Gratuitous sexism aside, youâ(TM)re exactly correct with your comment.

We donâ(TM)t need machines that generate pro forma bullshit that mimics all the genuine bullshit weâ(TM)re already drowning in. We need machines that can reliably perform menial but important real-world tasks, like food preparation.

A bad developer is often worse than no developer, as the workload introduced by the bugs and maintenance load they add to the project outweighs the benefit of their coding effort.

Iâ(TM)d be very surprised if that doesnâ(TM)t turn out to be the case with Devin. At least with a badhuman programmer you can hold out hope that they will become better with time and experience; I donâ(TM)t think that is the case with AIs as they anre currently implemented.

Definitely fun times. We had a place here in Ottawa called Century 21 (No relation to the realtor) that had used computer...stuff. Everything from Mainframe tape drives to all sorts of weird an obscure stuff. I traded a bunch of Apple ][+ manuals I dumpster dived for all the RAM I needed for the Apple ][+ clone I was building. It was a great place to hang out and oogle weird looking equipment and try to guess what it was for.

Most people forget, or never knew, that OS/2 was a joint IBM and Microsoft project. So with MS's marketing and IBM project management, it could have done well. But MS feared that it would compete with MS WIndows 3.x...whichwas true, it would have blown the doors off Windows. I wrote a kiosk application on OS/2...started on OS/2 2.1 just before OS2 3.0 Warp came, using what was called "IBM's Audio Visual Connection", or AVC, which later became the Ultimedia Builder. The big trick that AVC had was a IBM video capture and playback card that cost upwards to $5,000 or so I seem to remember. It could capture then play back video in either a resizable window, or full screen. The kiosk had a touch screen, and AVC could interact and control it all running under OS/2. The kiosk program I wrote was a tourism app called "Touch Ottawa/Hull". After using the touch screen to select the area Otawa you were interested in, and what you were looking for, eg Fast Food, it would bring up a menu of Fast Food resteraunts in that area. When you selected the fast food place, it pop up a screen that would show you a picture of the of the place, and/or some text, and would open window beside that to play a video clip, usually a commercial for the place. Then, if the place offered it, you could have it then print out a discount coupon for the resteraunt.

The company had me make a modified version of it, and it was renamed "The Electronic Trade Show". Again using the touchscreen selection, it could bringing up a commercial or just a graphic and text, it would allow businesses to advertise at trade shows to anyone who walked up to one of the kiosks and touched the screen. It could also optionally print out a business card or contact info for the company. The Government of Canada used this all over the world.

Fun days.

You can say the exact same thing about cigarette companies in the 70s, 80s and 90s.

What makes them corrupt is when they lie to the public and regulators about the health impact of their products. TEL companies knew that lead was causing problems, but tried to bury that under a pile of lies, lobbying, and obfuscation. Tobacco companies knew cigarettes were addictive and caused cancer, but tried to hide it and delay as long as possible any kind of public health campaign or laws against public smoking.

That's the line that can't be crossed if you want to pray to the Invisible Hand for guidance.

The lead wasnâ(TM)t evenly distributed, it was proportional to the amount of auto exhaust being emitted nearby.

Those who didnâ(TM)t live near lots of traffic were exposed to less lead than those who did.

Aerodynamics is a high priority only when efficiency is a concern. The other approach is to just ignore aerodynamics and add more battery to compensate for the resulting inefficiency, as seen in behemoths like the CyberTruck and Hummer EV.

A planet whose oceans are filled with a liquid that is almost, but not entirely, unlike tea.

A civilization capable of interstellar travel is very likely also capable of growing as much cultured human-meat in a vat as they want. Itâ(TM)s much cheaper to just capture a few biopsy samples and send them back to Betelgeuse then to slaughter, freeze-pack, and ship every human trillions of miles.

Yes, that content. Those same users got value in exchange for their content, in the form of access to a well-designed site full of content that was/is useful to them.

Who is complaining? I'm not complaining, and StackExchange isn't complaining. The only people complaining are the people who think StackExchange shouldn't be allowed to charge LLM companies for access to StackExchange content.

Since we're on the subject, has anybody calculated how much energy a worm has to expend to move aside/through that much sand at that speed? It seems like it must be rather a lot :)

I agree that entitled is the wrong word, but it can show some antipathy and/or lack of awareness towards the more recent state of income vs the cost of higher education.

In 1980, average income was $39,000. Annual cost of a private school was $20,000 and public $9,000. In 2021 average income was $45,000, annual private school was $56,000 and public $25,000. (All of these are in 2021/22 dollars). There are some assumptions here (such as what student job wages would be relative to the median) but generally, the price of college has more than doubled relative to income.

Don't get me wrong - people who take out a massive loan to go to an expensive school when there are cheaper options available is it's own problem, but to suggest that the cost of education today is on par with what it was when Baby Boomers went is completely wrong.

I used to think breakfast cereal was a lost cause, being either nothing but trash or loaded with sugar (or both), until I discovered shredded wheat. Fiber, protein, unsaturated fat, zero sugar and one ingredient: whole grain wheat. Oh, and no ground up vitamin pills.

I like the Wheat and Bran variety the most, but you can get plain store brands that are just fine and cheaper. Especially paired with a little fruit, it's a good first meal or snack.

I think itâ(TM)s fair for them to charge LLM developers â" something has to pay the bills, and it wonâ(TM)t be StackOverflowâ(TM)s users since they are used to getting free content.

I prefer this model to getting spammed to death by pop up ads, anyway.