I'm not a climate scientists, but I think it could be debunked pretty easily.

From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

"Despite its geological significance, Earth's interior heat contributes only 0.03% of Earth's total energy budget at the surface, which is dominated by 173,000 TW of incoming solar radiation.[7]"

Nobody loves using frameworks. Everybody loves creating frameworks.

Working with just the bare bones is great for simple, small applications. But after a while, almost every developer thinks: hey, I've done this before, I can reuse this code I wrote. I always do it like this (my way, the best way), so let's make it easy to do, make it generic, make abstractions, generate code, etc. So, they start building their own framework.

From TFA:
"the software didn't seem to care that there was repetition in the code across multiple views, it didn't care about shared logic, extensibility or inheritability of components... it just implemented what it needed to do and it did it as vanilla as it could."

So, the AI to writes crappy, bloated, unmaintainable software, and he doesn't care. Good luck when the customers come complaining, the AI continues to fuck up your code more and more, and no programmer will ever want to touch it.

Of course, lots of human programmers write crap too. So if you just want to replace crap with more crap, only cheaper, go for it.

It's true that the consumer price index has been rising faster since 2020 (after the covid pandemic) than in the 4 years before that. And prices have have been going up faster than the GDP and average wages in the same period. You can look up all these figures on the federal reserve economic data website (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/).

But, this is a worldwide phenomenon. Just google it or browse the world bank open data (https://data.worldbank.org/). So yeah, the world economy has not been doing well the last 4 years.

Personally,I doubt very much that Biden or Trump had much to do with it. It just happened that the USA changed presidents around the same time the covid pandemic hit. They just do whatever the wall-street boys tell them to do (bail out the banks, lower interest rates, etc), just like the rest of the worlds leaders. Whatever they tell you during election is just rhetoric.

Biased media indeed, sounds the same both ways. Hollow phrases, no proof, no decency. But why would you believe media outside the USA is more biased than your own media? It's your election, your media has a much bigger interests to be biased! I'll bet there way more pressure (20 billion dollars of pressure in the combined campaign funds) on your media than on ours. The rest of the world can't vote, so why would the international media lie to us? I'm sure you can come up with reasons, but you better believe that you are being manipulated at least as much!

Continuing that line of reasoning: not believing in the system, American democracy, is entirely understandable. The public is too easily manipulated to vote on power hungry, immoral individuals and parties, incapable of good government. This is of course a general problem in democracy. There are plenty of examples where democratically elected parties have failed to work in the public's general interest (with Germany in the 1930's en 40's as a horrific schoolbook example) and currently many democracies have difficulty dealing with populist propaganda amplified by social media. But I think in the USA the system is especially vulnerable, having insufficient guards to protect the system from manipulation by the rich and powerful, eroding the checks and balances needed to make sure government is not corrupted. Already, the gains of technological progress flow almost exclusively into the hands of the very rich, while the general population does not benefit or is worse off than in the preceding decades. Yet every party's electoral program ever claims that they will improve the lives for the common people! So yes, of course people have lost faith in the system.

But voting for Trump because you don't believe in the system is of course still very a stupid thing to do, because if he and his cronies get their way, they''ll replace it with something far worse (an autocratic kleptocracy, like Poetin's Russia).

It's almost impossible to verify that there are no back doors in Intel's processors, or that there won't be in the future. And there certainly are parties with a motive to put in back doors. Its seems only prudent to assume that these chips are a security threat.

That may be true, but I love programming, designing en building software, with teams of real people. I don't love reviewing AI code. Maybe they can get an AI to do the review to? If this is where the software industry is going, i'd rather be doing something else.

The kind of writing that AI are really good at. Someone's job is certainly going to be replaced by an AI.

This weak definition of open source AI is useless except for marketing purposes. There is no benefit for the public. If the data is not open source, the system cannot to be reproduced and any claims made about the data cannot be proven. The label 'open source' will be abused by companies as a marketing trick to sell their AI to governments which mandate open source, or to convince the public that they are somehow more trustworthy than their competitors.

It's probably easy enough for Riot to update their servers to not work with the stolen version of the DRM code. Everyone would have to update their client to be able to play again, but customers probably need to download updates regularly anyway.

One of the linked articles claims that another team set the 'real' record at 20 qbits...

YouTube basically just recommends those videos that other people watched frequently (and probably some more statistics like how long they watched it, whether they commented on it, what other videos they watched, etc.). And of course, what video's you watched yourself. The YouTube algorithm simply gave this journalist what he was apparently looking for - the same as most people on the internet. Don't blame YouTube for people's lust for the extreme, crazy, stupid.

i'm pretty sure my coding style has changed significantly over time, from project to project, due to experience, learning from past mistakes, influence from other programmers, etc. Also, I've worked on projects where 10 different programmers have touched the same code. Good luck trying to identify me from any two pieces of code.

I have similar feelings about estimates in my work: It's never accurate, so why bother. Of course, I understand we need estimates.
I wish I had some training in how to make good estimates.
Recentely, I've been giving my managers a range: between 1 and 3 weeks for this feature. Half a day up to a day for this bug fix. Of course, manamament just takes the average, add ups the numbers and doesn't tell the client about the probability distribution.