I didn’t learn calculus until college, but it’s one of the things I’m most glad I learned and I think I should’ve been taught it earlier.

It builds an understanding of the relationships between things in the real world. It’s the answer to “where do all these equations come from?” in all the science classes I took prior.

I haven’t used it since, but I think about it all the time.

Neighboring Zionsville (and I mean two minutes away) has a D mayor right? It’s suburban and trending left like suburbia is, to the best of my knowledge.

It was a male-targeted soap opera.

If you scale it up you can probably send more than one right? Send ten and nine work. That’s not nothing.

The PR isn’t public yet (it’s in my fork) but even once I submit it upstream I don’t think I’m ready to out my real identity on Lemmy just yet.

I just spent about a month using Claude 3.7 to write a new feature for a big OSS product. The change ended up being about 6k loc with about 14k of tests added to an existing codebase with an existing test framework for reference.

For context I’m a principal-level dev with ~15 years experience.

The key to making it work for me was treating it like a junior dev. That includes priming it (“accuracy is key here; we can’t swallow errors, we need to fail fast where anything could compromise it”) as well as making it explain itself, show architecture diagrams, and reason based on the results.

After every change there’s always a pass of “okay but you’re violating the layered architecture here; let’s refactor that; now tell me what the difference is between these two functions, and shouldn’t we just make the one call the other instead of duplicating? This class is doing too much, we need to decompose this interface.” I also started a new session, set its context with the code it just wrote, and had it tell me about assumptions the code base was making, and what failure modes existed. That turned out to be pretty helpful too.

In my own personal experience it was actually kinda fun. I’d say it made me about twice as productive.

I would not have said this a month ago. Up until this project, I only had stupid experiences with AI (Gemini, GPT).

If you’re in the US like me, we should be aware the problem isn’t bright lights; it’s that our regulations don’t allow for the European beam alteration tech that will dim sections at a time based on oncoming traffic.

Brighter lights are a huge boon to safety, but we need the corresponding tech to keep it that way.

If it’s domestic, there’s at least some recourse available. Facebook was fined $5 billion for the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

When they own the platform they can use it to serve you catered disinformation.

They can have your data but unless they can also decide what you see as a result, it’s not the same thing.

That’s the difference.

In the US the ruling party fills lifetime judicial appointments, which means the 4 years of conservative rule can have decades of lasting impact that will thwart any progressive policies that the next leftish government tries to implement.

My wife and I drive almost the same model of Audi, separated by a couple of years. One still has physical buttons for infotainment and one has a touch screen, but both support Android Auto and CarPlay.

I prefer the physical controls for it, because I can glance at the screen and know “turn right two clicks and press down” to get where I want, and then look back at the road while I do it.

The current administration is advocating for a ceasefire while Trump is literally on the other line with Bibi trying to thwart the negotiation. These things are not the same.

It’s probably compressing or resizing before upload.

Huh. I’d have expected cobalt.