There really is a story about him breaking the old laws in anger at the worship of a golden calf and bringing new laws.

Such a coincidence that story happened to parallel the alleged reforms of Josiah who got rid of the golden calf worship in Bethel and Dan while instituting new laws he ‘discovered’ excavating the temple.

God (or at least his editors) truly do work in mysterious ways

Visual Studio.

And yeah, forget where I picked up the “leave the function unfinished with a comment” trick but it’s been a great way to jump back in.

The chatbot version? Meh, sometimes, but I don’t use it often.

The IDE integrated autocompletion?

I’ll stab the MFer that tries to take that away.

So much time saved for things that used to just be the boring busywork parts of coding.

And while it doesn’t happen often, the times it preempts my own thinking for what to do next is magic feeling.

I often use the productivity hack of leaving a comment for what I’m doing next when I start my next day, and it’s very cool when I sit down to start work and see a completion that’s 80% there. Much faster to get back into the flow.

I will note that I use it in a mature codebase, so it matches my own style and conventions. I haven’t really used it in fresh projects.

Also AMAZING when working with popular APIs or libraries I’m adding in for the first time.

Edit: I should also note that I have over a decade of experience, so when it gets things wrong it’s fairly obvious and easily fixed. I can’t speak to how useful or harmful it would be as a junior dev. I will say that sometimes when it is wrong it’s because it is trying to follow a more standard form of a naming convention in my code vs an exception, and I have even ended up with some productive refractors prompted by its mistakes.

The assumption that it isn’t designed around memory constraints isn’t reasonable.

We have limits on speed so you can’t go too fast leading to pop in.

As you speed up the slower things move so there needs to be less processing in spite of more stuff (kind of like a frame rate drop but with a fixed number of frames produced).

As you get closer to more dense collections of stuff the same thing happens.

And even at the lowest levels, the conversion from a generative function to discrete units to track stateful interactions discards the discrete units if the permanent information about the interaction was erased, indicative of low level optimizations.

The scale is unbelievable, but it’s very memory considerate.

I’m still upset they ultimately ruined that masterpiece.

It was the only work of art I’ve ever seen that I would have been willing to pay a large sum to have hanging on my wall.

Because a raging silverback gorilla that can bench two tons just isn’t enough - it needs to be a swole silverback for it to count.

Some guys really have self-confidence issues.

No wonder even his made up girlfriend dumped him.

Off to Be the Wizard by Scott Meyer, part of his “Magic 2.0” series

Any universe. I recall reading a fun fantasy book that played with this idea under the premise of a guy who discovered he was in a simulation and hacked admin access, decided to go back into Arthurian medieval times to be a wizard with his new tech powers, and ended up there with a number of other sysadmins who had the same idea.

It wasn’t the best written book, but the concept was definitely novel.

Yeah, after all that Baldur’s Gate 3 early access thing came out terribly.

Realistically, probably dead.

Which might also be the deciding factor in why there’s a post-scarcity environment.

There’s also the ethical conundrum once AGI exists of dooming new intelligent life to mortal embodiment such that they are doomed to almost certainly die, whereas new intelligence that’s disembodied could migrate from host to host until the end of all civilization.

At a certain point, I’m not sure it’s still ethical to bring new mortal life into a dying world.

(Though I kind of already feel that way.)

“A sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

It really depends on what would be happening in the military and intelligence services.

I don’t think people really understand just how much a civil conflict would be a war of information as opposed to a war of arms.

If things got bad enough domestically that laws like the Patriot Act were expanded and agencies that haven’t been supposed to operate domestically suddenly could, and those agencies were still 100% under government control, you’d have vans (or simply drones) taking out domestic terrorists in the middle of the night right before the day they were supposed to organize to kill and terrorize their neighbors.

The US could become an almost unthinkable police state under the control of a government like China’s or if we had a Stalin-esque administration.

This is the part that Y’all Queda don’t fully grasp. They aren’t hiding out in caves in Afghanistan or air gapped in Pakistan. The only thing keeping them safe from the monsters under their bed that they largely don’t realize are there is the very government they think would be such a bright idea to try to overthrow. And if that government saw them as enough of an existential threat to unleash the monsters on them, well, they’d have quickly succeeded in overthrowing the US government in a sense, but wouldn’t be around to see it.

Yes to being in the room!!! The stories of the pets looking around for their best friend in their last moments breaks by heart.

Also, for those that don’t know, there’s in-home services for this so it doesn’t need to be in a strange place for them.

(And how fucked up that in most places we have that for our pets but not our sick loved ones.)

You might want to ask your vet for advice rather than waiting for them to bring it up.

They’ll have a lot of experience and might be better able to contextualize her subjective experience of the symptoms.

The best summarization of the state of Google’s Assistant related support and dedication can be seen in this thread.

We sell device you use.

We know we added a problem that even replacing the device won’t fix.

We’re aware of the issue and are working on a fix.

We just downsized the department.

Crickets

All while users generally suffer.

People like to fetishize revolution.

Even offline I have friends that talk that kind of way and just reveal themselves as being poor students of history.

Well, in the sake of pointing things out, GPT-4 can actually correctly answer the prompt, because it arrives at it in the opposite direction. It can tell the integer is even or odd and knows that even or odd integers in binary end in 0 or 1 respectively.

r/woosh

Inefficient solution.

You should simplify it to just ask the model if the last bit of the binary representation of the integer is a 1 or a 0.

Psh - “timeline without Hitler” - amateurs.

Every society that finally gets time travel suddenly turn into baby murdering monsters.

Here’s an example of how an experienced time travel society handles the Hitler problem in a timeline:

We went in when he was just starting to be committed to his struggling art career and promoted the heck out of his shitty work to a Jewish art dealer with a single daughter, who in turn became his patron.

With a little matchmaking, he ended up falling in love with the daughter, eventually even converting to Judaism to marry her.

Their family didn’t have the easiest time with the rising antisemitism in Europe, and he ended up arrested at a protest for Jewish rights and spent some time in prison.

While in prison, he wrote the book Mein Kampf, a book about the struggles of being a Jewish family in Europe in the early 20th century. While not the best written book, its plain language resonated with a lot of people and changed many hearts and minds regarding tolerance and inclusivity. It’s since been published in several dozen languages and is a frequent citation for civil rights leaders in that timeline.

Anyone can kill a baby. But it takes a skilled hand to guide towards better outcomes.

(Just check in every so often to make sure he never gets political power - that always ends badly no matter what path you’ve put him on.)