The money is used to pay staff... Payroll is by far the biggest expense for most businesses.

Totally agree. In my college classes at a prestigious school, well over 15 years ago, only a tiny fraction of the students in class could actually code to any reasonable degree. Maybe 10% or less. The rest were there to do the bare minimum required, never developed a deeper understanding of any of it, and were just hoping to land a cushy job once outside of school.

Coding is more than just rote memorization of constructs. To do a good job with it you need to have a deep understanding of many related concepts at once (algorithmic complexity, memory usage, network latency, threading). Even the best AIs today cannot write novel code that does all these things well or even correctly.

This is already obsolete. DeepSeek can write so well it passes with "AI detection" tools with 100% pass rate.

Personally, I prefer to get advice from how to be successful from people who are actually successful.

Rei, without evidence, claimed Muskâ(TM)s opinions were uniquely dangerous. Yet he had no qualms about pre-2021 Musk vocally supporting Democrats for his entire adult life. He similarly had no problem with billionaires spending money and controlling media when it was George Soros doing so over many decades- and recently being awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom in a naked display of cronyism.

In short- opinions are bad and billionaires are bad- if theyâ(TM)re on the wrong side.

Iâ(TM)m old enough to remember the endless calls from the left to shut down Fox News in the 2000â(TM)s- at the time, the only conservative news station in a sea of left wing media. Itâ(TM)s truly frightening how many âoeliberalsâ are just fascists under another name.

There's exactly one real reporter at The Verge- Tom Warren. Everyone else is just a political activist thinly disguised as reporters.

He is a massively overrated actor and now has the ego to match it. He was a B tier actor until Iron Man- in which he turned in a performance that frankly any halfway competent male lead in the same role could have done.

I'm not a Trump fan, but it is frankly hilarious that the left continues to cite "Project 2025" as if it's Trump's roadmap. In addition to him repeatedly disavowing it- do you seriously believe Trump knows or cares what some think tank wants him to do? He does what he wants, regardless of what anyone else thinks. You'd think after being in politics for 10 years that would be clear by now.

Can you point to when you think technology on a large scale went backwards? The European âoeDark Agesâ is largely a myth. Art, architecture, and engineering continued to evolve. See medieval cathedrals.

Iâ(TM)m by no means a fan of Trump. Heâ(TM)s narcissistic at a level unmatched by any other, and has been extremely dishonest throughout his career. But to call the leading presidential candidate âoean existential threat to democracyâ is absurd. You lived through the last Trump presidency- youâ(TM)ll live through the next (if there is one).

Unhinged rhetoric like this is likely what inspired the shooter to begin with. After all, if Trump were really H*tler- wouldnâ(TM)t there be a moral obligation to stop him however possible?

Do you not know how schools work? If the teacher sees a phone in class, it will be confiscated and the student will be punished. It's trivial to enforce, and many schools across the country already enforce such bans.

Some of you neckbeards really need to leave the basement once in a while.

If any country knows about the dangers of producing killer robots, it's Austria.

Not only did he alienate them, but he refused to reconcile with his older son even when on his deathbed (his son called him and he refused to take the call).

The guy sounds like a selfish piece of garbage, to be honest.

Even if a conference organizer didnâ(TM)t care about diversify quotas, they have to implement anyway because many speakers and attendees will refuse to attend otherwise. For example, Scott Hanselman, who was supposed to speak at this conference, was very clear he refuses to speak at any conference he does not deem to be sufficiently diverse.

Paint 3D was rejected because it shipped alongside Paint, didn't have any useful new features, and had an absolutely horrible UI.

I'm ok with them adding functionality to Paint as long as it doesn't degrade performance or tie it to the cloud (both of which these new features seem likely to do).

People have been asking them for 30 years to add layers to Paint. That one simple feature would make it 1000X more useful.