As they've been telling us software developers who are being asked to adapt to probably the most rapid transformation of any career that's ever been seen... "it's ok to take a moment to grieve." I was spending most of my time writing code up until about the middle of August, and then I realized that Fable was finally good enough to work on the rather large code base that I work on, and now I write less than 5% of the new code, and I'm pushing out new features at probably 3 times as fast as I was before, while now spending almost all my time creating and reviewing specifications, reading code, updating documentation, reviewing software architecture, and making bigger plans. It's jarring, exhilarating, and humbling at the same time. It's gonna take a minute for us to adjust. And yes, things are still changing fast. Software development has embraced this. It's coming for 3D CAD software and mechanical engineers next. There's been pushback within the more creative arts, like graphic design, writing, and making videos, and I totally understand that. Those industries will grapple with it in different ways than we have in the engineering space. And we won't lose all the creative stuff. As someone recently said to me, "we still ride horses, but we don't ride them to work."

... did Slashdot become a god damned commie circle jerk?

We had a 2004(?) nissan x-trail for a while (in Canada), and the traditional analog instrument cluster was in the middle of the dash on that one. It was pretty easy to get used to.

*pats you on the head* It's okay little fella. The education system failed you.

We're well past the point where we all have a calculator app in our pocket, but if you've ever felt the frustration of having a discussion with someone who can't do simple arithmetic because they never had to do flash cards in school, you probably understand why students should learn the basics before moving on to more power tools. There are just times you need to pickup a screwdriver, and times you reach for the impact driver.

The number of syllables matters a lot for navigated directions to drivers because you're moving in real time and there isn't time to waste on fluff talk ("You'll take your next right" (5 syllables) as opposed to just "Turn right" (2 syllables). If you get your instructions too late because the navigator is just too verbose, then you might have to abruptly make a turn, which could lead to an accident. It is a real safety issue. Also, assigning ownership (i.e. "*your* next left" as opposed to "the next left" ) to roads and public property is not only false, but just so dumb and very annoying. The Google navigator also often no longer speaks the exit numbers or street names! Furthermore, deliberately using ambiguous and grammatically incorrect language to communicate just normalizes this practice and perpetuates it even further in society. That is why people (broadcast newscasters, podcasters, online influencers, TV anchors, etc) and AI systems (like Google maps) that have large audiences should always use perfect English with excellent pronunciation and annunciation, so that dumb humans can learn to speak better; more clearly, more accurately, more concisely, etc. But this recent Google Maps change fiasco is all part of the enshitification of everything thanks to humans becoming stupider due to AI and the mainstream media promoting degeneracy and stupidity rather than intelligence, dignity, and virtue.

Renaming a lake and bullying Canada are distractions from the real issues he cares about: the war with Iran, and the Epstein files. Looks like it's working.

Because Google changed the phrasing of the American English narrated directions by making the speaker sound like an dumb blonde airhead. She says: "You'll take YOUR next right" instead of "Take the next right" "At the next intersection, you'll turn left" instead of "At the next intersection, turn left." The phrasing is like a mom talking patronizingly to her 5 year old child. I blame the horrible changes on DEI and putting a woman who never read more than 50 books in her life in charge of the phrasing. There is a solution to this problem: Configure the Maps app to navigate using British English rather than American English!

"To reiterate: The Trump administration intervened on behalf of a racist, and intervened against someone teaching science accurately."

Yes that is a reiterate of the false information you presented when in reality they defended a man who didn't spare someone criticism for their wrongs because they were a minority and against someone wasting funds promoting politically contaminated nonsense which isn't consistent with the data.

I prefer that the institutions I'm paying for in the real world teach them skills which are useful in it and no ideology that has no relation to reality.

Propoganda rags. Let's see if they promote the same illegal and unjust racism I pointed out the administration fights...

Yup:
https://www.politico.com/blogs...

Times union is less overt but the numbers don't lie:
An established news organization doesn't go from 35% racial minority reporters to 75% racial minority reporters in a 87% racial majority labor pool without discriminating against the racial majority.

https://www.powerreporting.com...

I saw the term diverse placed oddly in my child's 4th grade curriculum disclosure. It was presented as education on American history and pride. With a specific focus on literary concepts differentiating between fiction, folklore, mythology and non-fiction and realistic fiction. All normal enough but I noticed the diversity and culture keywords and saw 'realistic fiction' and for some reason those fake social media films depicting discrimination and presenting it as real events with fine print disclaimers came to mind.

So I went ot curriculum day to see the materials. I asked to see the actual stories and examples being used to show these things to the children. With the fiction there were obvious thinly veiled parallels to belief in religion [not it stopped the teacher from having materials in the class which depicted friendly people in hijabs] and the realistic fiction examples all just happened to depict minorities struggling and the causes always clearly illustrated cases of systemic and historical oppression, backstories and all. Meanwhile other examples were well to do majority children oblivious to their privilege which was also well established with backstories connecting it to advantages against the minorities in a grandparent's time or something similar.

Keep your ideology out of our institutions, our science, our payment processing network guidelines and keep your youth programming TF away from my children and the schools I fund. My child is there to learn skills not be brainwashed into your ideology.

Don't blame them, blame people who've hijacked terms like diversity as code for efforts to apply principles of critical theory to race. This is racism, antithetical to real science, pervasive and is illegal in the United States and anywhere else with decency.

The Trump administration is just applying the law with a broad enough brush to be effective with the resources they have. Avoiding codewords these activists use to signal others of like mind is a small price to pay to purge this poison from society. We paid a much higher one in the civil war.

"It isn't a "concept" that America is still a world leader in science. It is fact."

True and you'll be modded down for it on this chinese propaganda mill.

Trump fails to comprehend, like many of us, 'science' which is based on no more empirical evidence than your claim of 'fascist autocrat' and also opposes overt racism since it is illegal and all. He's actually been a great boon to real physical science.

"The consequences go far beyond academia: basic scientific research is THE engine behind engineering, medicine, and industry."

That isn't who is leaving and that isn't who they are recruiting. It's garbage politicized social pseudo-science. What we'll see is a boom in the US and further decline of the western societies who continue to waste resources on nonsense.