Energy production is only part of the bill, though. The oil shortage is having an effect on a mind-boggling variety of consumer goods where crude oil is used in manufacturing. For many products we don't have good alternatives. A lot of oil is needed to build an electric car.
> Because the simple act of having to write the thing or seeing it being built up step by step introduces friction that allows you to better understand what you want to build [...]
I would go further and remove that second option. If the code is important, LLM support or not, write it yourself.
At least for me, there is a clear qualitative difference in thinking between typing the code and watching it being typed, even if I follow along with every line.
If I type it, my brain is constantly questioning whether what I'm doing is correct. What are the edge cases here? Is this introducing a vulnerability? Am I getting the right data from the right place?
By watching an agent or someone else code, the mindset is different. I'm checking someone else's work under the implicit assumption that they have some idea of what they're doing and I'm just reviewing mostly for superficial stuff. I can force myself to ask those other questions, but it takes conscious effort and isn't sustainable over long sessions.
I play around with agentic coding, but I'm always shocked at how much worse the result is compared to working in a separate chat and typing (not pasting!) the suggestions. In the direct comparison, it's easy to see how agentic code turns so incredibly shit so ridiculously fast.
Those are probably at the top of my website annoyances list. "Want to get more like this in your inbox?" -- I don't even know what "this" is, you barely let me read the first paragraph before asking!
I'm sure the conversion rate of those things is being tracked, but somehow I can't believe that would even lead to a single newsletter signup. Who on Earth feels like they're not receiving enough e-mails and subscribe to the first mass mailing that asks? Maybe some people whose browsers auto-fill their e-mail address and they click the wrong button to close the pop-over?
The no-autoplay feature in Firefox has been very reliable in my experience. Unfortunately, it has a few issues of its own (play/pause status on YouTube getting out of sync, or not being able to use wildcards in the whitelist so you have to unblock every artist or label on Bandcamp separately).
A permanent, non-negligible chance of becoming a collateral victim in an extrajudicial drone killing doesn't sound like order to me.
TFA mentions residents are very scared. They live in a war zone.
Edit: I get the argument that it was a war zone anyway and people are also afraid of the gangs. But that comes from the fallacy of seeing the drone strikes as the only option. There are better ways to create order than creating even more chaos and hope it hits the right people sometimes.
Haiti has been a shit show for like 200 years now. You don’t think they’ve tried every method they can think of to deal with the criminals? What are the better methods to deal with chaos that they have been ignoring?
Even back then we were looking for alternative mouse drivers with lower memory footprints, though =D some wouldn't load high (or not work im games when they were). Conventional memory was such a precious resource in DOS. With a bad mouse driver, you might've had to choose between having sound or mouse control in your game.
For emulated systems, I mostly use CuteMouse now, which occupies less than 4 kB. It sure would've been nice to have had that back in the day.
Nobody makes thumb trackballs as good as Logitech, or at least not anymore. And I have no complaints about the quality. I have three MX Ergos, replacing my previous Logitech trackballs that all lasted well over 10 years of daily use (the left click switches started getting iffy, but that's probably fixable, so I kept them).
I barely ever hear someone complain about the hardware quality of Logitech mice and keyboards, even before considering how much of them there are compared to Keychrons, Duckys, or all the gamer brands.
The MX Ergo form factor is the best, by the way. Few people go back to pushy-pully mice after they got a taste of how fast and precise they can be with a thumb trackball. I always find it interesting where I see them on TV or YouTube: medical laboratories, architectural offices, movie studios... and Louis Rossmann's desk. I've been using them since the 90s and they probably were an unfair advantage in FPS LAN parties =D
The scale is not the same. Low-tech tools require more human input, more pre-filtering of suspects. They can't just default to starting with "everybody" and match against millions at the push of a button.
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