I have seen numerous headlines saying that the corporate world is blaming AI for layoffs as it gives them an easy scapegoat. It sounds like this is something similar.

It would be one thing if they said students were failing courses due to not understanding key concepts of computer science supposedly learned in class and demonstrated in projects or labs. That might easily be explained on overreliance on AI tools.

But not having the required math fundamentals required for a course? That's not on AI that's on them for not vetting the incoming students. And then to throw in the reminder that the UC system stopped using test scores for admittance, well that seems to be the nail in the coffin.

I actually went to a UC school a little over 20 years ago (not Berkeley) and I remember my high school friend and I both had the plan to enter the CS department together. My friend had much better grades than I did, including math. However, based on our SAT/ACT scores he had to retake calculus and take an extra English class that I didn't, and it ended up being prophetic as he struggled with CS (particularly the math) and ended up switching majors.

Sure, everyone does it. Do you somehow think it's a bad idea to make the general populace aware of any specific tactics they identify? Even if it only stops a couple of instances, isn't that better than nothing?

It's such a strange stance to take, being anti-information.

I would be happy to be incorrect here, but I think this is doomed to fail in the near future. Historically developers have been willing to put up with a lot rather grueling work standards for the prestige of working on a major video game. While some of these measures, like "crunch time" have become high profile enough that pushback has reined in their use, there are still a lot more young developers that want to work in the industry than senior folks with the credentials to demand better treatment. Combined with a lot of major studios eyeing AI for the non-creative work of game development and I don't see where the devs have a strong foundation to negotiate from.

What if I told you there used to be a book that would mysteriously show up on the end of your driveway every year or two that had everyone in your town's phone number and physical address listed in it.

Why the /s? Have you seen any new "learn to code" initiatives in the last couple years?

Around 1988 I found one of these in the back of the hall closet at a friends house. I asked him what it was and he said it was his dads work computer, but he hated it so he threw it in the closet.

However, his dad was a salesperson for a bearing company. Didn't seem odd to me as a kid, but I also didn't know those cost as much as mid-range sedan. I wonder what they expected him to do with it?

Seems more like RAM vs SSD. Except the use-case doesn't quite match as those who want to drive longer distances would also be the ones who would need the fast charging the most.

That said, even their regular batteries can charge decently fast right now.

So if you had 100 miles worth of fast charge battery and 200 miles of regular battery, if you only need to get home you are done charging in under 5 minutes. If you need to continue on your long journey, the first 1/3 of your charging is much faster than it otherwise would have been. Not a terrible solution. You end up with a battery that charges faster overall and is lighter overall. But we don't really know about costs.

That's a dumb take. To go back to the car analogy, that's like saying the auto mechanic should be "the expert" for who is most likely to be involved in an auto accident, when the actual experts are insurance adjusters.

The people who should be most qualified to determine if we will have a nuclear holocaust would be some combination of political scientist, nuclear armaments expert, and military strategist.

That said, I think this guy is trying to get people to buy his book or something because his "fear" is not possible.

Even if EVERY SINGLE NUCLEAR WEAPON EVER MADE (approximately 13k devices) were detonated at the same time, targeting the largest and most populous locations on down, it would destroy approximately 2.5-3% of the world's land mass and would kill between 5 and 10% of the world's population. The nuclear fallout would kill a few million more later. This would be almost entirely relegated to the northern hemisphere. Even if this led to "nuclear winter" and impacted the ability to grow crops leading to famine, you are still looking at less than 50% mortality. Humanity will survive.

The US is a net exporter of oil and petroleum based fuels. If push comes to shove, you may see an executive order requiring the priority of domestic utilization over export.

Oil can and will get expensive in the US, but unless there are Enron levels of shadiness going on it shouldn't run out.

Collective bargaining for workers is certainly a good thing, for workers at least. Using the government to force employers to the table is a bad thing.

If everyone who wants to be a warehouse worker joins the union, then Amazon and everyone else who runs a warehouse will have to go to the union to find workers. That's how a lot of unions (particularly of skilled labor) work. If, on the other hand, there's literally millions of people willing to work without the union and for some reason Amazon (and apparently only amazon) is forced to go to this union to employ workers, that's doesn't seem very fair.

And so what if current workers vote on making the Amazon warehouse a union, it's not their warehouse. If workers can just vote for what they want, why don't they all vote that Amazon has to pay them a million bucks a year?

I'm not a huge fan of Jobs, but you're perspective is skewed.

If you were talking about Apple, the struggling computer company that ensured schools had access to computers and catered to creative users, then yes Wosniak was the critical enabling piece. If you are talking about the behemoth built on the back of creative design (iMac/iPod/iPhone) and functionality, no. Wozniak had almost nothing to do with that and it was largely thanks to Jobs.

Why are you attributing a concept to a person who merely asked a question about it and referenced it's use in pop media? That student didn't come up with the idea, they didn't add anything to the idea, and they surely weren't the first one to bring the idea to the attention of politicians or oligarchs.

I mean star-link is a thing and while it takes a long time to integrate it into a ships communications system, to provide quality of life internet access for the sailors is incredibly simple.

I have exactly one use for LLMs/AIs at work, but it is very helpful.

There's a 16k+ page standards document related to my job that everyone quotes, but no one has actually read or has a comprehensive understanding. It's quite nice to quickly cross reference or validate information (which you can then trace back to the document source) instead of having 6 engineers in every meeting arguing over the minutia of misremembered standards.