In the last tech bubble, companies were spending more on gaining and keeping employees. Employees earning more money spend more money, generally speaking. That consumption drives the economy. (It turns out, the real job creators were the average person.)

In the AI bubble, companies are holding off hiring and are not interested in retaining employees. That hurts consumption, and thus the economy isn't booming.

The rich are getting richer, but that doesn't help as much to drive the economy - they don't need the extra money, thus they are less likely to spend it. Give a person making $30k a year a $1k raise, and they'll likely find something to quickly spend it on. Maybe they'll finally fix their car. Maybe they'll buy something they need but couldn't afford before. Maybe they'll actually go out to eat for a change. That all drives the economy. But give a person making $3 million a year a $1k raise, and they don't have the same need to spend it.

Which is likely why we see the stock market booming even though the economy is mediocre. Money that's not needed is often invested.

So, you're saying it is the same successful approach as hiring a code monkey to vibe-code your first website and then when you hit a 100 users and it goes down, paying to a real developer to "fix" it?

I've seen this approach, it is very common, but that's the only thing it has going for it.

In some organizations, quickly half-assing a project pushed by management with no real world benefit is not a bad idea.

Perhaps that's why management loves AI - it gives their bad ideas good metrics. And it even BSes for them!

and the boys were already ten and eleven years old when I entered their life

I hope you got a good relationship with them! My son can't even talk yet. So, right now, he's just this cute thing that runs around and causes trou^H^H^H^Hgood things to happen.

 

Well, some of that is for classes for people who can't see that default 3-pixel wide scrollbar on Windows 11 in high contrast dark mode. :-)

Fair. Just making fun of Windows 11.

Yeah, you're blessed to have one of each. Until they start conspiring against you, which you KNOW is going to happen.
ha!

Hopefully we'll raise them better than that. And let them see us honoring our parents.

You charge to "upgrade" to Windows 11? How evil are you? :P

For all my pro-life ramblings, we were granted only one child.

Precious. I feel bad you couldn't have more though. G-d has been very generous to us.

Keeping up with two toddlers after age 50 can't be easy.

And yet i wouldn't trade it for anything! Thank G-d, we have a lot of help. Especially, when some neighboring girls come by to take our son for a walk. G-d bless them all.

IPx5 is not rated for submersion.

That would be IPx8.

I'm seriously confused at how AI can do the jobs of historians.

AI clearly lacks the comprehensive of a prompt I'm giving it today. I don't trust it to be able to interpret and put in context events that occurred well in the past.

I overall agree with you - price disruption in tunneling would have so many benefits.

But at this point, I'm thinking Elon's businesses such as SpaceX is a mix of two factors: Elon not being full crazy yet, and other people successfully managing Elon's excesses.

Also, overall, techbros are like moths to the flame when it comes to reinventing mass transit poorly.

Google says about 1/6th of European buildings use heat pumps for heating. A heat pump is just an A/C unit operating backwards. A reversible heat pump does both With Europe's warmer climate, as well as advances in heat pump technology, it seems like heat pumps would be viable in most of Europe. Heat pumps are more efficient and can use greener sources of energy. As well as reduce dependence on non-EU fossil fuel sources. All of that is a win. It seems like the added desire, if not need, for A/C could be used to encourage more people to switch to reversible heat pumps that can be used for both heating and cooling.

Given that China doesn't allow everyday citizens unlimited access to the internet, we can assume the only ones allowed out are bad actors like badbot, so blocking China entirely would be a net benefit for the entire world. We'd have to get the VPN operators to cooperate, which is near impossible since they'd sell their own mothers for a quick buck.

Article wants me to sign up to read it, so I DNRTFA.

But are they including voluntary job switches with involuntary job switches?

Someone who has bills coming in and lost their job may have lower standards for pay than someone who already has a job.

If both groups are included together, that skews the numbers. It may be that for voluntary job switchers, do see a bigger boost in pay than staying.

I'll also note that this is a business news publication, and businesses are trying to force RTO. So there may be bias in how this news is being reported.

Your explanation is perfectly taut.

As someone who used to be conservative (I considered myself an "independent conservative" back then), I became apolitical (mostly due to dealing with severe health issues), up until 2020 when I started getting back into politics, Trump scared me. I was nervous in 2016, I warned my family about him but they wouldn't listen to me, they would say "Well we'll look into that" but they never did. 2021 and the insurrection were the nail in the coffin for me, family members have supported him completely without budging on any issue. I've been shocked at the reelection, I've practically endlessly watched Trump speak and he seems to be completely incapable of telling the truth, or even doing/saying the right thing. I have family members who are sold on him, they lap it up.

I had a discussion with them about the insurrection after it happened, and one of them said that it was actually Antifa posing as Trump supporters to make Republicans look bad, to make it look like Trump wanted to overturn the election but in reality it was Democrats wearing Maga hats trying to take over the world (!), yet the more I asked, they kept doing mental gymnastics to justify it, or to pass the blame onto the other side. An example is that they said there would be hyperinflation under Biden, and also that Biden is a communist who wants to be a dictator, and has establishment figures pulling the strings to control him. One line that struck me, was when they said "What about the Murder of Ashlee Babbit?', it was the way it was said and the wording that sounded way too cult-like to me, as if they were being programmed to have very specific and automatic responses. They expressed things that showed that they believed that the whole world basically revolved around republicans and democrats, how George Soros was trying to dominate everything and destroy the world, etc. You've heard it all, they've been mentally programmed to not only regurgitate it, but believe it wholeheartedly.

This election terrified me, but I'm interested (in not really a good way) to see what happens.

It is, back in the 90's there were a lot of competing architectures, some very good, but that all basically died out at the hands of Intel and market consolidation around x86; I've seen lots of good technology just die off. If MIPS had taken off, Windows might've been primarily for that platform due to the fact that Microsoft developed a lot of NT on the Jazz architecture (custom-built MIPS systems with ARC firmware), some of that can still be seen in SGI systems (which use ARCS firmware, a modified ARC, and MIPS cpus). I've noticed there's a lot more competition nowadays with CPUs than there were even 10 years ago, mostly due to how ARM is basically showing how bad x86 really is. Windows (NT) also used to be available for the Alpha architecture, but support for that was pulled before Windows 2000 went RTM, there was even a binary translator available for NT4/Alpha similar to Apple's Rosetta called FX!32.