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The early dot com billionaires have so much money that they can keep making brain-dead decisions and get away with it - they have money printers to save them.

Their companies perfected the addiction/extraction economy.

How is that a language problem? Data scientists are not engineers. No matter what language you give them, they will hand you something you are going to have to polish for production.

The fact that Python has become the language of choice for machine learning and data science is not a language issue.

Creating misleading data still took effort. Now there is none needed. Slop will simply flood the zone and good content will become increasingly rare. See the problem?

People did this in sports gambling since forever. Professional gamblers would cultivate a source (like a coach) to get inside information to get a leg up. That said - you are still placing a bet based on the best information you have. It's gambling, or else, what other word is for it? Investing?

Prediction markets are 100% gambling. It's just synonym acrobatics.

I say this as someone who had a lot of fun GAMBLING during the World Cup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOptJl8Xkx0

You can be a seasoned engineer but making websites is still a major b**. The small tasks required to make it "presentable" site just compound, until you just don't even want to do it.

Thank you Lordy for LLMs because I am going to hurt myself if I ever have to design and wire another contact form.

You need both, but skill-wise, I think you learn way more on the job.

The biggest impact I think will be when it comes to starting a career. Young people will be forced to live with parents for years while they are an unpaid "apprentice".

In that sense, there is no need for college anymore - just spend the four years learning on the job (at least you won't have to pay for it even more).

"SAY LOAD-BEARING ONE MORE TIME!"

"writes too elliptically"

Was this written by Opus 5?

New requirement just dropped: "Switch to light mode during more than 50% solar eclipse".

I think for senior devs, some of us are legitimately jaded, especially if have been facing the same or boring problems.

I am just tired of typing and looking up syntax for every line of code.

This, however, is a slippery slop, and one has to be mindful of falling into cognitive surrender.

These algorithms are supposed to be helping me discover new interests, but instead they make me cautious about what I click on. I watch two seconds of some video I ultimately don't care for and then get my feed chockfull of THAT shit forever.

I so miss the days when the Internet was more random. It's not really nostalgia - it WAS better.

I am still traumatizes from high school after almost 30 years. I had no extra-curricular activities but I had to travel far for the school of choice (I was an ESL student). Waking up at 5:45, 90 minute travel one way, then 8-9 periods ending at around 5PM. Get home at 7 and then do homework.

Then the never-ending pressure of midterms, finals, and regents exams.

Pre-facebook, the barrier of entry was high enough that only fairly educated, students, and the nerds were driving the content.

Once the barrier came down and the floodgates of "average intelligence" were opened, it was over.

In fact, he is blamed for spreading vaccination hesitancy in Samoa and the deaths of multiple children there as the result even before COVID: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/newly-obtained-emails-un...

COVID and anti-vaxxing explosion happened 6 years ago.

Anti-vaxxing goes back literally centuries, but the internet definitely made it a THING.

The Senate? He just issued an executive order overriding all science. It's a total farce at this point.

Good for you. We get explosive diarrhea as the prize in the States. Wanna trade?

If the Internet was nothing but the newspapers of record online, it would have been a good place to stop. The quality disappeared after the barrier of entry went - social media.

At one time, running a blog post was also not exactly trivial, and that would have been a great middle ground between access to publishing and reading.

The web was getting kind of useless before AI crashed the party. This is why now curated content is key - newsletters, for example, is how I find most of my content.

That is exactly right. This is a short pod episode where a former BLS director explains all this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhsLjmqse98

I am sure that's true if AI writes it, but what if YOU use AI to type it?

Back then we had constraints. That made us better programmers. We had to think about every database call and network call. No one cares about that now until it compounds to broken software - like Windows.

Most things get done in spite of management, not because of it.

The numbers are as good as they can get with hard manual work that goes into compiling them.

The problem is that small businesses lag by 1-2 months reporting them, so the initial number being reported is almost always irrelevant, as it mostly applies to numbers coming out of larger corporations.

Okay then - let's stop subsidizing gasoline, yeah?

They do, but the current leadership does not have any appetite for entering Iran's airspace after the last downing drama. If Iran captures a pilot, there is going to be no more room for market manipulation.

It IS an issue if stand-off war is your only war, and it seems to be the exclusive approach here. If you run out of long-range precision weapons, what do you have left? Boots on the ground? That's not going to happen, and that means you will never win this on and off war.