VincentEvans

I wonder what people think about that part of the article where the author paints people who want to see the unedited version of the show in a negative light. The author presents “but i am not epileptic” crowd as ableist and insensitive.

I strongly disagree and this kind of take makes me sympathize with the author less than I would otherwise, subconsciously.

I can simultaneously support the idea that we should make adjusted content for people with epilepsy, or in a more general sense - it is a sign of elevated society to strive to accommodate people with disabilities or differences, but at the same time resent the notion that accomplishing the above has to mean that asking for an unaltered experience is “wrong”.

I feel that putting those two demands on the opposite sides of the scale is “wokeism”.

Right, “working illegally” here means taking local jobs, not working for your own employer located in a foreign country.

Precisely this - countries protecting their job markets against foreigners working illegally (not paying taxes, undercutting wages, etc).

This has nothing to do with you working for your own foreign employer while on vacation.

Spot on. Why not use any more or less standard cpu benchmark? The publication is either being strangely incompetent at this, or deliberately misleading.

Some here: https://www.justice.gov/d9/2024-09/doppelganger_affidavit_9....

Some here: https://www.justice.gov/d9/2024-09/doppelganger_affidavit_9....

Everyone keeps mentioning the same sci-fi shows mentioned already above, so I am just going to drop this one that I haven’t heard of before stumbling on it accidentally: Killjoys.

And for something more recent: War of the worlds (tv show from BBC+France).

I was never a big tv watcher, so maybe everyone knows.

It really depends. The company I work for - doesn’t even have a time-keeping system. Taking vacation is a matter of sending a slack or email, or simply verbally letting your manager and team mates know that you won’t be available. So far this year I’ve taken more than 3 weeks at least. I know it’s not a ton, but the point is - that I don’t know the actual exact count, I strongly suspect that nobody really tracks it in any way, and I am planning to take few weeks more before the next year.

Indeed, I appreciate the explanation, it is certainly both interesting and informative to me, but to somewhat echo the person you are replying to - if I wanted a boat, and you offer me a boat, and it doesn’t float - the reasons for failure are perhaps full of interesting details, but perhaps the most important thing to focus on first - is to make the boat float, or stop offering it to people who are in need of a boat.

To paraphrase how this thread started - it was someone testing different boats to see whether they can simply float - and they couldn’t. And the reply was questioning the validity of testing boats whether they can simply float.

At least this is how it sounds to me when I am told that our AI overlords can’t figure out how many Rs are in the word “strawberry”.

I don’t know anything about LLMs beyond using ChatGPT and Copilot… but unless because of this lack of knowledge I am misinterpreting your reply - it sounds as if you are excusing the model giving a completely wrong answer to a question that anyone intelligent enough to learn alphabet can answer correctly.

True, albeit the associated cost is firmly not in the “occasional use hobbyist” category.

E.g. my wife using youtube tutorials to teach herself digital drafting to plan our kitchen remodel (with actual dimensions).

Hoping that somebody takes on Sketchup, Autocad etc with a similar approach to licensing. Subscriptions suck for tools you use occasionally.

(Sketchup used to be like that until it was purchased by Tre-something).

What you are describing is an attribute of command-based economies. The typical market-based feedback mechanisms are often non-existent, or dulled - is it economical, is there demand, etc. In USSR everything was produced by state-owned factories, where political leadership would pass down edicts poorly rooted in economic realities and wouldn’t pose questions such as “do we need to make a monster helicopter if 3 smaller helicopter are cheaper to manufacture and operate”.

In some ways today’s China is also guilty of the same kind of folly, hence high speed rail network that isn’t economical to operate so ideological justifications are needed. Or ghost cities. Etc.

Market capitalism has other downsides, such as externalized costs skewing economic calculations, but it’s a different conversation altogether.

Well, that’s just like, your opinion, man. (Big Lebowski, i think).

Congress also possesses a variety of tools to limit obstructionism if it so desires.

But a more important point - is that congress is a tool of democracy itself and is a reflection of the attitudes and desires of the populace. If populace no longer has the aptitude to apply its rights to elect the government that serves its interests - then it will experience the consequences of such negligence and learn from them, which is also its right.

