I work at a full MacBook shop and literally nobody uses xcode 🤷‍♂️ weird reason to be against it

Why would they need to listen? That’s a lot of processing power

But… why would they care? It’s your energy bill, not theirs.

It definitely totally happens every single day but nobody ever manages to get a piece of hard evidence.

Are you just lazy and in denial? There is traffic sent from both Alexa and Google Home every time it detects something that it considers speech, regardless of whether the wake word was detected. This is not debatable, set up your own tests.

It’s not, but the people who are asking are often not tech-savvy, and any amount of self-hosting will be hard for them

There has been massive migration to lemmy.

…for varying definitions of “massive.” I can basically guarantee that reddit didn’t even notice.

So not really any materially different from 10 years ago?

FWIW it’s ridiculously easy and cheap to make your own. Just be sure to the dilute the Cinnamon oil before soaking or you will burn your tongue.

And there are dozens of other oils that work really well, including mixing! Orange cinnamon is great

Basic assumptions are why the Challenger exploded. Hopefully nobody ever hires you as an engineer.

lol

Every time you say “obviously” to an assumption, someone else gets the job.

It wasn’t intuitive before, either, without making an absolute ton of horrible assumptions.

• Are the wires even connected?
• Does only one switch control the light?
• Did the light start on or off?
• Is the light bulb in arm’s reach?
• Can I bring my friend and just yell to each other?
• Can I just leave the door open and see whether it turns on or not?
• It says I’m allowed to visit the bulb room once but never actually mentions the switch room - do I start there? Can I go back after visiting the bulb room?
• And, as you said, what type of bulb is it?

Anyone who doesn’t explore the assumptions should probably fail that particular interview question.

Depends what you mean. Hiring at entry-levels has absolutely stalled, but I’ve been at the same shop for 5-10 years, so I’m mostly insulated. The shops that use AI well and those that don’t are going to be very obvious over the next few years. I’m definitely worried for the next 5-10 years of our careers, our jobs have changed SO much in the past year.

That’s certainly possible - the only data I have is US-based, primarily from SF and NYC, but our smaller hubs are also following similar trends.

And let me tell you, we’re hiring juniors.

Sure, nobody has stopped hiring, but everyone has slowed down, and we’ve seen something like 5% of our workforce laid off over the past year. FAANG has hired less than one fifth the junior devs as previous years.

AI hallucinates constantly, that’s why you still have a job - someone has to know what they’re doing to sort out the wheat from the chaff.

It’s also taking a ton of our entry-level jobs, because you can do the work you used to do and the work of the junior devs you used to have without breaking a sweat.

Yeah, you listed lots of the valid reasons that I was talking about. There’s no need to dilute your argument with idiots like this

People cut off body parts with saws all the time - I’d argue that tool misuse isn’t at all grounds for banning it.

There are plenty of completely valid reasons to hate AI. Stupid people using it poorly just isn’t really one of them 🤷‍♂️

Only classify points that disagree with your worldview as “political”

Man, I genuinely miss the first few years. There were just so many interesting people on, great conversations, and without any nazis, it was wonderful 😭

People can safely use Windows 10 online for the next decade as long as they follow basic online safety.

This is a fucking braindead take. A few months, a year, maaaybe? But a decade? No chance in hell.

I still have a FAT32 external drive that this (very) rarely still bites me 😫 there’s nothing important on it, so I’ve been lazy