A prediction engine struggles at coming up with novel ideas? Astounding!

If you are of the opinion “coding is easy with AI”, it’s because you haven’t tried to do something novel with it.
It’s been solved, the AI has been trained on it, and the next most likely word based on prompt & context is correct because someone else has already figured it out. Repeat until the AI has generated a function that works

I really wish there was a way to enforce transparency of docker env vars.
I get that it’s impossible to make it a part of docker, env vars get parsed by code and turned into variables. There is no way that docker can enforce it, cause a null/undefined check with a default value is all that would be needed to subvert checks by docker, and every language uses a different way to check env vars (eg .env files, environment init scripts, whatever).
And even then, the env var value could be passed through a ridiculous chain of assignments and checks.
And, some of those ‘get env var’ routines could be conditional. Not all projects capture all env vars during some initial routine.

I’ve spent hours (maybe days) trawling through undocumented env vars trying to figure out their purpose, in order to leverage them in docker/k8s stacks.
I wish there was something.

Thankfully, a bit of time spent with a FOSS project and reviewing the code does shed light on hidden env vars.
And a PR or 2 gets comments and documentation updated.
Open source is awesome

From experience, a lot of companies tend to be propped up by like 10% of their developers doing 90% of the work, maybe 50% of developers doing the last 10%, and then like 40% of developers either doing fuck all or actively harming the codebases and making more work for the other 60%.

Hello, how do I join the 40%?
I want to coast for a while

Was gonna say “TSLA +20” as a joke, but apparently it’s +13.
Who the fuck is buying?

I opted for the Ad Free Lemmy Prime $8.99.

One of the best robot chicken scenes.
I was in tears the first time I saw it

Google has a “search tools” drop down menu (on mobile it’s at the end of the list of images/shopping/news etc).
It’s default set to “all results”. I believe changing it to “verbatim” is closer to the older (some would say “dumber”, I would say “more predictable”) behaviour

If a God were to appear and demonstrate all kinds of supernatural activity and capability, I think I’d have to renounce my atheism.

I would also renounce my atheism and become fully anti-theism.
The god is clearly not benevolent, not kind, not caring. The god can go fuck themselves.

Trumps track record over the past decades cannot be forgiven

Why do we even have that lever?

No.
I tried a smart watch for a week or so, and hated wearing it.
Hadn’t worn a watch in 20 years, and it felt very strange

I’m always nervous about fintech companies. Maybe it’s time to get over that and give curve pay a spin.
The cashback seems nice, considering a lot of shops I use are on there.

Yup, true.

But contactless via a phone can have no limit.
Adding a debit card to phone case means the upper limit is £100. Which is actually fine, and is the limit I have normally set for phone contactless. But I can instantly remove that limit via my banking app.

And the phone needs to be unlocked to make a payment.
Do if I lose my phone anyone can charge £100 to the debit card.

This… Except for contactless payment.
I used graphene for a month. It was lovely. Even things like banking apps worked.
I don’t care about absolute privacy, but I do care about controlling my privacy. Grapheme gave me that.

I had only 1 issue.
Contactless payment.
It’s extremely convenient to me, from public transport to groceries. I just bop my phone.

The fact that Google has that locked down surely violates some EU laws. But I’m sure they wave away the laws because of “financial security” or some other bullshit.
As if bank card NFC/contactless doesn’t suffer exactly the same issues.
I looked into some “graphene contactless payment” type systems or workarounds, and I couldn’t find anything that would fill the gap.

Everything else. Or anything else, if you select a single quark (presuming we don’t split a quark).

If everything is moving away from us, then everything is moving away from everything else.
It’s just that some things are moving away from us faster than they are moving away from other things

Everything else.

Galactocentrism was established in 1925, which realised that our solar system is not near the center of the Milky Way. So, we are moving relative to the center of our galaxy.

In 1929, evidence was found that everything else is moving away from us. So we are moving relative to everything else.

In 1931, the Big Bang theory started superceding Galactocentrism, which was an acentrist model of the universe (where there is no center).

Eventually, yes

It’s part of the strategy.
Overwhelm the news cycle, see what the news picks up and push that more, let the actual bad stuff go under-reported.