The only thing worse than not having metrics... ... is having metrics.

Big companies are almost always stupid.

Organizations measure what is easy for them to measure, not what actually matters. The drift between what matters and what gets measured always produces dumb behaviors.

Measuring token usage is perhaps a proxy for "is this person trying to use AI?". That question is only interesting if you are quite confident that at some point, your staff will be able to grow the business value they produce as a result of using AI.

What you actually should measure is business value delivered. Companies are bad at that (Because its difficult), So instead they Measure what is easy to measure, and they don't test the assumption that AI helps staff deliver more BV.

At my small software company, having developers use Claude is delivering tremendous BV. We are getting higher quality PRs, code reviews, and built software, and we are getting it faster. We are getting MUCH faster bug investigations. Overall time to fix is down. We are shipping faster and we are paying down technical debt.

(we may be accumulating new technical debt we don't see yet. time will tell)

The law doesn't explicitly define the term repeat infringer, nor does it say how many piracy accusations it takes before a subscriber can be cut off.

[emphasis mine] Surely they mean convictions, no?

Why would accusations be relevant? I accuse every single member of the Mexican government of having violated the copyright on my work, four times each. They all did it four times. No, I can't prove it, but the accusation stands.

The cheap way to get into graphene is to get a used Pixel 7a off of Ebay or Backmarket.

Make sure you don't get the verizon specific mmWave SKU. You need one that advertises itself as OEM Unlockable / Bootloader Unlockable. Verizon SKUs aren't.

(Some Ebay sellers give you the model # and some even show the specific phone with the OEM unlocking flag available. Backmarket doesn't let you specify you don't want the broken garbage verizon sku, so be prepared to return a few until you get one that isn't defective)

GrapheneOS is fantastic. I've been running it for over a year, and it's what I've mandated that my teens have on their phones also.

You should read up on what GrapheneOS actually does. Most google apps will work on it, if you want them to.

My daily driver user profile has no google apps installed nor google services enabled. I have an alternate user profile with sandboxed google play enabled, where I can run google maps or a handful of other dumb apps, when/if I want to. Even then, sandboxed google play (GrapheneOS exclusive feature) is a much better implementation than running the same app on a vanilla google phone. And, when you don't need that specific app, and are logged out of the "worse privacy" profile, the app and the google services are 100% inert.

I take a different view towards things: if the _only_ way I can use a service is to use their shitty mobile app, then I try very hard not to do business with that company at all.

Waymo, for instance, absolutely refuses to run on Graphene because they want strong integrity/attestation. Note that in the case of GrapheneOS, a GOS device is _more secure_ and _more trustworthy_ than any other consumer android advice. So app developers using the Google integrity APIs in such a way that Graphene is blocked are not interested in security, they are either stupid or are are interested in exfiltrating your data, so much so that if they cannot have their data harvesting rootkit on your phone, they refuse to let you use their service. So idiots, evil, or evil idiots. Inany of those cases, why would you run those apps? Why would you do business with those entities?

In my daily driver profile, I use almost exclusively FOSS apps.

GrapheneOS + immich + NextCloud does a pretty good job of completely replacing the google stack for someone who is privacy concious and into self-hosting.

When talking to nosy people or organizations, I just tell them I don't have a smartphone. We should all vigorously resist the idea that having a smartphone running corporate spyware is a requirement for modern life. In government, and also in our consumer choices.

It's important to keep using accurate language if you want to think clearly about things.

That sounds like a good idea, until someone says the word "hacker" and then you realize you lost the debate decades ago.

Words' meanings change, and nobody can ever do anything about it.

Excuse me, have you been alive for the last 2 years?

The last 2 years is over, and there's gonna be big changes. This is the month that the new Grand Theft Auto comes out.

Do you have long-term statistics on this, or is it based on social media influencers' gut instincts and feelings?

I simply make a habit of reading what the intelligent people on both sides (and also on other, less known sides) say.

If one goes by the short, oversimplified slogans the angry masses from all sides loudly shout during protests, without looking at what the high-level sources that got oversimplified said, one's definitely going to misunderstand a lot of what's being actually argued for or against.

a) "Defunding the police" is something right-wing media and social channels love to misrepresent. It doesn't mean removing law enforcement, but changing how it's enforced.

Here's an analogy. Imagine a scenario in which there's a single unified public force that's responsible for dealing with violent criminals with military-grade force, and for helping small children walk safely to school, and for putting out fires on houses and buildings. Its official are responsible for all that, but 95% of their training is in dealing with violent criminals with military-grade force. Would you want to have them arrive, in full SWAT gear, to put out a fire on your house, and to talk to your daughter so she enters the schoolyard without incidents?

The concept of "defunding the police" is to remove from police responsibilities they don't deal with well, and to transfer those responsibilities to agencies that deal better with them. Continuing with the analogy, to split a firefighting force from the unified police force, so firefighter are strongly trained in putting out fires, rather than on putting out violent criminals, which involves, evidently, removing from the unified force the money necessary to fund the new firefighting force.

In the "defund the police" world police continues existing, but it focuses only on dealing with violent criminals. Their funding is reduced proportionately, and the difference is transferred to the other forces focused on solving all the stuff policed is called upon nowadays despite having little to no training in dealing with those things.

b) "the pronoun police"

You do know this is just annoying people on Twitter and on comments sections of sites, not an actual enforcement of anything under threat of State sanctioned violence, right?

c) "mandatory (...)"

Nothing in that has ever been mandatory.

Now, one caveat: if someone benefits from and builds atop public services paid for by citizens' taxes, it's simply fair those same beneficies cannot in turn deny said citizens who paid for it all with their taxes from enjoying access to such buildings on the equal footing with all other citizens. If you disagree, are you willing to refund them the taxes they paid, covering the costs in their place?

How much has your government money grown in that time?

No, he's telling the truth: Internet Explorer is deeply integrated into Windows.

Oh shit, sorry! I thought you were talking about someone else. Never mind.

Why would a manufacturer's device need a trusted introducer to communicate with that same manufacturer? Vizio can be its own CA. There's no intermediary between themself and themself.

So, Three companies good, four is anti-competitive? When T-Mobile bought Sprint, where you for or against that merger?

Just wanting the logic here.

People work after sunset and before sunrise all over the place. Some places are open 24/7. And yet, people manage it just fine. And some places are dark for large portions of the year, and bright for large portions of the year. It's almost like the world is a sphere or something and no two places are the same! Some places are summer at the same time other places have winter. Weird huh?

UTC everywhere, all the time and just be done with Timezones and DST forever!