Yeah, that is precisely why I assume they don’t feel secure in their own standing, because it would be trivial to say “you do you” and continue doing what they feel is right. It’s not like I’m attacking them, just stating what my choice is.

Well, there’s a separate technology stack for virtualization. So, it would be similar in effect, but the way you get there is different, and it’s possible that it performs better or worse for certain scenarios.

End-users can use e.g. waydro.id to run Android apps on Linux.

I’m not deep into Android development, but I doubt it’s possible to just port an app without basically a complete rewrite. Android has an own layer on top of the JVM, called Zygote, and there’s presumably lots of system libraries which the Android apps implicitly depend on, for handling graphics and whatnot, which make tons of assumptions about running on an Android device.

Huh, it really is like spoken English after all.

I guess, one might argue that you don’t need to understand neither solution nor problem anymore, if the problem solving is done for you.

But yeah, I’m not convinced of that. Most of the time, the actual difficulty in problem solving is working out the requirements. The AI won’t magically know your requirements either. It’ll just pick a random guess and produce a result that’s subtly wrong.

I guess, I can also provide an anecdote for that. A few weeks ago, we were working on a time tracking software, so where the user would enter start and end time and we get to calculate how long that took.

That’s probably gonna sound easy to someone without programming experience, but it is absolutely not. We don’t know what timezone the times provided by the user are in, so if it’s on the switchover from winter time to summer time, or vice versa, you actually cannot implement this correctly.

So, I wanted to discuss with a colleague how we should handle that and their first reaction was to ask the AI. Which is fine, I did also do a web search to start out, to see if there’s a library that does this handling best-effort. The AI did reproduce the same non-applicable StackOverflow answer that I had found just before that.

But this would not have been fine, without understanding the problem. If the AI would have just copy-pastad that StackOverflow code, that would have resulted in a bug.
And I myself would not have realized that this is a problem, would not have realized the need to work out the requirements and decide how to implement it, if I would not have taken a crack at solving the larger problem myself.

I’ve also found less-overly-sweet cookies help, both in terms of not craving them as badly and actually somewhat filling you up compared to the amount of calories you consume.

Unfortunately, it’s quite tricky to find such cookies in the shops.

That’s kind of hilarious. At first we had VMs to run entirely separate operating systems. Then we had Containers to separate everything except the kernel. And now we might get separation for just the kernel.

Eh, seems like cool tribal facepaint.

My guess is that due to the economic situation and also climate crisis situation, people do more things they don’t feel comfortable with morally, and so when you’re the guy who thinks about what’s morally right or wrong, your existence confronts them with their wrongdoing.

So, it’s their own actions they don’t like, but they can just not think about it until you show up.

That’s my pet theory anyways. Being clean-edge and vegan, I’ve had that experience a lot…

I actually doubt that somewhat. The language models do still go off of words to a large degree.

Yeah, part of the reason I like open-source. The devs don’t need to sell you anything, so they can just tell you that what they made is a steaming pile of garbage.

Yeah, that is crazy to me. I understand them wanting to make other games in between and that making those games takes a few years each. Rationally, I’m on board with the decision-making and the math that leads to this.
But that the result is a generation who didn’t have an Elder Scrolls part released in their childhood, that still feels like far too grand of a concept.

Not sure, if that’s a Linux thing, but I can press Alt Gr and - to get an en-dash, as well Alt Gr and Shift and - to get an em-dash.