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July 23, 2021

Risk Assessment of GitHub Copilot ยท GitHub
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I think this is the best analysis about GitHub Copilot so far. Clearly using it in production today carries lots of risks. It might improve in the future but only marginally and likely with quite some effort. Not sure it'll pass the threshold to be anything else than a funny toy.

The Tyranny of Spreadsheets | Tim Harford
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It's a very nice paper on spreadsheets and how we use them. It got enough history in it to make me tick (goes back all the way to the 1300s!). Also it's well balanced, it's not just about blindly blaming tools but looks at their shortcomings but also how we often use the wrong tool for the task... and then end up managing data and knowledge really badly.

Framework | Framework Laptop pre-orders are now open
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Now that looks like a very interesting modular laptop. I'd be interested to test it and would love to see some KDE stuff installed on it by default. ;-)