I hate that I have had to remove it from my writing style because people assume it’s AI generated. But I think that ship has sailed. I’ll have to do without now.
It is quite interesting the various anecdotes in the comments that all seem to have different opinions and contradict each other. All of which of course can be true--including the article. One thing can be linked to another and there still be outliers of course.
For my story. I moved within walking distance of my office 20 years ago. Since then, I will never do any sort of commute. It completely changed my day. I since changed to remote work, but if I have to go into an office again, I will move within a couple blocks of wherever that office is.
I really like the idea of Blendle. I signed up and paid for a few articles. I actually want to use it, and spend more there.
The issue has nothing to do with the cost, or quality--instead, it is just really hard to make it part of my browsing routine.
I realized I just don't sit down and read news anymore. I obviously get into articles throughout the day from links people share, but I never sit down and think--yeah, I want to read "the news" now.
In short, you are very very unlikely to ever change your database.
DBs are full of useful features that an ORM hides.
Instead, I now pick a DB that has the features I want and then use the hell out of the features.
I remember a pre-ORM time of so many manually created db side configs, stored procs, views, triggers, etc. that a DBA would have to manage. I think these unmanageable messes were one of the catalysts to getting people on board with ORMs.
To avoid going back that far. I make sure all config is part of code. Managed by migrations. Or otherwise checked into a repo and managed by a CI/CD pipeline. Now I get to use a full featured DB again. Actually use all its features. And things don’t turn into unmanageable messes.
I am so glad I don't have to make predictions about the Apple AR. Whether it succeeds or not, I think its future will be fascinating.
I find the Apple AR most like the iPhone launch, not in that it is a probable success, but that the iPhone at launch was more a platform for apps and a blank slate. It wasn't really until app developers took the platform and ran with it that people even knew what exactly it was capable of.
I think the Apple AR is in a very similar place. It has an extremely capable processor, and a platform for building apps. Now, will the collective consciousness of app developers find the use cases I can't live without, or is the platform too flawed and too expensive. I really can't say, and I can't believe anyone that says they are sure one way or the other.
It will be interesting for sure, and I'm tempted to try to find an niche app to write myself.
The plugin spec allows for user authentication--But it seems to be in process.
> Due to current UI limitations, we are not allowing plugins with User authentication into the plugin store. We expect this to change in the near future.
For now if you get development access you can run it on localhost and just make it available to yourself. So something early access could be a GitHub download and make your own copy for yourself kind of thing.
ETA: I do like the idea of some email integration. Assuming one is fine with ChatGPT knowing your email contents.
- Weather integrations. Questions such as "Where is a good place to travel to this weekend?". "What day this week should I go hiking". "Where is the cheapest place to fly to business class that has weather above 70 degrees and a beach" (if kayak plugin ever works)
- Sports and fantasy data. "Who should I start next week?"
- CI/CD integrations. Possibly ask about failures and why the failed. Why the test failed. Could it come up with a fix?
Exactly this. Our group regularly maxes out instance types in a region for some of our simulations. Have to overflow the requests over to other regions in those cases. Unfortunately the load is not consistent enough to pay for the reserved capacity.
Especially if my clean plastics will get mixed in with a bunch of dirty plastics and then rewashed in with that batch. I don’t know the answer either but would love to find out so I can be a better citizen about it.
With most rental cars giving you unlimited miles, I'm very much of the opinion that when you factor in mileage and wear and tear on the car plus vehicle depreciation due to the long miles on the road trip--that renting a car for long trips is the way to go.
Especially when compared to owning a second care with an ICE just for the occasional trip.
I don't expect a random guy to deeply understand the technicalities, but I do expect a journalist to do more investigation than reaching out to a large corporation for comment.
Regardless of what is "expected" I stand by that it would have been interesting to dig in to the details. Hopefully somebody does. I doubt apple will, but I think there can be lessons learned from understanding how it happened if someone were to research it.
If you like seeing options, you might be interested in having the Copilot pane open while you code if you are using it. It shows usually about 4 solutions in the panel that it is thinking about for autocomplete, and you can click which one you want.
Not necessarily better than SO but I find it nice to see options.
It is a radical shift. But so many so is the current internet a radical shift from its initial inception. People wrote blogs and articles long before ads. And now most people still do write them for free, it’s just that their content gets gobbled up by blogspam sites.
I definitely see a shift in the internet with things like this, I’m just not convinced it’s for the worse.
Meta-Meta question:
Why is "actually worrisome" part of "more capable"?
If worrisome is because of job prospects for an existing career, my advice is to embrace new tech, not fear it. Just keeping up with things even if you don't use it right away is usually enough to stay relevant. Things don't really evolve that quickly, and so as long as you don't resist change completely things usually work out.
Heck even if you hate change, and don't want to change at all, there will be plenty of old legacy companies with the old fashioned manual reports needing a person in a chair to type out the SQL to make them. Just like there are still (good paying) jobs for those COBOL experts today.
I hate that I have had to remove it from my writing style because people assume it’s AI generated. But I think that ship has sailed. I’ll have to do without now.