markstos

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You didn’t mention which country you are in.

In the United States there is Better World Club.

https://www.betterworldclub.net/bicycle-roadside-assistance

I have never tested it. Logically, they don’t have a specially trained set of bike mechanics standing by 24/7 across the country. Their page is pretty clear they don’t fix flat tires. Rather, it’s probably a tow truck service willing to pick up you and your bike.

Since you have a heavy bike, I would first priority puncture-resistant tires, possibly also with the self-healing goo inside.

For wheels that are pain to fully remove, there is the patch-in-place method where you expose the tube, find and patch the hole and and reseat the tire, all without removing the wheel.

With practice and preparedness, you can get a flat repair time down to 15 minutes, while practically every other option will cost more time.

on Selling shovels · c/linkedinlunatics · 8 pts · 18d

I know one recently laid off. AI wasn’t explicitly the reason but his next job seems unlikely to be copyediting.

on OH GOD YES · c/womensstuff · 14 pts · 18d

Finally we are seeing some women’s yoga pants with pockets. But how many years did it take for that to happen?

Read Software Estimation by Steve McConnell and recommend it to your manager:

The person doing the work the one best suited to estimate it.

Also, start tracking estimated vs budgeted time in some searchable system.

Next time this comes up, look up how long it actually took to complete a similar task instead of thoughts and prayers.

If boss won’t track historical budget vs actual, track it yourself.

It’s nice that some resources are being directed in this area, but it’s far from a total solution.

For example, the passport-saml Node module is popular and security related and is already fielding a number of AI-assisted security vulns.

Even when they are contributed by “security experts”, they still have to be carefully vetted to confirm they are correct and not themselves malicious.

While the patches may be good, it appears to be generating more unpaid volunteer labor for the maintainers.

Thankfully there some other fund’s trying to help out maintainers of critical open source projects.

The Code Rabbit link is about software in general, not the Linux kernel in particular. In many ways the Linux kernel is an outlier among software projects. When it comes to LLMs, I don’t expect devs will be using lower standards for code reviews in quality, while some other teams definitely are doing light “LGTM” reviews of AI code.

The second link expresses a lot of concerns about plagiarism by AI. Certainly related care needs to taken for contributions to the Linux kernel. As far as I could tell, no specific cases of plagiarized code in the kernel were cited.