Every time I think I should give in and finally make a GitHub account, they do something that reminds me why they're either bullshit, batshit, or both.
Today, it's going all in on the computer pseudoscience quackery du jour, "AI" that's only artificial, not intelligent.
GitHub's blog, "Universe 2023: Copilot transforms GitHub into the AI-powered developer platform": https://github.blog/2023-11-08-universe-2023-copilot-transforms-github-into-the-ai-powered-developer-platform/
Fixing parents' PC because after 20-odd years of virtually every HDD coming with SMART on board & virtually every BIOS coming SMART-enabled, Microsoft Windows still doesn't have a SMART monitor/notifier built in. That's right, it's time for slow & painful data rescue, racing against imminent hardware failure.
silicon valley VCs' best ideas of the 2020s:
-put a drone on something
-wrongness generator 3000 (uses more energy than a small nation)
-fraud
-space pollution
-self-crashing cars
-an app that is actually criminally underpaid workers in another country
-an app that is actually criminally underpaid workers in this country
-fascism
-vrchat but it cost 20x to make and it fucking sucks
-layoffs
The word "excellent" is derived from the Christian practice of giving up the use of Microsoft Excel for 40 days to commemorate Christ's sacrifice.
It is a period of great productivity.
The date of lent is calculated by using an obscure Excel macro on a field that didn't originally have anything to do with dates, but Excel converted it to one anyway.
here's a list of the git terms people have mentioned being confused by so far, would love to know which confusing terms I’ve missed! https://gist.github.com/jvns/dfe5a8a7133b3c13b633eab57b70ebb1
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