When I had a Celsius thermostat it didn’t have that level of control. Would’ve been great to keep the house more comfortable.

This is again not really an issue with the thermostat. Back in the day they were analog so in theory they had infinite precision. Early digital ones didn’t have that level of precision because there was no point to it. The heating system itself simply wasn’t that precise. The temperature would swing quite a bit around the set temperature. The heating would be either on or off, so it would heat to a bit above the set temp, then cool down to a bit below it, etc. It would have been the same for Celsius or Fahrenheit.

Modern central heating uses a modulating heater, so it will only heat the radiators a little when the temperature difference to the set temperature is small, resulting in a more constant and thus more comfortable temperature. It’s even better with in-floor heating where the concrete slab of the flooring acts as a huge thermal buffer. Due to this more precise thermostats make sense (but only up to a point, because who can tell the difference between 20.0ºC and 20.1ºC)

In regards to weather, it’s generally accurate where I’m at.

Accurate how? If they predict a temperature of 18ºC, it will be around that temperature for a short time in the middle of the day, but outside temperatures aren’t constant. It’s coldest just before dawn and hottest in the afternoon. Between those two extremes the temperature rises and falls over the day. What is the point in saying it will be 18.4ºC instead of just saying 18º? There is no need for that level of precision. Even outside the temperature change over the day, the temperature also changes significantly depending on location. If I’m in an area with lots of trees and shade the temperature will be much lower than if I’m on an asphalt street. So even as you walk around the temperature will vary a lot.

No shit. And yet when you look at the weather temperatures, the reports are all without a decimal.

No shit weather forecasts are without a decimal. Why would they include a decimal? Do you think weather forecasts are that accurate? I’ll bet all weather models calculate in celsius anyway, they just convert to Fahrenheit and round it. The error bars are probably much larger than a degree celsius to begin with.

And when you set your thermostat, it is also without a decimal.

No it’s not. My thermostat and pretty much all digital thermometers I have around the house use 1 decimal.

But for air temperature, Fahrenheit reigns supreme. I will die in that hill with you. Celsius is not granular enough.

You know there’s this newfangled invention called a decimal point?

The math is just fine. Code reviews, even audit-level thorough ones, cost far less time than doing the actual coding.

But the problem never was typing in the actual code. The majority of coding is understanding the problem you’re trying to solve and figuring out a good solution. If you let the AI do the thinking for you, then you’re building AI slop. You can’t review your way out of it because a proper review still requires that level of understanding the problem. If you just let the AI do the typing for you, there’s very little to be gained there as the time spent typing is negligible.

AI may be good at building simple, boilerplate-level code. But that’s what we have junior developers for. Junior developers we need because they grow into medior and senior developers.

The surprising thing is not that they’re for sale, it’s how cheap they are to buy.

This isn’t just an issue with a developer putting too much trust into an LLM though. This is a failure at the organizational level. So many things have to be wrong for this to happen.

If an ‘intern’ can access a production database then you have some serious problems. No one should have access to that in normal operations.

If you’ve ever used it you can see how easily it can happen.

How could this happen easily? A regular developer shouldn’t even have access to production outside of exceptional circumstances (e.g. diagnosing a production issue). Certainly not as part of the normal dev process.

Apple is not trying to sell this go people like you.

But it runs full macOS.

If you know what ‘8GB RAM’ means you’renot the target audience for this machine.

The downside is macOS lol

I’m a Mac / Linux user and I was forced to use Windows 10 for a couple of hours today. What an absolute ridiculous piece of shit OS that is. I had forgotten how bad it was. Those few hours reawakened my burning hate for Windows. Everything feels convoluted, you are constantly fighting against the OS instead of working with it. Optical drive having read issues? Better freeze the entire GUI. Want to kill a process? haha, fuck you. At one point the frikkin’ task manager froze on me.

That already exists. Any half decent A/V receiver can do this.

If they cared about handling of PII they should require ISO 27701

My Miele was €1500, and they are known to be super reliable. They engineer for at least a 20 year life span.

Performance is good, but not great, and, again, is trounced by most of its equivalents, even the Surface Book.

Sure, you can find an equivalent priced laptop that will beat the MBPro at one metric, but it’ll fall short on others. It’s faster but it has a cheap case , crappy trackpad, shit screen or terrible battery life, etc.

There are very few laptops out there that are as good in every metric as a MBPro. It is simply the best total package.

Locking me in to what and how? It’s a laptop, a tool, not a religion. I don’t give a fuck about any of that shit as long as the OS gets out of the way, stuff just works and I can get on with my job.

More like €4400 and it’s used heavily for 8+ hours a day as a development machine. It’s 4 years old by now (M1 Max, 64GB) and it still handles everything I can throw at it without breaking a sweat.

Cheap laptops are nothing but trouble, in the end it’ll cost you more in replacements and lost productivity.

MacBooks are frikkin amazing though. There is nothing in the PC world that even comes close.

Why would you buy this garbage?

That’s fucking insane.

Here, if you’re sick you get sick leave. There is no real limit other than after 2 years of illness you basically go on disability instead of sick leave.

What if your illness takes longer than the amount of days you have, you are just expected to show up at the office in your hospital bed?