Children and teens don't get digitally competent by handing them electronic gadgets. They get competent by learning the difference between a value and a variable, what conditions are and what a loop is.

Obviously. If the state of things and the current rate of change are anything to go by, entry level coding jobs aren't the only jobs to "worry" about.

No tolerance for those either? Yeah? Nice, good stuff. Keep going.

If not, good luck!

Obviously. Yeah, they spread themselves a little to thin and tried everything and the kitchen sink for current gen, right after initially botching their last gen launch epic style, but it's still a console and anybody who knows anything about videogaming knows this. This sensationalist headlining is super-annoying, isn't it?

... totally next level. The amount of science, engineering and precision that go into these is mind-boggling. The shoot 50k tin microdropplets per second and hit each one with a laser, with an error margin of 0 (zero). Quite impressive.

Looking at bizarre shit-show that is morning and evening commute here in Germany and the insane waste caused by the infrastructure required to keep office workers "working" and those countless bullshit-jobs afloat, I have to say he has a point. How heavy that one weighs or how valid it finally is I can't say just now, but he does have a point.

I feel totally confident solving problems with PLs I wouldn't have touched with a ten-foot pole just a year back, due to AI.

Example: The legacy application I am currently maintaining and replacing is totally borked with piles of spagetti-code and shitty, amateurish or simply non-existent architecture. However, I do have to add logic to this already unmaintainable system so I often just push larger portions of that logic further down into the DB and SQL.

SQL _is_ turing complete, but actually developing applications using mostly or only SQL is reserved for very strange/special people still stuck in the 70ies mainframe era or something. Beyond some joins I would never do anything with this PL and move all more complex logic into the application layer.

But with AI writing SQL I feel confident to do such a thing. I _can_ understand what the code does and fix smaller mistakes the AI makes, but actually looking up the syntax and writing it myself would be a complete waste of time and energy to me. With AI absolutely not. It is strange using this PL I normally wouldn't and in this specific scenario it is a stop-gap for reasons unrelated to the tech-stack, but the AI puts out solid code and even corrects my SQL quick-hacks for commits I did myself.

For me the state of things right now is the following: Current AI is basically an API documentation you can talk to, with a premium expert attached. For all PLs that have enough documentation and demo-code available online and enough code-repos of functioning open-source projects for AIs to source information from, AI is a totally viable main programmer if you take your time to lead it well, hand-hold it along the way and double-check the code it generates and avoid any "vibe-coding" bullsh1t.

I would totally feel confident in taking on projects and tasks with APIs or PLs I haven't used yet but am interested in and consider wide-spread enough for AI to know well. I've actually considered doing something like that, like some Rust CLI project or something, just to learn the PL along the way.

And I expect all this AI progging to only improve even further, and quite quickly so.

Got one of those in my pocket already, thanks.

... for Pinterest. Good for them.

... from the crimes committed on Rape Island. We've seen this exact same thing before. I hope you guys find a way to put these perpetually lying turbo-criminal thugs before a court real soon. Keeping my fingers crossed from across the pond.

Disclaimer: European here.

While structural changes are due and the French are way overdue with loosening some of their very cushy labor laws and pension mechanisms, this whining sounds a lot like corporate propaganda to me.

For one, many large critical or significant corps throughout Europe score obscene amounts of subsidies and bail-outs when times are tough and experience first-class treatment by their governments when it comes to protecting their markets.

Then there is the modern capitalist LLC structure that can juggle bankruptcy and labor responsibilities with comparatively litte effort and some LLC and holdings wired up in the right way to enable creative ledgering.

I presume this to be propaganda to loosen labor laws in general or it's whining from large corps that they can't just turn nimble on a dime by dumping thousands of employees on a whim, despite having all the benefits mentioned above.

I'm not buying this. This sound 100% akin to the nonsense about "shortage of skilled labor" and other bullshit we constantly hear here in Germany and in other places. Corporate bullshit propaganda, that's what it is. Nothing else.

IIRC glass is a very slow flowing, ultra extremly viscose liquid. Old glass in church windows is thicker at the bottom due to this. Are they sure that glass can retain micro-etched information for 10k years considering this?

I certainly did _not_ have Ethiopia in my top list of progressive environmentally aware ueber-hipster compliant countries but you never know.

Two thinks do make sense though:

1.) It's totally logical for Afrika to skip any outdated ICE tech and infrastructure and go strait to the good new stuff.

2.) Quite a few parts of Afrika have been gaining traction and gotten on top of things. Ruanda has a rise in womans rights and participation due to the exorbitant male death toll from that civil war / epically uncivil slaughtering a few decades back. Botswana is a doorstep country closing in on a bona-fide first-world situation fast. IIRC there are quite a few other countries on a similar trajectory.

I hope for Afrika and the world that this encouraging trend continues.

That's probably the reason it's a speaker and not a screen, correct? But then again, booking payments is only numbers, which shouldn't be that difficult. Any Indians here who can shed some light on this?

Just what assets have "depreciated significantly" when the DOW is at an all time high, and real estate, as well

The katamaran he lives on. And the gold bars he put aside for a rainy day.