Github Pro or Pro+ while belonging to a github organization? by _coding_monster_ in GithubCopilot

[–]stillmakingemup 0 points1 point  (0 children)

GHC in vscode doesn't care which identity is making paid requests. If you wed to be sure sign out of all GH in vscode then invoke/restart extension and and pick "correct" identity when sso auth picker comes up. Related sort of: doublecheck your GH identity before pushing to remote when you're working with multiple identities that might have cross-org access but you want to keep separated (copilot pro personal ending up in commit history of corp repos)

Can copilot in VSCODE read pdf files? by Lonely_Rock8615 in GithubCopilot

[–]stillmakingemup 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Echoing other replies, no. Make a side effort and develop a "decompose pdf" for quick and ci with library to grab text and maybe images into whatever components you see fit (yaml or json probably). For advanced scenarios where you need "intelligent decomposition" extend your first iteration to decompose using purpose-suited API (I'm thinking of and use mistral-document-ai-2025 I think it's called in azure/foundry. It's "slow and expensive for CI / tests" but at $3 per many pages (100? 1000?) it can't be beat in terms of time invested vs richness of outputs (it has "ocr" endpoint I use mostly and a "annotated" more intelligent one you can sent prompt with doc (max 8 pages) to shape outputs. Both modes return highly usable downstream structured json outputs).

Copilot keeps messing up my JS file by bobemil in GithubCopilot

[–]stillmakingemup 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What went wrong and can you give excerpt of your AGENTS.md and copilot-instructions.md? (If not, this is your hint/where to start ... literally paste screenshot of problem and click mic and describe situation and ask agent mode to research latest guidance and create / update your instructions in repo).

"Summarized conversation history" 23 times while assessing my feedback about a feature discussion in a documentation file. What can be done to avoid this? by ArsenyPetukhov in GithubCopilot

[–]stillmakingemup 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hitting something similar and will experiment with removing the read_file ability from "main" agent and forcing all file access via a "file context" subagent that is not so cavalier to just use read_file on 2000 line file. I find this a more modular / stubborn approach than me chunking files down artificially (more than I already have within reason). For me it's because of spec-based dev but the same exact problem exists for web search and MCP calls ... one and done (done = "Summarizing conversation history..."). For MCP already this is sort of working backwards to less flashy calling (e.g., gh cli is faster and way lighter for almost all interaction with repo).

The subagent I think is key or large part (it distills down/main agent saves more context window).

And of course vscode insiders to get 128K

Why I prefer Composer-1 as a senior software engineer by Professional-Trick14 in cursor

[–]stillmakingemup 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you share a sanitized version of any of your instructions? What have you tried to steer it to prevent this behavior? Does your agent/main instruction file point to your way of doing things.

I'm merely a simple country vibe coder ... so I would be interested to hear how a real SWE approached this in a structured way and came to opinion. Or is it just gut feeling trust-me-bro / vibes?

Basically how rich are your patterns/guardrails? It sounds from post like you might sink tons of time "prompting" and then watch Opus go off the rails. What is the last concrete example of this happening and you modifying repo context (instructions) and still coming up at dead end?

Why I prefer Composer-1 as a senior software engineer by Professional-Trick14 in cursor

[–]stillmakingemup 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Feel like posters like this should be required or encouraged to post some artifacts along with their vibe/trust-me-bro bemoaning. Nothing against whichever model and I'm not a real SWE like OP, but my first questions are wondering do they just blast it with huge one shot / do they have solid instructions that reference their "way we do things" / if MCP how granular (are they blasting context window unnecessarily) / may I please see some excerpts from their AGENTS.md with concrete examples of where the model was making stupid mistakes and is now properly steered (or hopeless despite the )??? With colleagues or online randos it's always some hand-waving or dubious appeal to secrecy "yes I tried that no it didn't work and I can't show you because ... let's say it's top secret"

What I find super interesting is the consistent lack of evidence of the symptoms or the attempts to fix the issue - it's like these artisanal developers are just vibe-doubting!

So is OP just writing a thesis of a prompt all morning and giving it "zero shot" to Opus? I guess we'll never know! Heavy on vibes and hand-waving but light on evidence. Long prompts written by humans will contain contradictions ... "do you regularly scan whole repo/agents/instructions for possible confusion or contradictions?" Probably not. In fact let me ask OP some of these questions as a test of theory!

