I'm still going to cancel my sub for 75% of the year.

Teachers and schools need to set rules for school. If the rule at schol is "no phones" as a parent, I will support them. Outside of school is not their business.

The question is how to make anti-aircraft fireworks.

I had always wanted a reason to do this, I guess now there is one.

Fines. Itâ(TM)s about the fines.

Computer science is more than just computer programming.

With the budget bump theyâ(TM)re about to get, they could if he commits crimes against wealth.

There is nothing further to say.

I definitely know people making over $2M/yr, most of it in RSUs. $10M seems like director/VP kind of money for these companies, but it doesn't seem unreasonable.

It's worth so much more in investor capital for companies to pay big bucks for the *apperance* of a technical acumen in AI that they're willing to have a very small number of high profile experts making the big dollars just to keep the money flowing in. Even if said experts are doing jack shit, are just talkers, or working their own agenda. Ultimately even $10M is chump change for these companies, they can afford it and it's not their money anyway. Investors are dumb enough to keep throwing money into the fire, so everyone is happy. Until they're not.

So I guess for illicit transactions we don't want the government to watch, we resort to barter?

Just about the only way we're going to be able to take control of hardware we own and use software we want (rather than gov't/corp approved) is by exploiting security flaws left by, amongst other things, unsafe code.

Darwin is also not famous for his razor.

I'm an AI skeptic, but this is over the top. In the parallel reality where stuff like this actually happens, it's important to remember Darwin's Razor: the stupidest amongst us deserve to die, to advance our species as a whole.

I can understand some frustration with customers mistaking Voice-Recognation (Artificial Stupidity) for AI. But put yourself in their shoes, have you ever listened to the back-tape (if available) or tried calling-in yourself and wading past the gauntlet of questions? Most appear carefully designed to frustrate the caller. Calls cost the company money.

Our idea of "right tool for the job" differ. I see it as a balance of manpower, execution speed and target environment. Not strictly "I can write REST in C, so it is the right tool for the job".

python is 100% better if you need to get something easy done quickly, it's also useful just as a user to run other people's stuff, like their AI models for example
C/C++ is better if you need something that is performant and it's worth spending time on
Shell scripts are the best if you need to work with the filesystem and tie a bunch of applications together

I use all three of those every minute of every day on my consumer laptop and on my consumer workstation, they're irreplaceable. If I had to disappear into the woods with no internet access, I would have these things on my laptop. But they're not the right tools if, while wandering the woods, I wanted to write a web-app. Or an iPhone game.

Yes, I could do that, but I would be better off talking to the squirrels for a few weeks and then going home and downloading javascript or swift. I'd finish faster and the end product would be easier to maintain.

Computer Engineering - 7.5% unemployment
Computer Science - 6.1%
This unemployment rate is on the level of art history.

Other engineering fields are between 3-4%. Much, much easier majors are at the same level. Who wants to take a hard major when an easy one gets the same shitty results?

Most of my coworkers in computer engineering are H-1Bs, very few citizens amongst them, and we're not slowing down with that. Wages have stagnated for the past 5 years.

So yeah, of course kids aren't choosing engineering in droves. The other way to look at it is that apparently we've got all the engineers we need, either directly or via the slave trade.