I’ve seen the comparison to pair programming with a junior programmer before, and it’s wild to me that such a comparison would be a point in favor of using AI for improving productivity.

I have never experienced a productivity boost by pairing with a junior. Which isn’t to say it’s not worth doing, but the productivity gains go entirely to the junior. The benefits I receive are mainly improving my communication and mentoring skills in the short term, and improving the team’s productivity in the long term by boosting the junior’s knowledge.

And it’s not like the AI works on the mundane stuff in parallel while I work on the more interesting, higher level stuff. I have to hold its hand through the process.

I feel like the efficiency gains of AI programming is almost entirely in improving your speed at wrestling a chatbot into producing something useful. Which may not be entirely useless going forward - knowing how to search well is an important skill, this may become something similar, but it just doesn’t seem worth the hassle to me.

This article from last year compares LLMs to techniques used by “psychics” (cold reading, etc).

https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/

I think it’s a great analogy (and an interesting article).

“In October 2021, Governor Greg Abbott hosted the lobbying group Texas Blockchain Council at the governor’s mansion. The group insisted that their industry would help the state’s overtaxed energy grid; that during energy crises, miners would be one of the few energy customers able to shut off upon request, provided that they were paid in exchange.”

Incredible. Driving up energy needs to make their fake currency will help the state’s energy grid, because we can then hold the grid hostage until we’re paid.

I like that I can currently adjust the volume or silence a call on my phone in my pocket by feeling the physical buttons. I miss being able to deliberately unlock my phone with touch id as I’m picking it up without having to look at it square on.

Hell, I even miss the chin and bezel. I liked having neutral space to grab the phone without it registering a tap or swipe.

Maybe I’m getting old, but smartphone design largely peaked several years ago, and they insist on making changes to parts of the phone that are perfectly fine.

Look into installing AppArmor instead of SELinux. AppArmor is easier to configure, and SELinux is not officially supported on Arch.

It was eaten too quickly!

The steaks were actually cooked to opposite preferences. The filet was a perfect medium rare, but my wife likes it more medium/medium well. The ribeye was a solid medium, but I like it more medium rare.

The ribeye was delicious, though, and my wife was happy, so no complaints.

GPL can be used for commercial purposes, but it requires all software derived from it to also be open source and GPL compatible. So no one whose commercial business relies on selling software will use GPL because their customers can copy and distribute the code.

Neither Safari nor Chrome’s rendering engine is GPL. Safari’s engine is LGPL, which means the binary library can be linked into a closed source program, but modifications to the library’s code must remain open.

Chromium is BSD, which doesn’t even require modifications to remain open. So I can take chromium’s source, change it however I want for my own browser, and never distribute that code.

If Safari’s and Chrome’s engines were GPL, Safari and Chrome would be forced to be open source, and they very much are not.

I’ve made a fair amount of pizza in my cast iron, and it took some trial and error to get the pizza to not stick.

Either preheat the pan fully before adding the oil or fat and (carefully) drop in the dough, or use a generous amount of butter and shape the dough in a cold pan.

When spreading toppings, cheese along the edge is fine, but try not to get much sauce on the sides of the pan. That will burn and eat away at the seasoning more.

My pan doesn’t have great seasoning, though - I mostly just use it for pizza every other week or so.

The only thing I’ve heard you want to be mindful of is to bring the temp up a little slowly rather than just starting out at high temp (especially with induction, which heats up even faster). Too rapid of a temperature change can cause the pan to crack from thermal shock.

My spouse says that they LIKE the way I smell.

Did you know Kids in the Hall made a sketch about you?

I haven’t seen it done that way, only the squeeze of lemon at the end.

Reminds me of

Pretty much, yeah. You can also grill halloumi, which is what I want to try next.

Yep, it makes shaping to the pan easier (and safer), though I’m still working on getting a crispy crust with this method.

I used to proof it on the counter before dropping it into a hot, oiled pan, and that produces a great crispy bottom. This method is lazier, though, and with butter, the dough hasn’t stuck at all for me.

I’m using roughly this method, though with my own dough recipe.

I suspect my crust doesn’t come out as good because my oven has the heating element on top. The linked recipe suggests putting the pan on the bottom rack, which makes me think they assume a bottom heating element.

Butter is magic! (and I definitely didn’t skimp on it…)

That does not surprise me lol. Made my wife’s day, though! She loves saganaki, and we can’t get it at any restaurant within at least 2 hours of us.

And yes, it was delicious. Tomorrow I’m going to have to make homemade pita to go with it. The pack I picked up at the store was very blah.

Made 2 loaves so far, and I’m a fan. Loaf slid out easily both times, and the bottom/sides of the crust had a nice crispness to them.

I hadn’t heard of petromax, that is a damn nice looking loaf pan!

Link to the (incredible) footage captured

Well, it depends on your perspective. Copyleft licenses restrict downstream developers in order to protect the rights of downstream users.