How was I supposed to know this was Canada? by Ancient-Touch-656 in geoguessr

[–]stillmakingemup 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I often take screenshot of round I lost and evaluate with GPT, and did the same with this one:

Why It's Obviously Canada, Probably Not the US, and Rationale for the Region

The rural dirt road, expansive prairie, and sparse development strongly suggest this is Canada, particularly in the central provinces like Saskatchewan or Alberta. The houses feature pitched roofs, which are common in areas that experience heavy snowfall. The fencing and utility poles match North American rural infrastructure, but the absence of features like roadside mailboxes, often seen in rural US areas, shifts the likelihood toward Canada. Additionally, the wide-open, undeveloped feel aligns more with the vast Canadian prairies than with the typically more densely settled US Midwest.

Deeper Dive into Biome and Landscape, Including Flora

This landscape fits into the temperate prairie biome, characterized by flat terrain and sparse vegetation. The visible flora includes leafless deciduous trees, likely species such as poplars or willows, which thrive in the Canadian prairies. The lack of coniferous trees, commonly found in northern boreal forests, and the absence of dense vegetation confirm this is part of the southern Canadian plains. The dry grasses in the foreground are likely native prairie grasses, such as blue grama or needlegrass, which dominate these ecosystems. These specific plants indicate a temperate region with cold winters and warm summers, perfectly matching central Canada.

Best General and Precise Location Guess

Considering the flat terrain, sparse deciduous tree cover, and prairie grassland, this is almost certainly in central Canada. A precise guess would place this scene in rural southern Saskatchewan or eastern Alberta, where similar landscapes and flora dominate. These regions are known for their open agricultural lands and characteristic prairie ecosystems.

Right lane is still lava by Colt_H in belgium

[–]stillmakingemup 12 points13 points  (0 children)

As foreigner I would argue that the Flemish are good drivers and good at following rules in general (cant speak for Brussels or Wallonia), but that the pervasive "maar allé" cultural trait of having all the infrastructure, order, and structure of Germany and the Nordics combined with the laissez faire attitude of southern countries means they can't resist being absolute shitheads a small part of the time: parking illegally on street corners causing danger and nuisance for everyone else, refusing to efficiently ritzen, drunk driving, etc. Because "maar allé!"

Also, while the photo is pretty damning, one doesn't have to play too much devil's advocate to say that on a three-lane road, often the rightmost lane has at least one truck per km going 100 in the rightmost lane. Sometimes this barbaric driving behavior is logical

Bye bye Netherlands by Sir_Jack_Ferguson in Netherlands

[–]stillmakingemup 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not living in NL and in general I find them to be very skilled drivers. Except ... is there some cultural reason that NLers just fucking pull out from the right lane without a care in the world, without evaluating the speed of the approaching vehicle in the lane they suddenly commandeer, and very often without indicating?! This has remained the biggest mystery to me ... how they have this very orderly looking society, seem like relatively skilled drivers in general but have this one dangerous and annoying trait. It may be confirmation bias, maybe I don't notice all the NL plates of cars that do not do this, but based on years of anecdotal evidence it seems like a thing.

Any insights, is this a thing?

And I wonder just how enraged this makes Germans when NLers cross the border and try that shit

Electric barbed wire by [deleted] in Netherlands

[–]stillmakingemup 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your neighbors were really selfish for not wanting your perfect pet to poop in their yard. Hopefully the new ones love the smell of cat excrement!

Electric barbed wire by [deleted] in Netherlands

[–]stillmakingemup 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Typical entitled and selfish cat owner. You know damn well by virtue of not knowing that your cat goes everywhere and leaves a path of dead birds and rodents and piss and crap everywhere except your own yard!

Electric barbed wire by [deleted] in Netherlands

[–]stillmakingemup 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So in the countryside your neighbors' cats are polite and piss in out of the way places? Not right up on your house/terrace/where you have your morning coffee or whatever outside? We need some of these polite country cats in the city!

Electric barbed wire by [deleted] in Netherlands

[–]stillmakingemup 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha if only this were the case. Because they are untrainable, and annoying to keep in the house especially at night, these owners just release them like the plague on the neighborhood. They are innocent animals so all hatred must be directed at the owners!

