Journal Journal: After 19 years I have come to the conclusion that LinkedIn was a waste of time. 1
I had my suspicions, but I didn't want to jump to any conclusions. So for any of you out there wondering how this journal worked out, Web 2.0 is garbage.
https://slashdot.org/journal/161630/web-20-business-networking-is-it-useful-at-all
Comment Not sure that was the best crowd to speak to (Score 4, Insightful) 193
While she's not wrong, saying it to graduates....Not the best idea.
It will be transformative, and not everyone will benefit. Some are getting screwed right out of the gate. The demise of the Newspaper industry seems an app comparison. That was just a little slower in its disruption. And journalists could migrate to new media outlets. But now even that is at risk. And it's not just them.
If everything that can be affected is, many entry level jobs will be gone. People with valid entry level skills can be replaced. And there are corporations already laying off people, prematurely in my opinion. The economy doesn't work if people can't make money for their work. And if the people don't have money, bad things can/will happen.
I'm currently safe in my position, currently. But I'm not taking that for granted. My experience helps me at the moment, but, you get an AI in here, let it read all our docs, and explore the system...who knows?
The best I can say to the kids currently in college, get in front of it. Learn how to use it appropriately, use it as a tool and it can help. To me just like a hammer, using it correctly, it's helpful, in correctly, you can hurt your self, ruin a project. But putting your head in the sand, and pretending it's nothing, that will hurt you.
Comment Missing the point (Score 1) 37
Sure, age-verification might impede underage use of their product, but there are a lot of adults that understand the age-verification movement to be an invasion of their privacy. Whether or not this is true, "perception is reality".
Comment Great news for all authors and publishers (Score 1) 57
With independents and the Big 4 there's plenty to read. And there's nothing like walking into a physical book store. It's a needed thrid space, in a way.
Comment I feel like all this money is just funny money (Score 5, Insightful) 34
I invest in you, you buy from me, They invest in you, you buy from them.... and still prices go up and services go away.
Comment Re:Polymarket, Kalshi whitewashing (Score 1) 71
Comment Re:Guilty of not being rich already (Score 0) 71
Congress (as a whole) acts as if their shit doesn't stink. It's high time they get reminded that it most certainly does.
Journal Journal: Well, That's been a thing. 2
Worked at a company for 15 years. Company was bought and sold a couple times. Most recent owner decided my position (and that of several others) was to be eliminated. Such is life in the world of Mergers and Acquisitions.
Now I'm looking for another job. The tools at my disposal are better, the resources are better, and the personal networks I have built over the years is better. Hopefully I'll be back to work soon.
Comment The real reasons viewership has dropped (Score 1) 152
- Much of what Hollywood has been putting out is crap.
- Politicians increase taxes constantly, resulting in less disposable income for potential movie-goers.
- Ticket costs increasing - Not much can be done there, theaters do it to compensate for the loss in sales.
- Streaming is a thing. Why go to a theater to sit in a sticky, uncomfortable seat when one can wait a little while for the movie to hit $STREAMING_SERVICE and watch it from the comfort of one's own home?
Comment Re: How do you develop that skill (Score 1) 150
Ditto. I'm in ERP. So Claude's knowledge may not be as complete there as say C++, however, It's still decent. Decent enough to help me work thru issues.
I had it write a simple program for copying some settings and setting up some outputs. Stuff that's documented but is a pain to do, mistakes happen...I figured it was a good test. I worked with it for about 4 hours, starting with nothing. Explaining the changes needed and the need. Wrote a beauty of an ABAP program. Simple, complete, documented. $10. If I had to use the offshore resource. it would have been 2 or 3 days. And maybe close to what I needed? Definitely more than $10.
I'm more interested in Saving our on site, employee programmers than the offshore contractors. I'm going to have to train them correctly on using it. It can code, but stupid is a stupid does. You can hurt yourself good if you're not careful.
Comment Re:Release announcements (Score 1) 29
God, Enlightenment. That's a name I haven't heard, in a long, long time.
Comment Re:Ducks (Score 3) 54
The ultimate endpoint of vibe-coding. No AI code is copyright-able. it's all GPL by default. That sounds like a great idea. I would support that.
You can compile it, use it, copy it, sell it, improve it, release the source...keep going...If people want to compile and use it themselves..so be it.
Comment The best outcome of a tough situation (Score 4, Insightful) 167
Sounds like the rules of the road were followed. This can happen and does happen daily.
Lucky kid!
Comment Re:This won't end well (Score 1) 112
Exactly. There are times they, Big Pharma, fuck up, but on the whole, it's been pretty great.
The fact that everything reverts back to pre-ozempic fairly quick actually make me think it's ok. Nothing permanent looks like it's getting changed, good or bad.
Discipline has nothing to do with it. Some people's body's are just different. Willpower isn't the same, even the cravings aren't the same. I'm not going to come down on anyone anymore for losing to it. It's possible that the lucky who don't need it simply don't have the same cravings, so the willpower isn't needed. Maybe they do, maybe they don't. But we can't say. My willpower is good for 2 months, then the body stops listening. GLP-1s have let me push past that for a year. that is amazing to me. I know it's not me doing the heavy lifting, and that sits on my mind. But my heart, knees, body in general is feeling much much better.