Two tired mice in a pail of milk, They swam around as best they could. But hope began to fade - what should they do? One wanted to drown itself, But its friend said, "No, no, no, For hope only triumphs, maybe, As long as we keep searching for it. Keep searching for it.

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  • Thanks. We gave him ten good years. He was found alone in the woods, only 10 weeks old. He was so thin and had Giardia. We got him cured but he needed a special diet his entire life, was often at the vet, which couldn’t do anything really. In the end, we needed to get him euthenazied. My first cat, first pet and I didn’t imagine I would care so much for a little creature.


  • He was the kind of cat that would sleep on your chest, he could play fetch, and he would come to the door when I was on my way out, and demanded to either be picked up or get me down on a knee (even though there were others at home) so he could do this weird and very cute thing where we kind of chewed on my nose while purring insanely.











  • Thanks! And thank you for a civil discussion. I will at some point look it up. If you have some resources you could recommend, that would be nice. I guess there a lot of good but also bad readings on the subject out there.

    I’ve volunteered a lot before I got kids, where I was mentoring children of refugees. But having two kids under the age of 5 is a full time job beside my full time job, so currently there’s not many hours left of the day to do volunteering.

    But I do still try to do small things here and there to improve the world around me.


  • I believe not reading news is what got us here. Too many have given up and don’t take a stance, which allows the situation to just get worse and worse.

    But, I also stopped reading news. I stopped the day Trump won the election. The world is a shit show and I won’t allow my mood to get dragged down every day. I have a family and kids and I want them to have a good life and a fun dad to be around.

    If things like what happens with the ICE raids are happening, the Epstein files, dictatorship suddenly threatens everything I’m not burying my head in the sand, but I want to dose the amount of news I consume.






  • Did these developers not have experience with AI?

    This is from the article

    But Rush and Becker have shied away from making sweeping claims about what the results of their study mean for the future of AI. For one, the study’s sample was small and non-generalizable, including only a specialized group of people to whom these AI tools were brand new.

    I’m not sure focusing on one aspect to scope a reasonable and doable study automatically makes it “really low effort”.

    You are right, but I believe they should at least have chosen another use case, to make it interesting. I wouldn’t have needed a study to know that an AI performs worse than a developer in a project the developer most likely built them self. The existing project might have some really weird code smells and work arounds that only the developer on the project knows about and understand. There might be relevant context external to the solution. The AI have to be a mind reader in these cases.

    But, if you gave the AI and the developer a blank canvas a clear defined task, I just believe it would be a more interesting study. *

    It kind of sounds like they were just handed a tool they knew nothing about and were asked to perform better with it. A mitter saw is way better and faster than a regular saw, if you know how to use it.

    *edit

    To make my point more clear, I don’t mean the developer needed to solve an issue that’s not related to his daily work, but a task that’s not dependent on years of tech debt or context that is not provided to the AI. And yes, by that, I don’t believe code generation from an AI have a big use case in scenarios where the project have too many dependencies and touches on niche solutions, but you can still use it for other purposes than building features.