Germany has a housing crisis? No it hasn't. It has a market crisis. There is more empty space than people seeking an apartment/house. The amount of empty office buildings, is absurd.
Germany is atm run into a small catastrophe by "the real estate mafia"
What are you even replying to? No housing crisis was mentioned. Are you schizophrenic?
and no one wants to be looking out their back door onto a solar or wind farm.
I don't fully understand this sentiment. Is that really how the average person feels?
The issue here isn't automation. We're on Slashdot so the average reader very well understands the incentives of automation. It's what do we do when automation displaces far too many people so fast that society can't keep up as it currently operates.
At an average of 100k per employee that's "only" $130 million. Let's assume $200 million paid out in total compensation to executives (let's say they had a really good last few years). At 0.1% we're only getting 200k, so unfortunately not even close.
Even at 10% of their total compensation (and good luck prying that out of their cold, greedy, hands), you're "only" at $20 million. You can keep the over-achievers I guess but morale is going to tank. You'd have to cut total compensation for executives by 65% to cover these employees in this imagined scenario.
Now, I'm not arguing for the executives, I'm all about less compensation for them and more for those that are on the ground churning out real products; I just can't help myself with some good ol napkin maths.
... we used to be able to get bored? Just sit there and not really do anything. Now we can hardly go for a walk without taking our phones out 100 times. None of this is surprising; I experience it myself. Reading a book *today* is a mental gymnastic I desperately need to sharpen again before it gets even worse.
So from this, we can safely assume that either their code quality is an abomination or their architecture is, and possibly both. If that's not true, then it's nothing short of a miracle.
No assumptions necessary. https://github.com/tanbiralam/...
FOSS from the US will certainly be part of that transition too.
Let me just stop you right there.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [Louis Rossman on New York's Attempt at Pushing 3D Printing Laws]
No company is ever going to release a commercial quantum computer of any kind.
Anyone who wants to disagree with me can do so by betting against me in Kalshi. I will gladly take your money. If you are unwilling to put your money where oyur mouth is, I'm just going to ignore you.
How does one resolve the bolded-text as a bet though? I'll happily make a few dollars on your side of the coin for the 2029 prediction, but you can't realistically make the second statement then tell people who disagree to "just go bet against me on Kalshi".
I feel like there's this other technology that's just been a few years away for the last 50+ years... Any day now...
maybe the next war can be entirely robotic and we can leave soldiers out of it.
Or we could like... y'know... stop killing each other over what a few tyrant leaders want. There will never be a war without soldiers because that would be the last line of defense in this rose-y scenario. Might as well just be Battle Bots where the war is decided in a cage match.
So, I don't mind documentation, but will say that management is often loathe to allocate enough time for it to be done/maintained well.
This part. I feel like it's ALWAYS this part. No time for documentation/keeping it up-to-date, no time for desperately needed custom tooling even with huge user buy-in, no time for anything you can't immediately sell to someone for a quick buck.
I'm not sure about that. I remember our first desktop back in 2000~ was not cheap by any means... and had Windows ME... *shivers*
... have stopped caring.
This... I feel like this is just the pervasive world we live in recently. I want to literally turn off the internet, AI, everything, and just go read my "Best Practices in C" book alone in the woods and just forget about how messed up software has gotten in the 15 years I've personally been around the industry and can't imagine how those who've been around decades longer even feel about all this crazy business at this point.
That's evident in your ramblings.
There's this weird panic in the tech industry right now that I can't quite put my finger on; but I very much believe that companies cutting too many employees in the name of AI efficiency are going to have one hell of a reckoning in the coming year or two.
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