same it's a really good product, and model. But I thought they already were commercial (?), as in you can buy 'enterprise' plans including hosting and support etc. The reassuring thing about these recent moves in Europe is that governments seem to be specifically talking about the value of open source, not simply about moving away from Microsoft. Hopefully that encourages products like nextcloud to just keep doing what they're doing.

haha yes - the 'serving suggestion' disclaimer.

in this application may I suggest 'living suggestion', or even 'house suggestion'?

socket.dev does most of that.

that'll be nobody then. These poor Jeep owners will now have to walk home from Walmart with their bread and milk.

Oh really?

I'm genuinely curious - why would you repeatedly use a semicolon instead of more recent innovations like full stops or commas?

I honestly gained nothing from reading the full article compared to the slashdot summary. What did I miss??

You're not wrong but also what is the point of a 'presentation'? Images, words or more usually a wall of text the presenter reads to the audience.

Impress is fine, the real issue is that the 'state of the art' for presentations is bullshit.

..and get a slightly different delusional answer in only 7 hours!!

So you've never had to deal with an excel file containing dates or times or values which could possibly appear to be part of a date type??!

if your employer is taking all that effort to analyse emails, scroll times, docs access, then there's honestly a different, bigger problem.

yeah I don't know why people put up with this shit

I started a new job recently - requested a laptop with a geforce GPU so I could finally play BG3, I leave it in the background and have a fight every now and then. Conversely I spent most of the weekend trying to diagnose Kubernetes errors.

I could definitely get paid more elsewhere but a culture of trust and respect is priceless to me. YMMV.

it's not even that - all things being equal, I'd still go to the US despite not agreeing with the political climate there. It's a big country with lots of amazing stuff to see.

What I hear people really worrying about is the draconian powers that TSA/immigration seem to have acquired, and truly mindbending stories like this or this.

A bunch of my colleagues are raving about windsurf, one even starting a company to 'vibe code' an AI app. I was curious to try it.

Fired up a really basic web app I'm testing - pointed it at a file with about 100 lines of html/js and asked it to describe the function on line 78 or whatever. It came back with a very reasonable-sounding answer, but it wasn't the function on line 78. It completely hallucinated something from somewhere else. When I said "no that's wrong" it replied "oh yes! sorry about that..." and carried on.

Maybe my prompt-fu needs work, but this was enough to tell me that these tools are not ready to rely on for anything beyond playing around.

Great point. I did a PhD mid-career a few years ago. I never had any intention of going into academia, I can hardly think of anything worse.

I've since found that, because I already had proven practical skills, it has opened a lot of doors for people wanting consulting/contracting work in my field and let me span out into other research-adjacent jobs for really interesting organisations that would have been closed to me before.

I got a full scholarship so overall a no-brainer for me.