I think this kind of switch has to be voluntary. When people choose to change rather than having it forced upon them, they will manage much better and tolerate issues with less irritation and grumbling.

No, who's Meta?

The stock price was inflated to start with, due to speculation. Elon was just taking advantage of the situation. "Oh, you want to buy a tiny fraction of my company at way more than it's worth? Sure. I can use an infusion of liquidity." What's bonkers is that if you sell 1% of your company for $20 billion, the talking heads then pretend the whole company is worth two trillion. Who would actually buy SpaceX for two trillion dollars if Elon wanted to sell it? But they call him a trillionaire. He's only worth the net present (discounted) value of all future earnings of his companies. Yes, that's a lot of money, but look at how much these companies make and do the math.

You are correct. What's kind of crazy is that a lot of the training data is probably GPL code. So if LLM-generated code retains GPL copyright, that's going to provide a lot of work for lawyering companies over the next few decades. And before any lawyers start cheering, there's no guarantee that the lawyering companies will need to hire any lawyers. LLMs can do most of their work already.

Civilian infrastructure is a pretty squishy target in wartime, even without "cyber" attack vectors. If the bullets ever really start flying, expect everyone's standard of living to plummet. Look at the civilian infrastructure that's been hit in the Ukraine war, and now in the Iran war, even in neighboring countries. It's fragile and takes a long time to rebuild. We need to make it clear to our leaders that we want a large alliance network and open but fair trade agreements with other countries, because that's what has traditionally provided peace, growth, and prosperity. Countries don't generally bomb the people who buy all the shit their factories produce.

I donâ(TM)t think intelligent is the right word. There was such an intersection a street over from my house in Toronto and I would have to get off my bike, go and push the pedestrian crossing button and then get back on. Fucking annoying and whomever thought it was a good idea was clearly brain dead.

It must be the preliminary moves in a surprise strike by our mortal forever enemy, Canada. "Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia." - 1984

Imagine what this would do to you mentally. You've never done what you were accused of, but you're found guilty anyway. All of your family probably suspects you too. Your neighbours and coworkers don't want anything to do with you. You're presumed guilty. One moment you're going through life smoothly and suddenly your life is turned upside down, and it's not an 'act of God'... it's just other people who erroneously decided to cast you out of society. It's a horror movie.

The point was simply that the "old days" of decades ago was based on a mutual trust, and that trust is gone. It works both ways. If employees leave immediately after training, we shouldn't expect companies to offer training.

Do you not see how that's leading to exactly the problem that the OP is complaining about? Decades ago there was an understanding that you could stay at a company for years and your loyalty would be rewarded. The OP was complaining that companies show now loyalty anymore. My point was that loyalty goes both ways. Your point is... that companies are stupid for offering something with the expectation that the employee might stick around? Ultimately this didn't bankrupt the company... we don't take risks we can't handle. It was only an illustration. I'm sorry it went over your head.

Ok, sure. The days of staying with a company for your whole career and moving up from a job in the mail room to the executive level... that's been over for a long time. Companies won't invest in workers by investing in training. We're a small family-run business that prides itself on sticking with employees for the long term and we hired a new engineering grad a few years ago, paid for her to take a multi-month training course to get her certified, spent lots of time mentoring her, and a few months after that she gleefully announced she was leaving the company for a better opportunity out in the oil industry. She was surprised that we were anything but happy about it. She literally had no clue how much we'd already invested in her, and that hiring her hadn't come close to being a net gain yet. It goes both ways. Companies feel screwed over and aren't going to offer those perks anymore.

But there are still many, many, many more protections for employees than there are for influencers and gig workers. It's not even close. And I've done a bit of YouTube publishing just out of interest sake. It's a LOT of work and you're mostly just working for YouTube. And your viewers end up being super-demanding. They expect constant posting. And you live and die at the whim of YouTube, who can cut your revenue suddenly just by tweaking their algorithm. It's a brutal industry with long hours, lots of stress, and no security.

Look, both 'sides' have been pushing identity politics, and it seems to escalate back and forth. Saying that one side does it but the other doesn't is disingenuous, and saying that it's OK for one side to do it because the other is worse isn't helping the problem. Some of us still remember when racism was wrong simply because it was illogical: the variation of people within a group is far larger than the difference in averages between groups, so it makes no sense to prejudice (literally pre-judge) someone based on their visible attributes. But that cuts both ways. "All men are this," or "all white people are that" displays just as much prejudice, and some small-minded people wanted to continue generalizing about other groups, so hence the rise of identity politics. Push back against all forms of identity politics, or stand by and watch it destroy your country.

Merkel's relationship and strategy with Russia/Putin was complex. I believe her goal was to maintain stability and prevent escalation to avoid conflicts or more serious conflicts. Hindsight is 20-20 and sheâ(TM)s been criticised by many people for how she handled Russia.

Chrome is a better product than Firefox, but if I wasn't such a heavy Mac user, I would make the same choice as you. I can take a lot if it means no Google in my life.

I ditched Firefox and Chrome at least 13 years ago and have used Safari exclusively since. In fact, Chrome hasn't ever been installed on this MBP, which I've had for five years. I don't miss their bloating and battery drain, nor having a privacy raping app from Google. I also appreciate the integration with Messages and Mail for how easy this makes 2FA on web sites that send codes, as well as unified keychain and history across all of my devices. That doesn't mean I'm unaware of the current state of the other browsers: I do have FF, which I dabble with occasionally, but it drives me nuts, it's just shit and it's obvious why it's losing market share, and I get forced to use other browsers on remote Windows machines or in local VMs of Windows and Linux.