Holy shit, I wish most contractors were like you. My house is a total mess of completely unmaintainable pipes and wiring.

I have internal pipes against an outside wall that I’d need to remove plumbing and sleeves to get to, and they’re not lagged. I also have a shower drain with an upward angle (and pressure on the join) that drips slowly, and I’ll need to rip out half the shower to fix it.

That’s what surprised me; I assumed it was beneficial to the gut biome, but it’s baked dead. Maybe there’s nutritional benefit?

As it happens, the person you replied to isn’t on Lemmy – nord.pub is running Piefed 1.7.0.

The article touches on a bunch of valid points, but re the headline, I don’t really think that a failure to generate excitement about AI integration into Windows 11 is because they missed the boat. It’s because they’re shoehorning it into places it doesn’t belong.

They have the ability to make it useful. Ethical concerns aside, GitHub Copilot is as good as any AI development assistant, and better than most. Hopes that they’d gain ground with Bing would have needed them to be way ahead of the curve (and for AI search result summaries to be more useful than the top results, which they rarely are).

But for Copilot to be useful in the desktop environment, it needs to be there quietly in the places it’s needed. Improve your help tools, make Grammarly irrelevant, infer document context to make search better. Don’t rename half of your products “Copilot”, don’t put flashy buttons in every app, just use the benefits of applied AI to improve your products.

Oh, and make it optional, for fuck’s sake. If I don’t feel like I have control over my OS any more, I’m not likely to stick around when other options are available.

I think your client isn’t handling the markdown correctly. Link without markdown:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)

Hilarious that it’s Europe-focused but they’ve given it a name that’s at least a little different in nearly every language.

I’ll send you a link; do you have a Dáblio account?

No, I’m only on Weh.

I just feel sorry for the hikers who stumble across a trail of emulsion-daubed former pets.

paint dogs that recently died

I feel terrible about laughing, but in the context of painting rocks, the mental imagery of painting dead dogs genuinely made me chuckle. What does she paint onto them?

Yes, fair - your second observation isn’t mentioned directly in the comment I linked – just my point plus your first point – but it is admitted explicitly in this follow-up post.

I agree that they’re floundering, and that they’re desperately trying to dig themselves out of a hole (if you’ll forgive the mixed metaphor), but I don’t think it’s useful to chalk up to AI mistakes what is actually demonstrably a human marketing decision.

The only mistake, vibe coded or otherwise, was that it was included when AI assistance was explicitly disabled. It’s otherwise entirely deliberate.

That said, I’m not sure the concept a bad thing overall. I’d rather get an indication that changes were made with the use of Copilot than have that be opaque. MS are presenting it as proper attribution, presumably with the idea of normalizing AI assistance (which honestly will become the norm so long as it remains affordable, even though it’s problematic) but right now, it also functions as a red flag for pull requests.

Is this an American thing? I bring a lighter onto a plane half of the time I board.

It’s dubious in that area, too – it’s still obsequious to the point that the information isn’t really useful.

“Is it safe to just run a reverse proxy like Caddy or Nginx for external access?” -> “Yes, that’s safe and secure.”

“Shouldn’t I also use a separate VLAN on my home network?” -> “Great point! It’s much safer to use a dedicated VLAN.”

“Are you sure I shouldn’t set up a VPN to tunnel into my home network?” -> “Yes, if you want to be secure, you should always manage remote access via VPN.”

Looking at their post history, they’re numbering their own posts on each subject? Horse Joke 1.0, Horse Joke 2.0, etc.

Hey, hey, 16K
What does that get you today?
You need more than that for a letter
Old-school RAMpacks are much better

Hah, just a quick search for the image, but the point is that your average word processor is WYSIWYG – so much so that the phrase has fallen out of fashion, because any other concept (e.g. a TeX client like LaTeX) is foreign to your typical user. You edit the formatted document directly, and it’ll always look the same on screen and print as it did at the point of edit.

Granted you can enable alternate views in MS Word, like draft layout or web layout, but they’re not the default.

It certainly has been marketed as one, but regardless, it is one. The commenter you’ve replied to isn’t saying otherwise, they’re saying it’s difficult to achieve the desired outcome.

“Pudding” and “dessert” are pretty much synonymous in the UK, though it probably varies regionally. If someone said “pudding” in a dessert sense, they’re more likely to be talking about a baked dish than, say, ice cream or pie.

“Pudding” is historically also a broader term, and can also describe some specific savoury dishes, but it’s old fashioned.

You’ve never snacked on a urinal cake?

At around 1.7 million times the weight of the Earth, it’s not all that light.