- charlie-83A lot of bots will be able to make requests from a range of IP addresses. If you rate limit one, they just start sending requests from the next.
- It annoys me that big-tech marketing has made most people believe that "personalised advertising" means they get ads which are more "useful" to them. I regularly see people opt in to personalised advertising because of this.
Personalised advertising is about collecting every detail about your life and using it to extract as much money as possible from you. AI advancements might be making this even more effective but it's been this way for a long time.
- JJ doesn't support git LFS is a common reason.
- `grep laugh *` worked for me
- This is what I do but I don't try to make it complicated with too many numbers. "2 weeks but there's a 10% chance something bad happens and it takes longer".
I have no problem if they just hear the "2 weeks" part. If they come complaining in 3 weeks I just say "we hit that 10%".
The other important thing is to update estimates. Update people as soon as you realise you hit the 10%. Or in a better case, in a week I might be able to say it's now "1% chance of taking more than a week".
- I like the idea of using vanilla CSS for my personal website but, not being a designer, making something that looks good from nothing is difficult. I've looked at some templates to get started with but they are generally a mess of a million classes I don't need
- Unless the author is insanely rich, they probably don't want to spend increasingly large amounts on hosting unless they have a way to make money back (even if it's just to break even).
- Isn't HDL basically the intermediate representation you want? Plus, you can learn it with simulation or FPGA dev board which makes it reasonably accessable
- I completely agree with you. While I got a piece of paper at the end, I also learned lots of really useful things and met a lot of interesting people. There are still lots of passionate students that want to learn as much as they can.
But those students aren't going to be using AI to skip all the learning. The article and just about everyone in higher education right now are saying that a large number of students are doing that. So, there must be a large number of students who are primarily motivated by piece of paper (and the job opportunity it provides).
That doesn't mean that they must be completely disinterested in their subject. They might have some lectures they really like and where they do the coursework properly. However, the epidemic of AI cheating speaks to the inefficiency created by the need for the piece of paper. If someone is essentially skipping 80% of the learning with AI then the job market requiring you to have a piece of paper is causing someone to waste 80% of their time and money. They would be better served by a short course teaching them only that 20% of skills they actually want.
The social side of things isn't something I was really addressing in this context. To me, that's a bonus of university. Given the cost, it doesn't seem worth going to university primarily for a social experience (unless you live somewhere where it's free). I also really hope that AI isn't affecting these social aspects.
- The situation in higher education at the moment does seem pretty dire. However, I do have some hope that a new system could emerge from this which would be better.
The purpose of higher education should be to learn things that will be useful to you (most likely in a career). However, the current purpose is to gain a piece of paper which will mean your job application doesn't get immediately thrown out.
People being willing to spend so much time and money on university only to deliberately avoid learning or thinking by using AI to cheat on everything suggests that the system itself is broken.
These students don't actually want to be in university but feel they have to in order to have a chance at success in the current job market. We are in a prisoner's dilemma where everyone is getting degrees just to be a more appealling applicant than the next person. You might have authored a very impressive opensource library but still not get the junior software dev job because HR never gave your CV to the hiring manager since you don't have a STEM degree and 50 other applicants did.
However, I don't really know how university's will evolve from this or what this new system will be. It seems hard to motivate a bunch of 18 year olds to actually want to learn stuff without dangling a piece of paper and exams at the end. Maybe that's just a symptom of all of the levels of education that come before university also dangling paper and exams. There were certainly parts of my degree I would have, at the time, liked to have skipped with AI but now (older and wiser) I'm very glad I couldn't.
- Would you be willing to give an example of a typical app/tool like this that you made?
- I think the solution here is to just code stuff where AI is not useful. Go write embedded code (not arduino), write a compiler, create a network protocol, write a game that runs on an actual gameboy etc. There are a lot of projects where AI is still of limited use (both silly and actually useful). Obviously, the downside is that all these projects are going to be much harder than "build a todo app" (and possibly require you having experience from doing easier projects first).
I don't think that "just don't use AI" is really a solution here. It can feel really pointless doing something the hard way when you know there is an easy way even if you prefer the hard way.
- I completely agree with you but I'm not sure I can really think of a solution for the RF baseband problem. I really don't want to live in a world where everyone's wifi signal is terrible because lots of stupid software devs decided to boost the RF power for their product to make it work better.
- No worries. Hope it didn't come off too negative. It's an interesting project and I would hate for it to not be as successful as it could be just because of the website and other minor things that can be easily fixed
- No, I don't think I need to waste my money trying out snake oil to point out it's a scam. But if you do want an opinion from someone who has tried it and is much more knowledgeable about coffee and the coffee industry, James Hoffman has a video on YouTube where he comes to the same conclusions as me
- I think that this could be marketed a lot better. The website has no information at all and it's not possible to work out what the project is from it. The github readme does contain a lot more information but it's still not presented very well. The "Overview" section needs to clearly explain what the project is rather than just stating the motivation for the project. I was able to determine what the project is only by reading the whole readme and piecing it together.
The membership is unclear also: it says "try for free" which makes me suspect I will only be able to use it for limited time before needing to pay, but you only need to pay to support the project and early access. Seems like a lot of potential users will be lost because they get the impression it's a subscription service.
- I'm fascinated by people like this. Why would you give up the ability to have uninterrupted interactions with family and friends in exchange for running Walmart? I know the answer is money but I would assume that, at a certain point, you have more than enough money to do literally anything you want in the little bit of time you leave yourself to not be working.
I would understand if she was running a huge charity; she would feel that interrupting family time is a sacrifice she makes to improve the world. But, Walmart is just a mechanism to extract value from customers.
- It's such a pointless thing to exist. Most of what is sold is fake, everything that isn't comes from animals force-fed in cages, and every coffee expert who tries it is completely unimpressed. It only exists so that rich people can try something "weird".
- The silhouette software is proprietary but I am using Linux + inkscape + https://github.com/fablabnbg/inkscape-silhouette which works perfectly (except I can't get the Bluetooth to work but that's probably a me issue). It's less user-friendly (but more power-user friendly) than the official software and doesn't have all the templates and ready-made designs but that isn't a problem for me.
I would like to get a laser cutter at some point but that's a completely different beast. Don't get a cheap ali-express one that is not enclosed if you value your eyes. You will also need ventilation for a lot of materials if you value your lungs. In comparison, my silhouette is a simple thing I can move around easily. It's also able to plotting, engraving, embossing and foiling with the right add-ons
- These are cool. For anyone in the market for a vinyl cutter I would recommend against Cricut though. Very cloud-subscription-user-hostile software that tried to limit the number of times you could use the machine you bought unless you had a subscription. I have a silhouette and control it with a plugin for inkscape and its great.