[-] lucas@startrek.website 2 points 2 weeks ago

Possible counterpoint: their use as a generic is isolated within the US (maybe some other countries, but certainly not universal), whereas 'google' has arguably become a pretty global term (at least in the Anglophone world, and I believe in some other languages, too), so the reach is very different in scope.

(e.g. Despite Kleenex still a big brand in the UK, nobody uses it as a generic. The product is called a 'tissue')

[-] lucas@startrek.website 18 points 2 months ago

In the same way vibe coding has transformed software development

So, that is to say, they expect it to have no impact on serious work whatsoever?

[-] lucas@startrek.website 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Where are you running du -sh *? (I.e. what directory, are you definitely scanning the whole file system?) I'm sure it's obvious, but can never hurt to check!

What does du -sh / show? (Generally, the * glob pattern in the shell will not match hidden dot-files, so is it possible they are being excluded?)

[-] lucas@startrek.website 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Why would you use an LLM for this? This sounds like a process easily handled by conventional logic, which would be cheaper, faster, and actually reliable... (The 'notes' part notwithstanding I guess, but calculations in general are definitely not a good use of an LLM)

[-] lucas@startrek.website 1 points 4 months ago

Or use both. That's what I do, they serve suitably different needs for different situations, even if there is an overlap, and it's not like they're heavy tools

[-] lucas@startrek.website 3 points 8 months ago

Also this Voyager/Frasier crossover (skit, rather than episode) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIeEyDETaHY

[-] lucas@startrek.website 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They're referring (I believe) to the screenshot right at the top of the article, which includes this absurd calculation:

border-radius: max (0px, min(8px, calc( (100vw - 4px - 100%) * 9999)) );

My guess (hope!) is that this is not 'serious' code, but padding for the sake of a screenshot to demonstrate that it's possible to use each of these different features (not that you should!).

[-] lucas@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago

Don't even need to remote in to anything, just store your working code on a network share

[-] lucas@startrek.website 2 points 2 years ago

Grew up on Armada and Away Team, but of those, Away Team was definitely my favourite!

More recently played Elite Force, which was also pretty dang great.

[-] lucas@startrek.website 6 points 2 years ago

To say I'm annoyed would be very much overstating it, just a (very minor) eye-roll at one small line in a generally very good article. Just the bit quoted:

currency symbols other than the $ (kind of tells you who invented computers, doesn’t it?)

So they could also be attributing it to some other country that uses $ for their currency, which is a few, but it seems most likely to be suggesting USD.

[-] lucas@startrek.website 6 points 2 years ago

Well, it's not really clear-cut, which is part of my point, but probably the 2 most significant people I could think of would be Babbage and Turing, both of whom were English. Definitely could make arguments about what is or isn't considered a 'computer', to the point where it's fuzzy, but regardless of how you look at it, 'computers were invented in America' is rather a stretch.

[-] lucas@startrek.website 10 points 2 years ago

currency symbols other than the $ (kind of tells you who invented computers, doesn’t it?)

Who wants to tell the author that not everything was invented in the US? (And computers certainly weren't)

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