ThePowerOfGeek

Well there was that incident on the campaign trail about 10 years ago when his daughter recoiled in disgust when he went to kiss her.

His poor kids. I can’t imagine how gross it must be to have him for a father.

And that other pillar at the bottom next to it? All the blue and white collar workers who are being forced into employment oblivion by the AI hype.

Deer God

Herne the Hunter: don’t worry Rob, I’m on it!

I stopped trying to rationalize these people’s ‘reasoning’ a long time ago.

Not quite the same, but when my wife was a kid, some of her hardcore fundie neighbors ran up MASSIVE loan and credit card debts on the lead-up to one of these rapture dates in the '90s. They thought that since they would soon be chilling with Jesus in Heaven they wouldn’t have to face financial consequences. It financially ruined them and they lost everything.

List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events

If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results, then the people who anticipated this latest failed prediction are absolutely, frothing at the mouth, street corner screaming certifiable.

But then I think we all already knew that.

A lot of self-promotion quotes in there from companies involved in the H1B visa industry. But one broad trend among them: this will empower developing and non-Western developed nations at the expense of the American tech industry - especially the tech industry outside the big 5 or 6 giants.

Let the backpedaling begin!

It’s the same reason IBM still exists. Massive multinational / government contracts keep them alive and healthy.

Oracle will be handling TikTok’s algorithm? Okay, so TikTok’s back-end workflow/decisioning engine will rapidly bloat up and will need to be completely replaced every two years. Got it.

How long before the Presidency starts hosting monster truck themed executions at the Whitehouse? It can’t be much longer now.

Amen. I’ve tried the vibe coding thing but it’s frustrating because a) too often the AI output has some profound problems and it gets annoying ‘babysitting’ it; and b) I usually prefer the challenge of figuring out syntax and implementation issues myself.

If something is taking too long I’ll ask the LLM. But I feel like if I do this too much my skill set will atrophy and I’ll lose my sharpness. So it’s a balancing act.

But this brings up another wider question: where is the line between “occasionally getting AI help” and “vibe coding”? Surely it’s subjective.

Not like most of the others. Eh?

both sides began to move away from the center until they’re not able to even communicate with each other in good faith

I don’t necessarily agree with this point. The right has moved much further from the center, and a decent chunk of the left has let themselves be dragged halfway there in the wake. A lot of American ‘liberals’ are considered right wing in other countries (especially European countries). That’s always been true to a degree. But now it’s becoming more pronounced. But to add extra noise, there’s a portion of the left who are not more firebrand and have pulled further to the left. So the spread of ‘liberals’ goes a long way across the spectrum. Which also explains some of the fragmentation.

“Cancel culture is wrong… except when it helps us.”

“States rights need to be protected… except when they get in our way.”

“The debt ceiling is sacrosanct… except when we’re in power.”

“The separation of church and state… only applies to non-Christian religions.”

“The establishment pedo-ring must be destroyed… except when one of our guys is at the center of it.”

“Political assassinations are intolerable… but not the ones that target our enemies, they are fine.”

The list goes on and on.

It’s almost like he’s full of shit and he’s nothing but a snake oil salesman, eh.

They’ve been talking about replacing software developers with automated/AI systems for a quarter of a century. Probably longer then that, in fact.

We’re definitely closer to that than ever. But there’s still a huge step between some rando vibe coding a one page web app and developers augmenting their work with AI, and someone building a complex, business rule heavy, heavy load, scalable real world system. The chronic under-appreciation of engineering and design experience continues unabated.

Anthropic, Open AI, etc? They will continue to hype their own products with outrageous claims. Because that’s what gets them more VC money. Grifters gonna grift.

Careful! Facts will damage the worn-out, out-dated stereotype!

The argument that you shouldn’t get divorced as after a certain age is as absurd as the argument that an acrimonious couple should stay together “for the children” (when too often staying together just causes more trauma to the children).

There’s no wrong age to divorce, because couples can drift apart at any time. And in fact, when they retire and end up spending more time together is often a point when the chances of divorce increase a lot.

The only caution I’ll say is about finances. Make sure getting a divorce doesn’t catastrophically screw up your finances. But if you can split from your wife and be able to live comfortably then it sounds like divorce is a good option for you.

Give it about a month and I’m sure there will be (…unfortunately).

For anyone who’s not aware, there are some pretty cool open source Minecraft options. Like Luanti (which is more like a playground for all sorts of FOSS Minecraft variants).