That's because of all of the inbreeding. A is the CEO at one place where B sits on the board. Next door, B is the CEO and A sits on the board...

UBI is like reparations from the robots and AI.

The best solution would have been for hardware vendors to stop using SMBUS and switch to USB. No driver needed.

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We don't honestly know. Most of us want to think that's true, but in economics, if you can't prove it, it's not real. We can prove interest rate increases impacted it. We can prove that economic headwinds impacted it. We cannot determine if employers are really hesitating to hire entry level programmers because they think AI can do it...or they're not sure they will have enough business to invest in future talent. We can reasonably model what hiring would look like if interest rates were halved. We cannot reasonably estimate how much employment would increase if generative AI was never invented.

We live in a new world, economically speaking.

Between natural trends of deglobalization and our largest demographic (baby boomers) being fully retired causing interest rate hikes as well as stupid shenanigans from the Trump Administration with trade wars and immigration....the economy 5 years from now will be radically different than it was 5 years ago.

No one knows what it will look like, so businesses are curtailing all sorts of investment. It's a major reason why you're seeing less innovative products being released. No sense in developing new and risky products like a Vision Pro 2.0 when you're not sure what sort of sales you'll see on your core offerings. This especially impacts investing in young talent.

That alone could sufficiently explain this. AI is definitely adding confusion, but they can't even prove it actually increases productivity, so a well informed decision maker is paying attention, but not betting on AI being the answer to the company's problems.

Exactly that. Many seem to have forgotten that hospitals were absolutely slammed early in the pandemic and that medical care in general suffered.

Less than half my software engineer coworkers have a degree related to computers. Some of our top programmers have chemsitry, physics, history, even English degrees. So what's the historical trend? The majority of jobs out there don't have a specific major for them. There's no mainstream "management" major...yeah, there's business administration degrees and definitely MBAs...and in tech, less than half of the senior managers have MBAs and none that personally I know of have a bachelor's degree in business or management. The majority of hard sciences majors never work in their field. LOTS of nerds want to major in chemistry an physics and there just aren't that many industry jobs for them...and not everyone wants to be a teacher and continue the cycle.

Your metric and thought process is unhelpful and honestly misleading. Underemployment is impossible to objectively measure. There's no objective way of determining what job a person should work at. My peers at my first job out of college during the dot com crash?...75% of them don't work in the industry...the ones I know mostly left tech to become real estate agents, car salesmen, etc. They could claim they are underemployed because they went from 22yos earning $100/h to whatever you earn as a high school guidance counselor....but in my mind, that's the market's way of saying: "Yeah, you sucked at being a programmer....maybe working in your dad's custom cabinetry shop is a better fit for you."

You know the majority of those numbers are housewives/moms, right (as well as a very tiny few stay at home dads and early retirees)? If you're old enough to comment on this site, I'll wager your mom stayed home to raise you, for at least a few years, even if she didn't, I know several of your peers had stay at home moms. If you actually hung out with the opposite sex, you'd know this.

Nonsense. This backdoor was obviously put into place so Russian tanks could disable the cameras and speed through the cities, traversing Slovakia quickly on their way to the west. But, now that it's been discovered, those tanks will need to obey the traffic laws - foiling any invasion!

Never met a card carrying Klan member before. Kindly fuck off.

To be fair if I were Microsoft I would tell motherboard manufacturers to get a grip and make it a USB device. Hanging it off the SMBUS, where critical stuff like fan control and power management also lives, is kind of insane for controlling some lights.

If it was USB then it could just use WinUSB or even HID. No driver needed, API is very mature.

I don't think it's particularly hard or anything. The bigger issue is getting it signed by Microsoft. Because it's a very low level driver that can interact with critical parts of the hardware, like controlling your fans and power management, the bar is naturally a bit higher than a driver for some random USB device. Therefore every time it gets updated, Microsoft has to check it and sign off on it.

There was some company that was updating it, basically just rebuilding it to keep it compatible with the latest Windows version and getting the driver re-signed. Really though it's something Microsoft should take on themselves and create an API for. I think Gamers Nexus were trying to create some common API for RGB, but I don't know how far they got.

Dude, you can throw as many words at us as you like and your argument even sounds compelling...so long as we forget everything we see and know. C++ has LOTS of memory safety issues. We see these vulnerabilities and many crashes in C++ projects as well as C. I don't work with either, but I use many products written in both and see the results.

You remind me of those ads they ran in the 40s about safer cigarettes and which literally said "More Doctors Smoke Camels Than Any Other Cigarette." Only a moron would fall for that. You can give me whatever argument you want about how the other guys were morons and you're so much smarter, but we see the results. We don't trust C/C++ for anything where it's not absolutely needed. Every business owner wants to minimize their C/C++ investments because the community is CONSTANTLY fucking up.

Is it because the other guys weren't as smart as you?...maybe...but Rust is nearly as fast and efficient and reduces the chance of a scary vulnerability drastically as well as many crashes. It just makes sense from a rational and business perspective to use safer tools than solely rely on hiring better people.

Finally, you may be a magical C++ programming wizard, but someday you'll retire, quit, or get promoted. History has shown us we can't rely on geniuses like you to maintain a commercial product.

It's going to get nasty when home batteries and solar really start to become the norm and being totally reliant on the grid gets much more expensive. It's inevitable as the cost of solar and batteries keeps falling, while the cost of distribution stays the same or rises due to climate change. As ever, it will be expensive to be poor and not be able to make the up-front investment.

It might not just be a lack of appropriate compensation, although that is chronic in my country. It takes time to train people in this technology, and there is sometimes no substitute for experience. There are lots of different people needed too - some to install the batteries, some to handle the electrical side at the local level, and some to deal with them at the grid level. There can be delays anywhere along the chain.

If you look at how China did it, the government said that adding battery capacity should get priority, and even then it took them a few years to really ramp up. Also their grid is quite different, newer and with less regulatory capture. 220V as well, giving them a bit of an edge with things like EV charging and heat pumps.