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In Sweden I always heard the figure to double the income of the person to get what the company actually pays, including taxes and "employers fee". I know this has gone down a lot in recent years, also not sure if it was ever exactly true, but likely very close anyway.

Hitting the first calculator I found gave me 50 kSEK costs 69 kSEK. So far from double nowadays.

Heh, the "small virtual machine" was NOT a lie! Is that less than 200 lines? Very nice!

Now I feel like integrating that into various things....

11k euro is INSANELY cheap?

Afaik there is absolutely no way to the same thing legally here in Sweden. Unless prices have really fallen off a cliff.

But should developers be barred from asking an LLM to try secure their own app? Its not different from finding exploits...

Its weird having protections against finding exploits: what if I developed the app? Would it require having the development steps still in the context.. thats unlikely and also not any kind of proof.

What if I intersperse exploit finding in my normal development, as you `probably should? Refusing there would be really weird to me.

Then the ... malware will just add delays? Or do they really do manual in-depth analysis of all new code? Just running and seeing it do things is probably a lot easier.

At least 3 amazon AWS locations are missing in Sweden... This just from checking my own town.

EDIT: NO! Wth is this map? I have to click to expand the clusters. Ah well, all is good.

This is one of a few reason I strongly prefer GPT and its codex variants. It seldom frustrates me, sure its not omnipotent in any way, but it just feels very "tuned in" when it comes to understanding intent and scope.

For the longest time I was so focused on getting to use an android as a "good" mic for a windows PC.

Scrcpy was a very hot contender, but I never got it to work well enough with low enough latency.

If you feel you should try this, just buy an audio interface and a cheap XLR mic.

100x regular LoRa maybe? Iow 100s of kbps per second. Yes, LoRa can go veeery low in bandwith.

Meshtastic did, in a way. There are roles and settings to disable rebroadcasts, then you are effectively a client. And it is used to preserve battery.

Nobody uses the 1% bands afaik, there are 10% duty cycle bands.

Skill loss is real. BUT, I have been complaining about skill loss to my bosses for literally a decade. So AI is just one problem for me. I was coding less and less every year for some reason.

I'm not sure skill loss is such a huge issue, in other words. It might just be a sign that the nature of our work if shifting. Being able to recite the C++ standard and using all the 100s of features correctly will just not be as highly regarded as knowing good architecture instead?

I AM mad, because I just signed up for my private copilot sub. Otoh I do have it at work. I suspect we will start noticing differences there, too, but it all depends on the top users, vs average user since it is now pooled, IF they dont just allow extra usage. Bu that has become more expensive now, so not sure what they will do. I am hopeful that very few actually even use it. In my and surrounding teams, only maybe 1 out of 3 people really use it much.

Wow, having a corp. account I do wonder WHEN we are getting some kind of resctriction of usage, or require us to justify our usage.

That GPT4-mini change is going to be brutal! Its much better than 5-mini, which was itself much better than earlier free models.

Ive also had huge problems with copilot and terminals, mostly due to corporate antivirus which makes it impossible to install clink for example. So the Shell integration never really worked. It has been fixed for a couple of months though now, and its working, maybe not great but at least very good.

The only sad thing is trying to use tools in a VS developer prompt (and how could this not have been fixed ages ago, its literall YOUR OWN flagship product). It knows how to launch the .cmd for it, but thats incredibly slow for single commands. Would be nice if I could tell it to just use an open terminal.

Isnt chromebooks to a large extent just this?

Is Opus nerfed somehow in Copilot? Ive tried it numerous times, it has never reallt woved me. They seem to have awfully small context windows, but still. Its mostly their reasoning which has been off

Codex is just so much better, or the genera GPT models.

But does it have colors!?!??!

Why a bitmap font if you have tiny pixels? Just use a sharp font like Iosevka or similar.

Well, my latest guess is: not at all.

It has been working "fine" for me generally for popular music. But then I was at a ice skating competition where there were some really nice synth:y music going on in the pauses, and I used Shazam on several of the songs, and I tried several times on each. It did not find a single one correctly.

Either this was unreleased music or very small niched music or something, or Shazam totally failed?

"Re-attaching repeatedly showed the program was not deadlocked."

Why re-attaching and not just resume then ctrl+c ? Is this some kind of clever hack I dont know about.

I dont understand how CC can burn that much money. Iv'e built many webapps using copilot, and our normal business tokens rarely run out. I would say Ive never exceeded 150% of a normal months tokens.

This is of course not a problem for business accounts.

We are not allowed to use anything other than our company provided GHCP credentials due to the data retention clause in our contracts. Ie. they are not allowed to use our data.

It does have multiple suppliers of models at least?

As a Swede I also do all of these things. And it doesn't feel like anything special, I imagine hundreds of thousands of people do the same.

This is one of the few real clues in this article, I would say.

This is exactly the same thing with the car horn: in some countries it seems to be used for "hey you, unprotected person, do NOT swerve right now, I am passing you with my car" versus in Sweden where I live, your'e not allowed that usage at all.

Also in Sweden, you do only use the bell if really needed.

"Do horns and bells really prevent accidents?"

If you are a sane person, absolutely not!! You _try_ the bell, if people react, then you go. Many times it just confuses people or people ignore it.

If you are a high-speed maniac and _rely_ on the bell to clear a path for you... then yeah. But you are then also likely to take great risks in general and will probably be in other accidents...

Agree, I never actually had great success with Opus. I think its the failures that are annoying, its probably better than codex when its "good", but it fails in annoying ways that I think codex very seldom does.