@kiko_himself@mjmauboussin@sfiscience Why do AI articles spend so much time telling me what something isn’t? I am reading to find out what something is!
Such a remarkably infuriating style of prose that supposes either i’m an idiot or that the author’s writing is incapable of directing the audience to the point
@stevehou focus on github copilot? excuse me aren’t we forgetting about copilot for azure devops? copilot for visual studio? what about copilot chat in visual studio code?
@stevehou microsoft has fragmented their product offering so much that any actual useful feature resides between two or more very disgruntled and competitive product managers. they all have to have their own copilot.
can someone from america explain why “candidate promising free bus rides challenges incumbent battling corruption allegations” is so divisive? this is like every mayoral election ever. this choice was on the ballot in every suburb i’ve ever lived in.
@ryxcommar@TheStalwart the Fortinet VPN logins from mobile hotspots to late night teams meeting curve has inverted - here’s what 3 economists think it means for you and your family
@VicVijayakumar the kdb/q ide i use has a thing where it stores my code in my browsers local storage and every time I’m forced to clear my cache for some unrelated reason I’m reminded of the inherent beauty of life’s impermanence
@ThePrimeagen just got off the phone with his office for a source on the quote - they say he personally reviewed over 8000 useEffect calls written by programmers and bots alike and was utterly convinced of the latter’s superiority
@ThePrimeagen the Excel standard library has:
- PDF Reader
- HTTP with native Windows certificate store (e.g the corporate proxy)
- a mathematical optimisation suite
- access to AD, Sharepoint, Exchange
- most of SQL Server Analysis Services
and you expect me to learn pyenv, conda and uv?
@bookdepth@tszzl Just got the call. Laid off. I was the head of Execution at USAID. My job was to submit 10 million mid-point peg post only bids for each of the constituents of the Nasdaq 100
@checks_inc my colleague directed me to a GPT that writes excel formulas. I told him one day AI could also eat a delicious meal but I would nonetheless continue to indulge in the few pleasures life affords