When I was in grade school, we had a music teacher who was blind from birth. If someone was jacking around in class, she knew where all the students sat and could identify the culprit by relying entirely on her hearing. It was impressive.
“I see myself contributing to the continued success of <company-that-I-plan-to-leave-as-soon-as-possible>.”
Now hold on on a minute. Are you seriously trying to tell me repeatedly prompting an AI agent with, “That person is supposed to have FIVE fingers. Not four. Not six. Five. People have FIVE fingers. What the hell is wrong with you!?” doesnt constitute “effort”??
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If you willingly gave money to a two-bit con-artist who is widely known for robbing or defrauding nearly everyone he has ever done business with, then you got what you had coming.
Battleships are a really fascinating piece of naval history. In reality, they’re not very practical and the sheer logistics required to lob a 1 ton shell at a target up to 20 miles away, with any reasonable degree of accuracy, is substantial.
But they look intimidating. And, if you’re the intended target and you should find yourself in between two near misses, it’s not luck. It’s just the guys in the plotting room getting everything dialed in for the home run.
She is my adopted daughter.
If someone successfully “slept their way to the top” then they actually (sort of) worked their way up.
Ah man. That sucks. Your daughter, like most teenagers, doesn’t have a fucking clue what she’s signed up for or that she is placing a major burden on her parents. Unfortunately for her, she’s about to enter the “find out” stage.
It’s bad. But it doesn’t have to stay bad. My wife comes from a generational line of teenage pregnances. Hell, she was your daughters age when she got pregnant. She told the sperm donor to fuck off when it was clear that he was more interested in drugs and petty crime than being a parent.
If you ask my wife today if she regrets becoming a teen mom, she will say, “No. Because it forced me to take responsibility for my kids life, and by extension my life. Something I wasn’t willing to do when it was just me.”
She got her shit together. I hope the same for your daughter. The current situation sucks ass. But there’s still a lot of potential for a good outcome. Your kid is lucky to have a family that cares about her enough to support her and hold her accountable.
“AI” coding tools can offer some value. The problem is that they often generate tech debt with pay day loan level interest rates. What’s made the interest rate so high is that now, not only do you have the actual code base tech debt. You also have a bunch of code that no one understands and the barrier to entry for software engineering has become so high that fewer younger people are actually learning how to be good programmers. Lots of organizations don’t give a shit about their rapidly growing mountain of tech debt today but they’re sure going to at the end of the week when the payment comes due.
What their “leadership” fails to understand is that any idiot can shell out code. I’ve seen lots of terrible programmers generate millions of lines of really shitty code that somehow, by the power of the dark Lord himself, manages to compile. That’s not what a software engineer actually does though. Software engineers design operational systems with software. Writing code is a secondary function of that. There are currently no AI agents that can successfully design a software system with any degree of complexity because LLM’s don’t actually understand anything.
It should be fine. We hope.
Pretty much the COVID strategy from the first Trump administration.
Land of the fee. Home of the [wage] slave.
Same, unfortunately.
E-85 as in (up to) 85% ethanol. Gotta subsidize those corn farmers somehow.
I think it’s 15% Ethanol. That particular tank was empty.
Shareaza is still around. Not in active development but you can still download it.
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A power company whose name I cannot share insisted on having 5 access and control rooms per power plant (most usually have 2-3 per plant) for redundancy. It drove them to near bankruptcy in the 2010s because of their tech debt trying to keep them all in sync world wide.
Ugh. Utilities are where innovation goes to die.
They now have 1000% less missiles.