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Am I the only software engineer greatly worried and disturbed by AI ?
  • Yes those are also examples of AI, see relevant Wikipedia article:

    AI is whatever hasn't been done yet

    We need better terms to specify exactly what we mean, e.g. a numeric scale of intelligence or maybe even something more complex like a radar chart.

  • Linux use on Steam ends 2023 with a multi-year high (thanks Steam Deck)
  • There's a good chance there will be a virtuous cycle, where the Steam Deck's popularity makes it easier to game on Linux for regular PC users too, which will help out everyone gaming on Linux. Especially as Microsoft keeps dicking around with Windows and trying to turn it into a subscription OS and people just get sick of it.

  • Is it me or is (desktop) Linux still a terrible experience?
  • It's because old advice dies hard. Ubuntu had a good like 15 years of being the default choice, but now Canonical wants to IPO and they're going to wring as much revenue as they can from anything they can get their hands on. That inevitably leads to enshittification, and Ubuntu is going through that process right now.

  • Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout
  • Those questions really don't need to be asked. I charge off of a regular outlet, level 2 charging at home is nice but unnecessary. If those questions keep coming up, it's likely from dealers that are fearmongering.

  • Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout
  • You don't need a level 2 charger at home. You don't need gas stations equivalents. EV companies won't make infrastructure, because we've already built tons of infrastructure for EVs and it's called the electric grid. Everywhere has electricity. I was recently in a very remote area for vacation in my EV, and just plugged my car into a regular outlet to charge it up. To get there, I stopped for lunch and plugged my car in at a supercharger while I ate.

    Target is putting in superchargers at lots of their locations around me. Other places are or will follow suit. If you can't charge at home, you'll simply stop by the store/mall/whatever, do your normal shopping, and have your car charge in the meantime. Or you'll charge at work, or any number of other places.

    EVs aren't hard, they just require a mindset shift. People worry about this and that, but it's because they haven't actually tried it and have given too much weight to FUD spread about EVs.

  • Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout
  • I'm not worried about that, but I've seen some more cautious people get the cable underneath one of their wheels so that you'd have to move the car to take it. I'm quite sure you could also find another way of attaching or securing it to your car to make it fairly difficult to walk away with. The chargers also aren't really worth much, so it seems unlikely that even someone desperate for cash would put much effort into it.

  • Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout
  • I charge my car off of a regular outlet outside in a very cold climate, and charging like that will actually likely make the battery last quite a while. The only way to find out for sure is to wait, but it has been 4 years and the battery hasn't lost any capacity. My car also has a 320 km range, so even in your scenario, if you charged 50km away and came home, you'd still have 270km of range.

    I think you may have given too much weight to FUD about EVs from companies that would like to see them fail. I've seen a lot of concerns posted online that just don't practically matter, once you actually try it. There's also some really nice minor things about owning an EV, like not having to breathe in toxic fumes when walking around the car. Especially nice if you have kids that are right at the level of the tailpipe.

    It is also fine to wait a bit, of course. In my area chargers are springing up in lots of places, and I think we're not far off from a tipping point away from ICE cars, which will spread even to rural areas pretty quickly when gas stations start becoming unprofitable.

  • Any good alternatives to Home Assistant?

    I have a self hosted HA deployment that hasn't been updated in a while. I haven't updated it partially because they made the boneheaded move of deprecating their YAML config in favor of GUI-only config, and partially because the developers are insufferable dickholes.

    I should probably move off of the deployment that I've got right now at some point, but what are people currently using for home automation? Is anyone running a newer version of HA that thinks it's not actually that bad?

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    Did you know that the Tyrannosaurus Rex...

    lived closer to the present day than to the destruction of Alderaan?

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    What version of Pixel Dungeon is everyone playing?

    I'm playing Shattered Pixel Dungeon myself. It feels pretty balanced and cohesive with frequent updates. It also doesn't have the weapon durability mechanic from vanilla, which I hated

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