Nice.

The Internet is a communication medium. It allows faster and richer content. Before that was television. It allowed faster and richer content. Before that was radio, still faster and richer than what came before it -- newspapers on the backs of horses and carried by steam trains, with black on white text painstakingly typeset and out of date before they hit the street so you could "read all about it." today your phone reads to you the best of CNN, MSNBC, Wired, Fox, USA Today, Facebook, 4Chan, and whatever swill X has and big Orange Julius Caesar says.

The Internet was never the problem, and one day it too will be as obsolete as a newspaper, just something you use as a large soaking coffee coaster or a Fish N' Chips wrapper. The real problem is the untethered hostility represented by people using the 'net to spew. It's not enough that they have running water and even sinks and toilets. They think it's their right to take a dump on anything and any one -- particularly if told to by Trump. Dumb.

I you hang out with face-eating leopards, one day you'll wake up to the sound of your own screams as the leopards eat your face. Take the L now and quit spewing and stop suggesting that EVERYONE must not have Intternetz becaause your feels might get hurtz.

Ehud

Cool, you can say bad things about Trump.

Now say something bad about Xi Jinping. You can't do it. You are a slave, not human.

The problem with living in an authoritarian state, it's impossible to take an economics class based in science.

If you had learned about economics, you might have learned about "dividends" and "regulations based on rule of law."

Inflation is great for making people feel rich.

You literally can now, that was one of the first things changed by Elon.

Go to Twitter and click on the "Following" tab. It even remains selected between visits, so you don't have to see the AI shovelware unless you click on the other tab.

The enshittification continues. Ruin things in the name of profit.

The uncomfortable truth is that a significant portion of the population prefers the enshittified feed, otherwise it wouldn't be profitable.

The Reddit algorithm is really weird anyway. It is an illogical mix of "recent" and "popular" that sometimes includes things that are neither recent, nor popular.

For programmers, you need to be able to get the computer to do what you want it to do (with code).That is the baseline. There are other things that can be learned, but without that baseline, I'm going to need to review literally every line of the candidate's code (if they get hired), and I'd rather not do that.

It depends on what I'm trying to determine. If I'm trying to determine if they can use AI, then yes I will let them use it.

If I'm trying to determine if they can think (or control the computer), probably not. If they are having trouble, one of the interviewers can pretend to be AI and give answers. In the past I've had one of the interviewers pretend to be auto-complete, since the candidate depended on that, and I care if they can logic, not if they've memorized all the function names.

I have to use Wayland, you insensitive clod!

I give a coding interview to determine, "Can this candidate get the computer to do what they want?" Coding problems are a quick way of determining that. Of course, I could give them a month long task and see if they can complete that, but no one will tolerate that.

If a person can't manage to give reasonable, logical instructions to a computer, the LLM isn't going to help.

"Clearing the neighborhood" ought to include also the possibility of two planets in the same orbit on opposite sides of the sun. In any case I was hoping to start good conversation and I think I succeeded.

There are multiple proposed definitions for "clear the neighborhood.'

And it turns out that your logic is better than the IAU, also.

That's what happens when you get a dwarf boat.