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Yep. I must've been in a weird headspace when I wrote that. You are correct, sir.

Doesn't need to be said but "Thank you for being the top comment." Shocking nobody, indeed.

The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.

I will tar and feather the "right" constantly. The "left", here, is somewhat better. As you say, though, neoliberalism has infected both parties.

Personally, I'll take the DSA over both. However, the population is unlikely to accept Sam's. And both political parties would sooner collude than accept the DSA as a modern inheritor of American Liberalism.

Your perspective is considering only temperature by geography.

Please also consider infectious disease and famine throughout the world.

You can hide from the temperature. You will have a harder time hiding from war and disease.

For us Imperialists, 10C is 50F.

We would, quite literally, be cooked. That'd leave us with summers around 140-150F.

You essentially described the Republican and Libertarian perspectives in the US.

The Republicans seem to see it as immoral to potentially give a few people support they don't need even if that means that most of the people who need the support actually get it. And, instead, they believe that having an inconsistent array of private interests will somehow be more able to service an enormous population than having an organization (like government...) that is large enough to match that population's needs.

The Libertarians seem to either genuinely not care about the rest of the world or, more often than not, seem to be naive about how life can be for the less privileged.

It's the lie of the "rugged individualist" in America. Most "successful" people come from successful families. Social mobility, in the US, is part of that lie. Here, we celebrate the person who rises from poverty to become wealthy as a member of a sports team, or as an actor, or similar, while disregarding that these massive successes are outliers.

I'm so often disappointed in my own country.

Me trying to fix our living room couch. Yeah. I fell ya, man.

I was going to say: develop practical widely deployed fusion energy far far faster.

Not sure about all of your choices in particular but "100 Manhattan projects" caps it all nicely.

Wish I had that microbe. Ozempic made me suicidal. Still here though. Zepbound doesn't that that effect. Maybe the smaller dosage of the GLP-1.

7 hours old and not flagged? Amazing.

Reasonable???

If your team can generate code faster than it can review it, you have a bottleneck. The constraint is human judgment, not output.

Given almost any group of coders, who are proficient in their technologies of choice, coding speed almost always exceeds reviewing speed. Same as it ever was.

Given any arbitrarily worthwhile problem to solve, the actual cost is in solving the problem or the cost to serve or both. Cost to serve if the solution is inefficient or the problem space barely tractable.

Argentina, for example. Coworkers there told me about this. Madness.

Lost me at "simps" and "cucks". Ad hominem? Don't care. I have standards.

Waiting for this to get flagged because, once again, the US sucks.

A lot of us know why the US is behind in wind and solar. It's because of a five letter word that starts with "T".

Do better, America.

... said the FBI/NSA agent

Knowledge workers hold a different relationship to their labor than manufacturing workers did. For a cognitive professional, expertise is not only an activity. It is a large part of the self.

Really? The way a knowledge worker feels about their labor is different than a manufacturing worker? They don't or can't have similar pride in their labor? In their skills?

This is some seriously self-aggrandizing bullshit. Touch some grass.

Imagine that. People who are responsible for guiding the morals of much of the world's population see moral implications in AI. How dare these mere "religious leaders" guide their flock.

FFS. Morals come from somewhere. For many, that's religion. Deal with it.

But we can't have that because then we'd be wasting potential profit. /s

Were you alive in the 80s? Flying really was better back then. The food was edible. The seats weren't optimized for torture.

"Inane regulations", however misguided, generally exist to prevent the Torment Nexus. PE devolves companies into the Torment Nexus to create more profit.

It's almost as though GitHub should never have let itself be sold to Microsoft...

It speaks to changes here that this is so upvoted. Several years ago, I wrote something very similar. It was downvoted into oblivion.

Ah nuts. And here I have a 3s+ and then I "upgraded" to an X1C.

The hell with you. I'm autistic.

Autism fetishism.

This comment should be deleted.

This is incredibly offensive.

Mods, please see to this comment.

I wonder what sort of environment and conditions contribute to large populations seeking to use opioids in the first place?

Theory: this is a socioeconomic problem rather than a public health problem. Our systems care too little for people. The easiest solution then is for people to self-medicate.

It's easier to deny people a harmful salve that they feel they need than to provide them the social supports that they deserve.

How do you upgrade a Mk3 to a Core One?

This is far more true for junior and perhaps mid-career engineers, unless you're working in an extremely well-defined problem space (* see below).

When working as a SWE, the longer I did it (~30 years) more of my time was spent understanding the problem, the edge cases, how to handle the edge cases, how to do all of it affordable, on time, and within budget.

That's engineering.

What you're describing is "writing code". That's lower value than "solving the problem".

I imagine a response, "But agile development, etc."

Yep. Part of solving the often sometimes involves creating prototypes to determine the essential viability of the solution. But that's only part of it. Which prototypes do you write? How much time do you allocate to same before accepting it's a dead end (at least for now) and punting on it?

That's engineering.

Me probably coming across as a dick today? Well, I was diagnosed autistic a year ago, and I'm on extended sabbatical/unemployment (3 years now) due to autistic burnout. And masking is part of how I got the burnout.**

* Why would someone be paying for that when there is likely someone else already doing it? Unless you're the rare person who hopes to "disrupt" the competition).

** has me begging the question of why I write here at all. SMH. Why do I do what I do? No idea sometimes.

He's wealthy enough that he doesn't have to care. Sadly, he's one of many, most, who demonstrate what happens what you have unbelievable wealth: you do whatever you want to whoever you want without feeling remorse.

And why not? What does he have to fear? He controls the stock. He's not going to lose his company. He's not going to lose his wealth.

He's all but invulnerable as long as he doesn't do wrong (enough) by whatever government he lives under and sucks up enough that he can get away with the rest.

This is not an excuse. This is disgust. He, and most billionaires, are rotten bastards. It's not whether they're awful, it's how awful.