Companies will hire under skilled cheap foreign labor just fine and not worry about them learning from more skilled in office domestic workers.
Companies are lying as per the usual.
Companies think AI makes up for incompetence when in reality, it just magnifies it.
What a funny thing to say about something that is literally all text. Match up the code itself with the commit message and the ticket that caused it to happen - we work in the most documented business there is.
If you don't force/write good commit messages then you get what you deserve.
If you don't force/use good issue tracking then you get what you deserve.
In general, AI now composes my commit messages. Then I delete 2/3 of it. Sometimes I'll touch it up a bit. So it is helping our process...
For every line of code in our repo I know who wrote it, when they wrote it, what they said about writing it, and why they started to write it in the first place. If you don't know those things then you (or your organization) are doing it wrong.
For all we know, what looks to you like a one-day delay is actually a three-month delay, they just had a different launch scheduled the next day.
No. Launching a rocket is not like launching a plane. You have to get it to the platform and set it all up. You have to register with the feds. It's a whole thing. And here (well, at Vandenberg) there is just one SpaceX platform at the moment. I think they are talking about building another.
Maybe they can delay for a day, but at what cost? If your guesses are accurate that is.
You might be right and maybe I have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about. Here's the thing:
https://spaceflightnow.com/lau...
If you keep an eye on that site because you live 50 miles away and like to stand in your driveway to watch launches then you start to notice things. You see the schedule slip by 24 or 48 hours on about 25% of the launches. Sometimes done ahead of time and sometimes the same day (with notes about weather delay on the spaceflightnow page) and sometimes near the last second - as verifiable because the live webcast gets scrubbed with N seconds left on the clock while the camera watches the rocket getting fueled, etc.
I may be way off on the 25% number - it could be half that. It's not double. But it's really unusual for them to slip more than a day at a time.
These launches happen nearly once/week at this point. It's not hard to see the patterns. Sadly, I could not find a good record of how often they are pushed back - I suspect because it's just not a big deal to slip a day or two for these kinds of launches. Moonshots would be a very different story. Mars even more so. But there are 10K+ starlink satellites in orbit and they go 'round every 90 minutes. I suspect they could do 90 minute slips if it were not for all the actual work that goes into a launch and the time to figure it out and the federal paperwork, etc.
To me at least, launch windows makes more sense than just making non-retail employees work on a federal holiday.
Here's the other thing: Elon is an ass. You can ask pretty much any of his current or ex employees - including myself. He doesn't much care what holiday plans he's ruining.
Launches slip *all the time*. I live about 50 miles from Vandenberg, so I keep an eye on when they go up to see if there's gonna be a good view. My guess is that about 25% of them slip - and when they do, mostly it's a 1 day slip.
So slipping to the next day can't be a big deal. Especially if you're planning it ahead of time. Unless you're pushing up against the next launch - which would be unusual.
Yes, there are windows for some satellites. But I think they are roughly daily with these.
The big lie is that everything that needs to be built is being built by big tech.
Meanwhile, we need nuclear power plants to keep up with massive growth in electricity demands.
We need desalination plants and people to dump salt in the middle of the ocean to replenish water in local ecosystems.
Those are just two obvious things.
We also need the arts, and more people reading books.
Capitalists only care about the profit in their own silo. The oligarchs are preventing more silos from being built.
That is why you tax their profits at 99% to force them to actually invest their money or pay it out to other people who can find better things to do with it than hoard it.
Dude. I'm so old I have actually used a VT100. I actually used a teletype for a few minutes for the heck of it. No punch cards, though.
I'm pretty clear on what a terminal emulator is. I've probably used one more days than not over my more than half century.
My point was: **We're totally ditching github!!** - and yet their website still links only to source on github.
Huh. What's Ghostly?
* Click link -> https://ghostty.org/
* Clcik docs -> https://ghostty.org/docs
* Top right corner [ GitHub -> ] -> https://github.com/ghostty-org...
Nope.
... until it affects rich people.
People giving up their thinking abilities is nothing new.
What part of that fiction has any connection with the reality of the 1%?
The social media platforms would rather have it treated like an R rated movie that kids can't get into than simply not run ads or show content for people they aren't explicitly connected to on the platform.
Because most people would opt for that.
Imagine only seeing content from people you follow and who follow you back.
Yes. We should all be our own FDA, EPA, and OSHA. That worked *really well* in the past.
The British traded spice. They didn't use it.
Even if we want oil to be the currency we use to manipulate the world, us using it is a very silly way to go about it because it just makes us susceptible to manipulation.
We're supposed to want OTHER people to be dependent on oil and for US to control it.
Instead it's just us shooting ourselves in the foot constantly. We're supposed to be hoarding oil to drive up prices. Not consuming it.
... Trump is a moron elected by a very vocal minority of idiots....
Yeah. I wish that were true. Trump was elected by a majority. And his current support numbers are still around 38%.
https://www.economist.com/inte...
It turns out the number of idiots if really high. And the ones running the country and enforcing the 'laws' include a lot of 'em.
I would much rather go nearly anywhere in Europe.
De Immenso et Innumerabilibus On the Infinite and the Countless By Giordano Bruno Of Nola
is essential reading. It sounds like 1950's sci fi.
"A child is a person who can't understand why someone would give away a perfectly good kitten." -- Doug Larson
