GiorgioG

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

> I am experiencing this firsthand in debates about urban transportation policy. One part of the challenging is getting people to recognize the negative impacts of cars (pollution, injuries, parking space) and car-dependent designs (unwalkable neighborhoods, little consideration for mass transit service, no autonomy with a car).

I recognize the negative impacts, and yet will happily keep my vehicles because the benefits outweigh the risks and negative impacts. It's a trade-off many of us will continue making because there is no better alternative that checks all the boxes.

If you believe that I've got a bridge to sell you.

> employing some people who potentially aren't as technically qualified, but bring a different viewpoint to the team

I would be pretty pissed off if I couldn't hire a the best qualified person in favor of someone with a different viewpoint that's not materially relevant to the position.

> My life experience was a bubble that was cut off from a significant portion of the population.

No offense, but nothing is stopping you from expanding your horizons, in this day and age it doesn't require you to live with other kinds of people. Nor is expanding your horizons particularly beneficial for many/most domains we work in. I can speak 3 languages, have lived in the US/Europe, grew up in a poor US black/hispanic neighborhood, etc. Knowing how other people live has never given me any particular insight that was helpful at my software development job.

My highly-skilled coworker (and friend) is black/hispanic, he hates this DEI stuff. He didn't get his job from any DEI initiatives (we've worked together at previous employers, his connections/reputation got him here), but that won't stop people who don't know him from wondering if he's actually competent, or is just here because of some DEI quota.

What an asshole.

Every time you try to right a wrong like this (DEI), it just makes things worse for everyone involved. Just find the best person for the job, no matter their skin color, sex, age, etc.

No I mean I would have no problem killing an animal if I was unable to buy meat at a grocery store.

re: LLM as UI: Given that I don't trust LLMs to be deterministic, I wouldn't trust them to make the correct API call every time I tell it to do X.

If I had to kill animals to eat meat, I would have zero problem doing so. You’re free to make your own choices, but you’re not going to change anyone’s stance on eating meat with your arguments. Get off your high horse.

What boggles my mind is that anyone is surprised by this. All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again.

You think this is new?

Reading comprehension might not be your strong suit. The parent was arguing about the effectiveness of governments.

I wholeheartedly agree healthcare in Europe is better, but not everything is better there.

At very least the French and Italian people would disagree (I’m French and Italian).

Seems like folks across Europe were pretty upset with the number of asylum seekers and the problems that followed their migration into Europe in the last couple of years. Their governments didn’t seem to give much of a shit and that’s led to more right-wing support.

As an American born to European immigrant parents I can assure you that the grass is not always greener on the other side. All systems have problems. I say this as the parent of a child with a chronic illness (t1d) who is extremely frustrated with our health(insurance)care system.

He is 13 and he wears a Tandem X2 w/Dexcom G6 (soon to be G7?). It certainly makes life easier, but like you said there's constant mental overhead. We have SugarPixels all over the house, etc. His pump beeps at him so often he's just become accustomed to it and ignores it until he starts feeling bad (typically when he's going low). But that also means that it limits his ability to do things, he's got only a handful of friends that we trust leaving him alone at their home because their parents are willing to keep checking on him, etc.

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Being a thermostat is fucking exhausting. My wife and I are the equivalent of a thermostat for our type 1 diabetic son's blood sugar. It's in our face 24/7.

You're a troll, and I'm done feeding you.

Well, President Musk has spoken.

A plugin? You’re joking.

ChatGPT has had web search for exactly 58 days. I guess our definitions of 'ages' differ by several orders of magnitude.

The people with the power (money) to do so have no incentive to do so because they hold real estate which keeps going up because of the shortage. Why work against yourself?

You must be a troll.

Describes my general experience with AI across the board. Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, etc. It’s like I’m talking to a genius toddler. With ChatGPT losing 5 billion dollars on 3.7B in revenue this is unsustainable. It feels like the dotcom bubble all over again.

> Europe clings to the hope that the rules-based international order that—at this point—everyone is abandoning, can be resuscitated through hopes and prayers.

Appeasement is what Europe does when an aggressor comes knocking.

Well said.

You’re exhausting.

Maybe in your field the definition of cognitive load has a very specific, academic meaning. This article wasn’t meant for you.

Where was the word “scientific” mentioned in the article? I don’t think you were the target reader they had in mind when the author wrote this. I’ve been programming since 1986, and this article resonates with my experience. More abstractions, layers, and so on requires my brain to have to keep track of more shit which takes away from doing the work that brought me to work on that bit of code (bug fix, feature work, debugging, etc.)

We’re very proud of you and the hard work you did to earn your PhD, now please stop trotting it out.

But they’re still employed, still getting paid, and still getting bribed.