I think it is a cultural thing that New Zealand companies don't cold call by phone due to the negative perception of it, and local spam laws that actually can be applied to them are strong so, local spam is not a problem. It is the off shore spammers that are the biggest hassle but I think the local telcos have a handle on it now as that has died down recently. That only leaves email and the ongoing battle of spam filters.

I'm in New Zealand. The problem, probably under GDPR too, is Linked In have permission to send me emails about stuff I want to know. By default their signal to noise ratio is terrible. I have found email setting to get rid of much of the noise but even their info I want is of low quality, they can't seem to understand the difference an embedded systems engineer and a SaaS coder. Honestly they are so useless I am tempted to unsub everything from them. Their adoption of AI has not improved things either, just increased the number of pointless offerings.

Of course, I only ever use the web version. No way I would let Linked In, or the like, install their spyware on my phone! However for a while that did not stop them sending me a weekly email asking for access to my contacts. That went on from March 2017 to August 2019, every fucking week. I emailed to tell them stop, if I didn't do it after the first dozen emails they should take the hint and stop email bombing me. Pointless of course, they just keep going.

I guess that was a USA problem, it never happened here (New Zealand) in the 70s and 80s. I only became a problem decades later when VOIP etc allowed offshore scammers access, and they were not using phone books.

In the era of computers, a phone book holds next to no value compared with a database of phone numbers. Nobody complained 100 years ago because there where no computers abusing phone book usage back then.

Yea, LinkedIn used to regularly ask for the same thing a few years back. So unprofessional it made me loose respect for LinkedIn at that point.

Just give ChatGPT your password. What could possibly go wrong...

Where are my mod points when I need them? You summed things up nicely. I never followed US politics until trump came along and started threatening it's allies.

Just no!

How much trust can you have in any data coming out of the current USA government these days?

He sometimes changes his mind in the same long rambling sentence, because he can't keep track of what he started off saying.

If you want to know what JFK Jr actually thinks just ask his brain worm...

Interesting you may have actually had Covid and not known it as the jabs you had means your body would have dealt with it quickly and with minimal symptoms. This was pointed out to me when I got my last Covid jab and I mentioned I had never had Covid, to which the reply from the person giving me the jab was "That you know of".

Regardless I find getting sick is unpleasant so will continue to get annual flu and Covid jabs.

That is a fair assessment now, but how long will that be true for? Two factors are likely to see weight difference reduce and BEVs may even become lighter long term. The first factor is improving energy density as battery technology continues to improve. The second factor is right sized batteries. Currently battery packs are made for a huge range, which is great for road trips and travel flexibility, but there is a large number of cars who's sole purpose is a modest daily commute. As range anxiety is replaced with real world experience the market for cheaper shorter range commuters with small batteries is likely to grow.

We are arguing across different points. Of course those vibe coding can be innovative, my argument is not about them but about the LLM they use. The counter argument is that a LLM is just a tool and a tool is not expected to be innovative. The problem is where this tool beaks the cycle of innovation that open source supports. The open source community evolves and occasionally innovates, building upon itself. LLMs digest that to improve themselves.

But how does vibe coding contribute back to improving software development as a whole? I assume it can self improve to some extent by learning what answers user accepted, but how well does that compare with sharing of ideas that drive open source communities?