Well written code is self-documenting, specifically because once you start putting documentation somewhere else, you start getting a divergence in truth. And I'm not talking about leaving comments in the code - that's also documentation, as anyone who has had to reconcile business processes with code can attest upon discovering that the comments and the code also don't agree with each other. (This is where I try and sell people on having detailed commit messages, and then realize that they're all going to be lost the next time someone advocates for a squash merge...)

Refactoring is how you refresh your knowledge of the code and remove any accumulated cruft. Stuff like "Oh, we meant to do that in the next release, but we've completely removed that functionality, so this stub can go too.", and "Well shit, this algorithm doesn't work the way we thought it did - and the test suite is missing the test that would tell us that it doesn't work for that last 10% of use cases.", and "Uh... this method doesn't only do that one thing anymore, time to refactor and dry things out."

The moment you start relying on "tribal knowledge" to manage your code, you're fucked. Because very soon, as you have turnover (doesn't have to be layoffs - people can get promoted up or sideways, a bunch of people get hired, some people get transferred to special projects and start forgetting the stuff they maintained), the tribal knowledge distills to one thing: "If it isn't broken, don't touch it - you'll break it."

In other words... If your codebase is in decent shape, AI code bots are not a net negative unless people are blindly approving commits. If your codebase is in shitty shape, you're probably already having issues with diverging truth (and inability to scale), and you're fucked either way.

Most likely they meant that unemployment (or something similar) increased by 20%

Did you post this also when Musk said THE EXACT SAME THING?????

Unemployed people can't buy stocks.

More seriously, both this and Musk sound like the government seizing company assets and distributing it evenly to everybody. This is basically UBI, and it is a huge tax no matter how it is collected. It may work however, needs to be investigated with some seriousness and by people without preconceived notions of what will happen.

I'm pretty certain a robot will be able to dig ditches

The difference has nothing to do with the knowledge.

In the stock market, the money put in is actually used to advance the value of the stock. It's an investment just like you paying somebody to make widgets (that manufacturer could screw up his work and lose all your money, but that possibility does not make it gambling). In polymarket the money you put in is not used in any way to advance the outcome you are betting on.

"Protect" does not mean "it is impossible for you to get it". It means "it is less likely you will get it". You know that but you just want to rant and lie as it somehow makes you feel better. You are a sick loser.

I don't know what media you are watching, but every report I have seen is pointing out how unlikely spread of this will be. And this is reports from a variety of politically leaning media so it isn't even a polarizing issue.

This actually has been a problem for utilities for a long while.

https://freemannews.tulane.edu...

"As more and more homeowners install solar panels, they generate their own electricity and buy less from utility companies. While consumer solar adoption is good for the environment, it reduces the revenue that utilities generate from consumers. To make up for the shortfall, utilities raise electricity prices, which in turn pushes more people to switch to solar, further decreasing demand for utility-provided power. This âoeutility death spiralâ can lead to skyrocketing prices for consumers and financial instability for utility companies."

EVs were supposed to be a lifeline, but that whole push has been sidelined.

The energy company deciding to end service is not the utility directly serving customers:

"NV Energy, the Nevada utility that has supplied the bulk of Lake Tahoeâ(TM)s electricity for decades, told Liberty Utilities â" the small California company that services the region â" that it will stop providing power after May 2027. The reason: NV Energy needs the capacity for data centers being built by Google, Apple, and Microsoft around the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center east of Reno, according to Fortune."

Liberty Utilities is the electric company. NV Energy is their main supplier. NV Energy found a customer willing to pay more, and is giving Liberty Utilities notice to figure out a different method to make up the shortfall. Is Liberty negligent? Not at all:

https://california.libertyutil...

https://california.libertyutil...

"Liberty is preparing for a planned transition in our supplemental energy supply beginning in 2028, while continuing to provide safe, reliable electric service to our customers. Liberty began this process in 2019 when Liberty filed for the transmission capacity reservations to enable this transition to the market. Liberty cannot access the greater energy market without these transmission rights, and weâ(TM)re excited to receive those rights when NV Energyâ(TM)s Greenlink-West project goes into service, expected December 31, 2027.
Today, we serve customers through a combination of Liberty-owned solar generation and supplemental wholesale power purchased from NV Energy. Our 60 megawatts of locally owned solar generation will continue to play an important role in our long-term energy mix.
Beginning in 2028, NV Energy will no longer serve as our wholesale energy supplier. To prepare for this transition, we are pursuing a competitive process to secure new supplemental energy supply arrangements focused on sustainability, affordability, and reliability. NV Energy will remain our transmission provider and neighbor, and we will continue using the existing transmission system to deliver electricity to our service territory."

The problem is that apparently NV Energy is moving up the deadline from beginning 2028 to May of 2027... effectively giving 1 year notice to Liberty Utilities basically from now.

https://fortune.com/2026/05/12...

"Data centers used 22% of Nevadaâ(TM)s electricity in 2024, and that share could rise to 35% by 2030. In NV Energyâ(TM)s own 2024 resource plan, about 75% of major-project load growth is attributed to data centers, according to Sierra Club expert testimony filed with Nevada regulators and reviewed by Fortune, and most of it is concentrated in Northern Nevadaâ"using the same system that feeds power to Lake Tahoe.

NV Energy is building Greenlink West, a 525-kV, $4.2 billion transmission line from Las Vegas to Yerington, expected online in May 2027. Schwarzrock said Liberty would be âoefirst in the waiting lineâ when Greenlink opens, giving it access to a wider pool of energy providers. But that timeline matches the contract deadline exactly, leaving almost no margin for error. About 70% of the projectâ(TM)s costs will be borne by Southern Nevada customers. "

So basically Liberty was expecting until December 2027 to make the transition, understandably allowing for delays and other transition activities. NV Energy is basically saying - there will be no delays, be prepared for the cutover to happen in May.

I'm not going to call the parent article complete flamebait, because it does highlight the very specific problem that the Tahoe grid has (it doesn't connect to California, but it is regulated by California regulators.) However, it is a far cry from saying that datacenters are going to cause Tahoe to go dark. That's a potential possibility if there are delays but NV Energy decides to cut them off anyway, but it is not a definite likelyhood.

This is just more datacenter FUD.

when Stephen C. Johnson wrote lint for Unix V7?

...of sunk costs.

Can anybody say what this app does (other than report your GPS location)? Does it do anything you can't do with a web browser and going to .gov web sites?

At the time, Apple promised that the AI features would be available on the iPhone 15 Pro and higher models. (They weren't going to be on the plain iPhone 15, I guess because it has an older CPU.)

It’s obvious the criteria is going to be that all answers the AI gives are "not woke". This has absolutely nothing to do with safety, it is censorship.

He is suggesting an asset tax, but you can evade it by not using the asset as collateral for a loan.