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Comment Re: I think it's worse than that (Score 2) 54

> and making sure the code is both commented
> well and self-commenting where
> thatâ(TM)s possible -

I can and do agree with you 100% on the rest, but this made me LoL. Enterprise code being documented is a unicorn.

Frankly, Iâ(TM)ve thought about seeing what caliber of docs come out of handing some AI a codebase. Even if itâ(TM)s half-wrong, itâ(TM)d beat the nuthinâ(TM) I usually get.

Comment No pain, no gain (Score 1) 191

It may be a trite saying, but it's as true in education as it is in a gym. If you don't exercise your brain, it's not going to improve.

There's a reason weightlifters don't use a forklift or crane to pick up the barbells and do a dozen reps. The problem is not that the weights are in need of lifting. And that's the same problem with homework. The teacher doesn't need a stack of 5 page reports; what they need is for their students to practice using their brains.

Unfortunately the education system is designed to evaluate output instead of process. It's easier to grade a paper or a test, not evaluate a demonstration of knowledge. It's always been ripe for cheating, but now the cheat tools are everywhere and made legitimate by techbros demanding AI productivity. So either teaching will change, or we'll head straight for idiocracy and nobody will be left with the skills to wonder why it all went to hell.

Comment Re:Probably the end of Blizzard (Score 2) 68

Sportsball (all flavors) are fast moving high churn cut throat businesses. Unions abound among them. Their owners still end up being billionaires.

Movies bla bla bla cut throat, yet SAG and Directors and gaffers and grips and key and etc often are guilded or unionized. Right now, I hear a lot about how the system has shifted until careers are challenging... but they'd be worse without their unions and the unions are their only hope in renormalizing to a living-wage thing.

Your point is invalid.

Comment Re:This is a problem that should be taken seriousl (Score 1) 361

Counterpoint: look at how computers ended up being ubiquitous. And cars. And TVs. And flatware. And glass dishware. And aluminum materials. And microwaves. And home refrigeration. And internet.

Let's look at your example, 3d printers? They're down to a couple hundred bucks for the basics. The electronics of these printers continue to plunge in cost. And let's face it, neither resin nor filament printing really solves home manufacturing. The barrier to 3DPrint ubiquity for these seems function, not cost.

Comment Re:This is a problem that should be taken seriousl (Score 1) 361

I think UBI will help in general:

It'll mitigate unemployment, let folks work on useful but nonprofit things, and (seldom mentioned) will create a cycle: Competition for those UBI sheckels will motivate innovation.

Will Rogers said it a century ago: let the money spend some brief bit of time in a poor man's pocket; it'll end up back in the wealthy's hands swiftly enough.

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