it wasn’t really about suffering more, the point was that it’s more out in the open and more directly connecting with people. i’m sure andy weir had the same issues with the martian since it was written in public.

junior devs don’t turn into senior devs if they’re replaced with llms though :(

well they are, in that they produce bad code that has to be vetted thoroughly and they don’t know git.

writers are arguably suffering more. not because llms can replace them at all to the degree they can junior programmers, but because the people making the decisions believe they can.

also, i wasn’t the one who brought it up :P

yeah that’s what’s bugging me about all this. “remember the human” is even more important now.

regarding introducing new bugs, both high-profile cases from this past week have been seasoned developers of tools with extensive test suites that claimed to have tested everything thoroughly. when someone with 30 years of experience say they’ve tested something, i tend to trust that judgement. but on the other hand we’ve also seen the cognitive decline heavy llm usage seems to lead to…

most writers don’t get growing stacks of bug reports. open source burnout is extremely common, unfortunately.

tr could definitely do some work here. maybe something like, echo each word and its translated counterpart, sort on first column, and then echo $col1 >> $col0 for each line? it’s a start at least

i have a 2012 chevy volt with Opel badges. it’s cramped, too low to comfortably get in to, and was built prior to charge port standards meaning i can only plug in with my own cable and it maxes out at 3.6kW, but it’s honestly great. just a nice place to be. my wishlist for it is a battery swap (using modern cells would quadruple its electric range to about 200km), a proper compatible onboard charger, android auto support, and adaptive cruise. then i could keep it until it fell apart.

depending on the day i either want a 2024 Polestar 2 LRSM or a Citroën DS 21 Pallas. i don’t have to drive much so honestly either would work.

also this week i read a review of the new toyota bz4x that mentioned that it uses radiative infrared heaters instead of resistive elements in the seats and i want to test drive it just for that.

my first car was a V70 Executive with 350 000 km on it.
well, on the rear half.
i was the 23rd owner. it had a phone in the central arm rest, which didn’t work because some mongrel had replaced the head unit with aftermarket crap. at least the wood trim and leather seats were nice.

this sounds like a python kind of problem. i’m all for abusing bash features but there comes a point when there’s just too many brackets.

he was a face actor until that car accidentwampa fucked it up.

anyone making noise, shining lights, or blocking the screen should immediately be thrown out.

dependent on where you are, they are textbook skirting the law. uber got crushed when they launched in sweden because taxi drivers need to do basically the same training as bus drivers. it’s an extra letter on your license, with all that entails of age limits, theory and practical tests, x amount of time driven a year etc.

nowadays ubers in sweden are just taxis, which hilariously means that they by law have to have a price list on the cars. which basically kneecaps their entire business model.

or it’s, y’know, crypto

yeah you can’t have that many letters at once

oh they used to have one like that in central stockholm, but it was apparently built for multiple people. i literally could not walk inside, i would have had to sidle in. also, the weight rating was “5 people or 200 kg” which tells you a bit about when it was built.

i have a first-gen Volt, which means i can only charge at 3.6kW and have a J1772 connector. in europe. it’s not a matter of there not being any chargers around, the car is just made for overnight charging only.

i could use tinker… but i’m trying to learn freecad. i found a model for a gearbox that turned out to be very badly optimised and to use waaaaay too much filament, so i’m trying to recreate it. hopefully that will learn me enough.

i have a hybrid but no place to charge it, so i basically just have a slightly more efficient car.

during lockdown when oil prices surged, our price at the pump went up by about 1€/l, which was almost a doubling. that caused our government to panic and start ripping up our climate directives of x% renewables in the fuel, the yearly index-linked tax increase on fossil fuels, and other stuff. the prices did go down by quite a lot, but the market was stable then. now we’re in the same boat again but we have nothing to tear out.

it’s frustrating, because they also started phasing out the tax incentives on ev’s due to energy costs jumping up when germany was connected to our grid through undersea cables. that means the transition to a greener vehicle fleet will take longer, and that the existing fleet will grow older and less efficient. it’s all a big house of cards.

idk, it just makes me sad