Thanks for making my point for me there bro

I'm going to go ahead and assume bad faith on your part, because otherwise you're very stupid. But nobody in your potential audience is stupid enough to believe there aren't lasting effects to being bombed to shit.

I take your point about this being before the dawn of ubiquitous tech companies, but what kind of chilling effect did the Bell monopoly have?

Do you think about me when you're jerking off, too? I know you do.

It would take an AI to not get bored trying to construct working configs for SElinux

Why don't they just ask Claude to fix it?

Better yet, give Elon Musk a couple hundred billion to start a private company and hire all the people, then hire that company to complete the project. Then it will be ready "this year".

Perhaps you did not buy a Tesla. They are probably the most service-hostile vehicle ever sold in the US. Not sure about the UK, I haven't heard stories (horror or otherwise) about service for Chinese EVs yet. They would have to try really hard to be worse than Tesla, though.

If "the problem is peer pressure" then the nicotine/tobacco industry should have NO PROBLEM with ads / promotions / marketing / sponsorship being banned right?

The reality is that vapes are in the same situation as tobacco in the 70s and 80s deliberately using marketing of people looking cool and sexy to get people hooked on this shit. The way to stop people getting hooked is to remove all prominence of the product and make it hard and extreme risk for a business to sell to kids. And to make the product less affordable by banning disposable vapes. And to make the product less attractive in terms of flavours and such.

These are all obvious measures. Will it stop all kids from vaping? Of course not. But it will stop a lot. And that's why tobacco / nicotine lobby REALLY want things to stay as loose as they are now. They need a constant stream of new addicts and anything that threatens that is detrimental to their business model.

Google xkcd extrapolate

s/best/only/

No, I remember owning a calculator watch with phone directory because I could never remember phone numbers, outside of a few I used all the time. Then I got a cellphone and now I don't need to wear a watch.

Simp harder

You are part of the problem.

False. There is a minimum standard. If a "modern CS graduate" doesn't meet it then he, and AI, can disappear. A high school graduate can exceed the performance of AI at many things, though.

"Python users who vibe code, just ship bugs and let their users find them."
I think that's not just python users who vibe code, that's all CI/CD.

"The scary part is that it looks good. "
The purpose of all automated testing.

It is popular for people to repeat a common lie that a corporation's only responsibility is to make money for its stockholders. As long as people accept that corporations act like sociopaths they will do so, this kind of thing will be the consequence.