I think you’re completely missing the point here.

I’m not great at Excel. That doesn’t mean I can’t do basic math, it means I struggle designing an xlookup or hlookup.

If AI does that for me, I’ll be a happy bunny. And then run a dozen different iterations of data to verify that the results I’m getting are correct.

This is what this integration is for - it’s not a replacement for a human brain, it’s an assistant. As are all LLMs.

I’m talking about using it when you’re “not great at Excel”, not when “you can’t do basic math”.

Always verify the results given to you by LLMs.

Any time, nutsack.

OK, I’m not really mad at this. I already used Copilot to design a table for me in Excel and it worked really well. It did everything for me, and I just had to copy-paste the formulas into their appropriate spots. If it’s built-in, possibly will work better.

Not everybody needs to be an Excel expert, after all. Having that functionality might be actually beneficial.

Answer is probably the same as before AI: build a portfolio on GitHub

You really think that using GitHub falls in the usual vibecoding toolbox? As in: would they even know where/how to look?

But hey to add my two cents: I think that fear is marketable, so women are over fed on paranoia.

This is the case with literally everything.

Used to hear about “no-go zones” in Stockholm in my local news a lot, areas where even the Swedish police were afraid to go in to. Then a friend of mine moved to Stockholm and started going to “the worst no-go zone” every weekend to get fresh produce. The only time he felt in danger was when he stumbled upon a drunk countryman.

That makes people fun?

Yes, talking to people about something deeper than “lol, look at this meme” is fun.

I think you should take a look at yourself before you call a generation that is experiencing the highest cost of living in modern history, boring.

WTF does one have to do with the other…? Are you suggesting that people have zero interests outside of social media because of high cost of living?

You do realise that libraries are free? That getting a used guitar will cost you all of $50? That getting a pencil and a notebook to start drawing will be, what, $5? Oh yeah, you can even get a pencil for free at an Ikea.

I don’t know if Vance has a strong enough following. Trump is effectively worshipped by MAGAts, not sure Vance is capable of taking over like that.

Hinging their entire future on the bet that their country gets an easily manipulated dictator, when said dictator is 80 years old already, would be extremely short-sighted from Google.

I could not disagree more.

Mozilla has used the most powerful cheat code in history: infinite money for free.

Google cannot let Mozilla go under or they would become an actual monopolist, triggering a lot of laws that would force them to diversifying/selling the browser.

They don’t want any of that headache so they’re pumping Mozilla full of money, making sure that they can always operate as “the other browser engine”.

The issue is that Mozilla’s management seems to be completely incapable of doing anything interesting. Instead of ensuring that Firefox is the lightest, most optimised browser on the market while also being packed full of features (or at least full-fledged add-ons, not this crap they have), they do… mostly nothing.

Their last major update was “vertical tabs”, something that Chromium-based browsers had for around a decade.

Their previous major update was integrating Pocket…

Meanwhile, PWAs still barely work, add-ons are still dependent on the website being loaded instead of working on the browser level, the whole thing still feels bulky.

Mozilla management needs to be replaced and then we might see some movement on the market.

Yeah, man, Bezos has tens of billions, if not hundreds! He could support the development of something that breaks the fundamental rules of physics EASILY!

That’s a completely different reason to not use AI.

You’re a technophile - you don’t use AI because you enjoy finding information on your own and learning. Great. That ignores the vast majority of people using AI to write emails/posts (which is not looking up information nor learning anything related to tech).

The people the article is about don’t want to use AI due to environmental reasons - the amounts of water and energy it uses for every prompt is stupid high and they don’t want to contribute to that waste.

100% agree on all points.

Communism is as much of a utopia as capitalism (“trickle-down” just does not exist, unless humans stop being humans), but since most large countries are already running a version of capitalism, there’s just too much risk involved in a revolution.

I think a socialist-capitalist entity would have the most success. Capitalist market (heavily regulated) + Universal Basic Income, housing & healthcare, all taken care of by the government. That takes care of those on the “lower rungs” while giving incentive to educate/work/get rich for those who are into these kinds of things.

You need to make up your mind. Was it right away, or after some time?

But, regardless, you’re still proving my point - the people who attempted “communism” where autocrats who wanted power more than they wanted communism. And my second point that those who are good at leading a revolution and putting the existing system to the torch are not necessarily great at building something in peace.

So, now you’re saying that they never actually tried communism, because it was authoritarianism from the get go?

I mean, I appreciate the correction, but it only strengthens my point.

My goodness, what nonsense…

It devolved into authoritarianism because Stalin - an authoritarian brute - took over. Lenin even stated in his diaries that Stalin taking over “would be a catastrophe”.

moneyless society was tried and failed

What are you talking about? They always had money. The reform you mention was the return to basing the value of their currency on gold to stabilise it against inflation.

(something, btw, most capitalist states have moved away from nowadays)

One authoritarian-devolved state being better than another is not the flex you think it is…

We don’t see good examples of it because it fails incredibly fast, and then leaders who tried to build communism

I’ll link to my other reply somewhere in here so as to not repeat myself: CLICK.

TL;DR: nobody has yet tried to actually build communism. Every single major instance (USSR, China, NK) where - regardless of beginnings - ultimately turned into totalitarianisms/authoritarianisms before any communist principles could take root.

Yeah, “linuxism”, that must be it… That or it’s possible that the OS and distributions have evolved while you were not looking.

As in: between today and six months ago, when I moved my personal PC to Linux and encountered various weird shit that just doesn’t happen on Windows?

secure (please don’t try to tell me Windows is more secure, please please please)

Wait, are you one of those weird people who believe that there are no viruses on Linux and no security tools are needed?

Windows servers are under constant attack… Just like Linux devices are at all times.

I am also quite curious about getting a source for that claim that Windows Server is coming back.

I didn’t say “it’s coming back”. WS is still losing market share, but the losses slowed down pretty significantly in recent years. Sorry, I can’t find the source again because Google is shite. Feel free to disregard this point.

Finally, do tell me where I mentioned MacOS. Unless you think that MacOS and Linux are the same? That wouldn’t surprise me considering your apparent knowledge (or lack of) about Linux. FYI MacOS is based on a BSD kernel.

Fuck off with this tone, mate.

I mentioned MacOS as an example that Windows is not as buggy as you seem to believe. I guess that went over your head and I should denigrate you now?