Yes. Please help us learn how to get more sports in our feed!

Senior developer here. It is hard to overstate just how useful AI has been for me.

It’s like having a junior programmer on standby that I can send small tasks to–and just like the junior developer I have to review it and send it back with a clarification or comment about something that needs to be corrected. The difference is instead of making a ticket for a junior dev and waiting 3 days for it to come back, just to need corrections and wait another 3 days–I get it back in seconds.

Like most things, it’s not as bad as some people say, and it’s not the miracle others say.

This current generation was such a leap forward from previous AI’s in terms of usefulness, that I think a lot of people were looking to the future with that current rate of gains–which can be scary. But it turns out that’s not what happened. We got a big leap and now are back at a plateau again. Which honestly is a good thing, I think. This gives the world time to slowly adjust.

As far as similarities with crypto. Like crypto there are some ventures out there just slapping the word AI on something and calling it novel. This didn’t work for crypto and likely won’t work for AI. But unlike crypto there is actually real value being derived from AI right now, not some wild claims of a blockchain is the right DB for everything–which it was obviously not, and most people could see that, but hey investors are spending money so lets get some of it kind of mentality.

I’m the total opposite. I pay up to double the fare sometimes to fly Delta.

Hopefully this bad press on this incident causes some policy changes at Delta on tarmac delays. That sounds miserable and dangerous.

I think it is way more likely they just bought imagery from existing sources. There are tons of high res imagery out there that you can purchase. Price is usually determined by how old it is. This seems way more likely than an insurance company hiring a drone operator and going door to door. Secondly, companies never share the details of things like this. Wherever the source, they are unlikely to share it. Companies don’t give details because they don’t want to fight you. They just want to cancel your account and move on.

That isn’t to say this is right.

Do we want insurance companies peering into our backyards from imagery? I don’t. Regardless of if it’s a drone or not.

Correction: “Please tell me we are going to”

Funny how that then turned to Meta “poaching” them. LMAO

Interesting, tried this one a couple times but it never really seemed to stick with our crowd. Its been a while, maybe it is worth a revisit.

I didn’t realize how many worker placement games I own until I started going through them. These are the ones I would recommend:

• Caylus (I consider this a top one, but can be a bit hard to explain to beginners)
• Stone Age (Classic and easy to teach)
• Leonardo Da Vinci (I have not seen this one around as much recently but is always loved

Some have said Agricola, I’m iffy on if this is actual a worker placement, to me it is more turn based, with the “workers” just representing taken spots. But, if we are counting Agricola, then I would of course put in for Agricola, but argue highly for its much better cousin–La Harve.