Refusing it that right is something much worse - authoritarianism when an individual or a group gets to pick winners or losers.

Can court override the power of congress to put Chevron into law? Have there been instances where court struck down a law passed by congress before?

Valid point! I’d like to hear more regarding this concern. While I don’t necessarily view what I referred to as “interpreting the gaps” as synonymous with “legislate”, IANAL and would appreciate professional opinion here.

I am not surprised that conservative-leaning court has put their finger on the scale of what they always described as “activism of agencies” and “legislating from the bench” by pushing the congress to act - I see it as consistent with conservative principles.

I am not saying I agree with it or condemn it - rather stating the path forward.

I too would like congress to start acting the part. They have the tools.

Congress can actually legislate the right of agencies to interpret the gaps in the laws back into effect - by passing a law that explicitly gives agencies this power.

Just like congress can legislate abortion laws rather than leaving it to judicial precedence.

Fundamentally there’s nothing wrong with the position of supreme court to push the responsibility of lawmaking back on congress.

Yes. Entertainment is obviously a time sink and idleness and boredom often spur creativity, which doesn’t happen if you’re being entertained. What entertains is subjective to an individual, and while some might be satisfied with binge-watching a show, others require something else to stay engaged. The games you mentioned target that specific strata. But the end goal is to entertain, thus provide a captivating time sink that drains away the time and mental energy that would otherwise possibly flow into more productive pursuits.

Haha, DMV… I just moved to North Carolina, and the next available appointment at the DMV to change the address on my driver license is in September (it’s beginning of June as I am writing this).

When I moved the last time in a different state - the appointment to change my address on my driver license was same week and took about 15 mins, most of which I spent trying to get a decent picture.

So I “know” it doesn’t take very long to print a plastic card.

North Carolina has the same law already in effect.

At over 6K per room it’s about 2-3k more than split acs that I had professionally installed. Just an observation.

If there companies paying 500K who’d like a software engineer to just professionally do the job, not complain, not have an agenda, not worry about promotions - drop me a reply. You pay, I work. That’s the all there’s to it.

I don’t expect my comment to somehow open the eyes of the writer of this piece, I have almost a resigned feeling posting this, as I have had this same interaction so many times…

I am not a smart man. I’ve been using git for about a decade and I won’t know how to do a checkout using CLI without asking chatgp. But at the same time I have none of the struggles the writer complains about. Because I use a GUI.

And before using git for the first time in 2016 - I used SVN for about a decade, also with a GUI.

The downside is it makes me a lot less cool than Neo-like hackers writing incantations in the dim glow of the monitor. Also if I wanted to write a blog post I would need to think of some other topic.

I use Gitkraken if you are curious, but I know you probably aren’t.

So turns out we’ve all been thinking about inflation exactly correct, and the author picked a clickbaity title.

If the money in your pocket is losing X% of buying power, you need to earn same X% more to compensate.

If you have to «always double-check» - it means that you have to do the most important portion of the work yourself, which significantly narrows potential uses to those where you already possess competence of the task and command of the data to judge the results and the use of gpt just saves you some typing. And saving on typing is great, but a significant step down from our collective expectations.

It’s like having a personal assistant that is most helpful but has a penchant for blatantly sociopathic lying. Not great.

Not arguing, just restating the obvious in my own words.

Reading some of the comment section here makes this veteran DIYer sneer. Ya’ll need to “grow some” and unlearn helplessness.

Pay someone else who learned the simple steps to do the simple work and save yourself the time for more productive activities, but stop congratulating yourself on “avoiding a disaster” - too much drama for the task at hand here.

This seems like a screen capture from Fox? Anyone has the link to the original video on Fox?

Speaking of things “written in javascript” for the longest time all I kept hearing is how incredibly fast things written js are…

Is it fair to say that it was a bit of a sales pitch?

When key components of the ecosystem that were written in the language of the ecosystem itself are being rewritten in other languages - I think it’s hard to find a more compelling evidence that all is not as great as it was advertised.