I’m sure you could have a fruitful conversation with the crowd insisting it was written by AI. :)

Maybe the question we should ask is not “how much does Tom Cruise love movies”, but rather “where is Shelly”.

This is just obviously not the case to anyone who bothers reading it. It’s an original piece of writing.

The only thing that could hint at AI here is the use of em-dashes, which is a bullshit tell—I use them all the time myself as well. They’re right there for anyone with a compose key on Linux.

I love that Christian Bale based his portrayal of Patrick Bateman off Tom Cruise.

Yeah, I imagine parts of the US is probably pretty ideal for this. Where I’m from you’ll find remote places where it would make sense, but you probably wouldn’t want to drive around in a rather low riding sports car on the roads in these places. I guess this thing probably won’t be street legal in Europe anyway.

I think chapter 2 does a good job presenting the advantages.

Maybe you inherited someone else’s codebase. A minefield of nested closures, half-commented hacks, and variable names like d and foo. A mess of complex OOPisms, where you have to traverse 18 files just to follow a single behaviour. You don’t have all day. You need a flyover—an aerial view of the warzone before you land and start disarming traps.

Ask Copilot: “What’s this code doing?” It won’t be poetry. It won’t necessarily provide a full picture. But it’ll be close enough to orient yourself before diving into the guts.

So—props where props are due. Copilot is like a greasy, high-functioning but practically poor intern:

• Great with syntax
• Surprisingly quick at listing out your blind spots.
• Good at building scaffolding if you feed it the exact right words.
• Horrible at nuance.
• Useless without supervision.
• Will absolutely kill you in production if left alone for 30 seconds.

I guess the problem is that if you take your car to the plane, then your plane somewhere else, suddenly you don’t have your car. And then if you drive somewhere else you don’t have your plane any more.

I think it’s pretty obvious that rental cars and commercial flights make a lot more sense for most scenarios. But I guess it’s possible to imagine scenarios where this vehicle makes sense, either for extensive round trips or for places where car rentals don’t exist but the roads are nevertheless pretty good.

I think maybe it does, but I’m a pretty normal user who just used the Murena quick installer to get /e/OS. Reading up on Magisk after some web searches I quickly realized it was more than I could bite over without spending too much time trying to figure it all out. If people insist on making apps I can’t use I’ll just accept that I won’t be using them at this point. Their loss.

I live in Denmark, their state identification app does not work if it detects that the Android ROM is not straight from Google. So when I switched to /e/OS I couldn’t access anything any more. So yeah, in my case the solution was ta give up on one pretty critical app.

Thankfully the solution was as easy as getting one of those old fashioned code chips, and everything else seems to be working fine (including banking apps from other countries). So now I’m rocking /e/OS and I’m pretty sure there is no way I’m ever going back to Google Android.