The UK Environment Agency has some tips for the public to help conserve water, including
> Deleting old emails to reduce pressure on data centre servers
I kid you not.
Discussions around job automation annoy me so much: “$technology can’t replace everything I do so how could there possibly be any job loss” — If it replaces half of what you do then the demand for people like you halves, we don’t need 100% job loss for there to be a big problem! “$technology also creates some jobs” — yes, but what’s the NET effect? Doesn’t matter if it creates 1% new jobs if we loss 20% of existing ones
I feel like LLMs are the death-nail for using anything but the top 5 most popular programming languages. It was already nigh-on impossible to make the business case for less-popular tools, simply from a hiring and training perspective, but with LLMs being trained on the most popular languages and tools, it doesn't matter how much better less common languages might be, they're not going to be able to overcome the productivity gain of throwing LLMs at the problem.
All this talk of the winter fuel allowance being the only thing Labour foot soldiers heard on the doorstep makes me wonder how much old people get what they want because they don’t have day jobs and don’t live in apartment blocks. I challenge you to find a young person who wouldn’t like a no-questions-asked payment to cover energy costs too!
Why don’t we want to clutter that first line? Why the 50 character limit when monitors these days allow greater resolutions than the old 80 character width limit?
One word. Scannability. With git log —pretty=oneline I want a vertical list of meaningful summaries I can scan down without too much lateral eye movement. Try doing that with 140+ characters! 50 wide seems about right.
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