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Pretty much everywhere except for the area inside the 495 beltway (right next to DC), where public transit is good. But even then, housing prices near metro stations are higher.

You probably want a car in most places, just like almost everywhere in the US.


The reason I barely use copilot is because it tries to write comments for me. I don’t get why they don’t have a button that says “disable autocomplete within comment blocks” (since the IDE knows which things are comments), but it’s so yucky feeling when it tries to write something I wouldn’t say.


https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/customizing-copilot/addin...

Not sure that would prevent it offering something as autocomplete in a comment block, but could ask it to write less/no comments generally


I find the comments Copilot proposes is better than average comment quality for the code base I routinely work on: maybe you are so great you don't need any help ever, but that's not true for the average software dev.


> I find the comments Copilot proposes is better than average comment quality for the code base I routinely work on

Maybe the average is just so bad? The completions I get for comments are document what the code is doing, which is not something that I ever put into comments. It's always:

a) A highlevel (prefixed to the function/block/scope definition) list of steps, input expectations and output expectations for the forthcoming function/block/scope

Or

b) A note explaining why the code does what it does.

A comment repeating the code but in English is useless.


The best comments are the type of:

  Whatever bad thing you think of this part is probably true, but I can’t do better.
And

  Beware, weird optimization ahead.
And

  Editing this code requires arcane knowledge.


It's not that my comments are infallible, but if I write something wrong/silly it'll be caught during code review. similarly if there's a comment missing before some arcane nonsense nobody will remember in 3 years, then i'd expect a PR reviewer to tell the dev to add one.

Copilot just likes to puke very useless comments whenever I type "//", especially in autocomplete mode (I don't really use the chat mode).


NHI => Non-human identity, something I had never heard before reading this (even though i was familiar with the concept of identities for services, like service accounts or iam roles or whatever). I wonder if that's a common acronym.


It’s not common, and it’s awkward they used the acronym four times before defining it many paragraphs later, in the Introduction section.


Very cool. I have VSCode pets in my editor, it’s usually minimized but I like knowing clippy is in there jumping around.


(2003)

(But still good.)


It’s not good. Warren Buffett just says horrible things in a polite voice.


He says when he thinks he's wrong. This is 22 years old. What does he think now?


He is 94. No matter how much experience he has, I question the value of anything he might say these days, at least in comparison. There should be other people to listen to by now - probably even from his same organization, if you want to.


Maybe even better, the fact that an issue like that is still plaguing the country today, maybe even worse than at that point in time.


I mean, this is almost the same as the external Office 365 screens for encrypted mail just with Google’s design language, so maybe it doesn’t happen as often in practice?


Does pro not have the “domain join instead” option in OOBE anymore? It definitely used to, and Enterprise does.

I don’t understand how you’d domain join otherwise.


Pro doesn't have an option to join a domain in the default OOBE. I think that went away in some iteration of 10.

Pro definitely doesn't because the above procedure is what I always have to do to get joined to a domain without creating or using a Microsoft Account. (And then I've got a local account to clean up.)


It does, I just made a Windows 11 Pro 24H2 VM for testing (with the stock ISO) and used the "domain join" option to make a local account.


With an unattended install, sure. The OOBE doesn't give you that option by default.


I got that option via OOBE, not automated install.


I don't think this is the way it should be, but just to answer your question, you'd go through the normal setup for a single user PC, then join AD in the Settings app.


Older versions of Windows allowed domain join in the OOBE. It was handy.


I’d note that (outside of Comcast possibly being mad at you breaking the modem), sometimes they push a bad update and you need to reset the modem, and last time I did that I needed to step through the initial setup on the WiFi network before activating bridge mode. So if the wifi hardware is broken you might need to jump through hoops to get through that setup (or swap the modem).


I tried a factory reset, and was able to configure bridge mode via ethernet.


My uncle does thirsty Thursday every week on his porch in his small town. People bring beer from all around.

It definitely works.


I’ll note that macOS doesn’t necessarily always let you do this the first time, it’ll pop a dialogue saying “hey, you’re cool with this app seeing (your files/other apps files), right?” I wonder if such a thing could be implemented in flatpak.


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