I don’t think that’s a relevant comparison - marathon is a race meant specifically to test what the human body is capable of. Using a car there is obviously against the goal of the competition.

When I’m writing code, I’ll happily offload the boring parts to AI. There’s only so many times you can solve the same problem without it being boring. And I’ve been doing this long enough that actually new problems I haven’t solved yet are pretty rare.

I did and you’re right. That’s why I’m firmly in the “it’s just a fucking tool” gang.

Both people who treat it like a messiah and those who treat it like the worst thing ever seem pretty much insane to me.

I mean, it’s a tool. You can use a hammer to smash someone’s skull in or you can use it to put some nail on a wall.

If you see it used like that, it’s shitty developers, the AI is not to blame. Don’t get me wrong, I do have coworkers who use it like this and it sucks. One literally told to next time tell Copilot directly what to fix when I’m doing a review.

But overall it helps if you know how and most importantly when to use it.

Dude, go touch grass, please. This is embarrassing.

I didn’t mean it in the literal sense but if it makes you happy, we can pretend that whenever someone says “everyone” they mean it literally.

The anti AI crowd is getting crazy. Everyone uses it during development.

It’s a tool for fuck’s sake, what’s next? Banning designers from using Photoshop because using it is faster and thus taking jobs from multiple artists who would have to be employed otherwise?

Fuck that cancer site giving you the option to either give them all data or go one by one over 200 “partners” and disable them.

I don’t think the point is that you can sue them if it only lasts 13 billion years, but the under current conditions it’s projected lifetime is 14 billion years. Which is a very big number, meaning it’s pretty much guaranteed it won’t break in 100, 1000 or 10000 years.

Same for batteries.

Any volunteers for testing the claim?

I mean, if a single distro is what we’re after, isn’t there already ChromeOS?

Not a problem for me, I pay for VPN anyway.

They die anyway, they’re surviving on momentum, not on being the genuinely great service that’s actually better than pirating.

I must get into this Usenet thing one day. Though it all seems complicated.

If I haven’t cancelled Netflix already, I would right now. I cancelled Spotify for the same reason just last week (though in their case it might have been a mistake, but I don’t really expect such mistakes after increasing the cost twice a year).

Given that’s like half the reason people actually buy PCs in the first place? Probably not.

Sounds weird. I started pirating again because the companies are fucking greedy. So nothing they do will make me pay again, until they stop being so greedy - if they all consolidate into one streaming service for a price of like $10, I’ll probably stop pirating again, because at that point it’s easier to not pirate.

How about no? If you want a web app, at least go to the trouble of writing a proper offline PWA. It behaves like an app and doesn’t force you to have a second, insecure copy of a browser.

Gtk?

Archive link: https://archive.ph/f1TSu

So that Metro doesn’t give you the great choice of “pay us” or “give us your data.”