AI is just a plot by Big Hardware to sell you more hardware.

> We ask that candidates do not [...] use AI during interviews and take-home assignments without explicit consent from the interview team.

Assign a take-home task as part of your interview and you're dead to me, so I guess we're even?

Just by mentioning XKCD in this discussion I'm sure most folks probably already know which comic I'm referring to and understand exactly how this will end for Dell.

Swift is #22 on the list according to the article. Seems about right to me.

Same. Everyone of course is doing all their new .NET work in C#, but if you have a legacy enterprise app in VB.NET that works fine and is still supported in a modern operating environment, your company isn't paying for a rewrite, and you aren't doing it on your own time.

I recall using Experts Exchange before Stack Overflow became a thing.

And by "using" Experts Exchange, I mean a link to a post on their site would come up when I would search for something online. The answer was ostensibly paywalled, but all you had to do was view source and the answer was right there, buried in the HTML. You just had to search the document source for "accepted answer" or whatever

MTV had to pay to run the videos, as I understand it they also had to share ad revenue, and ad revenue was a challenge because audience attention span was measured in 3-5 minute increments rather than in half-hour or hour-long blocks of time. The economics were never favourable for them; the only reason they've hung around this long is because they had the right idea at the right time in the early 1980s with running music videos on cable television, and they pivoted out to reality TV a decade later.

This "reform" involves hiking the price of the program and then creating a "national security interest" carveout that is granted case-by-case by DHS, which just does what the president wants anyway.

That doesn't solve anything other than concentrate the abuse of H-1B visas to companies that don't mind kicking a 7- or 8-figure donation to Trump ballroom or Trump class battleships or Trump library or Arc de Trump or any other initiative between now and mid-cycle elections that Trump can rush past everyone while Congress is asleep at the wheel, in exchange for blanket exemptions. That donation will pay itself off after 12-15 hires and the companies involved will just consider it the cost of doing business in current year.

As with all other things Trump does, this is self-dealing with the appearance of moving the ball forward on a topic.

I daily drive a Ford Mach E, and my weekend / nice weather car is an old BMW Z3. It's hardly a fair comparison, but after Friday-Sunday in the Z3 and going back to work at the beginning of the week, the Mach E feels like an absolute spaceship. Then again I imagine just about anything made this decade would compare similarly against a car that was manufactured during the Clinton administration...

I don't know about more "enjoyable" though, part of the reason I have the Zed is because it's a convertible, and you don't see too many convertible EVs around. Being able to put the top down and go for a drive on a sunny day is still special.

> When you first began your career, imagine what it would've been like if no one was in the office. You'd be completely lost.

Being "lost" isn't a problem in and of itself, I'd say it's actually a good thing because the best outcome is you figure out how to get yourself un-lost, which is something everyone needs to be able to do at some point. I didn't have coworkers or Stack Overflow or Youtube or Copilot when I started as a dev. I had to go to Borders, buy a book, and then actually read the book, just to get to the point where I could start writing code and cultivating the feedback loop of making mistakes and learning to fix those mistakes.

Later on there was a funny thing with Experts Exchange where they'd want you to pay to see the answers to questions, but the accepted answer was always in the DOM anyway so you just had to view page source to step over the paywall.

That post is too long and there is at least a 52.7% chance it was shat out by Copilot 15 minutes before being published online.

> "All the engineers with prestigious degrees scoffed at him at first. But now they're all doing exactly the same thing...."

Yeah, that's most peoples' reactions when they see that they can replace manual labour with a power tool.

The 'real world' of software development does not involve spending 100% of your time shitting out prototypes and toy projects in a 48-hour timebox, so those engineers with prestigious degrees (and even the ones without prestigious degrees) are still going to be the ones called in to build the whole house while this nitwit is stuck making cutting boards and step stools out of kits using someone else's tools at the local woodworking shop.

But not for Barry Bonds, who has as many World Series championships and as much MLB hall of fame eligibility as you and I do.

Anecdotally I've seen more instances of dickheads in gas powered trucks sitting in EV charging spots thinking they're sticking it to Joe Biden than I have with actual EV drivers staying on a charger past 80% when there's a line behind them. Not saying it doesn't happen, though.

> On the Electrify America chargers, apparently this can take weeks or even months to fix basically anything.

Anytime I think about Electrify America, I end up thinking about this station of theirs at the Taco Bell in Ellensburg WA... a couple years ago, that stop was the first fast charger you could get to coming out of the mountains heading east from Seattle (or the last fast charger going into the mountains heading towards Seattle, if you like), and every time I went through there at least 2-3 of the stations would be out of service. One time I had an hour-long wait because there was a whole line of people running through the one charger that worked. Folks in line were cool with each other but understandably disappointed with things. One lady said she'd rented an EV that weekend to see what driving one was like and the experience of waiting for an open charger basically ruined the whole thing for her.

Compounding the problem was even if 3 of 4 stations were down, if you got on Plugshare and said you charged successfully at that 4th charger then that was a positive mark for the site overall. The effect is you'd be looking at this site that has an 8.5/10 and thinking "ok, that's pretty reliable" and you'd never know otherwise unless you scrubbed through the comments on people's check-ins.

I've since moved out of the area, and when I passed by Ellensburg for the last time I didn't even bother stopping through - just went the extra 35 miles down to Yakima and used the EA chargers at the local Wal-Mart instead, which were perfectly fine... looks like Ellensburg has a couple other options now, including at the local Pilot. I've used Pilot's chargers a couple times on the east coast and they've been decent. The one I used last weekend even had a trash can and windshield wiper next to it, which is not always something you can take for granted...