Grammarly took a BILLI last year and it wasn't to help people cross their Ts and dot their Is. Plus their founders are from Ukraine and probably quite "scrappy", aka prone to think this lawsuit is table stakes to get to the finish line of their long-delayed IPO.
How awful for the kids, and everyone who knew the family, and for the community at large :(
Better that a thousand guilty students be deprived of an education than that a single bookbanner's child have to be in the same room with a novel written in 1894. One with only the most minor hints of sex and the famous swordfights as violence.
Huh reminds me of @matthewhahn.com except digital :)
Yeah def one of the problems is that when you start going in a bad direction the mistakes pile up FAST! I feel silly for being mad but I was tired.
Ah this model was only released a few days ago, maybe they pushed something yesterday! It was seriously just BAD! Like it couldn't do basic stuff, and then towards the end of the day it stopped responding entirely.
Yesterday GPT-5.4 was a wild and crazy vibe-coding fool! I got so sick of telling it to fix trivial errors like "includes go at the top of the file" that I got mad and switched to Claude. Today it's a painstakingly careful take-no-risks grandpa. Was the difference that _I_ was coding angry?
Kindle edition drops here on May 7!
Oooh, will put it on my list! Thx, enjoy pub day :)
I"ve never been able to use the 17, I couldn't even find a laptop bag that didn't lake me look like a schoolchild :/
Oh! Will it be available in the US soon?
The current 14 inch is perfect! 13 too small for programming, 15 too big for me to easily carry around with the big brick and the long cord.
Hahaha I once worked with a Hawaiian guy on a time-sensitive project -- full cloud migration while rewriting the whole app! Which was actually like 6 apps! -- and we would often meet at 10pm after everyone else had tapped out.
People complain that skeet-length doesn't allow for nuance, but bullet points REALLY don't allow for nuance.
I've been surprised how much I'm enjoying working on East Coast time. I was already waking up about 6am -- Hundos need breakfasts! -- so starting work at that time wasn't a huge lift for me; and it is kind of amazing to be done by 2pm!! In midsummer I will have 8 hours of daylight after work!
Plus when it comes to the US we seem to lose them all to incompetence -- being shot down by an erstwhile ally or losing them off the sides of aircraft carriers.
And fighter jets are hardly used any more, the days of Top Gun style dogfights being meaningful warfighting are long gone.
Yes but I guess I perceive the 1st to be largely not that dense or geographically large, whereas I perceive the 43rd to be some of the densest parts of the whole state!
Oops sorry I'm in the 1st district!
And bullet points :(
An awful lot of people learned at vast expense to think in Powerpoints. And not even good Powerpoints, shitty Powerpoints that were halfway to slop already.
Honestly quite surprised that Washington's 43rd legislative district -- which encompasses a lot of the most popular parts of Seattle! -- only has about as many people as mine, the 8th, which is mostly Bothell.
A thing I like about my new gig is that there is zero expectation to be friends with one's coworkers. No Pets Slack channel. No holiday cookie exchanges. Friendly but entirely impersonal. I can see why it wouldn't be great for more junior devs though.
I've found that if you prime people first by asking, "Is this a monopoly, in the sense that you couldn't switch to a competitor even if you wanted to?" they have a decent sense of the issue. Just mention Comcast! ;)
It's sort of funny to see ChatGPT or whatever make the same mistakes as humans! I'm on the new GPT 5.4 and it has made a LOT of hooks bugs today :)
I don't know why we can't all just admit once and for all that without pretty strong government regulation, we are all at the mercy of these companies -- which have no good reason to give great service, given that so many are functional monopolies.
I don't know either :( That's one reason it's easier to give to like one of the people raising money for immigrants at their local school or a known trans community member that they vouch for personally. But that isn't gonna work for most of us to send money to Gaza or Ukraine.
Every every time industries are allowed to "self-regulate", they turn against the consumer. Adam Smith warned that "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices".
Yes sure. But together they definitely add up to a feeling that TONS of people -- who seem like cool people caught in bad circumstances -- just aren't making it at all. Which I wonder if that's a factor in people thinking the economy is unmitigated dogshit when the stats don't really show that yet.
A windfall. Occasionally you'll see some happy news -- a new job, promotion, or buying a house -- but for every one of those I'm probably seeing 50 or 100 appeals from people who are on the verge of not making rent.
