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LLMs are transitioning programming from a profession to a hobby. We've seen this happen with several professions that have been largely automated. People still enjoy blacksmithing. Luthiers still enjoy hand-crafting guitars. Both are economically impractical, but people enjoy doing it. Some are even able to monetize their hobby, like lots of people on YouTube do.

I first parsed this as Bitch At

That's why I suggested making macros

I think more developers would use SIMD if there were macros handling the details.

First it was Jerry Pournelle and now it's John Dvorak. I read those columns religiously back in the day. I just realized I no longer read anyone religiously, listen to podcasts for any length of time - there's something about the buzz of 80s computing that has been totally lost. That's not necessarily a bad thing, I think it just means the industry has matured. But boy oh boy! The immature industry was a lot of fun!

They control their yearning for a weather event that will likely cause the death of others.

Did you not notice my use of the word uninformed?

Personally, I would go to Toronto. Decades ago I used to work for a Canadian company headquartered in Toronto and had development offices in the states. There was a project I needed to do with a distinguished engineer that required me to move to Toronto for a few months. I really liked it. TBH, there are very few cities in the US that I would say are on par with Toronto, and none are better. Now the Winters are brutal, but they're brutal where I'm from so that's not a dealbreaker for me.

Relocation to the European Union is at all-time highs.

Emigration out of the US right now is at historic, record-breaking levels. Have any other uninformed comments you'd like to make?

Maybe the CEOs who think AI replaces their employees should be replaced by AI?

Session musicians know full-well what they bring to the table. They also know the trade-off: they're not interested in the continued touring, dealing with fans, having to create new material, etc., etc., etc. They're "no drama" kind of people.

BUT - to make any money as a session musician, certainly enough to make a living, you have to be good. Damn good.

I'm an amateur musician and I've been gigging, playing, and jamming with musicians for decades. There's nothing wrong with today's song writing and compositions. The problem is the tools used to record, and mix (and to a much lesser extent, master). They "encourage" a particular workflow - a workflow that's anathema to music.

Analog is crap - that analog "warmth" is snake oil - but the old analog workflow of recording and mixing yields music that resonates with people. The best of all worlds would be to capture that analog workflow using digital tools.

I was talking about modern mastering, not what had been done back in the analog era when digital media had first been introduced.

Most music today is digitally recorded, digitally mixed, and digitally mastered. It's at the end they distribute it on vinyl and sell it for a fortune. They're literally fleecing people. Now I will tell you digital is far superior to analog BUT - the way music is recorded and mixed today takes all the soul out of music. Rigidly fixing to "the grid" makes it so music can't breathe. Drums are programmed. So much precision is required that session musicians are playing most of the things you hear, not the actual artists.

In short, today's music is just another corporate product and vinyl distribution is just a means to extract more profit from that product.

What a fantastic and actually uplifting story!

I think this is the point you're making:

Relative sea level rise = actual sea level rise + land subsidence

Cities like New Orleans are suffering a double whammy: not only are they subsiding (sinking), but the sea levels are also rising and so between the two they're in grave trouble.

QFT models “reality” extremely well, when defining “reality” by what is measurable or observable. It’s the metaphysics people are uncomfortable with. It’s a theory that preserves causality but doesn’t always sit well with our intuitions about locality. That has led some people to believe spacetime itself may be emergent - but that’s a story for another time.

25 cameras destroyed over the course of a year, and more than half were destroyed by a single person. This doesn't appear to be a widespread concern the headline makes it out to be.

All this tells me is the Microsoft AI chief is an idiot or a liar.

This is well-trod ground. I found nothing new here other than branding.

So?

Disagreement about “what quantum mechanics means” is a philosophical problem, not a physics problem.

The job of physics is to build predictive models of natural phenomena, not to settle metaphysical debates about the “true nature of reality.”

And on that front, Quantum Field Theory - which superseded old‑school quantum mechanics decades ago - does its job extraordinarily well.

QFT predicts particle interactions with absurd precision, matches experiment to many decimal places, and underpins everything from semiconductors to MRI machines.

Whether philosophers (or physicists wearing philosopher hats) can agree on an “interpretation” doesn’t change the fact that the Standard Model works.

People have been saying this since the dawn of civilization. What is always overlooked is survival is complicated.

Why do people continue to work at Meta? Especially when it's been clear to all for several years now that their plan to Change The World is to make the world a far worse place? Why do people want to be a part of that and remain a part of that?

And deliver nothing on the promises he made

The trait of an experienced C developer is to avoid creating expressions such as this.

Since numbers can be spoofed what problem is this actually solving? None?

How long will the world continue to tolerate Israel's egregious war crimes?

Getting paid to babysit. Tesla asks you to pay to babysit.

It's still tabs, but marginally better because you're making your own tabs. Work on hearing the key and chord progression and you won't need tabs. You'll be able to jam with anyone, anytime. It'll take a couple months to get there, but you'll no longer rely on tabs - which I think is the goal.