[-] toebert@piefed.social 7 points 1 month ago

That's madness. How would you know you have done something wrong every 8 seconds if you don't hear a weird beep? You could cross some old lines on the road without knowing, or worse - obey the speed limit on the traffic signs instead of what Google thinks it is.

[-] toebert@piefed.social 5 points 1 month ago

A lot of these cars get sold on an argument like "if you get hit by another SUV and you're not in an SUV or something bigger yourself, you die". Which seems more like a great reason to ban making them.

I wish cars like them would be taxed to hell..

[-] toebert@piefed.social 7 points 1 month ago

I guess when they can just get infinite money out of thin air it doesn't matter if they waste it.

It is good news to see them work on something that's almost certain to fail to speed up their fall tho.

[-] toebert@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago

Yes. I have tried various agents over the last ~1.5 years on multiple occasions on a bunch of different kinds of engineering type tasks. So far there has been a total of 1 time where the output was reasonable enough that I could build on it and not feel ashamed of the result (and that time probably saved me like half an hour). All other times, I wasted a bunch of time debugging crap and then just wrote the thing from scratch myself.

The closest I've come to somewhat consistent success with them is when I struggled to come up with a good search query for an issue I was having and after asking a longer prompt to an LLM it either gave me a close enough answer that I could figure it out from there, or the answer included some keywords that helped me come up with a query that got the results I needed.

By and large, I consider them crap for anything beyond the basics. On the other hand, I absolutely understand why they may look great in cases where the person using them doesn't have an idea of what the output should look like. They're a minimal productivity boost at best, at an insane cost.

[-] toebert@piefed.social 5 points 2 months ago

The perceived speed by the judge would really depend on how rich you are. I'd bet that if you're rich enough, you'd get away with a thank you note and the person ~~you punched~~ who violently headbutted your fist going to prison.

[-] toebert@piefed.social 5 points 3 months ago

Nothing, if that was your point then I misunderstood what you were suggesting - also perfectly valid.

[-] toebert@piefed.social 8 points 3 months ago

If you're unsure what the vet said, call them back to clarify.

Ask them to tell you what treatment they're recommending exactly and why, what are the alternatives if any and what are the short and long term effects of each, as well as any side effects and risks.

Once you got all that and still unsure or concerned, see another vet and ask for a consultation for a second opinion.

Treat it the same as if your doctor told you that you need operation.

[-] toebert@piefed.social 4 points 3 months ago

They absolutely were, without them there's no rhetoric of "oh the other right wing party left us without money so we need to raise taxes to pay back debts", they're then also free to do all the unpopular shit to make sure they're not re-elected and there's money again to steal. It's a back and forth team effort.

[-] toebert@piefed.social 6 points 3 months ago

I find it difficult to tell how I feel about this. On the one hand it seems in this case the health board is trying to ensure the child survives the operation while trying to honour their wish to avoid the transfusion unless it's clearly necessary, which all sounds good. I also recognise that the reason the child is refusing it is due to religion which they probably had no choice but to be indoctrinated in from birth.

On the other hand, all parties recognise that the child is capable of making their own decision and understand the consequences, but yet still gets ignored. This seems like a slippery slope. Where is the line when the court can decide what happens to someone's body against their will? I could understand it if they also claim the person is unable to make the choice for themselves (e.g. too young to understand the consequences, or under the influence of propaganda), but they are not claiming that.

[-] toebert@piefed.social 6 points 4 months ago

I think your example is great for how the messaging of "pick a job you love and you'll never work a day"/"you can be whatever you want to be" can be quite harmful, I know several people in similar situations with various art/creative degrees.

The only thing I'd add is to consider what a degree will do for you if you can't work in the field it's for. E.g if you get a degree in marine biology it may be used to re-train as a teacher or similar, but not much else. Meanwhile a degree in some business subject will probably allow you to apply for most office jobs in general. You may not love it, but it's a lot easier to have a decent salary and find a hobby than to starve trying to get paid for your hobby.

[-] toebert@piefed.social 5 points 4 months ago

This is true but there is a matter of being able to split up work into multiple pieces easily and prioritise between services. E.g. the piece of legacy service that nobody likes to touch, has no tests and is used for 2% of traffic can take its' time getting sorted out without blocking all the other services moving on.

You still have to do it and it should be ASAP, but there are more options on how to manage it.

[-] toebert@piefed.social 6 points 4 months ago

Luckily they can just keep proposing it nonstop until everyone is burnt out from constantly fighting it while also working a day job.

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