That's what a honeypot would say.

While I agree, it has to be done very carefully. Like, keep up with inflation with an extra cent or two on top, careful. The cost of petroleum is factored into everything due to transportation, so any change is felt practically everywhere by everyone.

I'm actually surprised he didn't bring up how the regular maintenance on an EV is non-existent; it's a lot less hassle. There's no regular oil changes, for example. Even your brakes can last longer if you're good at single-pedal mode.

Friend?

If there's a quality you want in a politician it's to be diplomatic with others, full stop.

Consider how Mamdani has handled Trump. Breaking bread with bullies, "reaching across the aisle", overlooking insults, stroking egos, shaking hands, they are all activities that superficially resemble things that friendly people do. But make no mistake, it's not friendship in the strictest sense. They might actually hate each other, but they're able to act "friendly", regardless. We want our representatives to build relationships with people that hold power so they can operate enough to get things done.

Also, it's not spineless activity. If anything, the capacity to withhold outward expressions of negative emotions is really hard for most people to do. It takes guts, self control, and strength to act in spite of all that. AOC has more spine than most because keeping your powder dry every single day is her job, and she chooses to do that.

Piggybacking the other remarks to activate your warranty. You can take pictures of the metal "grain" in the broken surface, which should clearly indicate the exact material failure mode. I say that since this looks like a brittle fracture - they probably screwed up case-hardening for that batch, making the metal hard all the way through.

I agree. Although I've been thinking more along the lines of bug fixing, adding features, and incrementally changing said app. So like you would with a human team, disallow large-scale refactors as a rule. As far as I can tell, that relies on codegen to be well-skilled and well-behaved - a whole other area that requires labor with possibly diminishing returns.

Amusingly, you could probably get numbers for straight:straight if you specify that the activity is strictly dating, and the relationship is platonic.

I wish more people knew about this. This opens up the plugin ecosystem for mobile browsing. Mine is running adblock and tampermonkey. It's still Android, but it's miles better than Safari or the stock Chrome browser.

I've maintained for years that my engineering job is, sarcastically, "to move entropy around." This is no different, as we've squeezed the envelope at one end only to balloon it at the other.

I would add that once you're all-in on codegen for a project that escapes human comprehension, you have to keep using more codegen to maintain it. It effectively hands off the whole game to the robots, and probably keeps growing in scale all the time. By way of your observation of increasing cost of human involvement, it resembles a massive tech-debt scheme to me. Which is to say that it'll work impressively well in the short term until someone has to get their hands dirty with the gordian knot of code that has been quietly cooked by LLMs for years. At that point, the bill comes due.

I think this is the best argument for human-in-the-loop, or even my personal favorite "LLM as an advisor or intern" instead. I've also had traction with AI codegen for disposable/single-use programs, where I just need to know if something works.

They do and my roofing contractor did this very thing during cleanup this year. Had three of them.

There were still some small pieces of trash here and there, but nothing egregious or metallic.

I've often wondered about this. I'd like to think I'm really darn good at English as it's my only language.

If I moved somewhere and had to start over, it would probably take years before I learned a fluent vocabulary. Even then, I'd still be miles away from being able to write good poetry or craft pithy jokes.

I have to ask: is that a translation error or a really colorful German idiom?