I understand the sentiment, but… HTML and some light CSS is just as fast and much more accessible. It just strikes me as something that defines itself in opposition to “thing everyone uses” for no good reason.

A large language model has no concept of good or bad, and it has no logic.

Tragically, this seems to be the minority viewpoint - at least among CS students. A lot of my peers seem to have convinced themselves that the hallucination machines are intelligent… even when it vomits unsound garbage into their lap.

This is made worse by the fact that most of our work is simple and/or derivative enough for $MODEL to usually give the right answer, which reinforces the majority “thinking machine” viewpoint - while in reality, generating an implementation of & using only ~ and | is hardly an Earth-shattering accomplishment.

And yes, it screws them academically. It doesn’t take a genius to connect the dots when the professor who encourages Copilot use has a sub-50% test average.

My guy, see a doctor. Temporary blindness/blacking out is not a normal reaction to nicotine, even in excess. “Nic sick” should just mean nausea/vomiting, dizziness and headaches.

A few posters I bought from the campus poster sale at the start of the year. (Specifically, a woodblock print, a solar system map and a Cowboy Bebop poster.)

I have a huge window with a nice view (in a university owned apartment no less!) so I can afford to skimp on the other walls.

At least five years. Even if the company goes under tomorrow, it’ll be a while before the mainboard is truly obsolete. The main “consumable” would be the battery, which I can probably hack a replacement for if official parts are no longer available.

I’ve had mine (first generation 13" model) for over a year now. I’m very happy with it, and I intend to make it last me through university (3 years) and then some. I would consider it a good investment for me.

… Eh, no. I’ve seen GPT generate some incredibly unsound C despite being given half a page of text on the problem.

You forget that many people live in areas where passenger rail infrastructure is not economically (or practically) viable. I, for one, pity the grain truck that has to drive over an unpaved road.

The Rocinante is an obvious pick.

I also really like the ships in Starfield, mainly because I’m a cassette futurism shill.

Most of them, yes. The reddest stars (like Proxima Centauri) are too cool and dim to be visible to the naked eye, but if you go somewhere with no light pollution and let your eyes adjust you should be able to perceive some differences between stars.

Most of the more exotic colors (such as green) are caused by various optical tricks.

Physically speaking, all true stars are roughly one of these colors:

• Red
• Orange
• Yellow
• White
• Blue

The exact color of a star depends on its size/temperature. Red stars are the coolest, while blue stars are the hottest.

This is what we in the business call a “skill issue.”

There are ways around it, yes. But none of them are plug-and-play unless you’re lucky, and a reliable solution will require a combination of technical ability, stealth and social engineering.

Just read a book my man.

Off the top of my head, for those that are curious:

• The show depicts radiation as similar to a contagion. In real life, once you strip and wash someone exposed to radioactive contaminants, they pose no danger to others.
• The reactor was never in danger of turning into a nuke or rendering huge swathes of Europe uninhabitable. Nuclear explosions only happen under tightly engineered conditions. A big pile of molten reactor slag, while certainly dangerous, can’t turn into a bomb.

However, the utter incompetence of the USSR is very accurate.

unless it’s freely available data (like a Linux distro).

Tell that to my university. Got a nasty email because I… downloaded Fedora Silverblue 38 😭

It may nominally have more secure defaults than Firefox (although I doubt it’s better in the areas that matter.)

The problem is that the creators have demonstrated (by secretly injecting referral/affiliate links into URLs, and also by being crypto shills) that they are entirely untrustworthy. In a piece of software as security and privacy critical as a browser, such behavior is unacceptable.

> browser that’s based on Chromium and got caught editing referral links into URLs got a better privacy rating than Firefox

You’ve been lied to lol

I’m in a college town, so… it varies wildly. You could probably rent a crack shack 10 miles from campus for basically nothing.

The floor for rent at a “decent” place is probably at least a grand. Actually buying a house? Who the fuck knows, but it’ll definitely be obscene.

My university-owned apartment is $600 with a roommate, which is honestly a pretty good deal considering that utilities (including gigabit Ethernet!) are included.

To be fair, if C++ or Rust is your thing… let’s just say I’d have a Threadripper if they weren’t five grand.

I once had to (repeatedly) compile a C++ codebase on some Lenovo shitbook. It ended up being so infuriating (thirty seconds, minimum) that I wrote a few load-bearing shell scripts to rsync everything to my desktop, build it, and copy the binary back… which was ultimately about five times faster.

Man, I wish I could have just used MicroPython for that project.

I’m not really the right guy to ask - I don’t have that much soldering experience, and I’m a broke college student - but I’ve found the Pinecil to be Pretty Good™ for my use case of “occasionally soldering things to microcontrollers.”

It accepts power over USB-C, so no need for a bulky (and expensive) base station like a Hakko or Weller. (You do need an AC adapter capable of pushing 65W PD, but if you’re into electronics you probably already have something like that just lying around.) Proper temperature control is also nice compared to the cheap “plug and go” irons.

YMMV, I upgraded to it from a Home Depot butane iron (yes it was as bad as it sounds) so…

Good soldering gear already makes me wince. I couldn’t imagine paying $500+ for an oscilloscope.

Fortunately I’m more interested in the software side of things… thank God nobody charges for programming toolchains anymore.