We haven’t, really. Our “complete neutrality” is infested with troll farms, where people are employed to make hundreds of accounts to spread propaganda.

I’m thinking the answer is to implement a huge barrier for troll farms, but a small speed bump for real people.

It could be oauth with Steam or your cell provider, where you can make an account if you’ve spent over $250 with them. Actual credit history would work. You can combine these and allow any of them, which might let one person make 3-4 accounts, maybe, but that’s still limited enough to make things difficult for troll farms.

There is an issue where billionaires that want to influence us have absolutely absurd resources, and maybe paying $1000 per account isn’t enough of a barrier for them. But at least it gives us a chance for the bans to stick significantly more than they do now.

People were playing text-based multiplayer, effectively mmos with PvP well before Tim-Berners Lee invented the Web Browser.

http://mud.arctic.org/ this one is still around.

But why? You don’t need telnet to transfer text.

I’ll always be able to play Balatro, Factorio, and he’ll, I’d go to text based MUDs first.

He shouldn’t say anything more than “I have a feeling everyone here will be inclined to follow the law.” and “It’s my 2nd amendment right to carry this firearm.”

The “hero abilities” look pretty tacky.

Like a wireless router?

Can your neighborhood communicate when the Internet goes down like Iran?

How does the US get blamed in this?

If there’s any one country, it’s primarily Russia that’s the black hole. Just because we’re farther down the hole than you are doesn’t make us the primary culprit.

Meanwhile China’s just sitting back and benefiting from pretty much everything. They’re passive enough about it that they might not be running it, just damn if they ain’t coming out on top at the end of all this.

Now that’s real GDP.

On the other hand, you know the Fortran works and you can break it.

The vibe code is already broken.

I’m still pounding the Fortran button as hard as I can.

You can just have things be out of scope. It’s really okay!

Thanks for the work you’ve put into this.

It’s dropped enough that I generally keep that car at 70% charge. I’ll up it before going on a longer trip, but that’s rare.

And at worst, if I had to make a longer trip with no notice (odd), it’s just an opportunity to use an actual level 3 charger, of which there are plenty.

No, I don’t have anxiety about maybe needing to spend 15 minutes at a gas station, maybe, six months from now.

I am, however, happy that I haven’t been to a gas station at all in six months.

I watched this episode purely because of this post. One of the better Black Mirror episodes.

The scumbag behavior is from the employer. He’s only fighting fire with fire.

Pretty good and well balanced article.

As a professional software dev, AI is absolutely useful. But forcing people to use it is weird. And I never want to have to deal with a PM using AI to generate a PR and then having to review it. That’s absolutely not how you use AI, and more often or not that will be more work than just doing the whole thing yourself.

It’s critical to understand everything the AI is doing as it does it. Because, as the article said, if you don’t, you’re going to get subtle bugs that will be even more difficult to find later. And some of those bugs can be devastating. Add a number of those together and you have an unmaintainable mess.

don’t remember the syntax of the language they’re using due to their overreliance on Cursor.

I think this is pretty fine. Knowing what the situation calls for, knowing exactly how to accomplish it, and having the AI fill in the syntax for your psuedocode typically works pretty great. Something like “In the header add jQuery from the most common CDN. (Verify that CDN or this is a great vector for AI-induced malware/compromise.) Use an ajax call to this api [insert api url] and populate the div with id ‘mydata’.” That’s a pretty simple thing that it’ll likely handle pretty well and is easy to review.

The ways they’re forcing people to use it is kind of insane. But they’re doing that because they’re using AI as a justification for firing people. It doesn’t really work like that. Used properly will it speed up development? For most developers (anyone who used Stack Overflow), yeah. But that doesn’t mean a developer who’s juggling and maintaining 3 products can now suddenly handle 5. It doesn’t speed up context switching, really. And it’s not like it’s replacing the overhead of story boards, standups, change review boards, debugging, handling tickets, or other overhead. You might just spend 7 weeks developing a project instead of 8. And it can remove a bit of tedium (or add if you’re stupid about how you force AI).

It’s a useful tool. It shouldn’t be replacing a large number of developers. Of course they’ll fire the devs anyway, because like any other R&D the dividends are usually paid in the future. So in most cases, firing developers takes some time before you pay the toll, whether it’s opportunity cost, creating an unmaintainable mess, or losing the ability to maintain the things you already have. I expect that’s why the internet’s been falling apart lately. Fire a bunch of people and things they used to handle start to fall apart (or the people who have always handled those things get stretched too thin).

Which is just as risky as instantly updating unless you’re really closely keeping an eye on which updates are security related.

Thank you!

And if a cheap, used, decade old EV battery is down to 80% of its former max life, that’s still a very usable vehicle for almost everyone. It probably isn’t even noticeable outside of long trips.

In fact, I can vouch. I keep the max charge on my new battery at 80% to extend its lifespan. I don’t even plug the thing in every night. My charge from 80% down to 45% can last nearly a week.