manny_stillwagon

joined 1 year ago
[–] manny_stillwagon@mander.xyz 7 points 3 months ago

I haven't seen a Darths & Droids reference in the wild in a while.

I remember just cackling the first time I read their Episode I comics.

[–] manny_stillwagon@mander.xyz 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Have you played Caesar 3 with the Augustus mod? Its like a whole new game. It adds a ton and there's even a whole fan-made campaign.

[–] manny_stillwagon@mander.xyz 16 points 4 months ago

I have somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 mods installed for Rimworld. The in-game mod management system is pretty basic and simply does not cut it. Definitely interested in more management options.

[–] manny_stillwagon@mander.xyz 15 points 5 months ago (8 children)

There are islands out there. If you truly think you would prefer that life you can just... go do it.

You don't even need an island. You could wander off into the jungle of Vietnam and never hear from society again.

[–] manny_stillwagon@mander.xyz 71 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Copilot is a LLM. So it's just predicting what should come next, word by word, based off the data its been fed. It has no concept of whether or not its answer makes sense.

So if you've scraped a bunch of open source github projects that this guy has worked on, he probably has a lot of TODOs assigned to him in various projects. When Copilot sees you typing "TODO(" it tries to predict what the nextthing you're going to type is. And a common thing to follow "TODO(" in it's data set is this guy's username, so it goes ahead and suggests it, whether or not the guy is actually on the project and suggesting him would make any sort of sense.

[–] manny_stillwagon@mander.xyz 9 points 11 months ago

I'm going to print this out and frame it on the wall of my office.

[–] manny_stillwagon@mander.xyz 5 points 11 months ago

"Sorry, I'm under a pretty strict NDA and I'm not allowed to discuss it."

[–] manny_stillwagon@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

No idea. He used the money he saved to help for a down payment in a condo.

[–] manny_stillwagon@mander.xyz 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

A friend of mine lived in downtown Boston during the pandemic. Like, across the street from the Garden. His building lost a TON of tenents when people fled the city since they could now work remotely. He was going to move as well, but then the building offered to reduce his rent by $700/month if he stayed. So he did.