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> For the vast majority of software out there, this quality gap simply doesn't matter.

You don't mean the majority of paid for software can behave non-deterministically? That's the value add of the human in the loop.

My workflow as well. If I had to gauge the direction of the wind, this produces the work of somewhere between 1-2 pre-AI engineers. My own code quality probably went down, along with my focus and the depth of understanding. Bug rates have increased. I don't have any stats to prove this.

Fun fact: you can get to/from Schiphol by bike.

Reads like it's straight out of The Onion.

>My productive output as a programmer in software and business have expanded 3x compounding monthly.

In what units?

Try talking to white collar workers outside your bubble. Better yet get a job.

My sense is there's a long queue of candidates for the NYC and Boston offices stuck without a team match.

How is a $25 life saving medication "too cheap"? That's 1/10 of the out-of-pocket maximum per year in Norway or Sweden. Which by the way covers all of medical visits, hospital stays, prescriptions.

This would be discussed in an introduction to soil mechanics and foundation design (Braja Das's textbooks used to be the standard reference in the US when I was a student 15+ years ago) but I'm afraid they're too dry for anyone outside the profession. I'm not aware of an author who can animate civ eng subjects for the adult with the talent of David Macaulay. But I can point you to a few "engineering gems" that might pique your interest if you like this sort of stuff: prestressed and post-tensioned concrete (the work of Freyssinet, see Billington's books), readings from John Ochsendorf's class on historic structures in https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/4-448-analysis-of-historic-struc..., bicycle wheel as prestressed structure (the same principle used in some tension-compression stadium roof structures): http://www-civ.eng.cam.ac.uk/cjb/papers/p20.pdf

The ability of a dry stack retaining wall to shift and breathe is a feature, not a bug. For stone walls that require added reinforcement against lateral loads, look into tiebacks or geogrid reinforcement.

Right on. Craftsman tools have been frowned upon at least for the last 20 years. Milwaukee sawzalls are legendary.

+1 to no labor shortage in the construction industry. Good luck getting trained as a tradesman outside the unions. Joining a union is a practical impossibility if you're a white male. You'll be subsidizing your non-union employers with your own savings as an apprentice well into your journeyman career. You'll be sitting idle unpaid in between jobs, when it's raining or snowing, when your car doesn't start... Even when employed, you'll have no benefits, no health insurance, no paid vacation. You'll be competing for the scarce work with people who're in this country without a work permit. Guess what the going wage is for your services.

Sucralose (Splenda) increases insulin resistance.

I can trace some drastic changes in my own life's trajectory to this book. Baxandall treats a familiar subject in starkly unfamiliar terms. Putting it in context but not making it any more relatable as it would be in a work of fiction or scholarly microhistory. Rather he works out some fundamental relations, social networks, kin structures, schooling and tribal knowledge, higher cortical functions etc. from the basic principles. The canonical works of art (lesser known but no less striking when presented through this lens in his Limewood Sculptors of Renaissance Germany) served me as a vehicle to self discovery.

Painting and Experience in 15th Century Italy by Michael Baxandall

I've been going over Touretzky's Common Lisp book [1] with a 10-year old.

[1] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/book.pdf

I'm not familiar with Stuyvesant, TJHSST and the like. The best Russian schools follow the Konstantinov [1] tradition of "listki" (handouts), where each student is essentially guided to re-invent the math curriculum by solving problems. There're no textbooks or lectures. You solve problems from the handouts at your own pace and discuss them with a TA when ready (typically volunteers from among former graduates of the same school).

You can get some taste of these handouts for grades 8 and above from https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%...

[1] https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=ru&tl=en&u=htt...

Is this a sign of a forthcoming job market collapse? I don't remember anything similar during the previous recession.

fwiw this describes my experience of interviewing at Databricks

To its credit, Twitter has been doing this for some time now.

Most comments seem to quibble about exact numbers. That the number of people let go is comparable is enough to give you a pause.

Could be used to generate building plans or other schematics (pretty sure of no use though). Could certainly be put to good use generating pornographic images.

I don't know about what's in America's favor. I know for a fact that I would not willingly compete with all software developers in a global marketplace. I'd lose my big4 job in a split second. Canada's tech sector may stand to gain, but I'd lose half my real income if I were to relocate to a sister office across the border. So much for progressive visa policy.

By way of a thought experiment: If all human beings are equal, is this a necessary and sufficient condition to let a homeless person stay with you for a night? Assuming this is an option for a relative or friend. Why not willingly give up your job now? Surely someone can lay claim to your job on some merit basis. If you have children, do you distribute your time and affection in proportion to merit?

I don't see why I should give up my hard won comfort -- won collectively by my ancestors, neighbors, compatriots, myself -- to strangers. It's natural to accord special status to yourself, then to some close kin, ..., then to fellow citizens, then to the rest of humanity.

Also from the authors: Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Directory

Don't have experience with most of the industries that Musk dabbles in, but did spend a decade in construction. I have no doubt in my mind that Musk's roofing and tunneling ventures are sham.

Related meetup:

UBER : Big Data Infrastructure and Machine Learning Platform https://www.meetup.com/SF-Big-Analytics/events/257037259/

Curious, how did you reconcile your peripatetic lifestyle with having children? Schooling and making friends would seem to be a challenge?

Not too long ago, homosexuality was criminalized.

The irony is that AT&T's agents have to pirate the content in order to track down the pirates. Pirate Party is the answer, and VPN in the interim.