Non-artists: please gently let your well-intentioned niche blogger friends know that generating an AI illustration for their posts is not a harmless novelty. There are so many sources for free, eye-pleasing, not-environmentally-rapacious images. Creative Commons licenses, public domain art history.
I'm so sorry to hear this, David. I'm not there yet, but I can see it on the horizon.
It's a great day for [sudden grumbly face] test driven development harrumph.
Trump has spoken with Vladimir Putin 7X since leaving the White House, per Bob Woodward. edition.cnn.com/2024/10/08/p...
This is a wonderful resource especially for people interested in African American geneology and history: www.nypl.org/blog/2024/04... - I had a chance to review a few hard copies & now it's all digitized!!!
A history of The Vanguard, social register and classified directory for New York's African American community, 1933-1943–recently digitized!
Sparrow showed up at the feeder outside my office window yesterday and gave me a look that seemed clearly to be "Bro, where's the FOOD?" 'Tis the season for a Menards bulk birdseed run.
> the unwritten policy was to “protect Israel from scrutiny” and facilitate the arms flow no matter how many human rights abuses are reported.
New: Inside the State Department’s Weapons Pipeline to Israel Leaked cables and emails show how the agency’s top officers dismissed internal evidence of Israelis misusing American-made bombs and worked around the clock to rush more out while the Gaza death toll mounted.
Leaked cables and emails show how the agency’s top officers dismissed internal evidence of Israelis misusing American-made bombs and worked around the clock to rush more out while the Gaza death toll ...
For me, it is definitely the inside of La Sagrada Familia. Just a crazy, beautiful, stunning space.
I think this says as much about developers' habits *using AI* as anything else, but it doesn't negate the underlying point here.
A study measured the performance of 800 developers before and after getting GitHub's Copilot. It found: - No change in productivity - No change in burnout levels - A 41% increase in the bug rate!?? Aren't you thrilled we're burning the world to power these AI models?
Code analysis firm sees no major benefits from AI dev tool when measuring key programming metrics, though others report incremental gains from coding copilots with emphasis on code review.
Noticing that Spotify's algorithm understands me much better in the fall/winter than in the summer. It's autumnal playlist season, mfer!