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Comment Re:My job is now reviewing AI code (Score 1) 71

Or I might only choose to identify as a transition person. My pronouns are revert/rejected.

My pronouns are majesty and eminence. You may refer to my as "Your Majesty".

And how DARE anyone tell me those are not pronouns! I can define my pronouns as I wish, and others must accept and cherish that.

Comment Re:kids vs the world (Score 1) 20

When you put up a roadblock, teens will take it as a challenge to get around, even if they would otherwise never have pursued the goal of whatever is beyond the restriction. And teens are very creative; they will break these guardrails in so many ways. It'll be a black-hat/white-hat back and forth for awhile. We'll all learn something, I would hope, without too many casualties along the way.

This. a million times this. Even way back in the day. As teens, my buds and I had zero trouble getting alcohol, cigarettes, had no trouble getting pR0n, some of us had little trouble getting devil's lettuce.

All while we supposedly were not able to so such things. But we figured out how. I even figured out how to make wine.

Some of us got pregnant, some of us figured out not to get pregnant. Some of us figured out how to commit crimes. Sadly, some of us deleted ourselves.

All without ChatGPT. At that time, things like the Beatles Helter Skelter. or Black Sabbath was causing teens to do bad things, along with Dancing and youth subcultures, comic books movies like horror films and television.

This isn't an argument against protecting the teens, but it is saying that whatever we do, they'll figure out how to get around it.

Comment Oh go fuck yourself (Score 1) 71

If you would stop being such a dumb mother fucker and stop voting for pedophiles because trans girls make you feel icky and give you a boner at the same time then we could fix all this shit.

There is absolutely no reason why everything can't be fine but guys like you are so fucking stupid you think you're part of the in group and that when the shit hits the fan Trump has your back. He hates you. You disgust him. When you showed up on January 6th to make him King he was pissed off how low class and how much of a bunch of losers you are.

The point of my rant which is way the fuck over your head is that if assholes like you would get out of the way people like me who aren't idiots could fix all this shit in a couple of decades tops. No poverty no war no starvation no hungry kids and the only thing we have to trade for it is you would have to be nice to trans girls and blacks or whatever group you don't like and you wouldn't be able to worship Elon Musk and pretend he actually did anything useful instead of just stealing all my taxpayer money and my 401k.

The real problem here is you have extremely low self esteem and you take that out on the rest of us. It's amazing that a bunch of losers with low self-esteem or basically going to end the human race for the stupidest fucking way possible in the stupidest timeline possible.

Comment Re:We already know ice is there... [Re:Finally!] (Score 1) 97

Man, you guys are really butthurt that someone else might be doing something interesting hey?

Lunar science is performed by nations other than the US. The EU, Italy, Japan, China, Canada, Russia, India, Other countries get involved. Different countries have different avenues of science.

You frame it as some sort of nationalism. I do not. If I need answers on matters Lunar - which doesn't happen often - I look up the individual or groups who has addressed the matter I am interested in, from a related paper.

I am not a "you guys". And your trying to frame it as nationalism butthurt is rather humorous, and says a lot more about you than me.

Comment It's the woke agenda now (Score 0) 71

It was political correctness when I was a lad, then it was sjw and now it's woke. I think woke is running its course and being replaced by dei. But there is room enough in the right wing's head for both since God knows there's nothing else in there.

What's going to be fun is in 2032 when Trump's going into his fourth term and all these old fucking farts who sold us out so they could freak out about trans girls in sports and drag queens reading books lose $500 a month of social security money and become homeless.

I know they will just blame Joe Biden but at this point I'm not waiting for them to wake up anymore I just want them to fuck off. The problem is they didn't die fast enough they were able to destroy our democracy. A couple of drugs basically kept old people alive for too long and they're mean and they're nasty because even though they're alive they aren't any smarter if anything they're dumber because of age-related cognitive decline and as you get old you hurt a lot so you get angry and frustrated and you want to take your frustrations out on the people you see the most which is for these baby boomer trash usually some minority or another who had nothing to do with their current predicaments.

Basically what I'm saying is old people suck. We know old people suck. Traditionally not a lot of people made it to the point where they were old enough to suck that much. But now that we're keeping these fuckers alive this long they can really really fuck up everything with their incredible stupidity. I mean you're dealing with people who write it a fourth grade level when they were at their peak and now they've had decades of age related cognitive decline and they're still out there and mother fucking they vote.

Initially I thought it was just the older Gen x that doomed us but I gather that when the numbers were actually fully tallied about 70% of baby boomers voted for Trump. And the Reagan democrats can fuck right off. The I got mine fuck you crowd they are just nicer about it.

Not that the American left is making me terribly happy. They're so fucking useless. I mean I guess being useless is better than doing damage but still...

Comment Re:a path-traversal attack (Score 1) 69

Really? Apple produces software which supports RGB LEDs on PCs? What's it called?

