In 2010 one of the standard configurations for the Mac Pro was $4,999. Once you customised ram, storage, peripherals and software it could easily end up above $15,000, or $23k today accounting for inflation. Apple hardware is one thing that has actually got cheaper over time.
Does it have full access to your chat history, project files, etc? That's the biggest limitation I have with voice mode right now, if I ask it about something I chatted about before (even in the same conversation) it has zero recollection of it.
As a European reading these comments I never would have expected fireworks in the US to regulated at all. In my country you can buy whatever you want. The most popular time to use them is at New Year, and even in supermarkets they have popup stalls selling then. If you go out at midnight you can see fireworks in every direction.
I live in a capital city thats surrounded by forest. I've never heard of any forest fires caused by them, but I guess it's because winter - we often have snow that time of year.
It definately has a big effect on air quality though, the smell of gunpowder lingers until the next day. We are far from the sea so there is little wind that time of year, and the cold temperatures cause the smoke to stay close to the ground (same issue with wood burning stoves which are common in older houses).
If you are just shipping code blindly without reviewing anything then that's your fault. My company heavily uses AI (I'd say 90% of code is written with AI assistance) but we never ship anything that hasn't been reviewed by a human.
This is how we use it for code reviews:
- a skill tells the agent to automatically run a subset of tests and linting before each commit
- another skill tells it to review the entire changeset before creating a PR, this review has more extensive rules that can't easily be put into code (e.g. linter rules) based on PR comments humans have written. It also sometimes catches things that were missed from the original prompt/task.
- when the PR is created we run a few AI tools to do automated code and security reviews. CI runs at the same time.
- the agent waits for these to complete, and verifies and fixes any issues if they are valid
- after all that it's passed back to the author to review
- once they are happy it's passed to a teammate to review
So we are not handing off reviews to AI, we are using it to do much more extensive reviews, and automatically fix stupid stuff the AI or human might have done. So by the time you are asked to review a PR, it should be pretty much ready to go, you can focus on what it's actually changing instead of looking for slop.
The article feels like micromanaging AI. If you think about it like a junior employee, micromanaging them will mean they end up doing the work you want and do it your way. But they won't bring any of their ideas to the table, which in the long run could be beneficial to everyone on the team.
Agreed. I have a 6.5 year old Roborock S5 Max, and it still works fine. I've replaced a few parts (can still get on AliExpress), but other than that no issues. It's cleaned 74km2.
The big thing here seems to be that it uses CO2 as a refrigerant. I had a Hitachi Yutaki air-to-water heat pump installed earlier this year, the model generation was first released in 2015, so it's kind of old tech now. It has a SOP of up to 5.25 depending on the configuration, and works down to -25c in heat pump mode.
I went with the R410A version, as the R32 version has hydraulic lines between the indoor and outdoor units, and I didn't want to risk them freezing during winter (where I live it's a little colder than Australia). I guess CO2 heat pumps are the same, and they just haven't got around to releasing the reversible version yet.
(I wouldn't recommend this model however, the software is pretty bad. It can't even calculate what SOP it is operating at. I wanted to get Panasonic, but my contractor insisted on a company that supplies Hitachi instead).
If they are insulated properly (lots of roof insulation) it also keeps the heat out. I'm building a house and last week it reached 32c here, inside got no warmer than 23c on the upper floor. I don't have AC installed yet, just HRV.
A nice trick I've found is following up with "make it simpler". Often you can do 2-3 rounds of that and end up with something much easier to comprehend but still meeting the requirements.
I have a Rails background, so maybe KISS is more engrained in my philosophy than whatever training material was used on AI. At least it isn't heavily pushing design patterns...
In 2014 I bought a used RM desktop PC for my parents for £50 from eBay, which came with the tower, keyboard, mouse and all cables. I had an old monitor laying around, but again, easy to pick up if needed. They still use it today.
I'm currently working for an Estonian startup and we pay quite a bit more than that. We hire remote (primarily across Europe) and our biggest issue is finding the right people. You need to consider AI can be "hired" or "fired" instantly too, so it's better to compare it to contractor rates, which start at around €350/day or €7000/mo (20 working days) in Europe.
(Our team spend on AI devtools comes out to around $1500/person/mo)
For BBC World Service the shift to digital led to a 11% drop in audience. Maybe not quite the same, as the target market is often developing countries (I live in a EU country and they are only just introducing DAB this year).
European Portuguese is the 13th most populous language in Europe. Not that small, there are many other European languages in use that are much smaller.
Not sure I agree it would be better, but yes, what exactly is the obsession with stars? Some repos even have a chart in the readme that shows their star progression. That tells me what exactly?
It's pretty common for this generation of vehicles, especially diesel. This was before all the environmental things were added, which may be good for pollution, but are terrible for longevity. In parts of Europe everyone has diesels, so mechanics know how to fix them, and wearable parts like injectors and turbos can be easily and cheaply remanufactured.
I have a 2007 Fiat Ducato which has done at least half a million kilometres (the odometer only goes up to 399,999). Only issue is the EGR valve is stuck closed (can't get to it without removing the engine, so not worth fixing), and the body is banged up (ex builders van). Still gets 8l/100km (30mpg) on the highway.
https://www.macworld.com/article/209019/macguide2010.html