Obviously AI is taking most of the whitecollar jobs. This isn't really news anymore IMHO.

I can't tell you how relieved I am right now that I took a breadless diploma in performing arts mostly just based on personal interest, with zero concrete career aspirations in mind. The arts helped me with every aspect of life, personal, private, public and job, even though it was completely breadless.

That my days making money by developing software are numbered is obvious to me too. I got incredibly lucky with my current gig but since have morphed into an entire team of software experts with me as the lead basically telling AI what to program. Never been this productive. It's only a matter of time that AI will take my current position too.

Here's the harsh reality: AI doesn't work.

Looking at AI doing the job I just did a year ago I'd say AI is working pretty good. Better than me in fact. And waaaay faster. Basically replacing an entire team of developers. ... Perhaps you should look into the newest models?

Curiously enough, what won't be working for long anymore is Facebook itself, when it's just AI talking to each other. I never got why FB had a business case in the first place. But then again, I'm a computer expert that isn't to bedazzled about the ability to upload text, images and video to the internet.

If Ebola catches on and goes viral globally it will be a very serious problem. A true pandemic. The current death toll for Ebola infections is around 50%. We're talking Resident Evil/28 days later/I am Legend type shit.

I never quite got all the noise and hysteria about vaccinations going during CoViD 19 on either side and I always said we should - either way - be glad that it's just CoViD 19 and not Ebola 19.

If we now actually have global Ebola 26/27 on the menu, the fecal matter is going to hit the rotary air impeller at levels that will make SARS v2 / CoViD 19 look like a laid-back undressed rehersal during a beach vacation. I sure do effing hope this does _not_ happen.

Either way, I already got my Goggles, professional filter masks, water-filter, cooking gear and gas, etc. when the last reports about a SARS variant came around last Winter. I'm sure as eff not getting caught in some apocalyptic level pandemic without being (somewhat) prepared. That much I learned from CoViD. And everyone else should've too. It would be quite dumb to die an unpreventable death just because you where to cheap to drop 150 Euros on some basic survival gear.

... that this sort of problem you're describing is one where having a monotheic revelation cult like Christianity, Judaeism or Islam as a your cultural foundation can actually make sense and come with quite a few benefits. Having the universe humbling you does seem easier if you humanize it with a stern god that punishes hedonism and misbehavior in a world of abundance. One of the countless benefits such a cult does bring along.

... throughout the developed world. Especially for college grads. Same thing here in Germany too. The rate of unemployed academics has surpassed that of trades people, just like in the US. It's AI. Mostly.

... he sure is effing serious about getting us back into space. Good stuff, like it!

... they're about selection. Mix those two things up and you won't get very far in solving this.

So by your definition, if there is a class of the best students that ever existed, a certain percentage should get an "F" to meet a quota?

It's this sort of South-Korean / Japanese style non-sense that has people work themselves to death or young people kill themselves.

If grade inflation is hurting the Havard brand, that's entirely on them and only happens if you make education a business as the US Ivy league does. Find objective criteria, document and publish them and rate the students by them. Problem solved. If more students get "A"s, then that's because the students and/or your teaching has gotten better.

This whole debate reveals what grades are really about. Not about education, but selection.

... point:

But YOU WILL USE AI for coding is here for non mission critical applications.

Nope. For generic stuff I would, as of now, trust the AI to do mission critical stuff better than any human as well. Point in case: Just yesterday the newest Codex fixed an oversight of mine while doing another task and _explained_ to me that he/she/it was fixing an oversight in order to properly do that other thing I asked for. This was a non-trivial detail concerning state management and recovery in a non-trivial SPA. Something a human would've needed a day or two for fixed in 3 minutes. That wasn't AI just coding, that was AI doing an architecture decision on it's own(!!) to fix the oversight. That's how far we've come with AI as of yesterday.

The biggest part of my job is for me to keep track of what we actually get done and document it after reviewing the code. And, yes, I have never had colleagues this competent either. I've mutated to a primary senior architect with a expert team of 20 within less than a year. If I were to still code myseld, I'd be the bottleneck. And a serious one. So, yeah, basically your assessment is spot on with my AI experience so far.

... that's terrible. Aren't the team rioting already?

- You should've heard the noise when we called that cassette player "Walkman".

Discussion on the Sony Playstation 1 team, paraphrased.

Whoops. That's a bottom-rung typo if I ever saw one.

I'm pretty sure wether you're in ketasis (body produces it's on bloodsugar) or overbooked on sugar (which many often are) is a key factor in wether you're a prime target for mosqitoes. That would also totally make sense for them from a nutrition standpoint. If you're a mosqito magnet, try losing some wait and go into ketasis, perhaps with interval fasting. At least when they're out and about. That's likely do reduce or solve the problem.

Cultural engagement and it's "lower" form, escapism, basically represent tribal social engagement and exploration of the unknown/new, you know, the things we previously evolved to be good at. That this sort of activity provides purpose, meaning and connection and thus educes stress totally makes sense.

I personally see and experience an amplified version of this in close embrace social dancing (massive health benefits, scientifically proven) and due to my diploma and experience in performing arts. It basically makes me 15-20 years younger than my peers.

It was awesome. I even got this special grafics card calles Matrox Mystique which had this very special function: It would specifically support enhanced gaming(!). A brand new concept, can you imagine?

... what electric motors are capable of. Seriously, a specifically designed for MX purposes e-motor will launch you into orbit if that's your aim. No need for flywheels or other ghetto-type shit / steam age technology.