Like Miles Davis… (1.69m give or take a trumpet)

I used it to generate documents required by auditors for various ISO certification that few people read in full but still need to be correct in case the auditor decides to do more than skim it.

Got some documents out in a couple of hours per doc instead of days, including a glossary made by feeding it back the finished document and telling it to make a glossary. I probably did in 3 days what would have taken me a month otherwise.

Honestly it can be quite useful right now. The mistake is thinking it can do everything.

Probably the fact that you will need to keep the old name alive to reference it in older litterature anyway. So old name will still be there forever and makes the name change a bit moot.

Maybe they are worried it adds cognitive complexity.

They may think it will be very difficult to enforce the usage worldwide. Some people won’t care and keep using the old name.

They could be afraid, it opens the field to constant renaming because the meaning and the disposition toward word changes all the time.

They might be worried they’ll have to waste time constantly arguing over name change and in fine decide who has the right to be offended by what. Maybe some of them would rather be doing their research instead.

Maybe they don’t give a fuck if it offends someone.

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APIs that don’t exist

I had that. I got a bunch of ok code for an AWS API, but then it decided to hallucinate a method. I tried all kind of prompt to instruct it that the method didn’t exist and not to use it, but it always came back telling me it was the right way to do it.

Anyway, still faster than reading the doc for a one off script I just wanted thrown together quickly and never to be reused again.

Any somewhat touristic city that didn’t implement some drastic restrictions has been fucked. In those places you can make from 2 to 10 time as much with airbnb as you can with a normal tenant so it becomes the obvious choice for a property owners. the only way to fix supply is regulation.

Having the legal staff and having the upper management from another country able to understand it at a conceptual level and integrate it into their decision making process is entirely different. One of my friend is a lawyer in France who specialises in helping US corporation handle their subsidiaries here. There’s not a week that passes without him being asked how to do something illegal here but legal in the US and the client being baffled and literally refusing to understand that they can’t.

The main one being firing people, from the way he talks about it, he seems to be earning half his income re-explaining to the same people over and over that no you can’t just give 2 weeks notice and fire people at will just because you need a quick expense reduction before the end of the quarter to amuse the shareholders. It just doesn’t register.

That’s why I always use the best of both world.

ansible.builtin.shell: install.sh

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OTOH 20 years ago half of the sites on the internet were not yet made of copy-pasta SEO optimized copies or stolen content designed to get search engine clicks. Maybe the enshitification of the web itself has something to do with it.

I think that underestimates the difference between handling tech that need to keep people alive and restoring a computer that sits in a basement and is not expected to do anything more than provide cool entertainment.

Going through testing, certification, documentation and training for a USB adapter would cost millions, even if the piece was available off the shelf for 50 bucks.

The floppy is just the funny visible part of the issue, the core issue is that their whole stack has seen the dinosaurs roam free.