Or, you know... go rock climbing or backpacking or bowling.
There is a big overlap in the Venn diagram between the crowd that wants to spice up chess, and those who don't understand that there are already plenty of other fun things to do besides chess. When I get bored with chess, I just take a break for a year or two.
I would suggest the same minimum criteria as when I was a young comp-sci major in the 80's - the Turing test.
If I can't distinguish the AI from a real human, even after an involved conversation, then I can use the same criteria on it that I do on any other human. I know how to query a nurse or a computer repair guy or an auto mechanic to get a feel for how much I should trust them. That's because I have well-established systems (albeit unconscious ones) to conduct those tests. Once the AI can pose as human, I just use the same tests.
JFC I can't believe how politically clueless you guys are. These proposals have been in play for literally decades, and have been well thought out - by many policy makers. Just because you're hearing about them for the first time in 2025, doesn't mean we came up with them at a drunken New Years party last week. Here you go:
https://www.taxgirl.com/2010/0...
Note the date - 2010. If we'd started doing this back then, call center jobs would be American right now. You'd have some housewife in Dubuque picking up, not someone in Bangalore. But now every call you make is answered in India.
If companies opt to replace support with outsourced email, you TAX THAT AS WELL. AI bots? Tax them. Pretty soon the mega-corps will get the idea that anytime they come up with something that hurts American jobs, they'll get their peepees smacked. It won't take long for that lesson to sink in.
Companies don't like uncertainty. If there's even the slightest hint that their offshore call centers are going to become useless, they won't invest in the infrastructure. But right now it's easier for them to pay lobbyists to keep all this legislation from passing, so that a 23 year old has to send out 500 resumes to even get an interview.
Again, cluesslessness. I'm in management - been in IT a long time. We literally have companies offering seminars to show us how to lay off our American workers, put out carefully crafted ads that will allow us to hire H-1B's, and save a ton of money. They offer details on exactly what to do to make those job openings only apply to foreign workers, so that we can claim they can't be filled by Americans.
Protectionism works. It's only tech bros who are still living in 1993, and thinking free trade is in America's best interest. Read this. The guy's not some crackpot, *cough*Nobel*cough*
Yes, yes, my friend, you're on the same page as me! If we cut those H-1B's, then all the work will be off-sourced. Because there's absolutely no way we can put some sort of "tax" (I hate using that evil word) on outsourced work, to keep it in the US. No, pure impossible. No way to do it. It's probably even against the Constitution! There's no way we can put a 30% tariff on work outsourced to Bangalore. I don't want any of y'all geeks even thinking of stuff like that! Keep flying those libertarian flags and competing against the kafala workers.
... sorry, H-1B, we call them kafala in business circles, but you weren't supposed to hear that...
One of my crazy liberal buddies was talking about some legislative proposal, where we would tax outsourced call center calls at $1 per minute, and raise it from there. That's pure commie madness! All of a sudden, call center jobs are going to go to American housewives working from home and taking care of their babies, instead of a hardworking brown dude in Mumbai who can work 17 hours a day without overtime! Lib madness!
I know that y'all are very book-smart with your slide rules and mechanical mouses and whatnot, but I'm a businessman (I read Art of the Deal five dang times) so I'm going to put all of you at ease. Business is a completely different beast from whatever you do at the keyboard. And me and my buddies have a plan, so all you have to do is have some faith in modern economical theory.
See, it's just like trickle-down economics, except with jobs. We're going to bring in a whole bunch of H-1B workers to do the technical jobs that Americans don't want to do, like slaving away in those hot rooms where all the servers are, and also building "databases" because my dashboard window thing says we need more. Then eventually we'll have so many jobs that there are not enough people in India and China to cover the positions, and there will be plenty of jobs for Americans.
See? It's so simple. Hang tight, because my good buddy is going to be in charge very soon. I know what I'm doing. I can't give you my real name here, so just call me Adrian.
Yes, it would be nice if we evolved beyond violence. But consider this analogy...
Ralph sees a $250 pair of heavy selvedge denim jeans that he absolutely loves, and he thinks is worth every penny. The store has all sizes in stock. He has a size 44 waist right now, but has been trying to lose weight for the last two decades, and doesn't want to buy a size 44 because then if he loses weight, he'll have a useless pair of jeans.
So he buys a size 36, all excited about how his new jeans are going to look on him.
Is this a good or bad decision? I think most of us will agree that the nice new jeans are going to gather dust in his closet, most likely permanently.
That's the same thing modern progressives are doing when they make all their plans around a world free of violence. Right now, people with guns effect change - from way before I was born, when they were storming Normandy. Even Karl Marx was an advocate of arming the workers. And I doubt it's going to change in my lifetime. So make plans that work, not plans that rely on rosy visions of enlightenment.
Then change the power connector - that's the simplest and most effective solution. There are 36V 10A connectors we use at work that are smaller than Molex - more than enough for any graphics card (or the whole computer for that matter).
The vendor is trying to pull an Apple - muscle a proprietary technology through based on market share, and then "own the standard". Fuck the greedy pricks.
Your CFO giving out their password and 2FA information absolutely IS a failure of your IT department. In the same way that if a fire breaks out, and no one knows how to use the fire extinguisher, it's an organizational failure. User training needs to be ongoing and persistent. We run phishing tests routinely and identify the users who fall for it, then follow up with them. Users who fall for the hoaxes are down to 1-2% now. And there's an additional level for senior management and finance staff. Those training requirements are non-negotiable.
This was something interesting that Richard Marcinko found in his shenanigans. He was able to penetrate almost all the secure military compounds he went into, with one exception, the Delta compound. He said the difference wasn't technology - it was that everyone within the Delta compound down to the janitorial staff were always alert and always on the lookout for intruders.
The goal isn't perfection. It's to get the failure rate so low that it might as well be zero."
Coldest I've biked in is -12F, with wind chill of -30F. It becomes more of an issue of keeping inner layers dry when you get down that low. Once you know how to adjust the layers, it's nowhere near as uncomfortable as most people imagine. And these days the software controlled heated socks and gloves are insanely good, if you can budget for them.
Most cultures have some version of the old Irish proverb: "'There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing."
You guys aren't getting the point... the status quo is fantastic for those of us who need daylight EITHER in the morning or evening, so before or after work.
On Friday, sunrise was around 6:15am here. That was plenty of time for me to get a good run in before work.
On Monday, I won't have enough time in the morning, but sunset will be at 7:05pm, so I smoothly transition to evening outdoor workouts instead, and get a bike ride in when I get home at 6. If you left DST in place year around, I wouldn't have enough time in the morning to work out in winter, because the days are short. And a half hour adjustment is even worse.
Avoid strange women and temporary variables.