Really? You think I said that Apple supplies drivers flor every piece of hardware? Argue at least honestly.

Apple writes drivers for equipment that is used on their computers. Is your need to disagree that strong? I know you hate me, but I look at the situation that I don't mind pissing you off, comrade.

Comment Re:Yes, and... (Score 1) 48

The phenomenon of "rich getting richer" is characteristic of all free markets during times of economic health. It's an easy thing to demonize but simple practical realities make this inescapable.

At its essence, acquiring wealth requires making investments (which could include building businesses just as much as buying ones that already exist). Making such investments requires capital.

Well, aside from an actual "free market" not existing, you are spot on.

I've built up some wealth, gradually, and yes - it requires investments.

Wealth is THE ladder to attaining wealth. Ordinary jobs are just a means of keeping bread on the table while building initial capital to get in on the investing. Some specialist jobs can pay pretty well but not well enough to make the kind of money that we associate with the super rich.

Pretty much this. I have one of those "specialist jobs" but even that money is used for investments once beyond the basics. It helps. But you have to work at it. I couldn't invest seriously until I hit my late 40's.

Now for people upset about other people having more money than they do, the question isn't about greed, the question for them is about what is keeping them from accumulating wealth. Is it Elon Musk? Bill Gates?

I surely do not have as much money as either, but they surely are not the reason I don't have as much as them, or even more than I have now. That other's money is keeping people from having their own measure of wealth is a cop-out.

If a person wants wealth, they could do a lot better than heaping hate and derision on those who have a bit of money. and if they don't care to have a bit, why waste the energy?

Comment Re:My job is now reviewing AI code (Score 1) 71

My job is now creating good instructions for the AI then reviewing code written by the AI. The only way I can do work that is because I spent years writing code.

How does someone now in college prepare themselves to do my job by forcing themselves to *write* code, knowing an AI can write it better 9 times out of 10 ?

My best guess is that as time progresses, and code writing becomes better, that you serve as a transition person. Likely by the time you retire, checking the code will be less of an issue.

Comment Re:The definition of "job" needs tightening (Score 0) 71

It seems that in all the news about "jobs" in the US, the definition used is "job == someone does something for money". Which results in completely different reporting than if the definition of "job" used was "working position that dependably earns someone a livable income".

Livable income is money. And I suspect you are one who says - "From each, according to their ability, to each according to their needs. I understand that for economists, a world where every human works 3 gig-economy jobs may appear 3 times as good as one where humans need just one job to make enough money for a living, but most people do not fancy a future where all the (previously well paid) jobs are done by some robot.

Did you know in America, we're all starving in the streets, because no one has any money, and that we're all dying because no one has health insurance, and the rest of us are going to kill ourselves because we see how everyone else in the world has a much better life?

Okay - I just wrote something that is just as stupid as your claim that American economists support people with 3 gig economy jobs as a good thing.

That's an interesting claim - how many Americans have 3 gig economy jobs? Why is a reliable living wage.

You need to support your anti American claims with some statistics, otherwise you're just spouting propaganda.

Comment Re:the solution to "the mental health crisis" (Score 1) 264

> Worse than that, they enter post college life mentally like 9th graders.

That's a lot. Causes?

New internet and mobile media, helicopter parents, various levels of deficient education and socializing during COVID years

What else?

The social experiment of instilling self esteem at extreme levels without corresponding achievement.

The being told they could find meaningful careers, that if they found their passion, nothing could stop them, that they were the most important person in the universe, and that they'd be top level earners in just a few years, and have a career trajectory that would have them running the world while still in their 20's

I've seen it many times. A fresh graduate coming into a job, absolutely knowing they were superior to those olde fartes who were superannuated, and didn't know much.

Then after discovering that they were not superior to people who had experience, they did an intense crash and burn. Many moved back in with mommy and daddy, and lived off of them.

And the mental crisis appears to be down to the college freshman level now, likely lower.

Because the fact is, few people have jobs that change the world, and few people are billionaires ever, and work can be a grind, and life can be tough at times, and that self esteem needs accomplishments, without accomplishments it resembles narcissism.

And a big one is passion. Few people have passion, and if they did, they would not want it. Passion is a white hot pillar of flame that can take over your life, hardly resonating with people who view work/life balance as the goal in life. They need to redefine this as having a mile interest in something, not passion.

Trying to protect our children from all adversity, supervising their every activity, and telling them they are the most important being on the planet is having the opposite effect. Intellectually weak adults with minds of a child.

Comment Re:a path-traversal attack (Score 1) 69

Fascinating. Is driver writing on Windows so utterly messed up that writing and maintaining what is a really simple driver on the functionality side is something nobody wants to do?

Yes. Been a lot of trouble with Windows drivers for years.

I never understood why they didn't take the Apple approach and write all their own drivers.

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