I keep all my clocks on UTC now. I can't be bothered to change them twice a year.

Yeah mate that's frankly nuts.

Firstly, you have to go to effort to stop you phones and laptops changing their times automatically. Secondly, your clocks are now mismatched from literally everyone around you half the time. 95% of the point of clocks is to synchronise things with other people. That's why we got the concept of centralized time in the first place.

Scotland only has six hours of daylight in the winter - so you're either going to work in the dark or coming home in the dark.

Or both! I'm further south (London) and in the depths of winter I was going to school before sunrise and would often/usually arrive home after sunset. And work is usually longer hours than school.

That actually seems worse than the alternative. If everyone's going to be shuffling times around, just sort it out centrally rather than having a month of incredibly vexing minor synchronisation errors.

Or, you know pick hours for when it makes most sense when there's least sun (winter) and just leave it there?

Not getting any sunlight until past 10.00 AM is so annoying,

Well not getting any sun past 4:30 in the afternoon is also so annoying. I live at the same latitude: the number of hours of sunlight is too short and all you are doing is shuffling it around.

and the cost of road maintenance because rush hours is when everywhere, there is still ice on the roads, will be prohibitive.

You what?

People complaining have simply no clue how it is to have DST in the winter, and can't imagine.

Or maybe people just don't agree with you? Or maybe you also didn't read the article title? The plan was to KEEP DST, so winter is unchanged.

Despite electing a communist mayor in their largest city,

Gosh a Mayor who isn't a drooling right wing nutjob actually representing what people, not coprs want? He must be out to sap and impurify your precious bodily fluid.

As a distant observer, I also like his style. Arseholes tried to block a bike lane, so he made it twice as big. Noice.

If you're a maintainer, then I suspect whatever you maintain fucking sucks.

I clearly explained the problem- that the quality of LLM-produced output is a function of the money spent to produce it (generally).
This means that the flood of slop PRs are produced by free-to-cheap models. This is only natural.
People who have no idea what they're doing aren't spending $300 for a large commit. They couldn't be bothered to invest the time in learning to code, they sure as fuck aren't going to invest in this.

Meanwhile, over here in real-life, dealing with real problems on maintained things that don't suck, I've got people making quality commits with LLMs on the daily. But they're part of the team, and they're paying real money for those commits.

In short, I think you're probably just full of shit. If you're not, I feel for whatever the fuck it is you maintain. You can't even apply basic logic to a problem.

If all goes as it should we'll all simply be working less in 10 years time.

That seems phenomenally unlikely. Absolutely vast changes were made to the world of work since the 1970s with the inexorable rise of computing and productivity gains have been vast. And yet the 40 hour work week has remained.

To be honest, I already am.

cool. You are not even slightly the majority in this.

As someone who is dealing with this problem, it's not that simple.

The problem with your assessment, is that there is no "the LLM".
LLMs come in a fucking vast spectrum of capabilities.
Put pretty simply, very expensive models do very good.
After very expensive, you get a spectrum from "pretty damn alright", to "outright terrible."

There is no "the LLM."
I can tell from your comment that you're talking out of your ass, and not actually dealing with this problem.

They can take their robotaxis, scooters, ebikes and everything else with them.

Nah, the dockess ebikes are really popular for good reasons.

I mean sure lots of people complain bitterly about them "taking up space" but somehow the 40% of people gifted land for free car storage in my part of London never get a mention in this whole "taking up space" argument.

Lime isn't 100% without problems, but providing effective, theft resistant, low impact point to point transport when the rest of the options are often stuck in slow moving traffic clogged by a shockingly small number of private cars works well. Our society won't yet distribute space more equitably apparently.

And not everyone is a low income disabled plumber urgently rushing their elderly fridge to hospital.

Oh yeah and even with all the dockless ebike problems, they are still vastly safer than cars.

I have been quite happy with my heavily customized FVWM desktop for about 30 years now.

Same! It's just really good.

I have not yet switched over to fvwm3. I do not anticipate much pain.

Two tier policing is alive and well in the UK.

It is: right wing protests get the ultimate in soft touch policing, especially farmers. Protestors causing similar disruption but aligned left get massively harsh sentences. This two tier policing absolutely needs to end and the police need to crack down as hard on the right as they do on the left.

That way maybe the right will stop advocating for it.

...facial recognition will alert shop owners when a compulsive buyer enters, so that he/she can be approached at once by shopping assistants.

What shopping assistants? They got rid of all of them which incidentally along with a bunch of other "cost saving" measures made shoplifting much easier.

make no mistake, this technology will be deployed against ALL offenders

Haha no. It's just deployed against random people for no discernible, preventable or transparent reason. Bugs? Yeah no shopping for you. Shitty algorithm? Say hello to the police (also no shopping for you). Etc...

at the very least, to avoid misunderstandings, users of this technology should post bonds payable to people that are falsely accused and accosted by law enforcement.

Yes. Automated slander is still slander even if you got an algorithm to do it. And accusing someone of shoplifting is 100% slander especially if it causes harm which being thrown out of a shop very much is.

Well quite. Either making an AI by copying something is copying in which case they're a bunch of criminals ready to go to prison for a thousand years according to how it works for peons, or it's not in which case the Chinese are also doing nothing wrong.

They want it both ways,

Utter fuckers.

The students had a problem to solve, they used AI to solve it, and it appears to a very high standard.

If this happened in a work environment everyone would be happy itÃ(TM)s saved time and cost, and delivered a solution.

Because the goal/course is to learn a particular topic, not to use AI to solve basic problems. Yeah AI can do better than noobs at many tasks, but you don't become a non noob by using AI to do all the tasks. You remain a noob with AI forever.

The professor doesn't want the problem solved because he doesn't know the answer. It's not like your hypothetical job in that regard. He wants the students to learn stuff and get better.

By far the best people using AI are the ones that know their shit and have learned it and can use AI effectively but don't let it's slop shittiness dominate.