Can confirm. My son wanted to visit Texas (and other places) for his 10th birthday present, we've told him we're not welcome there, and trying to explain the US political situation to a kind under 10 is not easy. But there is no way I would want to put our family in any kind of situation like this, basically at the whim of the border person we happen to get.
For version managers I've switched to using mise - https://mise.jdx.dev/ - supports pretty much everything, all in one place. I have it managing java, node, php, and even tools like awscli, gitleaks, and anything else that might be needed to get a project up and running by a new developer.
This is exactly the experience I've had. Recently started learning OpenTofu(/Terraform) and the company now had Gemini as part of the Workspace subscription. It was great to get some basic going, but very quickly starts suggesting wrong or old or bad practices. Still using it as a starting point and to help known what to start searching for, but like you said, it's only slightly better than a regular search engine.
"We've invested all the money in AI that no one wants, how do we make some of it back?"
"Why not raise the price for everyone, whether they use it or not?"
Yeah, it stings. I did buy 2 copies on launch day for myself and my son (8) though. We have spent a lot of time on Factorio together though and I prefer it much more than Minecraft (although we have probably clocked up many many more hours on that).
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"Corporate Headquarters has commanded," continued the magician, "that everyone use this workstation as a platform for new programs. Do you agree to this?"
"Certainly," replied the master, "I will have it transported to the data center immediately!" And the magician returned to his tower, well pleased.
Several days later, a novice wandered into the office of the master programmer and said, "I cannot find the listing for my new program. Do you know where it might be?"
"Yes," replied the master, "the listings are stacked on the platform in the data center."
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Back in 'ye olden days, people used to print out programs... nay, they even used to _hand-write!_ programs before they began typing, because keyboard-time was valuable (nevermind compilation/computation/debugging time).
Serial ports were slow, grep wasn't really a thing, so having a printout (or "listing") of your program was a more efficient way (or only way!)to debug your program after the fact. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJGrie7k97c
Back in the 90's, I had some programming classes in high school where there were 30 chairs, but 15 computers (around the edge)... bring your own 360kb floppy disk! So you had a real incentive (and a strict teacher) who insisted that you wrote out your program ahead of time, show it to her for a first-pass/feedback, and _then_ you'd get to go type it on the computer and see if it worked. Submissions were via printouts (of the program, aka "listing", along with the output) which she then took home and graded.
Stick tongue firmly in cheek, empty your cup, and enjoy the ride!
Edit: ...and the relationship to the cantankerous original comment who "couldn't figure why they'd want to run OSX?", this is the zen-koan sarcastic response of: "use it as a platform for development" (ie: stack your papers on top if it)
Yeah, it is highly unlikely to be a Dyson Sphere (or related object), but any follow up scans of those stars could result in some new interesting science telling us why those stars are different from the other ones.
I donated some blood a couple of years back and they came back saying there were proteins present. Having follow up tests at the moment, but none of the other markers are present that would normally be there if there was cancer. Still waiting to get further follow up tests, but no one seems to be worried enough to rush things along.
This was with the Red Cross in Australia. I'm original from the UK and was not allowed to donate before due to CJD worries. The first time I was able to donate, they ran a full test (not sure if they do that for all donations or not) and I got a call back saying they had found markers for blood cancer. As mentioned, follow up tests haven't shown any other markers, and the levels of protein hasn't changed over that time, so have a 6 month wait now for the next follow ups.
I donate platelets with the Red Cross every month and I've got an app where they give me the blood pressure and hemoglobin level, and which used to tell me if I had Covid-19 antibodies before everybody did via vaccine or infection.
Before I donate I have to sign something that says, among other things "We're going to test your blood for AIDS and tell you if you have it, so if you don't want to know don't donate". I hadn't thought about the other things they test for but of course they don't want blood with Leukemia in it either.
Why wouldn't someone not want to know they have AIDS? Given the disease is not a death sentence anymore and the earlier you know better your chances of survival. The warning probably deters a lot of people who could have otherwise been saved by timely treatment.
I hope all will turn out good for you, and wishing you the best of luck.
> they came back saying there were proteins present.
I think probably there is a bit of a Chinese whisper kind of misunderstanding here. Your blood will contain proteins. It must. Everyone's blood does. For example hemoglobin is a type of protein which makes your red blood cells able to carry oxygen.
What they probably told you is that they found the wrong quantity or the wrong kind of proteins.
Yes, sorry, it was hightened levels of proteins. Checking the report and it has these highlighted in red
Total Protein Initial Screen (g/L): 87 (normal range 61-84)
Immunoglobulin IgA (g/L): 4.9 (normal range < 4.8)
Immunoglobulin IgG Initial Screen (g/L): 18.5 (normal range 5.0 - 15.0)
And thank you. There's been a lot of Dr Googling about it, and it all sounds a bit scary, but will be jumping on whatever treatments are needed should the worse happen.
IANAMD. It looks like most of the time the increase can be produced by many common infections that are not dangerous. I strongly recomend to get a second opinion before starting some invasive procedure.
The only information on the report is the following
Total Protein Initial Screen (g/L): 87 (normal range 61-84)
Immunoglobulin IgA (g/L): 4.9 (normal range < 4.8)
Immunoglobulin IgG Initial Screen (g/L): 18.5 (normal range 5.0 - 15.0)
Just the IgG that seems to be significantly above the normal range. Not sure how accurate the tests are, but the first 2 feel like they could be within margin of errors.
