrong and another 1 billion we aren't even aware of yet...

I hate industrial/ghost kitchens so much. Accidentally ordered from one with friends and it was so off-putting.

Could see the kitchen areas through a window and they weren't necessarily dirty, but looked sketchy for some reason. Few people, robots delivering orders, one set of cooks making the food. Just dystopian.

We might as well just build ready to eat food factories that pipe the slop directly into your house. We got rid of the "inconvenience" of going out to eat and enjoying a restaurant. Why not get rid of the pesky delivery middle-man too?

I've been trying to brainstorm a helpful use case this would bring but I can't think of anything.

I mean just imagine how jarring it is to go from touching the macbook screen to mess with your app to needing to input text. Whether you use the macbook keyboard, or the on screen keyboard, it's just kinda rough.

or to save tokens you can have an LLM write a borrow checker to do this for you. Oh wait you're just rebuilding rust...

In general the steam deck is what made me comfortable switching to pc for gaming. I'm a couch and controller person and the old steam big picture mode was horrible. Then steam deck came around, and valve knocked the new bpm out of the park.

That made me get into playing games on linux on a desktop pc. Even when I have to run windows, I use the xbox game mode to launch steam bpm without opening windows explorer. It's a surprisingly great experience and the idea is ripped straight out of steam os.

We know the speed at which Valve operate. There's no way they'd even come close to producing headsets as quickly as meta can.

This is kind of different though isn't it? Doing an assembly or compiler class has pretty clear benefits in this regard.

But LLMs are tools. Does a great engineer need to know how vscode works? Might be helpful to understand how extensions work, LSPs, and project configurations.

Usually when working with any tools, you need to understand how to get the most out of your tool for your needs and that's about it. Core fundamentals about how software and hardware works in general seems like it would be MUCH more useful than LLM core knowledge.

Is there any place to try a framework laptop out before buying? Want to compare to my macbook

Really hoping this will include the ability to sync information from the internet via the BT tethered phone. But probably not

Similar to the current weather feature that grabs the weather for the next 5 days on every sync, I just want to push the local time train schedule just once per day to my watch.

Ansible is a different tool than Nix. It's been specifically designed to fit your exact use case. If ansible works for you and your team, there's no reason to drop it.

I've never had a moment using nix where I've felt "wow I couldn't do this with any other tool". That's not really the benefit of nix. The benefit is the flexibility of the idea and the tooling.

It's a flexible enough platform where I can use one config to manage 5+ computers in my house with various operating systems. I can use it to easily setup all my dependencies for my work projects. I can use it to build my work projects. I can use it to create vms to test those projects on. I can use it to build 3rd party projects without any instruction.

All that required was a few months of pain learning the fundamentals of nix and I've received the rest for free pretty much. It's the epitome of upfront work for long lasting benefit in my opinion.

For hobby, I use functional languages, and I find the techniques are the important bits to remember. Most modern languages let you easily stand on functional programming theory. You don't need to know Haskell. Everyone's brain works differently, but the idea of small, simple and occasionally flexible parts building a whole works for me. As opposed to the large complex do it all shape shifting machine.

Ironically these days you might have a better chance making a living from playing video games compared to any physical activity.

To fly a plane with 300+ passengers you still only need 2-3 pilots. That has remained consistent with the invention of autopilot. While we might still need a few human engineer experts, maybe we only need a few for small to medium sized companies? That may not eliminate the career for the top % but it effectively does for the vast majority of engineers.

Why not go full functional programming at that point? If the main issue with FP has been accessibility, then it should really take off now.