never. Long after this pantsload of a nickel and dime shakedown fails miserably, I will continue to remember that Volkswagen is the kind of company who would even consider attempting to cheat its own customers for what amounts to pocket change, so I won't be even approaching a dealership. Thanks for letting me know because I previously had been thinking of Volkswagen as trustworthy. I'm glad I've learned before I made a huge mistake.

Hamming distance is the term you're looking for.

I was going to post a very similar comment: these people are not coders but they are project managers, and they are "employing" AI as their coding employees.

The thing is - there's "nobody" to take credit for the work, so the manager gets credit for something they didn't do. So it's definitely a skill and is work, but it isn't "coding" at all.

It's an interesting world - the AI is an extremely inexpensive employee and has enough skill to displace increasingly higher-skill tiers of actual software engineering and programming.

If I was running these hackathons, I would disallow AI or I would allow people to hire "code-as-a-service" people. Those seem functionally equivalent activities, just with AI being vastly easier to manage the logistics and you don't have to pay employment taxes or benefits to the AI.

It's no wonder there is so much tension about the many uses of AI - instead of hiring people to do work, it's another instance of paying to use a machine to do work at a price point lower than paying people.

The important distinction though is if this was a "preventable" failure that is due to something the engineering community already knows but was just omitted or done carelessly, or if the failure was indeed due to some new physics or unique application.

But just saying "hey we learned that this didn't work" is only useful if you learned a new thing that didn't work - if instead you had a structural failure because you didn't employ known best practices... that's wasteful.

I don't think we know enough at this point to know which case of learning this is. Hopefully it is truly new learning and not just "oh whoops we forgot to inspect those welds."

The unfortunate aspect of that philosophy is that our society now confuses "don't censor political speech I don't like" with "don't censor falsehoods which are tied to politically-charged topics."

We should absolutely encourage discussions about things we may not agree on - but we should also not give audience to things which are demonstrably incorrect.

How much of this, I wonder, is that Qualcomm has patents on things integral to the physics? So that inherently anyone else trying to make a modem has to use alternate means to make it work, which are basically poisoned by the standard so of course they won't work as well?

It can't really be that hard to make a radio from a physics standpoint, but I bet it can be difficult to work around patents. Especially if it's a "dumb" patent like "put a filter here" which should have invalidated the patent due to "anyone skilled in the art" of radio devices... but because of it competitors can't put a filter in that exact spot, so have to figure out some other place to put it which of course doesn't work as well because it isn't where you'd want it...or "we set this frequency so it can only be done using a component with this material's band gap, and we have the patent on this material" or something like that.

They helped fund the guy who is FAMOUSLY disloyal to even his most devoted followers, and they got their faces ate. Luckily, there's a way out for Apple, which is to invest a billion dollars into Trump's meme-coin. That will buy them at least two or three months of tariff relief.

What the fuck is happening, though, seriously? How is it that even mega-corporations are super-fine with losing billions in service to this grifter, as long as they get nothing in return?

The overall quality of Meta's apps has ALWAYS been shit.

I searched for something random on Google a few months ago and got ZERO results. Literally nothing. It wasn't even trying to do a keyword search, it just decided there was nothing to sell me so there was no point in returning a result. That was basically the last day I used Google as a search engine.

This is just going to make it WAY easier to appeal the sentence.

Because I'm not a fucking moron.

What the fuck, just hire a good software engineer and they'll learn COBOL fine, exactly how they learned every other language they know, and then they'll maintain the code for you. It's so weird how people treat is like ancient magic as if people can't just learn it. The ACTUAL problem is multi-billion dollar corporations don't want to spend a single dime on a dedicated COBOL maintainer's salary because that would be less money for stock buybacks.

"Yes, there really is no other place to test it. Also, it can't be completed without an allowance of at least three, maybe four margaritas per research scientist per day. It's what the science demands."