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Comment Bullshit. (Score 1) 173

So by your definition, if there is a class of the best students that ever existed, a certain percentage should get an "F" to meet a quota?

It's this sort of South-Korean / Japanese style non-sense that has people work themselves to death or young people kill themselves.

If grade inflation is hurting the Havard brand, that's entirely on them and only happens if you make education a business as the US Ivy league does. Find objective criteria, document and publish them and rate the students by them. Problem solved. If more students get "A"s, then that's because the students and/or your teaching has gotten better.

This whole debate reveals what grades are really about. Not about education, but selection.

Comment Yeah, Bingo. Pretty much this. Except for one ... (Score 2) 112

... point:

But YOU WILL USE AI for coding is here for non mission critical applications.

Nope. For generic stuff I would, as of now, trust the AI to do mission critical stuff better than any human as well. Point in case: Just yesterday the newest Codex fixed an oversight of mine while doing another task and _explained_ to me that he/she/it was fixing an oversight in order to properly do that other thing I asked for. This was a non-trivial detail concerning state management and recovery in a non-trivial SPA. Something a human would've needed a day or two for fixed in 3 minutes. That wasn't AI just coding, that was AI doing an architecture decision on it's own(!!) to fix the oversight. That's how far we've come with AI as of yesterday.

The biggest part of my job is for me to keep track of what we actually get done and document it after reviewing the code. And, yes, I have never had colleagues this competent either. I've mutated to a primary senior architect with a expert team of 20 within less than a year. If I were to still code myseld, I'd be the bottleneck. And a serious one. So, yeah, basically your assessment is spot on with my AI experience so far.

Comment Sugar consumption / Ketogenic metabolism (Score 1, Interesting) 63

I'm pretty sure wether you're in ketasis (body produces it's on bloodsugar) or overbooked on sugar (which many often are) is a key factor in wether you're a prime target for mosqitoes. That would also totally make sense for them from a nutrition standpoint. If you're a mosqito magnet, try losing some wait and go into ketasis, perhaps with interval fasting. At least when they're out and about. That's likely do reduce or solve the problem.

Comment That makes sense. (Score 4, Interesting) 76

Cultural engagement and it's "lower" form, escapism, basically represent tribal social engagement and exploration of the unknown/new, you know, the things we previously evolved to be good at. That this sort of activity provides purpose, meaning and connection and thus educes stress totally makes sense.

I personally see and experience an amplified version of this in close embrace social dancing (massive health benefits, scientifically proven) and due to my diploma and experience in performing arts. It basically makes me 15-20 years younger than my peers.

Comment Oh, please, not again. (Score 4, Interesting) 85

First of all, the singular term is "agility" not "agile". Second of all, agility isn't a means, it's the end. The actual goal. And "agile software development" is a thing and will remain a thing in teams and "projects" where it fits and makes sense. Those are scenarios with experienced teams booked on a well-seasoned and under control stack with which every team-member has solid experience to basically take on any task in the scope of the project.

Agile software development is the _solution_ to the problem of clients not knowing what they want and developing a piece of software that isn't military, medical, space, aeronautic, nuclear, mission-critical embedded or some other hardcore stuff. This is why agile software development is most often used in web development and generic user-facing software for vertical markets. Because that's precisely where you find customers who are usually overwelmed with formulating the requirements of a piece of software to be programmed.

And no, it's not at an "end" and no, it's not "dead". Perhaps the fad with dimwitts has died and they've moved on to another new buzzword, but that would be a good thing.

Agility or Agile Software Development is still alive an well for anyone actually aware what those terms really mean. See the original Manifesto for Agile Software Development for further details.

Congratiulations, you are now ahead of 99% of the buzzword crowd. You're welcome.

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