"...that consistency is real value."

"A few findings...are worth flagging here."

I know this smell. I'm not sure if this is AI or merely the natural result of overwhelming immersion in AI output that is "backpropagating" its way into organic communication.

On a completely related note, I've been enjoying classic fiction a lot more recently. Moby Dick is actually pretty funny.

Giving GitHub a run for its money, I see.

I find it slightly humorous that this sentence contains three words which would be understood completely differently by the majority of the English-speaking population.

To me, it's the ultimate pastime: a musical, social, and physical activity all in one.

I'm using Zed as my editor, and maybe 18 months ago I upgraded my system. I didn't miss the AI autocomplete at the time, so I didn't bother to set it up again. However, around two weeks ago I figured I'd give it another go.

I set up GitHub Copilot in Zed and... it's horrible. It seems like most of its suggestions are completely misguided and incorrect, usually just duplicating the code immediately above or below the cursor location while updating the name of a single identifier to match some perceived pattern. Not remotely close to what I'd consider useful; I'm definitely a faster & better programmer without it.

I also tried setting up some local models on ollama: I kept getting random tokens inserted that seemed to be markup from the model output that Zed didn't know how to parse. (On mobile rn, will post sample output when I am back at work if I remember to.)

Is paying Anthropic an arm and a leg for the privilege of granting them first-party access to train on my user data really the competitive move as a modern developer?

P.S. I know Zed has their own AI (and it seems like it should be really good!), but when they first introduced it, I tried it out and it immediately consumed the entire free tier's worth of credits in just a few minutes of normal coding: suggestions are proactively generated and count against your account credit even if not accepted, so I didn't really feel like I'd gotten a good sense of the tool by the time the trial ran out. Even if it's really good, it burns through credits extremely fast.

Norway". The third player's word is "camembert". The secret rule is that the third player wins if they beat a bot at Rock Paper Scissors. The third player plays "rock". The bot plays "scissors". "

Am I understanding this correctly? Because it sounds like the Verge is complaining about a change that should net them marginally more(?) ad $ (and is to YouTube's disadvantage) because a few readers complained, and they're just trying to blame YouTube instead.

I'm confused.

There are a lot of learned acronyms (LOD: line-of-dance, HT: heel-toe, OP: outside partner) but not much in the way of custom notation.

I did discover a custom figure linking notation on this website (https://ballroomindex.weebly.com/choreography.html), but I've not seen it used elsewhere.

Tax avoidance is different from tax evasion: one refers to not voluntarily donating money to the government, and the other is a crime. The similarity in terms is misleading.

The characterization of the Andreessen quote is 1) inaccurate, as the antecedent in the actual quote is unspecified, and 2) described in the linked article as not being a direct quote.

Eu/acc does not appear to be promoting those two aspects of those two people. All people are multifaceted and flawed. Probably, the website is referencing them because of their apparent success as tech investors/founders.

The plugin ecosystem is sparse/immature, and the special features like PDF embedding/annotating are not very usable. It is difficult to set up sync properly (I self host Nextcloud and usually have to resolve sync conflicts whenever I switch devices). There is an Android app, which works fine, but the integration with the Android system (e.g. creating a note from a "Share" dialog) is... obtuse.

However, it is fair to judge such an overuse of the factory pattern as obtuse.