

That would prevent cell signals from inside, making it harder to (e.g.) call the fire department, or an ambulance.


That would prevent cell signals from inside, making it harder to (e.g.) call the fire department, or an ambulance.


On mars, initial habitation would be underground/in canyons to shield from the radiation. Similar plans for the moon.
Of course excavating sub-surface dwellings on another celestial body is currently about as technically feasible as time travel, but that’s the heart of the most realistic plans for long-term habitation.


Tests should be written from requirements. Using LLMs to write tests after the code is written (probably also by LLMs) is a huge anti-pattern:
The model looks at what the code is doing and writes tests that pass (or fail because they bungle the setup). What the model does not do, is understand what the code needs to do and write tests that ensure that functionality is present and correct.
Tests are the thing that should get the most human investment because they anchor the project to its real-world requirements. You will have tons more confidence in your vibe coded appslop if you at least thought through the test cases and built those out first. Then, whatever the shortcomings of the AI codebase, if the tests pass you can know it is doing something right.


IIRC we don’t know when life started on earth because records of the early earth aren’t available - geological activity recycled the surface. What evidence we do have is that life started pretty much as early as the records we have can show, meaning either it appeared very quickly once the planet cooled or was already present.


As someone with an Nvidia GPU on Wayland, unfortunately quite a few places.
Resuming from sleep requires power cycling the monitors.
Glitchy transparent artifacting down to the desktop if windows are overlapping next the task bar.
Widgets in the system tray (KDE Plasma - I have temperature readouts) disappear and reappear randomly, and sometimes switch which taskbar they live on.
VRR support is pretty bad, causing black screens when using full screen applications.
2D-heavy games are flooded with thousands of vulkan draw calls, leading to abysmal performance and massive current spikes (and therefore coil whine). This is mitigated per-game with dxvk settings - often removing the whine without improving performance.
HDR is … technically available.
Overall I’m happy, but I cannot recommend this experience to anyone I know because it would drive them insane.


The peace prize is awarded by a Norwegian committee, the other prizes are awarded by Swedish committees.


The end of your comment was
But the productivity and quality debates are absolutely ridiculous
Which is a general statement and not dealing with your specific circumstance. If a tool works for you, by all means keep using it.
However, broadly across software that is not the case. So the “productivity and quality debates” are not ridiculous … the data supports the sceptics.


Consider: the facts
People are very bad at judging their own productivity, and AI consistently makes devs feel like they are working faster, while in fact slowing them down.
I’ve experienced it myself - it feels fucking great to prompt a skeleton and have something brand new up and running in under an hour. The good chemicals come flooding in because I’m doing something new and interesting.
Then I need to take a scalpel to a hundred scattered lines to get CI to pass. Then I need to write tests that actually test functionality. Then I start extending things and realize the implementation is too rigid and I need to change the architecture.
It is as this point that I admit to myself that going in intentionally with a plan and building it myself the slow way would have saved all that pain and probably got the final product shipped sooner, even if the prototype was shipped later.


I’ve had good luck with their mid-high end kitchen appliances and washer/dryer.
Not impressed with the TV and the AI update made the UI very slow and unresponsive. Next one will not be LG.


It is a useful distinction when considering possible rehabilitation. In general conversation it’s just weird.
You need to learn about mass balances.