I’m pretty sure both Nebula and Floatplane look for their talents themselves, you can’t just decide to be there. And they look for something more sophisticated than a guy yelling n-word at children in a currently popular videogame.

In a vacuum, as a one time deal, developing from scratch? Probably no.
If you already have a robust train infrastructure? Depends on a length of a run, but it will be yes in more cases than you think. Trains are incredibly efficient.

The infrastructure for it is already in place

containing complete, working instructions for making the cure for cancer

Did it contain it once? Or did it ever contained exclusively mindless slop mangled together from bits of stolen art, carefuly put together to be simultaneously as unsettling, as unappealing, and as insultingly bland as possible?
You out there defending shrimp Jesuses as if there is any merit in copypasting it ever. You had to invent a scenario that never happened and can’t possibly happen, to paint us as unreasonable, meanwhile all that “your side” produces is exclusively derivative slop that costs precious resources to make while removing value from the world.
It’s not that we hate on perfectly good images because it’s made by computer, we hate on offensively terrible images flooding our world. The fact that you can shortcut it to just hating generators is our point actually

We’re trying to build the Torment Nexus from the famous novel Don’t Build The Torment Nexus, but keep failing miserably and the Torment Nexus keeps blowing up killing random bystanders. We continue to try though.

Can’t confirm, I’m old and a nerd and I love C++

I have a friend who swears by llms, he sais it helps him a lot. I once watched him do it, and the experience was exactly the same you described. He wasted couple of hours fighting with bullshit generator just to do everything himself anyway. I asked him wouldn’t it be better to not waste the time, but he didn’t really saw the problem, he gaslit himself that fighting with the idiot machine helped.

The ideal code is no code at all

He can be working on whatever unrelated part and just be excited about the product that his company makes. It’s not impossible

Cat is absolutely capable of biting your finger off, yet when socialised properly they limit themselves with occasional excited scratching and light biting.
But just to be clear, I’m not advocating for having a tiger as a per.

Well, cats learn how to bite without causing damage. Tigers aren’t socialized with humans, so they learn the levels of bite appropriate to other tigers.

From the government perspective, first of all you need to redesign your electrical grid, from scratch, everything, from ground up. After which you will be left with the electrical production you can’t predict, can’t control, can’t regulate, which will grow or shrink at the intervals you, once again, can’t control or even predict. And that’s if we’re talking about sensitive models of giving people subsidies so they can put panels themselves. If I start thinking about the logistics of some agency putting solar on people’s roofs, my head starts hurting.

Converting roofs into solar is simple and cool if you don’t know anything about any of that. Then so many problems emerging, you start going crazy and yearn for the simplicity and straightforwardness of a floating solar platform.
And that’s before you remember that not all of the world is US and most people don’t actually live in a detached house with a roof.

“and yet you participate in society, hm, curious”. You’re doing the meme, my man. You’re doing the entire meme that is also making a point.

Yes, yes they do. People don’t want junk as it is, people desire their wants and needs met. If for example a human wants a piece of clothing that looks good, but the corporations setup the world in such a way that most people can only afford junk clothing that looks OK and disappears after two wash cycles, a human will buy endless amount of junk clothing.

I have a big foldable tray with legs, just for the occasion like that. Very helpful.

Imagine the lives of people who can just randomly eat ribs at 3 AM. No work in the morning, they aren’t perpetually tired so they’re OK with random sleep interruptions, they don’t care about sheets that much, but they can slow cook ribs, so all of this doesn’t mean they’re broke.
I’m envious as shit, if anything

That’s not beer. Not trying to throw shade at sporadic fermentation, but in order to achieve good alcohol you need infrastructure, no ways about it.

Counterpoint: beer.

Survivalship bias at it’s finest. In literal sence of the word