Nietzsche says: "out of chaos comes order."

Does the Pelco brand still exist?

Plato, they say, could stick it away -- half a crate of whisky every day.

My work has been open to using AI for coding and deeper use cases. We have CoPilot and a limited Gemini. Q (now Kiro) was quietly introduced a few months ago. If you are a Saas on AWS, it's really helpful for contextual cases involving the cloud service stack because it can utilize whatever permissions are available. Example: evaluate my cold starts for lambda fancy-service-abc in region us-west-2. It's much faster than slogging through the online console or if you remember all the CLI for aws -- cheers! -- I don't because it's not an everyday thing for me.

Now I'm using it for code scenarios but needs good agentic design. That's the thing, all this AI isn't worthless and it's not yet going to replace experienced developers. I can scaffold code so much faster with my self designed agent which takes time to sort out but has been paying off.

AI - any of it - is just a another tool to build software, and create things.

The doors have mechanical handles in case of emergency. I had to learn to tell passengers to use "the button" when getting out because the handle gets pulled - understandably. It's technically not good to use for non-emergency because the window doesn't drop and could crack on closing the door.

You never cease to entertain. Your posts are on the level of performance art. You do you rsilvergun.

LLMs are good at using third-person possessives—correctly placing an apostrophe (or omitting one when appropriate), smart little devils.

I'm sure you could. You seem quite high maintenance. Over 20 years at a few companies, HR has been mostly inconsequential for me except for occasional transactional questions.

Really? Which ones? This is newsworthy specifically because they all do, but when negotiations happen, it gets attention. This has happened with other providers. It is expected that a standard tier cable/streaming includes ABC, ESPN, Fox, NBC, etc.

I was team Replay TV too. Loved it back in the day. Digital cable and Comcast DVR finally did it in though. It was a good product at the time though, kind of the Betamax of DVRs against Tivo.

I converted in the workplace from Windows to Mac in 2014 after some early beta testers. 2 jobs since then Macs are standard issue. I did short side gig with a PC and it felt so clunky. PowerShell - ugh, probably because of lack of familiarity. It's probably fine.

Use what works for you, but Mac for work and a personal one (my current job silos and doesn't allow personal use) do the job.

I am a software dev in Silicon Valley land for context. Macs are just fine. I you like Windows or Linux, good for you, not something to argue.

Not arguing here, but is there reliable information about the salaries of H1-B and L1 compared to residents and citizens? All my coworkers are immigration visa - India and China. I assume we are paid salary commensurate with title and salary band (i.e., staff engineer might have 2-3 tranches of salary range).

I've always wondered if it's true or not that the mostly Indian workforce in US is paid way below.

What if the baby, er fetus, is determined to be of biological sex female. Probably would be best to abort those things until a male who can support the family blood lines is available. Nothing wrong with that, pro choice.

Then wouldn't they favor abortion? I mean if they really don't care about life to increase their population, they would be advocating for subsidized and encouraged abortion. And wouldn't that be okay? It's not a life so why not prevent lives of poverty. Win, win.

Exactly. I've been using the grocery store as my ATM since the early 90s especially when I lived apartment life. "Got any rolls of quarters available?" I don't do grocery as much for cash since credit cards are widely accepted. Take the rewards. Fee free credit union ATMs are all around me but I probably replenish cash about every 2 - 3 months. I keep a little handy but rarely needed.