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Comment Re:Bad Apple Ad (Score 3, Informative) 130

Despite what you claim you clearly didn't read the link the GP posted. It's a massive list of stuff that's disabled that people would find an iDevice barely useful without.

It's not a "massive list" and the things mentioned are barely an inconvinience (oh noes, Photos drops location details and Facetime doesnt work unless you had contact within 30 days, oh noes). The biggest would be restrictions on the web browser and you can have per-site exclusions.

So what the fuck are you talking about?

Comment Re:Jesus Wept (Score 1) 59

I'm surprised you're a fan of the Alien franchise if people making bad decisions that get them or other people killed is a deal-breaker for you.

You clearly aren't a fan. If you were, you'd knew the precise movie where instead of being competent and making the right decisions and getting fucked anyway, the franchise turned to supposedly smart people doing dumb shit all the time.

Comment To note: This is individual-specific. (Score 1) 112

This study found that *on average*, a majority of PHEV drivers in _Europe_ don't both plugging them in, making them no better than a "conventional non-plug-in" hybrid.

But as an individual PHEV owner, you can make it far better than this study says - simply by plugging in whenever possible.

I got a PHEV (the BMW i3, what BMW officially called "an electric vehicle with range extender) as my "entry into electric vehicles" - and in four years of ownership, I used maybe ten gallons of gasoline. And I'd say half of that was "burning it up just so it doesn't go stale". It prepared me to fully commit to battery-electric-only with my next vehicle.

Comment Re:Yet another delaying tactic? (Score 2) 34

Yep. They're always saying solid state batteries are 2-3 years away.

Sure, when solid state actually does happen (and I expect it will) it will be a game changer for EVs.

But Toyota just keeps postponing doing anything serious with EVs because they keep claiming this is right around the corner.

Wasn't the 2025 Prius supposed to use solid state batteries?

Comment Not buying any smart-home that aren't local-use. (Score 1) 92

Specifically cross-platform, not vendor-app or vendor-cloud dependent.

I still have some Hue bulbs, and a few WiFi bulbs that are dependent on vendor lock-in that I'll be replacing when they go out.

Any newer devices are Matter/Thread compatible. Local control, no vendor lock-in.

Comment Not a "senior coder", I use it "sometimes." (Score 1) 57

The big thing for me is that AI doesn't "write the code I put in production" - it provides guidance on techniques to use, or solves bugs I have written.

The same as StackOverflow for me. Just more personalized to my exact situation.

"I'm writing a shell script to ssh into a remote system and run some commands, I have to use some environment variables defined locally on the system I'm executing the script on, and other environment variables that are defined on the remote system I'm connecting to, and I can't remember how to escape things properly to pass through correctly." I can just feed an LLM my exact command that isn't working right, and ask it to rewrite it. It takes 2-3 further prompts ("That produced this error message, please try again") but it generally bug fixes it.

Or "I need a python script to integrate this company's API, as documented on this url with this other thing, and do this task, what would be a good sample?" I don't take it exactly as it spits it out, but use it as a basis for my own code.

I would say that in the last four years of using LLMs to assist, maybe 10% of my actual deployed code is "directly from an LLM, because it produced clearly functional code" - usually only short snippets. One short function in a Python script, for example. Maybe another 20% was "came from an LLM prompt, then heavily rewritten, because I didn't want to feed potentially proprietary data into the LLM."

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