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And 1974 Corolla for $2500 was the same, I guess.

GR Corolla is much better and faster than any supercars of 1970s. Compare price of it with original Countach!

New Corola is advertised at $25k. Fair price considering how many features you get vs 1974 car.

Imagine if in the best scenario Japan is going to stop borrowing. Reducing the population will drive debt ratio up. Good luck to the next generation, say thank you to your grandparents who borrowed from you.

Has any country really tried?

To have multiple kids you need bigger house, more stuff and more time.

To have 2+ kids you either neglect them or should become stay at home parent. It's only for rich, for families who can comfortably live on one salary.

The other thing is time: people who want many kids want to spend time with them, not at work. But without work they cannot afford kids. Catch-22.

How about supersonic flight?

Pretty much anyone can volunteer and became an UAV drone operator in Ukraine. Get an experience you'll use in the WW3!

Unfortunately for the users, testing has been pushed to them. You can deploy whatever slop you want - nobody cares. More lines of code!

Most developers are not good at testing. That's why the role of test engineer exists.

I've seen in multiple projects things like assertTrue(true).

I'm sure the agent is better in testing than average enterprise developer.

It was perfect when the only way to connect to the internet was a computer.

Smartphones ruined it.

>> post the 100 bugs I hit that week.

But nobody cares. Posting bugs is mostly pointless, it's wasted time. Nowadays even for paid products quality is not a priority.

People are hating it untill goes abroad to the countries where no such regulations exists.

Like in Switzerland it's okay to charge double for the car insurance simply because you carry "unlucky" citizenship.

Or EU law about mandatory 14-day return policy for internet order. Ordered recently something in Switzerland and turns out it was a special sale where standard rules does not apply and items could not be returned.

Or mandatory USB-C charge socket. God bless EU regulations!

If you are traveling and need to rent a car in the airport - sometimes it is not possible to do without credit card. Otherwise you don't need a credit card.

You can buy a new Toyota car or SUV in USA for $25k. You can buy a used Toyota for $17k.

I don't think sales be different. Not many people are ready to drop 100k+ and wait months/years for the delivery.

God bless America! Land of the free! Free to tip everyone you exchange money with.

You can get an additional phone with a screen, 5g radio, ram and everything for $150. An additional radio should not raise the price for another 300.

Coding is a solved problem. They simply don't care if the app is full of bugs. You are using it anyway, right?

Soviet space shuttle had autopilot based on the computer with 130kb of RAM.

Many android phones are under $300, not iPhones obviously.

>>I would much rather have someone on my team who ships less but whose work I can trust

Me too, but it is not what happening across the industry. Instead they are pushing for more LLM usage as well as more features. And faster, faster!

It's all about the process and the organization. No one is pushing for quality, everyone needs more features.

>>a rapid decline in software quality

It's hard to expect anything else if budget for QA teams is reallocated to cover llm bills.

The actual issue is not the "bad" engineers but the bad organization. While people are allowed to push and merge whatever crap is generated there is no point to do otherwise. Even if you do care about performance, "good" code your teammates don't and close more tickets and are better by many metrics.

If you are closing one ticket per week with "good" code but your teammate does three with "bad" code - it's actually you are a bad employee. Also they may say you are a toxic one.

>> Work at a soul sucking corporate for 17 years

I'm pretty much sure it is not soul sucking if you are a CEO.

Iphones are still with the same price tag attached, bit you also get more compute for the same buck.

You can find many examples like this.

Doctrine means nothing. Russian doctrine says they should use nukes against Ukraine. But there is no point in uaing it, no advantage to gain.

Russians will send you back 10x warheads. Are you going to use nukes knowing that?

At my $day_job we are forced to use a shared virtual machine for all work activities. The Windows instance has 64gb of RAM, 8 virtual cores of old EPYC CPU and no GPU acceleration. It is also shared between 6 users.

They will not spend extra 20$ per user per month to add compute and increase productivity.

Given there are enough USB-C ports - it is not an issue. For old headphones buy an adapter and next time buy cheap USB-c headphones.

>> nukes are not an argument for anything but main land defense from invasions

But it is not an argument even for that. Imagine Russian tanks are crossing the border towards your capital. Will your government use nukes is such case?

RAM may be expensive for a person, but still is quite cheap for the company.

It's not a concern untill the phone is bloated because of damaged battery. Also it can catch fire!