I've found that, counter to what the talking heads would have you believe, the only people that can effectively use AI for coding tasks are the same people that can code effectively to begin with.

Someone please tell the AI filters in HR....

I see what they did there.

On average, I've actually been very happy with the use of AI chatbots for phone support.

The reason for this is that, for lower tier support (as well as a fair chunk of things I need done that can be handled by lower support), the support agents are largely working off of scripts that they are not allowed to deviate from, nor do they have the expertise to understand what they are doing.

While the AI is not necessarily as intelligent or capable as a human *CAN* be, in practice it is often more capable than the first-tier support agent that it has replaced, due to the breadth of its training data. If I need something that requires cognitive tasks that exceed the AI's context window, I can request escalation.

This is in stark contrast to the bad old days where I waste time talking to the bottom tier support where I usually need to spend a long time explaining what I want done, wind up requesting to be escalated anyway, or try to battle with a dumb non-AI menu-based agent bot to even get to speak to a human (and usually that human is still bottom-tier support who I have the same problems with).

Maker of product receiving increased regulation claims increased regulation is bad. More news at 11?

Seriously...WHY would you do this, Apple? Everyone, everywhere along the review chain MUST have pointed this out. This has to be the result of someone at the design phase having some sort of misguided vision of the future of UI design or something along those lines. Someone had to PUSH for this to happen but I cannot possibly imagine why.

No... No... No... You have it all wrong. They want to export their high prices and make the surrounding states suffer. "Sorry Spokane, you got outbid by Santa Clara for the Upper Falls output generated inside your own city. But we can pick you up in the spot market using LA Solar at $1200/MWh!"

Yes, exactly... And they were almost completely wiped out by the Devonian extinction. The name itself adds to the confusion...

T

No kidding... I read the headline and was like "Whoa, is that the late Devonian extinction?" Nope... Hadean. Before even the late heavy bombardment...

T

Cmdr Taco and Cowboy Neal cashed out, they're long gone. What's replaced them seeks to influence you. Hence at least three "Ahhhh!!!! AI is taking all the jobs" and three "Ahhhh!!!! Climate Change!" stories a day, interspersed a few stories you actually might care about.

T

Ada was created primarily for the DoD. It's used to write complex weapons control systems, etc...

Think of it like the Pentagon Pizza counter. When Ada pops up on Tiobe's list, we're going to war!

No, the H1-B program has not changed this year under Trump. The number of new visas issued annually remains capped at 65,000, plus an additional 20,000 for people with a masterâ(TM)s degree or higher.

Under Trump's first term, there was increased scrutiny and stricter enforcement on H1-B, leading to higher denial rates (24% vs. 6%) and more requests for evidence. Much of that was overturned in the courts, and the denial rate is back to normal.

Prior to 2004, H1-B numbers were legislatively higher (195,000).

Wall candy nothing... I'm so old my wooden crib was painted with lead paint. That stuff was everywhere around the SF Bay. Heck CP/M-86 probably failed because of lead neurotoxicity. How do you think we got M$-DOh$...

But seriously... I didn't expect to have to be on the lookout for lead paints in my kids toys. But 20 years ago they shipped a bunch of wooden toy trains in with red paint containing lead. Big recall... It was hard to explain to a 2 year old. So if you ever manage to kiss a girl and she takes pity on you in a moment of weakness... Just know you have to keep up with the toy recalls as well as the child support payments. Of course now days everything is made out of plastic, including a lot of the so called women...

T

Restricting redistribution of SRPM's is a license violation. You cannot add third party terms to existing GPL code. IBM needs to comply with the GPL.

T

I have mixed reviews of Zigbee. It sorta works, but doesn't like stucco walls. But at least it's not Internet addressable. Once you've moved to something running IPv6, you might as well just throw things on WiFi.

T