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My Dell studio 1535 still allows me to browse web.

MacBook Pro bought 5 years ago, failed three times. It refused to boot now.

I have used HP, Thinkbook, Dell, Mac laptops.

I trust Dell laptop most.

Ha ha, spring security is tricky and high chance may surprise some one while "boot"strapping a new project. But once done, it is out of way.

I did not like much of the XML, because it always seemed lot of duplication. All you doing is copying bean definitions and changing bean id and class/interface most of the time. But it became non issue over time. Now spring boot made it really easy with all those annotations.

If X is cost/per user, Y is your profit margin, X+Y is usually offered.

But for 5000+ users, profit will be like Z = 5000+ * Y.

So question can be how much of Z, you can let go (assuming you want to market to future customers, using this account as reference/example).

Question is, are they actually going to onboard all 5000+ ? You don't want to run in losses, if you offer rates, below your operational cost. May be ask them to do pilot run with subset of user with same rate, how much pain they will cause? Then, you can decide accordingly.

That sound risky, but hey, that is what business is all about. risk/reward ratio? I am afraid, there is no definite answer.

Whatever is the domain/industry, do you have some baseline pricing to compete against ?

This is such an good news. I hope more countries join the spacewagon. Space is final frontier for humanity. Once we figure out consciousness, load it into our AI superlord robots and send them for interstellar travel, who knew what they will bring. Possibilities unlimited.

A video call with fellow human of another planet will be dope. Till then, live long and prosper!.

Me and along with people who do not work on DotNet or iOS app development, that includes Java, PHP, BI, Salesforce and even Sales and Marketing guys use Ubuntu for last 15 years (50 - 70 people). We do normal dev stuff like program & emails & meetings & docker and etc.

When I installed Ubuntu on HP Pavillion dv4 laptop for one of the friend, who was casual user, said - what kind of OS is this, which is still working after 6 years. :)

Happy to contribute to that 3%.

> Americans are not putting bidet toilet seats into their homes despite how cheap and easy it is.

Social proof related behavior are not changed easily, but they eventually. Despite availability of email, people were still writing letters. In longer time frame, people do adapt.

All jobs are thinking jobs, with varying degrees of physical effort. E.g. From A senator/congressman have to physically present in senate/congress, to argue/vote their case/bill (which comes from feedback from their followers, requires physical interaction) to bricklaying/road building/whatever you can imagine to lowest level. Some require more thinking and some less.

Impact seems unimaginable. May be we need an AI to AI all imaginable/unimaginable scenarios.

I am getting annoyed by scaremongering.

If something can be replaced by a better option, it will be. Earlier king/people used to send messenger/pigeon to deliver messages. Later came letters(postal services), then phone, then emails, then SMS, then current gen of IM.

Any one doing/done some proper research ?

This.

Then at some point he describes his first time writing a game in software. He goes on about how running all the variations he tried in software would take a skilled engineer months of work, and he had done it in a couple hours - and was ecstatic.

I am sure everyone felt ecstatic at some point, regardless of their trade or field, when they worked on something all day or longer and got it done. The sheer joy it brings afterward makes your mind completely calm; past and future cease to exist for that moment. There are always going to be people like that.

AI or no AI, 20 years from now, people will still be writing software because it just makes them happy. Sure, the nature of problems will change, but these are the people who will keep pushing the field forward.

“I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.” - Grandpa Einstein.

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Everyone, ignoring reality, has the view that this is how the world should be. Of course, if you have money and power, you work to influence (enforce?) it in whatever way you can.