I'm not a programmer and I haven't found Copilot to be helpful for anything except trivial cleanup of Excel sheets, but last week I was talking with my brother who works for one of the big software companies and I was surprised that he told a story almost exactly the same as yours (minus the extremely competent coworkers).

He also observed that junior programmers were being entirely cut out, and that at this time no one had an answer for what to do about that. When I asked about his own job in a year or two, he rejected the idea of his own obsolescence, stating that it's a tool that needs guidance. For his sake, I certainly hope he's correct, but although my job is much further from this sort of automation than his, I am not sure I share his confidence. At minimum, I can see it seriously impacting junior engineering roles at my company in the future, mirroring what it has already done on the programming side.

Word is asking these days, or at least throwing an annoying dialog box (Reddit) every time I open a document noting that I haven't given Word permission to use my location (as you noted, why does it need it?) Come to think of it, I don't remember it having asked for location permission...

Came here for these comments. Left satisfied.

Not sure about the economic black hole and I can't be bothered to look up the hyperbole of the time, but it has been legitimate news for a long time and it doesn't look to be over yet: Evergrande collapse.

Often the truth lies between the argument someone is trying to make that is embellished and the reaction against that argument.

From what you've said, I'm not as attractive as you. Nevertheless, you should try icardin/picardin-based products as they are much less offensive than Deet but work almost as well as the 40% Deet against mosquitoes. It's nearly useless on flies and the bottle seems to loose efficacy after the first year, but definitely worth it so I end up buying a new bottle each year.

My wife and kids have been travelling overseas to see family on an annual basis for some years. Based on watching those fares over months, I can confidently say that there are many, many different price points for people in the same class of seat on a large plane. Sometimes I have checked from different devices with no impact (yet?).

In the video, he says this happened because the ascent engine failed to eject as it should have (and did on a previous test).

Canada has basically implemented a version of that and now distributes alternative opioids to addicts for free. Here's a description of the situation in Toronto, but I hear about this issue reflected across the country in small towns and big cities alike (the same paper has a series of articles on the free opioids if you want to learn about the issue): https://nationalpost.com/opinion/decriminalizing-is-beside-the-point .

In the small town where my parents live, I was talking with a little old lady volunteering in a second hand shop and she calmly described how although she felt strongly that the change room should be available, they always had to monitor access, and that the first person to use it after reopening it after covid had been you know, gestures at her arm and they'd had to call the cops because he stumbled out and collapsed unconscious on the floor. But it didn't bother her, being open-minded and all. (How could this not bother you? Shouldn't it bother you?!)

It's ridiculous that you all remember these numbers from years ago!! -15150430

Touche!

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The same argument can be applied to almost everything, from your fancy frothy drinks themselves to air travel to bigger houses to using more fuel by speeding on the highway. It's effectively limitless, with the bigger ticket items having a much larger impact. My government is eliminating single use plastics (the paper straws now work much better than when they were first introduced, which this article seems to explain!) but it's hard to see that making a significant difference while likely making like disproportionately more difficult, especially for poorer people. Never mind that they're also pushing much higher levels of immigration to my affluent country. Determining the cutoff for what is environmentally acceptable is a very difficult and contentious process. Anyone have any ideas for a (completely theoretical) sustainable approach? A non-transferable carbon dioxide quota per person on earth? Or maybe a freely transferable one?

What's the difference between a canoe and a Canadian?... Canadians don't tip. (Sadly, it's an expectation in restaurants and for drivers in Canada and percentages are going up, but we definitely don't match the US for locations where tips are expected.)

Even better: keep paying or we take your car back. Oh wait...

I'd say there's an awful lot of misplaced faith in the absolute superiority of a mechanical system on display here! My uncle's a mechanic and he claimed that all the (mechanical) parking brakes on older automatics are broken because the cables sit there unused and rusting. This may have come up in the context of my 12+ year old manual whose parking brake started feeling looser (I used it all the time); apparently, there are two cables to the brake/brakes, and one of the two cables had given out.

I read part of the paper (sorry, see nickname, it won't happen again) and the primary reactions involved in reducing the iron involve carbon monoxide as a reactant and CO2 as a product. So while you are correct that oxygen is being extracted from the ore, the coke (coal) used as an input is already being oxidized (burned) to carbon monoxide using air/oxygen prior to its use in reducing the iron oxides.