I'm estimating 2 years + 2 years. The reckoning can be dragged out either through war, or through government bailout guarantees. Second half of next year will be interesting.

Psst! I am Neo, I'll save you!

Why? Is the printer on fire?

2026 may be a bit too soon. First the circular AI economy bubble needs to burst, and that will cause a lot of demand contraction and businesses shutting down. I'd estimate about 4 years, let's say 2030?

We've been burned by Java.

This is nothing particularly new. Mircosoft tried this already in the 2000s with Managed C++. It didn't turn out well. People didn't care for safety features and memory management then either.

The Rust people are learning this lesson too. You don't break code that works. You don't rewrite adequate code just for the new shiny. If you want to stay in business, that is.

It's a black hole, the diameter is 0. You can safely assume it's mass.

EDIT: Yes, people who are wrong all the time, I know some report the diameter as being whatever the diameter of the event horizon or Schwarzschild boundary is, but scientists don't, that's not actually the diameter, they'll tell you the event horizon or Schwarzschild boundary diameter if you ask, but they won't claim it's the diameter of the black hole, so shush.)

EDIT2: Yes, I also know it's generally the "Schwarzschild *radius*", but "the diameter of the Schwarzschild radius" just looks bad to me. Again, shush.)

EDIT3: Yes, I know Slashdot doesn't have an edit button... or does it? Could I be testing a hidden feature? Maybe I'm a beta tester for a revision of Slashcode? Or maybe I just right clicked, inspect element, found the edit button, and removed the style="display: none;" tag on it? You'll never know.

I've been hearing this a bit from very traditional greybeard linux users (I mostly just use linux at work and I'm very much a terminal jocky. tmux is my "terminal manager".) who have come around to KDE from being strong dislikers of it in the past. That Mate is just crusty and old, Gnome hasn't really been fun for a while but KDE has solved most of its nonsense problems and is now a quite complete and useable system, so its become their daily driver.

I just want to get alpine functional again so I can revert into terminal world permantly and never see a web page again lol

AFAICT, approximately all software development internships are paid, most of them reasonably well. I have two insights into this, the first is as working SWE. My employers and all of the others around them pay interns pretty well. The second is as a member of the industry advisors board for my alma mater, a non-prestigious four-year state university. Talking to other industry reps and to professors and university job placement support staff, I've yet to encounter anyone who knows of any unpaid internships. The internships in the area where I live (Utah) are much less well-compensated than internships in the area where I work (Silicon Valley), but even the Utah internships are $15-30 per hour. Not great money, but not terrible for someone who doesn't have a degree or any work experience.

The closest thing to an unpaid internship I've seen in software is that my university has a grant program that will pay students to do internships at local companies, so the intern is free to the company they're doing work for, but the student is still getting paid $15/hour. This program exists mostly because it's been found that giving companies free interns helps them realize that hiring interns is a good idea, and nearly all of them go on to set up their own internship programs (funded by them, not the grant).

Other industries have unpaid internships, and it's certainly possible that as the software industry scales back its hiring of entry-level engineers, unpaid internships may become a thing, but AFAICT, this hasn't happened.

Yeah I work in an adjacent field in soil science but studying how soils retain and release carbon and doing work with farmers on trying to capture more carbon by looking at soil practices. Turns out you can sink a LOT of co2 in soil if you do things right. (Well I mostly just take extremely shit python written by scientists and make into competent python (and in strategic areas cuda and C) and stuff it into giant pipelines. But I guess since I also write research proposals I SORT OF count as a scientist. One day the boss will let me drop a little bit of that NDA and write a paper on my "DumBoScan" algorithm..... I guess I'm a Lab assistant maybe lol.

But there is DEFINATELY serious concern about this with the boffins. We do rely on a lot of stuff from NCAR and related labs (Ie WRF model and so on) so .... yeah this is a huge worry. Its going to impact farmers for sure as those guys are very dependent on understanding weather and climate trends for planning harvests and the like.

Not like trump gives a fuck. I'm really glad I'm in australia, though a lot of our clients are in the US, we do seem a BIT more isolated from it as the euros and brazillians have been picking up some of the research funding slack.

That's so Greedo!

> I think you underestimate how far the country has moved and how quickly. You underestimate the degree to which sexism is a thing of the past and you underestimate how accustomed to a total lack of professionalism in governance we BOTH the first Trump administration and the following Biden Clown show complete with its klepto-cross-dressers had made us.

I think you're trying desperately to pretend the world is something different to what it is because he's right and you're wrong.

Sexism is not a thing of the past. And I've literally heard people say they were voting for Trump because they didn't think the country was "ready" for a female president. On top of that, after decades of the country moving towards equal rights, we now have a regime that many Gen Z men literally voted for because they were told women had too much power and needed to be taken down a peg. Sexism, homophobia, and racism have been so obviously coming back as major movements I'm surprised anyone with a straight face would claim that sexism is a thing of the past.

As for your complaints about Clinton and Harris, both were highly qualified for the job, and as unlikeable as Clinton might have been, how could she possibly be considered less likeable than Trump?

You know who enshittified recipe sites?

Google did.

Google is why most contain a massive story about how the author once baked this delicious recipe based on Deliah Smith's method while on vacation in Tahiti using only the freshest oak leaves and... {continued for another mile of scrollable text}. Because real recipes are short, it became impossible to get any traffic at all with a straightforward "Here's roughly what it tastes like, here's how you make it" site. There was no reason for Google to do this, beyond seeing that some sites would be more valuable to end users if they had a lot of shit on them, despite the fact anyone with half a brain can tell that that's not going to be true for all types of website. I believe this all started around 2010 or so, when Google started going to shit.

And before you complain that recipe writers shouldn't care about traffic, what the fuck's the point of going to the trouble of sharing a recipe online if nobody is going to read it? A reminder too that LLMs are going to destroy the web because nobody's going to put up websites any more for anything but commerce and advertising.

Note also that most recipe websites these days do actually have both a "Print" and "Jump to recipe" button at the top of their pages. They know you're not interested in the stupid inane story. They're embarrassed to have to put that shit up. And ultimately the recipe is still there, so they're not completely enshittified. I still find them useful.

Why do you care? It's just one AI industry company complaining about another AI industry company scraping their content and repackaging it in a different way. They'll figure things out amongst themselves, and if not, it won't make a difference. It's not like Copyright is consistently enforced these days.

AFAIK, it doesn't matter who serves the ads. It's a low-quality page.