I haven’t seen a Darths & Droids reference in the wild in a while.

I remember just cackling the first time I read their Episode I comics.

Copilot is a LLM. So it’s just predicting what should come next, word by word, based off the data its been fed. It has no concept of whether or not its answer makes sense.

So if you’ve scraped a bunch of open source github projects that this guy has worked on, he probably has a lot of TODOs assigned to him in various projects. When Copilot sees you typing “TODO(” it tries to predict what the nextthing you’re going to type is. And a common thing to follow “TODO(” in it’s data set is this guy’s username, so it goes ahead and suggests it, whether or not the guy is actually on the project and suggesting him would make any sort of sense.

I’m going to print this out and frame it on the wall of my office.

Squeal

“Sorry, I’m under a pretty strict NDA and I’m not allowed to discuss it.”

No idea. He used the money he saved to help for a down payment in a condo.

A friend of mine lived in downtown Boston during the pandemic. Like, across the street from the Garden. His building lost a TON of tenents when people fled the city since they could now work remotely. He was going to move as well, but then the building offered to reduce his rent by $700/month if he stayed. So he did.

I love driving stick. Or I did up until the day my left knee fell apart. Now it’s just not an option for me.

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Bullshit. You were singing Amish Paradise and we all know it.

Yup, I had someone print off Excel sheets, manually highlight and write in corrections, and them bring the pages over to my desk to have me fix them in the file.

I also once had the city reject a report I submitted because the width of the columns in the Excel file were different from the previous year and they wanted to print it all off on one page.

I used to work for municipal government in a major American city. The database for the entire city downloaded query results to your desktop formatted as Excel 95. Still does.

At one point I had to install special R packages because someone retired and I was tasked with taking over the worksheet they had been maintaining forever and the usual R packages to read data from Excel can’t parse Excel 5.0.

There was also someone in the office who still used a typewriter on the regular.

I, for one, am ready for the great sun god to annihilate the internet. Free us from this monstrosity of our own creation.

That sounds like a great plan. Just make sure you make those reservations now because stuff is probably already starting to book up.

Word of advice from someone who drove to the 2017 eclipse:

Wherever you go to see the eclipse, do not try to leave that day. Plan on staying the night after the event. Traffic is apocalyptic in the area around the path of the totality for about 12 hours after.

The group I was with in 2017 insisted on driving back immediate after. Our 3 hour drive to a spot in rural Tennessee the day before turned into a 10 hour drive back. And it was like that everywhere. Just stay the extra night.

That being said, you should absolutely get into the path of totality. I’m definitely going again. It’s the most incredible thing I have ever seen. The difference between being near thetotaility and in the totality is like the difference between almost climaxing and climaxing. It’s important. Go see it. I promise you won’t regret it.