The rest of the world crosses their fingers.

And definitely not that the college kids these days literally don't read and occasionally don't know arithmetic beyond the middle school level.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/1...

https://www.kpbs.org/news/educ...

It's totally not anything within one's own control. It's absolutely the outside forces conspiring against you.

Almost makes one admire the stereotypical millenial liberal arts grad slinging coffees or flipping burgers. At least *he* didn't think he's too good for gainful employment that may be outside his formal training.

Firstly it's very funny that you acknowledge the thing I said is real, then you declare "except when I do it" and then you do the exact thing I described and act smug like you're being clever. Well potato brains, you're not, you're just another old man yelling at the kids on his lawn about how their music sucks.

Second for you to take any creed in what that guy is describing and then support the social-media-Presidency and the destruction of education institutions is also very fucking on point for you.

But what am I saying, you don't believe any this, it's all a bit.

Oh. I like having a moderate sized screen, about the size of an iPad Mini, for Android Auto and the camera views. My car also has a glass instrument panel which is really nice. It does, however, model physical instruments (speedometer and tach) for ease of reading. It's all the other chrome around the gauges which is nice (next turn, fuel efficiency, performance stats, entertainment details). Is it crucial? Absolutely not. Is it nice? Sure is.

To calibrate you, the car also has a heads-up display for navigation, alerts, and speed. That's one of those "once you try it you're never going back" features. It's so great not having to take my eyes off the road. I'd lose any display save for that one.

I don't generally use the touchscreen controls. It's quite difficult to do that while driving. I'm with you that physical controls are very important for anything you do while the vehicle is moving.

I use Android Auto in my car and that's great for maps and entertainment. It's better the software which comes bundled with the car. The beauty is my car, a BMW, comes with it's fabulous in-console controller, which lets me do virtually everything without moving my hand. Yes, it's a touchscreen, but I almost never use that aspect of it. My impression is other cars have adopted that paradigm.

It still doesn't handle the vehicle controls (heater, AC, sensors). I've got physical HVAC controls, and that's a necessity. All the other sensors (oil level, air pressure, brake pad thickness, etc. etc.) go through the car's software but for as often as I use that, I don't really care what the controls are like.

>"Here's an ambiguous prompt that will delete all your extensions, themes, and custom settings if you answer "yes". "

Yeah, I really hate that thing. I really don't understand why they added that "feature." In any case, it can be disabled. Go to about:config , create a new boolean with the name âoebrowser.disableResetPromptâ and set it to âoetrueâ. Or manually add to your prefs.cfg:

lockPref("browser.disableResetPrompt", true);

>"Firefox users were choosing Startpage long before today"

Yep. I have been using StartPage and DuckDuckGo as my sole search engines for many years. DDG has been included in Firefox for quite a while, but not StartPage. So I am glad to see it added, although adding it yourself is not difficult.

StartPage is essentially Google search without Google spying on you and without AI and other annoyances.

DuckDuckGo is essentially Bing without Microsoft spying on your and without some of the annoyances.

And vice cersa.

I've always found that if you want to see what's really happening in Ukraine without actually visiting it, twitter is basically the only clearnet place that has it. Here's why: Everywhere else censors it. Even the guys on youtube who hate twitter because Elon still post to twitter anyways, because that's where their sources always end up. Another kicker is that if it weren't for Elon, twitter would be no better than youtube in this regard: Chasing sponsors, chasing views, all at the expense of the raw, unedited truth of what's actually happening out there.

This is just a fact. Whether you like it or not is notwithstanding.

You're talking about the headquarters of Fox News? Turns out young successful people with options like big cities. It turns out older successful people with options don't mind commuting to cities. Sorry to burst your ignorant world view. I guarantee you that the people who chose to set these businesses up know a lot more than you about the market. Perhaps urban living is not for you, but I like it, my company likes it, and most of our peers like it.

Also, fuck off with the Marxist/Islamist comment. You clearly don't know a fucking thing about either. There are few things in life a Marxist or Islamist would hate more than NYC. That's like calling Alabama "Gay Paradise"...or Saudi Arabia the new porn capital of the world. If you're going to throw around words, do the world a favor and learn what they mean first. They have meaning outside your head, so try choosing the correct words instead of bullshit you made up.

I think what you meant to say is "I don't like the notion of living in San Francisco or New York City, two cities I've clearly never lived in or visited because some Newsmax/OAN part time commentator who couldn't even get on Fox News called them Marxist Islamist Bastions". You know Marxism and Islam and fundamentally incompatible with each other, right? Perhaps you should phrase it as "I am scared of major cities because I lack the basic life skills to thrive in any environment other than the one I was born into and I lack the talent and appeal to have anyone attempt to get me to live anywhere but my most basic comfort zone...whether it be an employer or a girlfriend." ..."But hey, shitting on a religion I know nothing about and a political ideology I clearly know less about and America's biggest city will make me less of a loser, right?"

And for the non-trolls...OK, SF/NYC...not for you....kewl...you miss out on these jobs...find one elsewhere. If your mind is that rigid you can't travel for a good job...well....one of 2 scenarios are probable: you probably aren't a rockstar at your job or...their loss! I've worked with and met many ELITE professionals. NONE of them whine or bitch about the office, the commute, the coffee, etc. They're razor focused on crushing it at work during the day and pursuing passions on weekends. If they're working for a major employer, they're well rewarded for their efforts and making enough money to afford to live in a nice place near work...or commuting and racking up so much money they don't care.

I agree, especially with that last part. They have no idea what they are missing. I'm a gamer, and I have nothing but respect for game devs. You guys make life *fun*. :) As I mentioned, I am a sysadmin, not a coder. But -- with the help of an LLM I vibe coded two successful mods for a couple of my favorite games and figured out (again, with the help of an LLM) to get one of them published to Steam's workshop. At my college commencement thirty-odd years ago, my CS advisor noted that in his 25 years on faculty, I was the only graduate who genuinely couldn't code his way out of a wet paper bag. Fair assessment. But an LLM bridges the gap between architectural intent and actual syntax, which lets me build things in my head. I keep getting the feeling that the anti-AI backlash is coming from the same kind of people that blame their tools when they screw up. I'm a baby with a flamethrower when it comes to using an LLM to write code for me, but I figured out (eventually) how to put guardrails around *everything* so that the LLM converges on my intent, and not the semantics I used to convey that intent. That's the real hard part, I think. Sounds like you figured that out as well.

Averages destroy important details in the data.

In a world where temperatures and local weather conditions vary wildly across ranges that have real world impact for those people experiencing them, averages destroy the exact information you would need to actually make decisions.

If you dial the average phone number in the USA, you will not get connected with the average person.

ENSO is a natural phenomenon.

The IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6, 2021) concluded with high confidence that human influence has not affected the principal tropical modes of interannual climate variability, including ENSO, beyond the range of internal variability. It assigned low confidence that anthropogenic forcing has caused the observed or paleo-inferred changes in ENSO variability.

These observations should give us a greater appreciation for just how significant natural variation is, compared to any possible anthropogenic impact.

Sorry, I misinterpreted your story as a work story with a corporate team mate submitting AI PRs. Lots of those around these days.

I could take what you wrote and apply it to the Baby Boomers just as easily with their lack of empathy and their parents and grandparents thought the same of them.

Or Gen X who went "MeMeMe" this past election.

Every older generation thinks the newer ones suck, this isn't new or really grounded in reality.

Also I've seen plenty of parents or people who have had kids that lack empathy and sympathy just as much. It's not a miracle "become a good person pill". I mean how many deadbeat or piece of shit parents exist out there?