The point is: people do not know HTML etc. and just want to sell cakes.
The point is: they are starting now to sell cakes and do not have the funds to pay 30 hours of my work - without AI.
But they have the funds to pay me one hour - with AI.

And why would they not be majour break throughs?

If you are researching on a topic for 5 years or more and finally have a result: it is a majour break through.

Regardless how minuscule you feel about the result.

Well, they are just the same script, with different starting parameters.
Potentially recursively calling itself ...

I agree. The postmodern deconstructionism was to the point where it was denying biology. A few of my more left wing female relatives cannot define what a woman or even male or female is, and they are firmly convinced that men playing women's sports is a natural thing, because men and women are physically identical.

They still believe that it is important to transition as early as possible, with drugs and surgery, and that we must cherish children's right to change their sex, even though DNA testing defines male and female, and does so post surgery.

And before the apologists claim otherwise, in GB they were pumping drugs into children as young as 9, and in the US they were performing great amputation surgery and drug intervention on children.

So. unless they want more trumpian rule, yeah, time to drop the insanity.

Because where does this end? I can declare that I am a wooly caterpillar and that must be accepted.

I hope so. Whatever we are experiencing at present is not competence, and the right wing party are embarrassing cowards. They are just as bad as the woke. Woke are objectively nuts, the far right are an insult to adulthood, fearful and almost beneath contempt.

Coding in C is not complicated.

So, nobody knows how to code in C anymore This is a stupid sentence. Perhaps by one who never programmed anything.

However why would anyone use a low level language if he can use a high level one, which makes him more productive, and potentially reduces defect rates?

Imagine writing an App for a smartphone in C, when you can use Swift, Dart or Java (and its derivates like Kotlin): that would not make any sense at all.

If the C code does something unsafe, how can it be machine-translated into safe Rust, without knowing the intention of the programmer?
I would assume that is what the PhD is about: figuring that out.

Or Thailand.
$12 for fibre, unlimited data. They have so much fibre there, no one bothers to meter usage or even have special low price contracts for low usage.

Of course if you live in a random yahoo village, it might eb a bit different.

This is gibberish. Do you think the CMTS has come kind of PEP built into it or there is some sort of multicast going on? I can't even figure out what you are trying to say
Then learn to read.

Nonsense. Cable operators allocate a large number of downstream channels and a limited number of upstream channels on the RF. From what I remember cable modems don't even support more than 8 upstream channels. I never saw more than 4.
That is not nonsense. As that is exactly what I said.
Part of the bandwidth is reserved for downstream, the other part for upstream. Does not make the upstream in any way crappy. It is just intentionally so that they only give 15% pr 25% of the downstream bandwidth as upstream. And: on upstream everyone is competing with each other.

Downstream can be cashed. No idea what there is not to be grasped about.

Perhaps he is a dofus, how should I know?

Fact is: the Wifi is slower than the fiber. And most likely his ethernet is slower as well.

No, idea. Try to uncheck it and check it again?

I also had no mod points for 10 years, since 2 years I get them sometimes again. Pretty rare actually.

20 years ago I had daily modpoints, sometimes up to 25.

The most accessible in a few clicks is the UK.
And I was talking about Germany.

That you regularly have no wind in winter in UK: is hard to believe.

This is what happens when you have people with degrees in literature or media studies or some kind of vague social subjects enthusiastically
That might eb a problem, but at least they are not yahoos :P

Well, I'm pretty sure your bank has a web interface, so you don't have to use the banking app to do your banking.

Your work auth app may be more complex - if it's TOTP, you might be able to export the seed and key and there are plenty TOTP generators. (It's also one of the easiest programming assignments to do so any competent programmer should be able to come up with something in under an hour without vibe coding). Unfortunately there are a few TOTP systems that make it extremely difficult to get the seed and key values to use a third party TOTP generator.

Your state legal filing app, well, I'm sure there's a web based version of that as well - I can't imagine the state restricting legal filings to owners of Android or Apple phones.

Now, the car sharing app might be more complex - I think most car sharing sites have regular websites so you can book them from the desk, but there is also a good possibility a lot of them are app only for no good reason. Though many do use app based "car keys" which use some NFC thing to control the car.

No need for that, just store coolness in the house. Chill the house sooner, it's not just air, the mass of the house itself also cools.

Jane Jacobs wrote a great book on civilization collapse in 2004 titled "Dark Age Ahead":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
        "Dark Age Ahead is a 2004 book by Jane Jacobs describing what she sees as the decay of five key "pillars" in "North America": community and family, higher education, science and technology, taxes and government responsiveness to citizen's needs, and self-regulation by the learned professions. She argues that this decay threatens to create a Dark Age unless the trends are reversed. Jacobs characterizes a Dark Age as a "mass amnesia" where even the memory of what was lost is lost."

She makes many good points. That said, like John Gardner wrote in the 1964, "Every generation must learn for themselves what the words on the monuments mean":
"Self-renewal : the individual and the innovative society"
https://archive.org/details/se...
        "The only stability possible is stability in motion."--John William Gardner
        In his classic treatise Self-Renewal, John W. Gardner examines why great societies thrive and die. He argues that it is dynamism, not decay, that is dramatically altering the landscape of American society. The twentieth century has brought about change more rapidly than any previous era, and with that came advancements, challenges, and often destruction. Gardner cautions that "a society must court the kinds of change that will enrich and strengthen it, rather than the kind of change that will fragment and destroy it."
        A society's ability to renew itself hinges upon its individuals. Gardner reasons that it is the waning of the heart and spirit--not a lack of material might--that threatens American society. Young countries, businesses, and humans have several key commonalities: they are flexible, eager, open, curious, unafraid, and willing to take risks. These conditions lead to success. However, as time passes, so too comes complacency, apathy, and rigidity, causing motivation to plummet. It is at this junction that great civilizations fall, businesses go bankrupt, and life stagnates. Gardner asserts that the individual's role in social renewal requires each person to face and look beyond imminent threats.
        Ultimately, we need a vision that there is something worth saving. Through this vision, Gardner argues, society will begin to renew itself, not permanently, but past its average lifespan, and it will at once become enriched and rejuvenated."

Also on ideas from that book: https://fluidself.org/books/ps...
        "Every individual, organization or society must mature, but much depends on how this maturing takes place. A society whose maturing consists simply of acquiring more firmly established ways of doing things is headed for the graveyard--even if it learns to do these things with greater and greater skill. In the ever-renewing society what matures is a system or framework within which continuous innovation, renewal and rebirth can occur.
        Our thinking about growth and decay is dominated by the image of a single life-span, animal or vegetable. Seedling, full flower and death. "The flower that once has blown forever dies." But for an ever-renewing society the appropriate image is a total garden, a balanced aquarium or other ecological system. Some things are being born, other things are flourishing, still other things are dying--but the system lives on. ..."

For example, as I wrote elsewhere on July 4th, even as the USA is facing political issues, the internet has become a place where people provide each other support about health issues in a Patch-Adams-style participatory wellness community. That is an amazing revolution in itself. As Patch Adams said: "The most revolutionary act one can commit in our world is to be happy. (Patch Adams)" Or, I'd add, to help others be happy too.
https://soylentnews.org/commen...

I think a big part of self-renewal in our society may come from both humans and their AIs learning to laugh at the irony in my sig: "The biggest challenge of the 21st century is the irony of technologies of abundance in the hands of those still thinking in terms of scarcity."

Not in 2003 it wasn't