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These AI dev tools absolutely have a direct negative impact on developer productivity, but they also have an indirect impact where non-devs use them and pass their Eldritch abominations to the actual devs to fix, extend and maintain.

Sounds like the next evolution of the Excel spreadsheet macro. Or maybe it's convergent evolution toward the same niche. (I still have nightmares about Excel spreadsheet macros.)

It should, with careful and precise setup (all needed modules built into the kernel, everything locally compiled, USE flags for all packages carefully chosen to eliminate unnecessary dependencies), be the most targeted for the specific hardware it's running on and the specific workload it's doing—in other words, it would be carrying less cruft around. Fewer libraries to import, fewer branches to check during code execution.

In other words, execution time should be a bit better in return for spending more setup time. Benchmarks like this tend to only measure execution time.

Theoretically, Gentoo should be the most optimized, but they probably didn't want to take the time to install it.

Why do I have a feeling that a handful of people are going to suddenly become n-tuplets?

It becomes that much more difficult to survive a zombie apocalypse when the "zombies" are cute and fluffy and you really don't want to run them over . . .

(Also, I'm wondering if they're ever going to run out of cat-joke brand names. "Mewtube", yet.)

Oooh, then we could refuse him entry and leave him in limbo.

Not really. They're just barcodes on steroids. Originally created for industrial machinery. They have absolutely no built-in security, and can't be read by a normal person without a machine helping out (which is a problem if the machine just dumps it straight into a browser's location bar).

An ideal system would be human- as well as machine-readable, and incorporate some kind of verifiable issuer's mark. But as usual, no one invented one in time, and so we're stuck with a system a Japanese factory developed so that their machines could figure out which car part they were looking at.

Exactly. Choosing not to carry a tracking device everywhere one goes should not result in being treated like a second-class citizen and being unable to access services. The app is fine as an option, but not as a requirement.

Even if they try to do so, not all landlords are lawyers (or even necessarily have English or French as a first language). They can think they understand something but actually not, or miss some of the fine print altogether.

These issues are going to fall disproportionately on the kinds of people who rent out a single basement apartment or the like, rather than the corps that own hundred-unit buildings and can afford to keep a lawyer on retainer to look at all of their contracts.

This is the most significant nit he can find to pick‽

Surprised and rather pleased to see Takopii in first place. I don't know whether I'm going to be able to finish the series without quitting in self-defense, but the first ep certainly had substance.

The big streaming platforms probably get pretty much all of the casual watchers, who favour dubs, but have to split the more hardcore fans who favour subs with the high seas. That's going to skew the stats a bit.