Can anyone measure in how Claude compares to copilot? Copilot feels like a fancy auto complete, but people seem to have good experiences with Claude, even in more complex settings.

You can use Claude in Copilot.

This doesn't seem much different to me than how people should use wikipedia. It looks like it will be a useful tool to use, you just can't be careless.

Wikipedia has moderation and standards for sourcing, etc. that has made it generally very reliable. ChatGPT is a fancy parrot that sounds reliable. To actually verify that its output is correct requires more work and cross-referencing sources, etc.

That's a good point. For more complex topics, the act of verifying correctness is also more complex. I think it's a fair tradeoff though. A more powerful tool also requires more work to use CORRECTLY. Now, whether people will actually put in due diligence is another matter.

That must be one of the more extreme examples. I'm probably being under compensated at the moment, but about half of recruiters reaching out are matching my salary.

Half of recruiters can’t even match your undercompensating salary…

You CAN'T close pandora's box, but you CAN make jokes about pandora's box.

Were they local to the area?

I'm imagining someone in the US saying, "I've always wanted to go to Austria!", hopping on a plane, and arriving the next day.

I think the guy came down from Munich, which was about a 2 hour drive, but I don't recall exactly, it was a long time ago.

I'm just an engineer with no background in finance, but didn't a fair part of the 2008 collapse come about by trusted third party risk auditing that went bad? Rather than maintaining a centrality of trust at some level, it seems intuitive that if there is a public database with trust decentralized among all the participants, there is less of a chance for that trust to be abused.

Not in a way that would have been impacted by a blockchain ledger. Third party risk auditors were giving financial products risk ratings that were far out of touch with their actual risk levels. But this was due to flawed logic, financial incentives, and corruption, and not because of a lack of transparency. The data of the mortgages comprising these financial products was available to those interested in those looking to fact check, but no one was.

Except those guys who shorted it. There was even a movie made about it.

Financial transparency and integrity is a wonderful goal. However, I am yet to understand why any kind of blockchain is necessary or sufficient, or even a good solution. If you want to cook the books you can do it with or without blockchain. Same if you want to be honest. Blockchain seems like a very complex and expensive way of persisting transactions in a database.

It’s just a fundamental naïveté about how the world works. If I’m dodging taxes or hiding profits then I’ll just enter false numbers on the blockchain. Now what good is the blockchain? Unless the whole world runs on the super inefficient blockchain system then there is always a potential for gigantic drift between the actual state of the world and the blockchain.

The "risk auditing" was the bad part, and that's a human problem; writing those decisions to a different kind of database wouldn't have helped in the slightest.

People eat it.

For any python project bigger than trivial, I literally just build a docker image and run it from that.

I think that is basically why Docker was invented.

Docker is about doing dev at the speed of ops. That is, ops thinks it is really fast to be able to deploy something in an hour, in dev it has to be more like a second.

So far as Python I think Docker is a way to accelerate the creation of corrupted and uncontrolled environments, so often I have seen people pick some random docker image for Python which turns out to be incorrectly configured, say the default character encoding is EBCDIC instead of UTF-8.

If people learned how to use environment variables and configure their database connections and paths properly we never would have needed docker, unfortunately the only thing sheeple will respond to is a brand.

This is the real answer.

You need to run plumbing through the floors to every unit. The floors are structural.

You can drill dozens of 10” holes through a concrete floor in a commercial office tower. The structural part of the floor are the tensioned cables inside the concrete, as long as you dont’t sever those, you can drill a ton of holes without impacting the structural integrity.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prestressed_concrete

I used to work in concrete construction, doing post tensioned and SOMD for elevated slab. Coring might be simpler for SOMD, but post tensioned has such a high density of cables that I don't think it would work.

Commercial buildings tend to have very high ceilings. Maybe build a raised floor and put the plumbing under there.

Could you run vertical pipes on the outside in back of the building, and run horizontal pipes through space between adjacent apartments that you specifically leave for that purpose when converting the interior?

If you need intermediate pumping stations or holding tanks due to the height of the building, those could be inside adjacent to the outside pipes.