I don't have a great writing style -- it's too verbose and often has run-on sentences that seemingly never end.
And I do use the en-dash / em-dash a lot -- probably incorrectly.
All flaws aside, it would be very unfair of anyone -- much less any purported expert in AI -- to suggest that frequent usage of this punctuation -- irrespective of whether it is tasteful or not -- is a sign of AI generated text (or slop).
> Individual engineers don’t own software; engineering teams own software.
the portion "software; engineering" -- just because the words are adjacent here, even though they belong to separate phrases, are treated as one term and hyper-linked to articles tagged with "software engineering" :
I have never used virtual environments well -- the learning curve after dealing with python installation and conda/pip setup and environment variables was exhausting enough. Gave up multiple times or only used them when working through step wise workshops.
If anyone can recommend a good learning resource - would love to take a stab again.
I had the same thought. Closest I can tell there's screenshot that looks like s3 console listing csv files if you click over far enough in the carousel.
They have some examples that emulate an USB keyboard and mouse, and the app shows how to configure the Gadget API to turn the phone into whatever USB device you want.
The repo is unfortunately inactive, but the underlying feature is exposed through a stable Linux kernel API (via ConfigFS), so everything will continue working as long as Android leaves the feature enabled.
You do need to be root, however, since you will essentially be writing a USB device. Then all you have to do is open `/dev/hidg0`, and when you read from this file you will be reading USB HID packets. Write your response and it is sent on the cable.
I always wondered if we could convert an old andoid phone or tablet into a USB/wireless graphics-tablet for drawing input -- or as a live annotator for screen presentations where I can mirror the PC slideshow on the tablet and use the tablet to make annotations during a lecture say.
If there are any such projects already -- I would e very keen to take a look.
We laugh at hollwood movies where the protagonist calls his hacker sidekick and says "get me into this building. quick." and the friend goes "one sec. done." and click! the door opens.
Try going to YouTube and look for The Lock Picking Lawyer or McNally. Both are really skilled lock pickers, but the majority of the locks they review and demos does not require anything near their skills level to break. Half of all padlocks seems to be susceptible to comb picking, which require zero skill.
It was apparently never difficult to break into buildings, physical security has always been pretty poor. Unless you have an armed guard patrolling your property, there's no real reason to believe it secured beyond the fact that most people weren't going to break in anyway, or simply can't be bothered.
And I do use the en-dash / em-dash a lot -- probably incorrectly.
All flaws aside, it would be very unfair of anyone -- much less any purported expert in AI -- to suggest that frequent usage of this punctuation -- irrespective of whether it is tasteful or not -- is a sign of AI generated text (or slop).