At best, Googling StackOverflow gets me one function, but only if I know the right keywords and it is short. ChatGPT, I can (and have!) given it example data and said "make a python script to parse this", and it not only gives me code, not only does it work, but when I ask it to extend this to do more or differently, the changes also work coherently with the previous results. For example: https://github.com/BenWheatley/Studies-of-AI/blob/main/codin...
Git is pretty easy to use but people tend to overcomplicate it. Just push changes to your branch. Merge when ready. And keep your branch up to date with your main branch. Easy.
If you want to use DVCS as DVCS you gotta understand the details. People don't then get into trouble. But to be fair git will do exactly what you ask it to and not warn about some pitfalls and there is also no "tell me what this operation would do" so it's easy to get into nasty state if you just copy commands off internet.
Unless your company has a huge fixation with git history you really don't need to know much more than basics one can pick up with ease in what, few hours?
I never rebase in my life, I just merge the target branch and call it a day, most companies only track merge commits anyway so history is the same.
Congratulations to sticking to it for such a long time. Given sufficient time any startup can work. The more you know the more competitive you are the better the product.
The media is corrupt and filled with incompetent writers. According to them we will be replaced by ai monday morning. They did the same wave of stories where they said baristas and chefs will be replaced by ai robots just a few years ago. They even had “proof”: a robot arm here and there doing a crappy job at making a burger and scrambled eggs. Now it’s tech “workers”. Also there are no jobs in tech. These folks writing “news” really are clueless and have no idea what they are writing - dont usually bother talking to people and researching their content, they just spew it out.
“8.2 M
Estimated to be in fuel
poverty by October 2022.”
In the United Kingdom. Let that sink in. In 2022 we should not have to worry about energy prices. Should be as cheap as breathing air. Yet here we are.
At this point it's difficult to believe that the situation isn't the goal of those currently in power.
A former Prime Minister privately admitting to stoking xenophobia and that they believe the country with some of the poorest worker's rights in Europe needs working conditions closer to that of China[0]:
> “There’s a slight thing in Britain about wanting the easy answers. That’s my reflection on the election and what’s gone before it, and the referendum – we say it’s all Europe that’s causing these huge problems … it’s all these migrants causing these problems. But actually what needs to happen is more … more graft. It’s not a popular message.”
At a time when many people are struggling to survive, mortgages and rents The Bank of England deepen that hardship by raising interest rates with the express intent of suppressing wages[1]:
> Bailey forecast skill shortages would push wages higher and prevent inflation falling towards the Bank’s 2% target as fast as he hoped.
> “There is a risk that [inflation won’t fall] in that way, particularly because the labour market and the labour supply in this country is so tight.
> “And that’s why, really, we had to raise interest rates today, because we see that risk as really quite pronounced.”
MPs who have awarded themselves pay rises above inflation vilifying people who have seen real term pay cuts of 20%[2].
Maybe not that cheap, but in reach of everyone. Or almost everyone. I'm starting to feel that the "west" has failed somewhere in recent times. We have all the solutions and even resources available, but somehow we aren't solving issues that have been solved already.
If software engineers could read this they would be so upset. Their code stolen off of github and resold through ai is the silliest thing they could have done to themselves.
I wonder if techies are the "temporarily embarassed billionaires" here?
"No, I didn't build DALL-E 2 or ChatGPT or Copilot, but I totally would have if I had just had a little more time to read the papers, so I'm cheering those who did, even if it goes against my own interests..."
VR capable computers are quite cheap. Cheaper than a low spec apple macbook pro running m1. For 2-3k you can get a beast of a machine running everything on real high settings.
Right. You only need a card that's more powerful than the GTX 1060 for VR though, so the actual price-of-admission is more in the $250-400 price range.
The parent I'm responding to was interpreting "VR capable" as "top of the line" which is demonstrably false. You probably can't even get this scene in the first place, so it's kinda a moot point.
Google did it first. You input a search string, find results on first or second attempt and then copy and paste the code.