Ultimately you must do right because it’s right to do right. . . . You must do it because it has gripped you so much that you are willing to die for it if necessary. And I say to you this morning, that if you have never found something so dear and so precious to you that you will die for it, then you aren’t fit to live.
That tracks.
Indeed, also things like physical disabilities and health conditions etc.
It’s going to depend on your interest or ability to research. However, if one were to simply buy used items when possible, or choose a brand one thinks aligns with themselves after some research, I think that’s a good start.
Agreed.
Tony's Chocolonely is a good example of this, it's not that they are 100% there but they explain why certain decisions were made so i can decide for myself if it's enough.
If one thinks they might need compromise their morals, I think they should really consider their options. I’d rather pay full price for an old used GPU than give nvidia any money, but that’s my personal opinion.
I do know what you mean, i'm just not 100% sure where the morals/ethics line is supposed to go.
I'm not amoral it just seems like people arbitrarily draw lines and they seem so certain.
I'm not sure where that certainty comes from, because i don't have it.
I think this is just because car companies weren’t yet starting to surveil their drivers as part of a new revenue stream until 2014. You can read more about it.
interesting, thanks.
I don’t expect everyone to live like this, not everyone has the luxury. But I do hope people atleast try to not pay companies that harm them.
I kind of agree, but this is the kind of thing i mean, almost all companies harm them in some way, from business practices to supply chain, workforce, political donations, equipment purchases, environmental concerns.
I'm not a crazy person, i understand there is a difference between the local corner store buying a bigger truck than they need vs bezos draining whole water tables so he can buy another spaceship, it's just how people pick the hills to die on in the middle that's confusing to me.
I have something i use but it's contextual and inconsistent and by no means gives me the kind of certainty i see in other people.
So I'm going to check first, you understand that there are jobs and/or situations that require a car right ?
Edit: I phrased that poorly, not an attack, genuine question.
Jobs, social activities, entertainment, groceries, non-emergency medical care.
Don't get me wrong, cars are a shitty necessity to have, but they are a necessity in some places.
If you want to argue that society should change so this isn't true, I'm right there with you, but it's not the reality of now.
Or the avocado is bland? not all avocado are built equally.
I would hedge that the penis consists of more than just regular skin there is a fair amount of erectile tissue in there as well, though i can't vouch for a scientific difference is the taste experience.
In the case of ducks, that's quack on quack crime
My initial thoughts are that my original ask was this :
because I’ve yet to hear about anything above a toy project that has had any verifiable success with AI code generation as a major component of their workflow.
and the example you provided was a toy project used as a publicity stunt.
On the technical side i don't know enough rust to be able to weigh in on the technical accuracy of the project.
The ability for current LLM's to churn out something that looks relatively good at first glance isn't my point of contention, most of us know it can do that.
I'm just looking for a single medium to large project that is successfully being used in production (close to production is also fine) that was created with significant LLM involvement.
There is so much talk around this, that the fact i haven't come across any mention of a successful deliverable (in the context i mentioned) raises all sorts of red flags for me, personally.
I'm not trying to catch you out, it's just that i haven’t seen one so i was wondering if you have, if you haven't that's fine, it's not a trap.
I think it shows a lot of limitations but also a lot of potential. I don’t personally think the AI needs to get the code perfect on the first go – it has to be compared to humans and we definitely don’t do that.
Iterative progress is generally the way of things, but most non-trivial agentic workflows already work with iterative code generation and testing so expecting a correct solution at the end of that process is more reasonable than you would think.
The difference between people and LLM's is the types of interactions you have with them, you can ask the LLM to explain why it did something, but if you've ever tried that I’m sure you can understand why it's not the same as the kind of answers you'd get from a person.
Yes, of course. I think it’s important to look passed the blowhards and think about what it’s actually doing: that is the perspective I’m trying to talk about this from.
As am i, I’m not against LLM usage, I’m against the pretense that it has capabilities it does not, in fact, have.
Selling something on the basis of it being able to do something it can't do is where term "snake oil salesman" comes from.
I think it honestly might just be my sublime muscle memory ruining it for me, that and it feels like it should be more IDE than text editor.
I use helix quite a bit for dev so lsp's and editor based coding is known to me.
Perhaps it was just bad timing.
Do you have any good resources for how to use kate in a dev scenario ?
I've tried multiple times, but it always seemed clunky to me.
As a text editor its great, though i prefer sublime ( not FOSS however ) but i haven’t been able to get it to click as any kind of ide or part of one.
Honestly it's still an excellent game, I’m just salty about the nearly 8 year delay.
As it so happens i checked on it and the release date for the last part is apparently the end of march 2026.
I'm not holding my breath, but if it comes out on time, that'll be a nice bonus.