I hate the modern users who can't organize their files and are fine with the cloud just storing their stuff for them. This creates two problems:
For me having microsoft automatically store things where I don't want them to store it (and my current version of word at work won't let me change this), means that when I restart my work I have two copies of my work. The one I stored on MY machine and the one microsoft stored for me. More than once I've started using the wrong one and had to merge my work later.

What is worse though is what it has done to colaborative work. Where I workwe store stuff in 20 different places. Finding the information I need is a nightmare. Knowing what I need to know is even worse. Even if I find a document it likely isn't the latest version of anything. People resort to sharing files by attaching them to emails, or teams or ....
I really wish I was allowed to beat my coworkers until they grasp the concept of heirarchially organizing information.

There are 1.1M Americans living in the EU, there are 4.7 Europeans living in the USA. Net migration trends seem to counter the Slashdot crowds assessment that the EU is a better place to live. US unemployment for youths is 7.4% vs 14.8%. Yeah, money can't buy everything but it sure helps.

This is my take as well.

Please make it available again. I like their mice but the download for the drivers is insane.

And yet if I ask you, you would admit to wanting more. More healthcare and mental health for the poor, more money for vaccines for people in Africa, more research for cancer and heart disease. I'm sure you want a bigger house, more vacation time... We all want more, some of just admit it.

All western governments are pyramid schemes. We have promised our elderly retirements that they didn't have to save for, we have promised healthcare for aging populations. We can't do that unless then next generation is more productive than the last. Most of what we consume is services that have to be produced locally. No matter how much money your country has in the bank those services can't be out sourced, they can't be bought from a foreigner. So either the costs of the services goes way up or the rest of the Norwegian economy is hollowed out, so that the country only produces services for itself and imports everything else. Probably not a good long term plan.

The most pressing part of quantum computing is that your messages today, along with the key agreements, are being recorded. A quantum computer will be able to break the key agreement and read those messages.

A trade deficit is caused by a country consuming more than it produces. That's it.

Americans collectively don't save and their government spends more than it takes in in revenue. The extra consumption has to be imported.
You can argue about the "why" but the deficit is about consuming more than they produce.

"Maybe everyone's just practicing their language skills with ChatGPT?"

Or: Maybe no one's practicing any skills whatsoever anymore, because they expect answers will always be available on-demand via ChatGPT (et. al.)

To be a victim of fraud you would have to have been lied to or decieved and been deprived of something. If someone pretends to be you and an institution doesn't validate that they are really talking to you then the institution has been decieved. Saying you are the victim allows the instituition to pass the blame and inconvinience on you for their mistake. It is an excuse for the institutions to not pay you for inconviniencing them.

18 months ago someone walked into a bank branch 3000km from where I live, didn't show ID, social engineered the teller over the coarse of 3 visits and took 40K from a credit line I no longer had access to. The bank paid for my time explaining to them what the did wrong.

Let's correct this fallacy when someone impersonates you to an institution you are not the victim of identity fraud the instititution is. You are should only be merely inconvinienced. And f@#K the banks or who ever who ask you to jump through hoops to fix their mistake. It is up the institutions to ensure that they gave the aid/loan/whatever to the correct individual.

In this case it looks like the colleges didn't check people's identities very well knowing that the federal student aid program would eat the cost. This is a moral hazzard. The college's want students paying tuition, they have no incentive to check identities because that would mean turning away someone who is paying. The federal student aid programs likely had no way to physically meet the students so they delegated the work to an unmotivated party, the colleges. The easy fix is to put the colleges on the hook for the faud. They should also be on the hook, at least partially, for students who don't pay back the loans. That would quickly eliminate degrees that don't lead to jobs that pay well enough to pay back the loans. If colleges don't like the deal then they don't need to accept students on federal aid.

The cables aren't the bottle neck. It is getting approval to buy them. The electric utilities in most of the western world are guarenteed a return on any capital investment usually of between 11% and 13%. In return they have to go to the public regulators to get approval for any capital expenditures. It is the regulators that won't approve the spending of money on new transmissions. The public regulators are the dumbest institutions on the planet. If you think you have delt with the stupidest government regulators in the world you still won't be prepared for the utility regulators. The power outages in Texas, blame the public regulator for forgetting to have any incentive for insuring power supply during a cold snap. PG&E's power lines fail, start forest fires, people die, blame the regulator for not allowing PG&E to replace them. OG&E raising your rates to pay for 2 peaker plants when they instead had a plan to cut your median rate by $50 month by shifting demand, blame the public regulator.

Here is John Oliver explaining the problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Just ignore the last 5 minutes where John forgets everything he said for the previous 20 minutes and goes on his anti capitalism rant.

My limited sample: I have 3 long-time engineering friends currently looking for jobs, and they've all been asked to use AI tools of some sort in all of their recent interviews.

Weirdly, most of those cases have sprung the requirement on the person by surprise midway into the interview.

You sound like one of the misinformation spigots that are cheesed you can't get traction on Bluesky.

I access Bluesky on the Firefox browser on my Android-based phone.

Listen to Jeff Bezos' Washington Post and Trump's Wharton School.

If you're a right-winger, it's a terrible place to be. Don't come!

I was a senior software engineer (now a CS professor), and I never touch-typed, and it never held me back.

The work of the programmer/engineer is what, 95% mental work, 5% typing? (to be generous to the latter) That's without even getting into rapidly-changing input techniques, autocomplete in the IDE, etc.

Anecdote: When I got my first engineering job in the 90's, I vented my frustration to my father, "The guy in the next cubicle is like 100 times more productive than me" (comparing a day-1 out of college programmer to a senior codebase expert who was indeed one those x100 engineers). My father's response was, "Well, he must be a much faster typist than you are", and it was all I could do to not laugh or choke on such a ridiculous misunderstanding of the job. Consider the degree to which that's a relevant assessment.