Walkaway by Cory Doctorow.

I suspect it’s not dissimilar to the way spam emails are full of typos and grammar errors. You may wonder why they don’t just get those fixed, but they’re specifically to filter out the people who notice them and dismiss the spam, as they (the spammers) are far less likely to successfully scam someone who is offended by the way the spam is written. They are a kind of first level filter.

MS are filtering out the vocal, knowledgable people who will cause problems next time they have some security breach or do something shady around privacy. Convert that relatively small number of people to Linux, and you’re left with a compliant and fully tracked customer base—far more use in the long run.

Downvoted because it didn’t end with /s.

I guess the company was providing a kind of UBI? Not sure what will happen when all of those non-jobs disappear…

Sounds like my webpack build.

My PhD was in neural networks in the 1990s and I’ve been in development since then.

Remember when digital cameras came out? They were pretty crappy compared to film—if you had a decent film camera and knew what you were doing. I fell like that’s where we’re at with LLMs right now.

Digital cameras are now pretty much on par with film, perhaps better in some circumstances and worse in others.

Shifting gear from writing code to reviewing someone else’s is inefficient. With a good editor setup and plenty of screen real estate, I’m more productive just writing than constantly worrying about what the copilot just inserted. And yes, I’ve tested that.

Surely boilerplate code is copy / paste or macros, then edit the significant bits—a lot less costly than copilot.

No worries! I’m looking to move away from Spotify and so comparing was on my radar :). Think Tidal family with playlist import might keep the moaning from the rest of the clan down. But will check out bandcamp too.

Deezer seems like the most expensive compared to Spotify and Tidal, and pays artists the least according to this: https://producerhive.com/music-marketing-tips/streaming-royalties-breakdown/

Just curious what’s the added benefit?

Plummeting against what currency?

Physicists:

This is just Occam’s razor again: a hypothetical particle that can’t interact with anything, and therefore can’t be detected, doesn’t exist.

Also Physicists: 85% of the universe’ mass is missing!!!

Just use Reader view or whatever that’s called in your browser. I use Arctic for Lemmy on iOS and it has a ‘default to reader’ for opening links. Can’t remember the last time I saw a paywall. There’s one news site that doesn’t work but it’s pretty obvious straight away.

“All female shark tank” is my new band name.

Just archive it and take up farming.

Let me say… I work in healthcare. I clean human waste. I’m not easily grossed out.

Come on Jo, we’ve talked about this. You’re supposed to call them patients.

4-5 TOTP apps? So far, when, e.g. Microsoft or Google have insisted use of their own Authenticator app is required, it’s worked fine for me using Ente Auth or similar just by entering the code / QR.

I can still hear the penny dropping in my mind when I went from ‘How can anyone fall for that—it’s so obviously a scam…’ to ‘Oh, right…’ It sounded too Machiavellian to be true. I wonder if it was so carefully designed from the start, or a process of natural selection?

Yes, thanks. I’d seen that and it seemed very much ‘this is how it is’ as opposed to ‘this is how it’s taught’. The rule as I understood was that ‘of’ should be used in combination with adjectives that denote an ‘amount’ of something (eg ‘much’, ‘many’, etc.) whereas adjectives that denote a ‘characteristic’ of something (eg ‘big’, ‘great’, etc.) should not be used with of.

The latter are far more numerous and so use with ‘of’ is rare. But is seems to be used with almost every adjective in US sources.

See here too: https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2014/01/not-that-big-of-a-deal.html

I’m genuinely fascinated by this language pattern: “great of a guy”. In, er, classic? traditional? British? English, the “of” just isn’t used. I see it so often as “big of a problem”.

A great guy -> How great a guy I was. A big problem -> How big a problem is it?

Is this just colloquialism, or is it how grammar is taught?

The graphs are all interactive (touch to show labels, etc.). That can interfere with scrolling—try dragging at the edge or one of the pie chart titles. Fwiw, it scrolls ok on mobile safari…