Inundated from the vitriol online, I can't see an official statement from Microsoft in this. Were I a betting man, and I had one chip to stake, I would put it on this being patched.

Too many reasons to patch, and too few not to. Start with the jurisdictions where this would be legally problematic.

I'll wait for the deadline to come and go, and look for the angry post-bricking outcries.

Protect rights, regulate industries, and invest in public infrastructure?

The United States might need another 30 months to think about it.

I'm not sure how your point dovetails with or counters mine. I am saying exactly why I would choose the experienced worker for a remote position. It's because I believe that the growth I accept as valuable for new grads is stunted in remote work. So the cost benefit skews.

Sure, senior roles remaining filled does limit mobility, but it's outside of this tangent.

We could back this discussion out even further, though, and point out that what we have now is gross oversupply of workers for the field. And I think that's true. We have a pipeline with years of upcoming grads for which work will not exist. Most of those people should get out of tech and into trades. Not guaranteed imployment, but better than a bachelors in computing science. And cheaper..

If I had a remote position to fill, all else being equal I would be more likely to hire a more experienced worker over a new grad. I wouldn't leave the position unfilled if I only had new grad applicants, but if I have options...

In-person roles? I have hired a new grad over a more experienced person. Multiple times. My teams always had a good mix of senior and junior folks.

I just don't buy the idea that remote work doesn't come with a mentoring and growth penalty. And I'm not interested in arguing that point. I offer my own mindset as a concurring example.

If this is really permitted to be waved away with, "Oops, our bad. Fixed."... well, then, I don't know what accountability is left. Because this is an attack that is fundamental. The demonstrated failure is not an edge case - it's systemic. It's baked in, it might be about an email address vulnerability in the most narrow interpretation, but it sure doesn't end there. It's like doing an integrity test on a dam, finding the concrete is crumbling, fixing that one square foot of material and calling it good.

Lenovo sells chromebooks for more than that, what is that, a refurbished android tablet?

Making games isn't actually that easy? I've been doing it for 25 years, and making a game that's good that people enjoy requires, in no small part, that you yourself enjoy playing games, and that you understand what fun is.

That's a good insight - we're essentially talking about art. There's no real indication that AI can do the actually creative part. But I wonder if a union can either? Art is about allowing inspiration to hit somebody like lightning and allow it to rise to the top. Unions are about making rules for everything to enforce fairness, and I wonder if that will be the most creative environment. Of course top-down corporations struggle with it too especially as they get bigger.

ICBMs are literally the #1 encyclopedia article example of militaristic dick-flexing. My rocket can touch you from all the way over here.

Did you just make an argument for the benefits of dual-use research by citing the bad part?? A lot of people associate the space race with a sort of cover for arms research... but think of all the cool weapons we got! Even from you man, wow, lol

This ideal state sounds good but it is prohibitively expensive for all but deep pockets.

Ultimately the stock market trades pieces of companies. You might be "gambling" with your finances, but if the value of your 1 share of a company drops to zero, you still have 1 share of the company. Not gambling. Prediction markets are much closer to, say, fantasy sports. Educated guessing, but still guessing. If you get it right, your wager pays. Wrong, and the wager is lost.

Saying these markets aren't gambling is weasel-language. It's not even as honest as casinos. Imagine you had to play roulette but instead of playing against the house, you played against your table mates, and some of them already know the outcome before the marbles is tossed.

When the pace of bug discovery overwhelms the capacity to patch, and the discovery tools are available to... well, everybody... doing any business online is fraught with peril. You can't even triage trust by the integrity of the company. You might trust that "Valerie's Dog Treats" is legit, but their payment dependancy might be using compromised packages.

How in hell are we going to hold this thing together?

A good example, and why I used the adjective "often". There are exceptions. It depends on what you negotiate into your union terms.

That's not how anything actually works. 18/19 will simply be blocked by the next bottleneck. The other one is doing rework with the AI because requirements shifted. Producing LOC was never the biggest bottleneck, and anyone in or around software development knows that.

It's just like how nail guns are 20x faster than hammers, and they don't shrink a roofing crew 20x. You all are fucking weird the way you overhype something with mental gymnastics to tear it down with more bullshit. Yes it is just a tool.

Reads like "I don't know how to use the command line"

The International Olympic Committee said the games are a "betrayal of everything that we stand for."

They can't betray something they never subscribed to in the first place. What you stand for isn't really important here. And you are not being asked to stand for what they do.