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I imagine the "POP only works with a single device" is in reference to the Gmail App's support for POP

POP access of a different account on the web would be the "Check mail from other accounts"


> I have anecdotally found this to be true as well, that an LLM greatly accelerates my ramp up time in a new codebase, but then actually leads me astray once I am familiar with the project.

If you are unfamiliar with the project, how do you determine that it wasn't leading you astray in the first place? Do you ever revisit what you had done with AI previously to make sure that, once you know your way around, it was doing it the right way?


In some cases, I have not revisited, as I was happy to simply make a small modification for my use only. In others, I have taken the time to ensure the changes are suitable for upstreaming. In my experience, which I have not methodically recorded in any way, the LLM’s changes at this early stage have been pretty good. This is also partly because the changes I am making at the early stage are generally small, usually not requiring adding new functionality but simply hooking up existing functionality to a new input or output.

What’s most useful about the LLM in the early stages is not the actual code it writes, but its reasoning that helps me learn about the structure of the project. I don’t take the code blind, I am more interested in the reasoning than the code itself. I have found this to be reliably useful.


no, they just claim that AI coding tools are magic and drink their kool-aid


GitHub was purchased, which is a bit different.

TypeScript though I had no idea about! Good for them!


    > GitHub was purchased, which is a bit different.
Why is that different? The purchase was 7 years ago (?) at this point.

Do we make an exemption for SharePoint because it, too, is an extension of FrontPage acquired via Vermeer?[0]

At what point does it lose its exemption from "Hate All Things Microsoft"? 10 years? 20 years?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_FrontPage


The difference here is that we didn't select to use a Microsoft product, a produce we used became Microsoft.

It only matters in the context of it being "ironic" that it is used and favored in the coding community.


OK, then thoughts on VS Code and TypeScript?

Microsoft contributions to Python?

Do they all trigger some weird instant irrational reaction?


Depends. Is everything open source (TypeScript)? Or does it give me basically everything for free when building open source (Github)?


Github looks and works mostly indistinguishable from how it was 7 years ago.


So you are of the belief that Microsoft has not had any effect on GitHub over the last 7 years? Interesting.


Uh? That's not the case at all. It even has popup ads for copilot now.


US is the same way; my hot take has always been "time to move to a -/+ 30 minute timezone"


Is this pronounced Wax-a-lot-l or Wax-o-lowt?


In Nahuatl it would be “wa-sha-lot” iirc. The l is silent when the end of the word ends in “tl” and x is a “sh” sound.


That's what I was trying to reference, but I left the X in the English "Wax" [wax][alotl].

I am very curious what the author intended though


> I am very curious what the author intended though

I am assuming wæksəlɒtəl, that's how most pronounce the animal


Not silent, but not either of the L sounds in English, /l/ as in lever and and /ɫ/ as in trouble. It's the ll in Welsh, /ɬ/ in IPA. If you pronounce it /t/ you'll be closer than /tɫ/, like bottle.


A /t/ from the back of your throat and not the tongue against the teeth I think?


Fun fact, x is an sh sound because that's how it was in medieval Spanish around the time Spaniards got there and wrote down the words. Around this same time is when the Old Spanish sh sound was shifting to the value it has in the word México and later a spelling reform changed it to J or g before i and e (except eg. in a bunch of mexican place names which retrained old spelling)

I believe in other Iberian languages such as Portuguese, Catalan and Basque, the sh sound is spelled with X.



I presume it rhymes with the fish.


Axolotl are salamanders.


I read it as "wax - o - lotool". A little difficult to pronounce in any case.


I wouldn't consider Google Podcasts a first party app. Even as a Pixel user, I only ever interacted with it by searching for a podcast. I could install it, but it wasn't pre-installed.

I'm not sure but YouTube Music _might_ be pre-installed. I can't recall.


Aldi does pickup through Instacart, and while I know the prices wouldn't be 1:1 - it might be a great source of data for price deltas


I wouldn't say that it stifles creativity, but expands LEGO to people who don't want to be creative with it.

You can treat it as a fun 3D Puzzle with step-by-step, or you can do whatever you want with it.

Neither way is particularly "wrong"


It is not wrong, but it does not force the kids to be creative in a way it used to.

I would rather buy some wooden trains and rails if my kids where young now.


you can always buy generic builder-part sets; they still sell them. Simply don't buy the overpriced kits.


Is it completely infeasible for BlueSky to federate with ActivityPub while maintaining the pros of its architecture?

If Threads, BlueSky, and ActivityPub all interconnected it really would be a great opportunity to compete on the software / UX front


There has been some work by others already on this front: https://docs.bsky.app/blog/feature-bridgyfed


The buyer's agent fee is basically subsidizing the hard work of buyer's agents (which is taking their clients to multiple properties, discussions about what they want, using time browsing MLS to find houses that meet criteria and arranging tours of them)

When I was looking to buy a house, my agent received no financial compensation from me at any point. Their work was entirely subsidized by the buyer's agent fee - and we looked at a lot of houses trying to find the right one.

The negative effect of that is that they're incentivized to offload us asap.


> The buyer's agent fee is basically subsidizing the hard work of buyer's agents (which is taking their clients to multiple properties, discussions about what they want, using time browsing MLS to find houses that meet criteria and arranging tours of them)

Since Zillow and Redfin have existed for quite some time how, that service seems a lot less valuable. I'm sure it can be worth it in the right circumstances, though.


Yes but from the perspective of the seller, the buyer's agent fee feels like you're subsidizing the realtor market to make it viable. Now, don't get me wrong, when I _bought_, I was very happy my agent made money, because she deserved it. I can just understand the attitude to sellers over agent commission (not saying I agree with it)


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