JordanZ

I liked when the Chicago Sun-Times put out a summer reading list and only a third of the books on it were real. Each book had a summary of the plot next to it too. They later apologized for it.

As another who learned to code prior to AI tools…they’re somewhere between mildly annoying and infuriating more than helpful in most cases I’ve ever used them for.

My work turned on Copilot reviews in GitHub. Most of our projects are in C#. So it’s Microsoft all the way down. Some of the recommendations it makes on PR’s violate the C# specs. So if you actually accept its code changes the code no longer even compiles. It also recommends the long hand code for built in operators that are identical but far less code(??= for example). Meanwhile Visual Studio recommends the opposite.

We have this whole process around dismissing the suggestions so this just wastes so much of my time on code that’s so broken it doesn’t even comply with the language specs.

I’ve tried using it for simple data generation as well. Like asking for 50 random dates and all it did was make a loop and generate new dates by incrementing the day each iteration. That’s not random. This is a simple task and I just didn’t want to type it out.

I mentioned the retracting window isn’t exclusive to Tesla. The issue is with how they work when they no longer retract and that appears to be a Tesla problem. It’s not an issue if the window has power.

Tesla forum No power, broken window.

Random article where parts of the car had power and others didn’t. Broken window as result.

Another article about broken windows using the mechanical release with lack of power.

Just FYI all the Tesla cars to my knowledge need power for the doors to open because the handles aren’t physically attached to the door mechanism. They’re all electronic. If you own one of these cars I highly advise you to read the manual and find out where the mechanical door releases are(they’re somewhat hidden).

Another fun fact and this isn’t exclusive to Tesla. If you pay attention when you open the door the window retracts a tiny bit to clear the weatherstripping. If you have no power that can’t happened. What is unique to Tesla as far as I can tell is that their weatherstripping isn’t as large/pliable as other manufacturers or maybe it’s just the assembly. Using the mechanical release with power still retracts the window. In the event the battery is dead or damaged from an accident using the mechanical release requires breaking the window. That means the door is significantly more difficult to open.

I wasn’t honked at but some guy shouted at me from the other lane ‘You can go now dick lips’. Like what? I was turning left and they were waiting to go straight. This all took place in the span of time it took me to press the clutch and put the car in gear. I was already moving before they even finished that sentence.

Mind you this is an intersection that’s 4 lanes wide(total road width) on the side I was on and 6 lanes wide for what I was crossing. It’s not even a block from an exit ramp from a 12 lane expressway where the traffic light is obscured from an overpass for a train. It’s horrendously designed. To say people blow that light on the regular would be an understatement. I’m gonna take those 2 seconds. There wasn’t even anybody behind me.

The US is an odd duck when it comes to taxes…

The USA is one of the few countries of the world which levies personal income tax on all its citizens: not only on its residents - citizens or non-citizens - but also on its citizens who do not live in the country. All citizens of the United States are taxed under the same personal income tax system, regardless of whether they live in the country or abroad.

My favorite is still Microsoft Zune… Which was a music store, music subscription service, a desktop app, and a physical media player.

It’s like they want their stuff to literally be unsearchable on the internet. Renaming Remote Desktop to Windows App is a prime example of this. Good luck trying to search for that and get what you want.

My appliances are ‘smart’ but I didn’t bother actually connecting them to my WiFi. I guess preheating the oven remotely could be cool(?) but nah.

The stuff I do use…

The microwave above the stove can talk via Bluetooth(no app or phone involvement at all). Turn on a burner and you can set it to turn on the light and/or vent fan. Another nicety is being able to set the clock on the stove with the full keypad and it just syncs to the microwave.

Website shows they’re in 19 states currently and they’re rapidly expanding in my state.

They still make you jump through hoops to figure out what the upload speeds are for their plans.

Google just tore up all the streets in my neighborhood installing fiber. Just waiting on them to turn that stuff on. Not super pleased that it’s Google but Comcast lobbied and blasted commercials about the government owned infrastructure fiber provider in the area when they were considering bringing that to my city and got it shut down.

Google fiber is 5x the download speeds and 125x the upload speed…for less money? Absolutely.