Well if it was a human it wouldn’t be a peer, would it

I think what you need is Britt Hartley and her book No Nonsense Spirituality. She understands the common elements of different religions that are important to us psychologically, and explains how to bring them into your life without the need for faith in a particular deity.

That’s the drawback when “everything’s computer” in a Tesler

Someone made millions off of that Xeet.

I prefer to call them Xcrements

If the safeguards can be so easily removed, what’s the point of putting them there in the first place

If they are in a game and there is music when you’re in the temple then yes it’s part of the soundtrack for that game.

Your original title didn’t say anything about games though. The Tower of London dungeons don’t come with a soundtrack.

No I’m not confused about that. I have seen the problems you talk about. That’s why I felt the need to qualify modern with “well engineered”.

Did you forgot to specify that you’re asking about a game? Dungeons and temples don’t usually come with a soundtrack.

But there is so much free porn on the internet already

I have a house. But it’s old and decaying. I want a well-engineered, modern house with great interior design and lots of space. I want to be able to put the couch in the center of the room instead of putting it up against a wall.

Sure, as long as it works. Software has a tendency to stop working on newer OS:es or become subject to security exploits though.

Or more generally, anything that has a beginning has an end

That sounds good on paper, but the chances that someone else will pick up the ball if they abandon it, even if it’s open source, are very slim. If you care about keeping it alive then paying them is a more effective strategy than hoping for random volunteer work by internet strangers.

You, on the other hand, have good chances of being able to learn new tools. So I think the need for this security is exaggerated.

The IntelliJ products are not exactly “buy once” - if you want updated versions you need to keep paying periodically.

Not that I think that’s a bad thing necessarily - it doesn’t make sense to expect devs to continue working on something year after year when you’re not paying them for it.

4-hour planning? I wish. Try 16-hour planning.

And also, a meeting to plan for the planning meeting.

I use it many times a day for coding and solving technical issues. But I don’t recognize what the article talks about at all. There’s nothing affective about my conversations, other than the fact that using typical human expression (like “thank you”) seems to increase the chances of good responses. Which is not surprising since it better matches the patterns that you want to evoke in the training data.

That said, yeah of course I become “addicted” to it and have a harder time coping without it, because it’s part of my workflow just like Google. How well would anybody be able to do things in tech or even life in general without a search engine? ChatGPT is just a refinement of that.

echo “Xft.dpi: 210” >> ~/.Xresources

Sure, Teams is horrible - but at least it only affects people who use Teams. Whereas the abysmal UI and worthless templates in MS Word affects every person who has to read anything produced with MS Word too. It’s designed to make documents ugly and hard to read.

I think every day about the productivity lost because people use Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint. Maybe even multiple times a day.

Amen. There were actually three Teams clients at the same time (the Windows 11-bundled Teams “personal version”, Teams [for business] and Teams [the new version]). Not to mention they also have Skype for Business (which is actually Lync rebranded, which is Communicator rebranded) which is not interoperable at all with Teams even though it’s also an Office 365 conferencing app. And of course, Skype for Business is a completely different code base than Skype. Aaand they had Microsoft Kaizala which was basically the same use case but a completely different and incompatible implementation for countries with bad connectivity.

It’s a complete and utter shitshow and I can’t fathom why heads aren’t rolling at Microsoft. Makes me think of this email from Bill Gates back in the day. If he was CEO now he would be fuming.