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  • You are right about the current implementation, but the title of the post and what the other person is referring to is the original version. A product manager at Microsoft opened a PR and then an engineer merged it in and that PR caused it to put “co-authored by Copilot” on every commit made through VS Code, regardless of Copilot usage.

    A few hours after the outrage started, the developer showed up and said the intention was only for Copilot generated code and that a mistake had been made (the statement you are referring to). Then he fixed it.

    We’re stuck in the outrage loop where someone who missed the whole thing sees something about the incident and posts it in an outrage and then people read that and get angry and post it in other communities. Everyone is talking about how Microslop wants to steal your code instead of the actual problem of product managers at Microsoft using copilot to implement code changes and then a software engineer merging it and it being released without testing.








  • Most toilets I’ve used don’t fill the bowl with enough water on a single flush to overflow. You can adjust the chain (assuming not an office toilet) if it’s flushing for too long.

    The only times I’ve overflowed a toilet I was as a kid, not realizing that trying to flush again might make the problem worse.

    I assume either they mean they don’t keep flushing it over and over if the bowl fills up or their toilet flapper has a short chain and stops flushing quickly when they let go.






  • You can’t separate the two things like that. Lighting a flag on fire is political speech and the administration has said they will charge people who light the flag on fire. The fact that the thing he lit on fire on federal property was the flag is absolutely legally relevant here. It will be a major part of his defense, as they will try to argue that the law he has violated is placing an undue burden on his freedom of speech. It will be the thing the entire case hinges on.

    This is important because it’s fairly easy to make laws against all the things involved in a protest and then say “oh we aren’t charging them for protesting, we are charging them for obstructing the view by holding a sign.”



  • stankmut@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldHow it feels
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    7 months ago

    The US has a progressive income tax, so it is true that people with higher education pay more income tax as a whole. The main difference with other countries is that it has a fairly low percentage cap and an absurdly low capital gains tax. The wealthy paying a low tax rate because of most of their earnings being asset based instead of income based doesn’t change the fact that the people who get paid higher incomes from their jobs that required higher education pay more income tax.





  • Crypto was an annoying bubble. If you were in the tech industry, you had a couple of years where people asked you if you could add blockchain to whatever your project was and then a few more years of hearing about NFTs. And GPUs shot up in price. Crypto people promised to revolutionize banking and then get rich quick schemes. It took time for the hype to die down, for people to realize that the tech wasn’t useful, and that the costs of running it weren’t worth it.

    The AI bubble is different. The proponents are gleeful while they explain how AI will let you fire all your copywriters, your graphics designers, your programmers, your customer support, etc. Every company is trying to figure out how to shoehorn AI into their products. While AI is a useful tool, the bubble around it has hurt a lot of people.

    That’s the bubble side. It also gets a lot of baggage because of the slop generated by it, the way it’s trained, the power usage, the way people just turn off their brains and regurgitate whatever it says, etc. It’s harder to avoid than crypto.


  • stankmut@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldSo proud!
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    10 months ago

    Alright, I see the problem. I’m describing how some men literally spread their arms across the back of multiple seats and how some men literally spread their legs out so that each knee is blocking access to each seat beside the and you are interpreting that as people complaining about guys being allowed to use their armrests. No one is complaining that you take up physical space. They are complaining that you are spread out in a way that blocks access to the space around you that you don’t need. If you don’t sit down and spread your knees wide enough to block access to the seats next to you, then the term manspreading doesn’t apply to you.