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But people's anecdotes are part of their life experience. I trust my personal life experience over anything I read, and if I trust a person, I value theirs over anything I read too.

That's just how humans are.

Yes, the other day I was telling a colleague that we all need our own personal context to feed into every model we interact with. You could carry it around on a thumb drive or something.

This hits too close to home.

IME, they're stored on device only. If you've ever moved phones this becomes painfully obvious unless you've setup backups to your personal Google Drive (native integration with app).

Where does it say that this project is impacted by the 11% layoffs?

The point is that you _can_ buy a boat. That's freedom. That's what people love. Some realize, correctly, that it won't make them happy. What people love about America is the freedom to choose. That's the philosophy that they fight for.

There's a lot to unpack here.

In my opinion (and observation), the majority of the population worldwide wants a boat. Whether it's attainable or socially acceptable depends on where you live. In America it is attainable and mostly socially acceptable. You can't fault people for grabbing their dream when it's within reach. Most immigrants want to move to the US because they can "buy a boat". It's literally the point.

People really really love meat. They don't need much persuasion to resist any message that says what they love is bad. Like, people love meat so much that it's probably something our bodies want and need over other forms of sustenance.

I'm not sure why so many people think that there's an effective brainwashing campaign behind all of this. I think it's just what individual, free thinking people want.

> It has to do with the American exceptionalism thinking. That Americans are special and therefore more entitled to over consume.

This is quite a leap, and you're giving people too much credit for "consumption as a guiding principle".

Most people just have extra income and are bombarded with messages about how something will make their lives better. They try it out. They're stuck with it.

Oh God. I hadn't considered that windows sysadmins are likely the most prolific ChatGPT scripters. If I was still one, given the state of the MS docs, I would be guilty for sure.

I mean, building applications that are maintainable, will fail gracefully, and keeps costs low, has all the same needs as any classic engineering discipline. You could spend just as much time designing a well thought out CLI as it could take to design a bridge or a sewer system.

Whether people do, or not, is a different question.

This is an underrated comment. Who's job is it to do the thinking? I suppose it's still the software engineer, which means the job comes down to "code prompt engineer" and "test prompt engineer".

He treats ideas like cattle, not pets. Throws out a lot of seeds and sees if they take root. It creates a lot of havoc because his detractor's analysts have to write a researched article about every seed. Meanwhile he's always got seeds growing.

I can never tell if the toggle is CC on or off until I wait and see captions or realize nobody has talked yet.

The corporations _are_ end-users. They're just using a project to make adoption of their platform easier. Just because a user passes on the benefit of their usage to more than a single human doesn't mean they're not a user.

> a cabal of unemployed fringe lunatics wielding power and waging war against their users because it's all they have.

Speaking of which, does anyone know if there are any good articles/documentaries/exposés on reddit moderators? I really just want to know what one is like.

I think we've promoted little else besides de-industrialized degrees. That's why it's going to be so hard to ramp up again. How many kids think it's cool to get a textile engineering or materials science degree vs marketing or software engineering?

I'm reaching here but....

Apple has already "committed" to investing in US manufacturing. Also, many companies have committed to AI investments on US soil which would be heavily NVIDIA dependent. Could be a justification for the exemption.

To be fair...the other side was just as ferocious when someone postulated that the election was rigged, or that COVID couldn't be stopped by masks. You're essentially asking for conservatives to be the bigger person and stop the blood feud.

IMO both approaches should have been more measured, but who do you think will propose the ceasefire agreement?

> Still, I wouldn't invite any of these people to my house.

I think this is one of the most profound statements I've read all year. Perfectly sums up all the quiet backlash by middle America against the trolls that have pulled the party into extremes.

It's not that they're bad people, they just get over excited and nobody wants to deal with the headache right now.

I see it at work in the lunch room conversations where someone starts spewing passive aggressive hate and it really kills the vibe.

The problem is that the people who aren't contributing forget who is actually contributing and start tearing down the system because they have no clue how the world works anymore.

I've always wondered if there was a way to manage servers using the same 3d UX as homeworld

> No, this is just the (insane) status quo. Ideally, however, businesses exist to carry out a mission (beyond making money).

Well, that's the beauty of the system. You can go and be the change you want to see in the world.

You forget that it was blue collar populism that won this election. It's the upper class liberals that are clutching their pearls.

China has done that by ruling internally with an iron fist and ruling externally with financial influence.

The U.S. is actually trying a play from the same playbook by abstaining from deploying troops.

When was the last time you saw China getting torn apart in the media for failing to prop up a failed state? They're doing "greenfield" diplomacy without historical baggage.

What makes you so sure that your viewpoint was not also influenced by propaganda?

But that's expanding government's role even further to cover even more forms of abuse. Are you saying "if they're going to scan for CP they might as well scan for fraud too"?

So what _are_ they supposed to do about the children? The alternative (doing nothing) is not good.

Or do you think that government should shrink their responsibilities and everyone should watch out for their own kids?

I'm sorry that you feel so isolated from the majority.

What powerful force do you think caused over half the people you know to be so misguided?

Allegedly, the Pentagon sees the writing on the wall and is trying to get a head start on DOGE

https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/doge-departme...

> so out of touch they thought $90k for their Wagoneers was a good base price. A vehicle literally no one was asking for.

A premium 3rd row vehicle that's not a GM/Tahoe with those stupid reverse lights? My kids school is full of these. Seems to me like plenty of people were asking for them.