But you know what? I'm not interested in doing that. It's fucking boring to me - the same way I would find my professional life completely boring if I had an actual university student code monkey I could legally give orders to. I simply have no interest in doing that.

That is my exact sentiment. That's not a job I'm interested in. I'd have become management by now if that held any interest.

Also, at least so far, the LLMs really like to write very subtly wrong, weirdly over-complicated code in large quantities. So now you're wading through all that looking for bugs and wondering whether to (make the LLM) simplify it down to something that can be maintained (by the LLM).

It sounds dreary. Is it too late to switch to geophysics? They get to do fieldwork.

Your nick notwithstanding, never trust the fart.

Yeah, my work in my non-anglophone country is all in English unless we're in a non-recorded verbal meeting and confirm no foreigners present.

As long as North America refuses to safety inspect vehicles

Wait WHAT?

The European brain can not comprehend.

For city driving, car brakes probably have about a 25% duty cycle.

EVs, though, are mostly braking regeneratively. I see it as a personal failure each time I have to touch the physical brakes. It's to the point where rusting brake pads can be an issue.

Grazie.

Surprised it described itself as a war crime and didn't try to justify that.

It is not sentient. It has no sense of self or guilt or any of that. It's just writing back the most likely next word given the question and whatever context it has. It seems to have the leaked code in context? Or it could be bullshitting.

Good guy Google maintaining the integrity of the timeline.

Same. Until you notice the column of curly braces and semi colons in the right margin.

You don't. But all your new devices from now on will have USB C charging.

Is gnome claiming to be older than kde? 'cause it isn't. Gnome was started because decades ago, the license for the qt library used by kde wasn't quite open enough.

The German may not use a lot of words but he's got just one that carries the whole meaning. It's just in German.

It sounds like someone needs to bring a similar suit in the EU and point to the GDPR. Where is the agreement to specific processing, the chance to opt out of the data collection, etc.