... stuff that matters... wait, why is this on Slashdot? I mean yeah, I eat pizza, but so does like, everyone else pretty much.

RTFM: "'Foreign Tech Workers Are Avoiding Travel To the US'"

I would also hope that tourists avoid the United States. Tourism is an enshitification of a culture.

While I'm generally a fiscal conservative, you can't *always* balance the budget. The average person thinks that when the government spends more than it takes in, it's just like a household spending more than it has in income, and that's simply not true. When the government spends more, yes it has to borrow, but it's crucial to understand what the money is being spent on. If a homeowner borrows money on a credit card to buy a television, that's bad debt. But if a business borrows a million dollars to buy a new piece of equipment with a 3-year payback, or even a 12-year payback, that might be a good financial decision. In government, if you spend money on infrastructure like a bridge or a railway line, that can definitely be a good investment, and if you spend money on handing out cheques to the poor, that *can* be a good investment (i.e. if you're in the spiral of a demand-side recession) but it can also be a terrible investment (i.e. if demand is outstripping supply and we're at risk of pushing up inflation). So borrowing because you expect a return on your spending in the future can be a good idea for government, just like it can be a good idea for businesses. And then you have to take into account that the government can *always* pay back its debt by simply printing money. You don't want to do this too much, because it's essentially a tax on all assets and spikes inflation, but it's an option that the typical household, or even business, doesn't have.

"He'll be milquetoast and set it up such that the theorcracy can agitate and con it's way back into powe within a few years."

Is he milquetoast or can he set it up so the theocracy can come back? Seem like mutually contradictory things.

Anyway, the Iranians want the Shah. There is no organized internal opposition force, he's moderately well-respected, he hates the theocracy (so why would he reinstate it?), and he's pledged supporting democracy.

"The documentation is the primary channel through which developers discover Tailwind's commercial products"

Turns out there is a place for advertising your product and bringing it to peoples' attention rather than just expecting them to find you.

Exactly - look up the THX specs - you need to be sitting about 6 feet from that 65" 4K for most anyone to tell the difference.

You are misinformed about how LLMs work if you think that LLM-generated answers on Google are accurate or trustworthy.

She is a sole proprietor with a single laptop, dummy.

My wife is a professional and requires backups of her electronic documents, and health regulations require that if you use a cloud backup that it be stored only in the same country, so rather than use cloud backups we opted for backing up to a local server and swapping drives offsite. Discovered almost immediately that we weren't backing up her actual work files because OneDrive had helpfully turned itself on and stored them in the cloud anyway, and then moved them out of the real My Documents folder and put them in another area of the drive that was impossible to decipher, and you wouldn't normally backup if you were just backing up documents. I absolutely hate OneDrive now.

Your use of the term unwelcome in this case suggests differently. You suggest that immigrants *should* be welcomed and coddled, when in reality, they're only allowed in to lower wages.

I don't bother with romance novels (they're usually about abusers being rewarded for being abusers, and not really my cup of tea even when they aren't), but AI is not great at translation, is terrible at metaphor, and is horrific at writing.

If they're going to use AI for auto-translation, then I think the best thing they can do is pay for the first 30 sessions of therapy needed afterwards.

Over-reliance on an unreliable source is stupid.

Britain has plenty of brilliant minds and is more than capable of building services equal, or superior, to those in the US. It honestly isn't hard - I've worked in the US tech sector and their minds are nowhere near up to scratch. Those that are are overworked, underpaid, and essentially beholden to their employer because the US is a "good ol' boy's club" where executives abuse power and authority on a regular basis. This is not a good way to run a reliable, competent, business.

Hell, give me the seed money and I'll set up an damn cloud provider that can beat the carp out of those in the US. I've been in this business longer than most of the techies working on the US cloud infrastructure but I'm also not blinded by the naive assumptions and political intrigues that have defined the sector thus far.

If you're going to create a robot workforce to create everything you need for you, then you can also create a robot army to take everyone else's stuff.

I have to admit that there have been a couple times when a query punched into Google provided me with an AI answer (typically a one-line... "how do I format this date in a certain format") that was slightly faster than following the next link down to a StackOverflow answer and reading that one, but I really have to wonder if the unbelievable amount of human effort and capital that's been poured into this technology is worth it, when it doesn't really solve a problem that I had. It solves a problem that Google had (keeping me on their site). But it's only a short-term solution, because by cutting off the revenue stream for sites where content is created, then how are they going to get more content to index?

We passed Idiocracy some time back. We're now in a region where satirists and humourists are simply no longer able to function without sounding saner.