JohnMakin

We rejected cable tv, which bundled in different content provider packages and plans into one interface, in favor of streaming services, and now are in the process of reinventing cable.

That story almost certainly wouldn’t happen today in America, for the simple reason that the youth-soccer culture here is mainly built on a profit-driven “pay to play” system. Parents fork over heavy fees to enroll their child in local clubs that charge for training, field rentals, coaching, and travel. As a result, soccer remains a mostly suburban, middle- and upper-class sport. (Not that soccer is the only game that requires American parents to dig in their pockets: According to one study, the cost of all youth sports rose by 46 percent from 2019 to 2025.)

While not untrue, I think this misses the fact why this exists. In the US, large accessible grass fields acceptable for playing soccer, especially in lower income areas, is practically nonexistent. Whereas, you can pretty much find a basketball court somewhere in every neighborhood in America, and sans that, a driveway that has one, which is why you see a lot of kids coming from nothing excelling in that sport, similar to soccer in other countries.

it’s a meaningless term that can define dozens of roles

For ongoing projects, an effective trick that I believe I picked up from Secrets of Consulting is the anonymous poll, where you can ask individuals to rate their opinion of an AI project’s success chances on a scale of 1 to 10. The typical split I have observed is half of those involved rating the project at a 3/10 and others at around an 8/10 – a clear bimodal split on a project that was already three years late. Bringing this data to a CEO can be an effective method of pointing out that some information is clearly being hidden from them on the state of the project.

I don't think this is a very effective method of getting any kind of truth. Just as the people pushing the initiatives up top have incentive to lie about its success, people on the ground have incentive to lie about the opposite - for instance, in my org, we've pretty much just used it to automate tedium, and accelerate processes, and realized pretty quickly there were roles that were almost entirely automatable tedium and managing process - surprise surprise, those people are very negative about how useful AI is.

The tools are useful, there is no doubt, but the excitement and investment is simply way, way too high. I'm lucky at my org they have taken a more cautious "let's see what happens" approach, and want proof of any claimed successes.

and devs almost universally end up not wanting to do that

The attention to detail spent here was what sparked my original interest in computers which inevitably led to my career. as a young man, watching this movie I was amazed that one man and a bunch of computers could unleash such mayhem.

I'm reminded of one my favorite south park bits, where Cartman freezes himself to wake up in a future that has a nintendo wii, only to discover the technology of that time doesn't support the plug-in format for the wii.

That you shouldn’t assume just because in the past ideas have existed that became reality, that all current ideas are feasible or possible?

300 years ago people also believed alchemy was a serious field of study

yea I look at commits several times a week at least, especially when commits are tied to a ticketing system/project it helps a lot going back months later on a large codebase going “how/why did this change happen”

I do tend to squash or make my entire change in one commit though so maybe I misunderstood your comment. If I have a fix commit often I’ll just tag a separate PR/ticket to keep the change history/change control clean

Yes, it’s a misleading, self promoting marketing piece, of course the tone is different between them - I’m struggling to believe some of the tone policing comments here are entirely honest

What is your evidence to support that? there is no 1:1 comparison here. The groups that likely survived these collapses were largely nomadic or at the fringes of society, used to sustaining themselves without the support of the existing power structures.

The elites and ones in power were the ones most decimated by the bronze age collapse, so this reasoning feels flawed.

It’s not just wrong, you’re potentially allowing anything you do on that work computer to 1) be owned by the company and 2) be discoverable in court. it’s amazing how many it orgs are so lax with this. personal/work devices should and always be entirely separate. BYOD is a really bad crutch and a potential compliance nightmare timebomb for all parties.

your experience is not everyone’s.

If you need prolonged therapy under most health plans I have had, costs can well exceed $100 a week in copays. and thats assuming you can get a good one and it is covered.

Luckily PT is cheap and affordable and available under most us insurance plans.

You’re putting far too much into the response than is there. The point being responded to was “why optimize something like exercise?” a reason was given. It’s not as uncommon as you seem to be making it out to be.

What objection is there? Talk about “handwavy” comments there. This framing is ableist, whether intentional or not, and I was pointing out not everyone is in a situation where this is the case:

How about you instead of trying to “get away with” as little exercise as possible you found a way to move your body that you genuinely enjoy? One should not optimise away sleep, nutrition and exercise.

Answer: because exercise can be physically very painful, impossible, or sometimes dangerous for people with certain medical conditions. Knowing how much is enough can be useful to know without being shamed for “optimizing” away exercise.

Hope that helps. Pointing out that people with different situations exist to a generalizing comment should not cause such offense, imho.

Those people are world class athletes. Lots of disabilities cause physical activity to be extraordinarily painful or difficult.

I am one of “these people.” I’m pointing out something to the gp comment that people don’t consider when they make generalizing, moralizing comments like this.

Not necessarily to the same degree. Physical activity can be extremely painful with certain disabilities. In those cases, it can be useful to know how much is enough to stay healthy.

Some people have disabilities or physical limitations.

it’s the wet dream of execs and pm types. however, i have not seen anything close to it in my life. I remember the UML days, lol. the issue is not the code, it’s the translation layer between business and code. maybe someday ai bridges that gap. history has shown probably not

Not sure where you’re getting this information, it began early 2025:

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/07/doj-investigation-e...

It could have been investigated. Even this article states prices went down as a likely result of the investigation. Turning a blind eye bears some culpability. All we heard during those years was that it was due to avian flu shortage, and if you mentioned otherwise, you got shouted down by politically connected people.

This isn't any more private. There are cameras with recognition tech just about everywhere now. If anything, this is less private.

(literal) thought crimes, coming soon to a place near you by Meta

You don't really ever stream games in normal situations in the same manner though. The content is mostly rendered client side, why does the server need so much bandwidth?

til you get debanked