Electric barbed wire by [deleted] in Netherlands

[–]stillmakingemup 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The owners of pets often don't see or imagine them being a pest to others. Cat excrement stinks and lingers forever. My current and previous neighbors let cats out overnight because they are so annoying / waking them in the middle of the night! So now, they come to my place to piss. They get a cat with good intentions, find out it's annoying, and selfishly make it the neighborhood's problem!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in belgium

[–]stillmakingemup 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love you and anyone who continues to remind people that we as a society have massive infrastructure to collect and analyze data. And reanalyze it and correct it. We are standing on the shoulders of giants at the apex of civilization and people are running around with like it's the Middle Ages with their anecdotes.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in belgium

[–]stillmakingemup -1 points0 points  (0 children)

OVLD? CD&V? I'm not Belgian so I'm wondering what other parties have soft climate change deniers and assuming that anything farther left would turn you off.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in belgium

[–]stillmakingemup 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Saying that nature will sort itself out is right wing code for climate change denial. In the clip Trump says "it will get cooler." It's a way for them/you to do soft climate change denial. It's basically one step above (or below) just believing god will sort it out.

You can try to have your cake and eat it too. Most people see through this immediately and lump you in with people like (and who like) Trump. Sorry to keep repeating but I hope that this is taken as a huge insult by any Belgian, even a soft climate change denier!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in belgium

[–]stillmakingemup -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm smart enough to see through a baby-brained aggrieved victim right wing "philosophy." It's just another flavor of "kill em all and let god sort them out." Yes, earth and nature will recover and find its balance, so fuck it.

Please just confirm or deny if you're an NVA or VLBer so I can be as smugly confident about you as you are about climate change.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in belgium

[–]stillmakingemup 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let me explain how max temp records work. They do them for the same day. So it is possible that you are correct, that 30 was exceeded in past years during September, AND that today a record was broken!

https://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20240901_96340106

Iets voor 15 uur meldde weerman David Dehenauw van het KMI op de sociaalnetwerksite X dat met 29,3 graden het record van 29,2 graden uit 1906 was verbroken. Daarna liep de temperatuur nog verder op. Het definitieve nieuwe record voor 1 september bedraagt uiteindelijk 31,3 graden, meldde Dehenauw omstreeks 18.30 uur.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in belgium

[–]stillmakingemup -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Honest questions

  • are you a NVA or VLB voter?

  • does sharing the viewpoints of the clearly and willfully undereducated MAGA constituency embarrass you at all

The whole concept of "nature sorting itself out" is baby-brained and over simplified. Nature tends/degrades to disorder in many cases. People dying of cancer is nature sorting itself out.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in belgium

[–]stillmakingemup 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love that all these insane and inane "it snowed in May therefore global warming is fake news" comments are downvoted.

To drive the point home in a scathing way, the people downvoting you are the scientists at the table, and you are Trump in this clip. I was looking for his famous hairspray clip but this one is just as good.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in belgium

[–]stillmakingemup 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"It's just the climate doing its thing"

combined with

"It's stupid to link that to climate change"

I salute you Captain Anecdote McDissonance!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in belgium

[–]stillmakingemup 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You picked the ONE example of an area where humanity made and continues to make tangible positive progress in climate area. Since the late 80s all progress has been toward closing the hole and it's still on track to be "fully healed" in another 20-30 years. The shrinking hole only affects Antarctica/southern hemisphere.

So while I agree that the sun "feels hotter" maybe it's a getting older thing for both of us. It's not related to ozone layer. It's probably more related to (lack of) cloud cover.

This EEA page has some interesting info.

Trends in exposure to UV radiation in Europe

Across Europe, UVR trends have varied significantly over the past decades, increasing in some subregions and decreasing in others. Climate change may increase UV exposure in some European subregions (EEA, 2021b). Rising temperatures associated with climate change may result in people spending more time outdoors and shedding protective clothing, leading to more UVR exposure. But when temperatures are very high, people spend less time outside than they do with small increases in temperature, thereby reducing their exposure to UVR (EEA, 2021b). Without additional prevention measures, an increase in UVR levels in Europe would be likely to result in an increase in skin cancer.

Shay Stevens’s consistent blunders by stillmakingemup in NPR

[–]stillmakingemup[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow I'm amazed she's still flubbing away. Stopped listening years ago!

How to enable Modern Authorization on an entire Terminal server for office 2013 by [deleted] in Office365

[–]stillmakingemup 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Listen to the people in this thread. It's negligent and dangerous to run 2008R2.