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You are not a dinosaur. I would argue that the great majority of engineers at our org do it the 'old fashioned' way.

My own experience with LLM-based coding has been wasted hours of reading incorrect code for junior-dev-grade tasks, despite multiple rounds of "this is syntactically incorrect, you cannot do this, please re-evaluate based on this information" "Yes you are right, I have re-evaluated it based on your feedback" only to do the same thing again. My time would have been better spent either 1) doing this largely boilerplate task myself, or 2) assigning and mentoring a junior dev to do it, as they would only have required maybe one round of iteration.

Based on my experience with other abstraction technologies like ORMs, I look forward to my systems being absolutely flooded with nonperformant garbage merged by people who don't understand either what they are doing, or what they are asking to be done.


20% of the time it works 99% of the time it works.


I may be mistaken but I believe the hotkey is "display my desktop, uncluttered" for those that still store files on their desktops.


Ah of course, I had forgotten that you could put stuff there. My home directory is a terrible mess, but my desktop is pristine.


I somehow continually hit that key stroke or did the mouse movement, so I went and disabled both


I think there's some room for stories of the seamy underbelly of the Rebellion, like Cara Dune and the droppers. But I think it would be easy to go to this well too many times.


Perhaps your cautionary admonishments are unwarranted in this specific scenario.

It is logical enough to conclude that a story ending in two intelligence agents flying off for a time-sensitive meeting with a confidential informant, is an immediate prequel to the story that begins with the same two intelligence agents landing and meeting that confidential informant.

This is not quite the same situation as the end of Rogue One and A New Hope, where some people make the argument that Rogue One ends just a few minutes before ANH begins; I am not convinced by that argument, although the cinematography certain seems to be leading us there.


>>> This is not quite the same situation as the end of Rogue One and A New Hope, where some people make the argument that Rogue One ends just a few minutes before ANH begins; I am not convinced by that argument, although the cinematography certain seems to be leading us there.

The ending scene of RO is the data handoff and narrow escape of the Tantive IV with Leia, R2-D2, and C-3PO on it.

How is that not a direct continuity into the opening scene of A New Hope?


Unless there was some sort of tractor beam, the Tantive IV did, in fact, escape, and may have been able to jump to light speed. In such an event, any eventual recapture by the Star Destroyer and battle with Vader's boarding team would have looked exactly the same as the escape sequence. There's nothing definitively saying "and they were recaptured within a few minutes of their initial escape."


Crisp. Pleasure.


M.U.L.E., Bungeling Bay, Mission Impossible, Racing Destruction Set and Ultima IV were our go-tos.


I think you mean "Impossible Mission"!


Love the mission impossible voice



I think I once bought an iPhone charging cable from you guys on Amazon.


My phone is now full of Notes, Alarms, and timers. I can barely leave the house to run an errand without writing down what I need to do.

As far as actually improving memory, I try to expose my mind to as much raw material as I can. The mind is a muscle, it has to be exercised, and as you get old you need to focus on its core strength rather than physique and raw strength.

Rehearsal and repetition. Read constantly, get out in the environment and really try to observe all the things that are going on. Write down all the things you want to do this year, and when you’ve done them, write that down, too. Every so often, review the list. It will prompt your recall to a wonderful degree.

Write down your little milestones - ‘in March we found a clutch of tadpoles in a tire track puddle and we watered and fed them there for six weeks”


I agree. Mr. Trump can credibly argue that he received a mandate at the last election. It was not a squeaker, a “hold-your-nose-and-vote”, it was convincing and, as you say, cleanly won vote. America knew exactly who he was, and has known for some time. He was very clear in his statements what he was going to do when he was elected, who he was going to use to do it, and he is following through. all but one of the most controversial cabinet nominees sailed through their confirmations with flying colors, with barely token opposition from those who made a great public show of “being on the fence,” as we knew they would.

Part of me is curious to know exactly what those who “vote with their wallets” would abide. It is unfortunate for them that their Faustian bargain is turning out not to be true, and that neither inflation, nor the cost of living, has or will go down, and that services that they and their loved ones may rely on are being dismantled, but they were candidly advised that this would be the case.


What an insulting and willfully obtuse answer, that does not address any of these perfectly reasonable questions. When you leave your house on vacation, do you rip the cords out of the outlets and pile them on the floor, and dismount all the TVs?


> What an insulting

Note that especially in this instance, offense was taken, not given


I'm not sure I follow you.

The comment was demeaning; offense was clearly intended, to belittle the GP's intelligence.

To call a statement that is intended to insult, "insulting", seems to be accurate? It was not intended to indicate offense on my part, but to chastise for unnecessary hostility. Maybe I'm reading your reply wrong, though.


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