It's helped me fix a programming bug on a pet project I'd been working for weeks to solve. Solved it in seconds.

It helped me throw together a multi-page work document for leadership they they loved. The bot did 95% of the work.

I, for one, would be happy to pay a monthly fee. I know I'm not alone.

Oh, heavens to Betsy! An advertisement that over sells a product? Say it ain't so!

Something brand new like this needs a term... like "snake oil" or something...

Rather, the IRS is hostile to crypto.

Multiple nations now reflect BTC as currency, and thus don't have this tax implication.

If/when BTC gets wider recognition, the IRS may follow suit. This means that as long as BTC is stable an unchanged, this increases the likelihood that the IRS will change.

"About a third of the food grown on Earth is lost or tossed"

I'd wager, for the whole supply chain, the bulk of that waste is fresh produce. Extremely short shelf life, special (fragile) shipping and handling, and ugly veggies don't get sold.

Mean can (and often is) frozen for longer storage, and thus a less frantic shipment, and more import- a much longer window for consumption,

Want to reduce food waste? Eat meat.

That presumes the existence of good Gizmodo article.

"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." - Yogi Berra

Or wired headphones / ear buds. There's nothing special about wireless here.

I refuse to have yet another device with a dead battery.

France seems to have an odd fixation on fighting industry innovation.
If the free market has found a cheaper (and therefore more efficient) way to meet a consumer demand- why work to fight it?

Seems odd for a government to race to protect horse buggy business when people are buying cars...

Gotta block the analog hole too. If someone/something can view the board and send that info to outside the Faraday cage, then we're back where we started.

Now do stoves, plus clothes dryers, plus air conditioning units, plus hair dryers.
 

Dude, every company I talk to is having problems getting IT hardware of all forms. Some stuff has a 12 month lead time.

OF COURSE sales are down. Companies have money to spend, and can't buy. Sales can't happen if there's not enough to buy.

And in unrelated news, prices for all IT equipment are doing up.
Something... something... supply... demand...

Let's say they're right - and delete 1 million accounts per day.
Why do they exist to begin with? Wouldn't it make more sense to stop the flood of new accounts, rather than try and fight them once they're in the system?

They're losing the fight against bots, clearly, and have no real desire to take proactive action.

I said nothing of time to value - but that is a contributor.

Consider an automotive analogy: cars used to be built by craftsmen mechanics who understood the whole car. Then came the assembly line, where a worker knew how to bold in a seat. They didn't know anything else about the car, because their role had been refined down to just bolting in seats.

The overall speed to building a car was faster - but the skill and ability of the workers dropped off, because it was unneeded. The logical end of that refinement is robotics. Assembly steps became so simple and unchanging that a machine could do it better. Today in programming we're at code generators and copy & paste. We're not far from not needing a person at all...

You sound like my twin. Similar past.

Something that struck me lately was that the definition of "programmer" has vastly changed. Back in the day, a programmer talked to the user, thought about the best way to solve the problem, then code and deliver the program.

With the rise of Agile, we've dumbed down the process. There's no interaction with the user (That's the Business Analyst's role). There's no thinking through the best way to solve a problem (that's the Solution Architect's role). There's in connecting the deep internals with the interface (now split between Front End and Back End teams).

A "good agile story" has been so pre-packaged and processed that a developer doesn't even need to understand what he's really doing. Just close out the story and meet the acceptance criteria. Someone else will file a defect and new story.

Our expectations have become so low for a "programmer", that of course we're getting people who copy & paste code they don't understand. Anyone who truly understands the machine will get bored and move on. We have a vicious circle of low expectations and low abilities - accelerated by green bootcamp staff, and overseas consultants who throw massive numbers of staff at a project with tons of turnover.

I don't know where it ends, or how it turns around.

I know you're trolling, but visual spectra can sometimes identify country of origin. The outer (visual) layer of a rocket varies, because every country & rocket program has their own favorite type of paint.

It's a little late now, but if someone kept a record of the spectrum of the object in question, that may help narrow down who made it.