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To paraphrase Max Plank:

Society progresses one funeral at a time

Archive link: https://archive.is/M8wbm

Exactly, nobody is investing in their to-be seniors and dev culture.

Expecting ai-slop to make the difference is a fairy tale told to investors and board members.

I am not against any of our new devs (or myself, a longtime dev) using ai generated code but I expect them to understand it so they can fix it and build their skillsets. I tell them that renting their dev skills from a machine will do them no favors.

Poundcake

This made my day.

Solidifies my preference for pie over cake

Oh totally.

I’m on the us west coast and the national news (think USA today, cnn, fau, etc.) is all “there is smoky weather over there or smthn, anyway here is a monkey dancing” each summer (local news is covering the smoke obviously)

BUT as soon as it started drifting eastward and reached Nyc/DC then the news lit up with it about climate change/hazardous conditions.

Funny how that happens

I absolutely cannot wait for kids to learn about “vegetative electron microscopy”

AI absolutely cannot replace teachers.

Augment possibly but replace? No.

By augment I mean provide some help at the direction of the teacher.

https://retractionwatch.com/2025/02/10/vegetative-electron-microscopy-fingerprint-paper-mill/

“Learnings”

Yes its an old word and was repopularized by Borat of all things.

Ugh. Just say lessons or something. Leanings just sounds … wrong.

Exactly - they can’t use Russia’s military strength as the boogie-man any longer.

Boeing (just one example) has been pushing for lower or self regulation for a while.

That was part of what led to the 737-MAX issue:

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeing-pushed-faa-to-arelax-737-max-certification-requirements-for-crew-alerts/

Airlines concerned for safety will be moving away from Boeing if the deregulation continues.

The libertarian BS is going to set America back a century - in many respects.

The first time a ceo or politician gets assassinated by drone-strike will cause some severe lockdown on those things.

No matter what country it happens in.

And we fuck up other places to, lets not sell the US short.

https://youtube.com/shorts/l3gBif0K6cc

I agree.

Amazon is difficult to find what you want if you are searching for a specific brand or item. It shows you many options.

To me it seems like Amazon wants to sell you something as long as the make a sale. Whether it is what you actually wanted is a distant second.

Totally agree, the TSA is more security theater than anything else. Time and again it has been demonstrated that they can be circumvented (sneaking guns or weapons past checkpoints.)

As the above said reinforce cockpit doors and also repurpose the TSA positions into Air Marshalls, which would help avert any in-flight problems more than on the ground checks. Make it a requirement for airlines to help subsidize the cost (oh gosh! Not regulation!)

Y’all may not remember pre-9/11 flights and (very) likely don’t recall airline regulations, where prices were fixed and airlines had to compete via other means (better food, perks, etc.) Heck, I barely remember airline regulation days and have to rely on my retired flight attendant aunt.

Not perfect but better than the creeping surveillance state effort going on.

I’m not Norwegian or in Norway and I’m definitely doing this - my kids know of the problems of social networking (including the latest TikTok court docs and what the execs say.)

Some friends say that’s over the top; I just say it is responsible, involved parenting. I value their mental health.

Agreed - if I were evil, I would use this data to look for long periods of static/unchanging desktop screenshots to look for inactivity and employees lying about being there or away.

Honestly this is just an arms race. If the above happens (and if I can come up with that use case think about what will come up when someone actually smart thinks about it.)

The response? I’d make a tool that presses alt-tab every 15 seconds a random number of times - to both keep the computer alive and change the desktop view, maybe move the windows around a bit for variety. A usb rubber ducky would be perfect for this.

Oh man, that brought back some memories, thanks!

First joystick and then paddles.

Private equity will be the death of anything good.