Crime is legal now. High crime is OK too, as long you are willing and able to make large political donations.

Of course Palantir exec is not going to recommend that the military buy Palantir products to solve many of its problems. That would be preposterous. /s

Side note. Most crimes are legal now. Some may require a political donation. Inquire with your state's federal representatives for more details.

To Apple, recovery of the stolen iphones may be less important than advertising loud and clear that these things are not worth stealing.

Not just universities. This should be a lesson to everyone. I stopped using Java and Oracle products about 10 years ago. Most Oracle products have good alternatives. I am constantly surprised that Oracle is still doing well financially and people are still using their products.

Last year our office was broken into. Thieves stole a bunch of stuff, including some Apple laptops and ipads. We filed a police report, but it looked like they could not care less. I looked up the location of the devices and drove there. It was an apartment complex. I called the police. They did not want to knock on any doors and left. But it was enough to spook the thieves. They drove off after the police left and dumped the stolen equipment 10 miles away. I was able to recover almost all of our equipment, including several Windows laptops that were not trackable.

I have never understood the whole translucent effect thing. At one point in the Linux desktop world translucent terminals became the rage. And I thought these people had gone mad. If I am trying to read text in terminal, why would I want the background image make the job harder?

When building support for translucency in your apps, just because you could, doesn't mean you should.

As the world heats up, are we going to see an increased migration of people towards Northern/cooler areas?

> I see so many comments that manufacturing can't come back to the us.

Nobody is stopping anybody from building stuff here. It is just not practical or viable in most cases. You can use tariffs to try and force people. But even at 25%, it is cheaper to get products built elsewhere. And don't forget, tariffs are a tax on people. And it is a regressive tax that disproportionally benefits the wealthy.

I don't think this on again/off again tariff policy will bring any significant manufacturing back to the US. But it will shift more of the tax burden from the rich to the poor. And that I believe is the primary goal.

> MAGAs are colossal dumbfucks, some of the most gullible people to walk the earth.

That may be true. But they don't know it. And are very confident that it is the people on the other side that fall into that category. We are all very screwed!

We have elected leaders who are not just massively dumb, but exceptionally evil. The only hope of survival we have is if the dumb part stays dominant for the next three and a half years.

> I think it's safe to say the human brain is not prepared for the shit storm that's coming.

I use AI daily for software development. And I have been a big proponent of it. Maybe because my job isn't at risk from AI as I co-own the business. But the business is at increased risk. As business owners and managers, we don't have an option. We have to stay ahead of this beast.

What took us years of labor to build, can now be built by AI in months if not weeks. Business leaders are feeling the pressure. In my company at least, the individual employees are not feeling the pressure. And I am not sure what to do about that.

Some people are reluctant to adopt AI tools fearing that it will take their jobs. The situation is exactly the opposite. Kids with AI tools will replace us all if we do not adapt.

Some of us have to use Windows for one reason or another at least part time. WSL is totally awesome for those times! I am glad it exists. And now it is getting an opensource license makes it even better.

> Honestly so far I find them kind of useless

Like most things, it takes a while to get good at using AI based development tools. Garbage in garbage out applies here as well. You have to provide good context and frame your prompt in a way that another human would understand.

Many times I already have an idea of what I want. What libraries I want to use and the very rough architecture of the solution. I provide this as input and ask the AI to help me refine it and create a final and a comprehensive implementation plan. I then review the phased implementation plan and ask AI to write the software for each phase. I check the output of each phase before moving to the next.

Good software engineering skills are still required. AI will make errors and get off track. Your job is to know what it is doing and put it back on track. I believe a good engineer can 5x their output with the aid of AI development tools. But, at the very beginning, it may be less than 1x. You do not have the option to quit in the learning phase. Or you will eventually be replaced by a 5x engineer.

Should and could are different things. She can purchase her freedom. "Donate" $1m to Trump and call him the best president ever. This is what the Nikola founder, who was also convicted of fraud, did. And it worked.

This is the approach that the convicted founder of Nikola took. Donated money to Trump. Trump pardoned him. When Trump was asked about it, he said he didn't know much about the guy, but heard that he likes Trump. So, there is that. It appears that unless you actually murdered someone, a pardon can currently be purchased. And a little bit of ego stroking doesn't hurt either.

I work at a small 10-person company. Here, regardless of how good you are, if you do not use AI, your output will be far far less than an engineer who does. All checked-in code goes through layers of review process and QA. We recently went through the process of hiring another software engineer, and any candidate who did not have significant experience developing with the aid of AI tools, was eliminated early.

Any software engineering team that is not using AI will not be competitive. Yes, you still have to know your stuff. But days of manually typing in every single line of code are numbered. Anybody who thinks otherwise and refuses to level up on AI based development tools will eventually lose their job.

You can downvote me all you want. Just know that you are sticking your head in the sand.