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Comment Re:Breaking news (Score 1) 222

you might as well throw some scare quotes around the word cHeMiCaLlY in your post animal flesh is made of chemicals. vegetables are made of chemicals. everything that exists is made of chemicals. your body is designed to breakdown those chemicals into things it needs to exist, regardless of if it comes from plants or animals. your post is little more than chemophobia.

Comment Conversion Quality (Score 1) 14

I'll be interested to see how these sound to the human ear. I bought some tech training videos that used these from an official source for a cert. The cadence and forced breaths had that uncanny valley vibe that made it hard not to notice. Perhaps it's less noticeable if you're just background listening for pleasure or something.

Comment New topic, same problem (Score 1) 137

I do appreciate how this attempts to shift the problem onto workers and not where the real problem lies: employers who are unwilling to promote from within or train their current staff. This has been an extremely big problem in the software engineering world for at least the last decade and it's great to see it spreading to infosec. No one wants to hire new people, no one wants to pay what senior workers are worth. They want senior devs for intern pay with no training budget, and they're only willing to hire the specific unicorn who has experience with the exact tech stack they use. And when they have problems finding people to take these roles, they go crying to Uncle Sam that they need to offshore jobs or hire people from other countries because there's just no way to find American workers who fit their needs. The problem gets worse because they're all doing it! They all expect someone else to train and promote so that they themselves can poach those experienced devs. But there's no one to poach when they all refuse to promote! But yes, it's very good to see this exact issue spreading to other tech work. Glad to see exactly nothing was learned over the last ten years. This bodes very well for the economy, safety, and prosperity of the American public.

Comment Ask a software engineer (Score 1) 203

For this to all be a simulation, there must be some sort of software running, perfectly, without experiencing any errors, for an extended period of time. This is, to put it mildly, impossible. There are a theoretical infinite number of edge cases to account for, and there's just no way software could be written to account for all of those. The source code would take up more space than all the atoms in the entire universe. All of that aside, this is my least favorite thing to speculate about. Even if it is true, which we have basically no way to confirm - it's like asking for proof a deity exists, but even if we can prove it's true, which we can't, what do we then do with that information?

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