I look forward to 25 years of small and open-source players just using Bellman-Ford and Dijkstra instead because the RFC for this algorithm is unreadably opaque and the reference implementation is in FORTRAN.

Aw, man. I was pushing for direct deposit of my paycheck to chips at the Bellagio. Maybe next time.

Wait, they're charging extra for security updates? That doesn't sound right. Is that a thing?

Once again we see that it is success that is the true enemy of art.

At some point, the simplest explanation that accounts for all observed cosmological phenomena is that the universe is just messing with us.

Yeah. I mean, in this case we're literally talking about bureaus.

Nice try, but everybody knows your so-called "IT best practices" are really just computer vaccines. And I heard that "tech experts" are now broadcasting 5G from CELL PHONE towers!

Well, they do say that advanced credentials are generally construed by personnel departments less as a signal of proficiency per se in a given discipline, and more a signal that the applicant is serious about that discipline, which is itself strongly associated with proficiency in that discipline. But of course these people aren't serious about anything, so who cares?

I'm not sure what argument one could give that would convince the guy who responded to a story about the OceanGate implosion with "regulation is out of control".

Basically, the OceanGate guy used his the force field of his personal and corporate wealth to exempt himself and his noticeably shitty business from all the very necessary safety checks. Many such, as the kids say, cases.

I pumped a cup of oil out of the ground and replaced this guy's coffee with it. Let's see if he notices.

Don't hold your breath for anything to change in our lifetime. We're still firmly in the "Four out of five doctors recommend Lucky Smokes for improved vigor!" phase of the response to pervasive environmental plastic pollution.

"21. Editors"

I mean, it depends on what you mean by "editing". An LLM correcting errors in spelling? Sure. Grammar and punctuation? I guess: most people couldn't tell if it's right anyway.

An LLM doing fact checking? That is, uh, not their wheelhouse?

Whoa, a downvote. Usually I know beforehand when something I say is going to be "controversial", i.e. unpopular. But from time to time the polls can still surprise me. Somebody out there likes YouTube comments enough that they'll actually stick up for them. It's kind of sweet, honestly.

"For entry-level engineers at Level 57..."

So the higher the number, the lower the level? Like dungeon levels? Kinda weird, but okay. But even for a massive conglomerate, that seems like a lot of lev--

"At Microsoft's highest tier, Level 70..."

What the fuck? They have 56 levels they don't even use? Is level 5 for newborn children? Is level 1 for extraterrestrials?