What did you expect when they made "College Degree" a box to be checked off rather than an exemplar? Eventually the number of potential employees with degrees was going to outstrip employer demand for them, and that happening causes the value of a degree to plummet to near zero. Now it's reaching saturation, and those with them have found out their actual worth long after having promised to pay for them.

Care to guess what's going to happen next?

All of those trades suffering shortages are suddenly going to get an influx of new recruits. (Those desperate to pay back those loans.) The result will be the same for tradesmen as it was for the degree-holders: A sudden devaluation of their labor as the number of people available to work outstrips the demand.

Well what did you expect when you gave them the internet as a babysitter? Actions have consequences, and that particular one is going to be with us for quite awhile. Best get to actually addressing those issues unless you want your business to be inundated with employees of such caliber. (The older "proper" employees won't be around forever.)

If you're doing something that an employee can sue you for (and win) in the US, you've been holding the legal system wrong. /s

In all seriousness, if you think the US doesn't practice at-will employment, you're dead wrong. We do have it, and it doesn't change employer's willingness to hire at at all. On the contrary, it does make them more likely to fire an employee on a whim. Which has completely broken the trust relationship between management and labor in the US. The end result isn't pretty, most just want visa workers or otherwise some kind of legally encumbered worker (debt, undocumented, parolee, etc.) whom they can abuse with impunity and use to drive down the value of labor overall.

TL;DR: Another commenters said it best: Americans need not apply.

C can be one of them with a good compiler and standard library. There's even versions of C that forbid dynamic memory management outright. So there's very little chance, if any, of a memory error. To say nothing of syntax checkers, leak catchers, etc....

It's not the thinking that's the problem. (Most career programmers tend to like thinking through difficult problems.) The issue has always been the cost to management. Management doesn't want to pay the programmer for the extra time required to solve those problems. They want the (barely) working product out the door so they can profit NOW, and move the programmers on to the next product in the pipeline. Over the last few decades the drop in quality has become so obvious that even Joe Sixpack has taken notice, but no-one in a position of authority is willing to call out the industry for it's bad behavior. Let alone do the hard work of holding the industry accountable.

It only counts this time because it's a quick and dirty change in the marketing campaign. Just replace one label "C" with "Rust", and blam-o! Instant applause from every "thought leader" and Joe Sixpack in attendance. Why else would politicians jump on board the hype train? It's because doing so makes it look like they are doing something to the public while maintaining the status quo. Their involvement should have been the smoking gun for everyone....but I digress. If Rust had required more than just a simple marketing change by the company, Microsoft and Google would have ignored it just like every other "safe" (read: time / money consuming) programming practice. Instead the focus and blame is shifted onto the programmers, and addressing the issues of bad management get put off for a few more years.

Rust's best fit is actually the opposite for exactly the reasons you've given.

A random office grunt wanting to crunch some numbers that's a bit more than Excel can handle, isn't going to want to learn a complicated programming language. Let alone the intricacies and pitfalls to avoid. They just want the numbers to get processed so they can move on to their next task for the day. As such, the code they wind up writing tends to be poor quality. Just barely getting the job done. Rust's memory management takes away some of the pitfalls of writing code through automation, and helps protect things when that code is low quality, but it's not a simple language to parse like python or BASIC. It also tries too hard to provide everything. Overwhelming the random office grunt.

Most system libraries and "root" programs however are written by those with a higher competency level. Even more so the closer you get to the raw hardware. That's not to say they are perfect in any sense, but that in these cases Rust is more of a hindrance. As Rust lacks the familiarity of C-syntax style languages, bans common coding styles, and requires additional effort to integrate into other software stacks in a way that doesn't render it's memory management features useless. Rust is essentially fighting against everything the programmer knows at that point, and the confrontation leaves a good number of them bitter and unwilling to continue using the language.

In the end, I'm not surprised that the company in your example is having issues. People want their incompetencies covered, but most don't want the tool chosen to help them getting in the way of the work.

The conservatives who abused the practice until it was no longer convenient for them. Two wrongs don't make a right buddy.

And just how many people do you think are going to employ a zero trust model for a god damn consumer printer?

Zero trust is complete bullshit. It's like telling people to validate every second of their lives. It's not going to happen, as the vast majority of them will never even know that they are "trusting" someone to begin with. (Yes, computer literacy for most people is that bad, and convincing them to learn is even worse.)

I don't even give it an ethernet cable. Let alone a wifi password. That thing can use USB and the host can run CUPS with kerberos auth required to do anything. Just as good, and no chance of it getting hit by one of these attacks. (Just remember to disable the random unneeded CUPS filters.....)

Hit the button too soon....

Another bit of tension: The proposed copyright changes puts the onus of enforcement on the individual. (Copyright is supposed to be enforced by the rightsholder.) Such as gathering initial evidence, filling a lawsuit, and seeking damages. It also means the damage has to be done before the victim can sue. I.e. They can know a deepfake is about to go up, but until it does, there's no evidence of infringement from which legal action can be justified. I'm sure the AI firms are more than happy with this, as it's a bunch of individuals in their own isolated cases picking up the pieces after the fact, rather than a pro-active government who can cause them real pain for even thinking about it.

Well, it's not like AI firms give a shit about copyright.....

Although for the tension bit, stretching copyright to cover more crap "because AI" isn't going to solve the problem. It's an abuse of copyright to try and fix an issue of "you've let a bunch of dickheads hoover up all of your biometrics without consent." While I agree the issue needs to be corrected, promptly, the correct method would be to ban biometric collection without explicit written consent for the use, (if not banned already), and actually enforce the law. I.e. Make these dickheads pay a percentage of their global GDP for every day that they keep the data. Double the fines each time they or anyone else uses the data to make a deepfake.

TL;DR: The solution is to make it unprofitable to collect data like this, or use it to deceive others. Not extend copyright.

The issue is that an EV that is parked and turned off is able to catch fire simply by getting it's battery cells flooded with water, an ICEV requires some heat / spark source. Two of those are hard to come by in most storage environments, the other is a ridiculously common expectation on a world where +80% of the surface is covered in it.

The simple thing is: EVs aren't built to be stored in the location where they are used. (Outside, or in areas where water / moisture exists in large amounts.) That's a fatal (literally) design flaw. Yes, this was on a ship, but there is just as much water getting to the storage decks on that ship as there would be in any parking garage. Worse, the car itself would face far worse levels of water intrusion simply driving during a downpour. The only more unique bit of a ship is the constant swaying and sudden change in level of the ground / center of gravity compared to being on land. Maybe the batteries aren't able to handle that very well, (because the chances of needing to be able to regularly are low in most use cases for EVs), but regardless getting an EV too wet causes sudden combustion.

Most people aren't accustomed to that risk nor prepared to mitigate it, so you get headlines. It takes time for people to adjust. There's no need to assume malfeasance.

Captain: "Computer, eject the EVs."
LCARS: "Unable to comply. EV ejection system is inoperative."

Because some random dev declaring that some shitty new dependency (again) that allows them to rip out 4 lines of already written and debugged code is "the future", is soooo much better. Why, it's soooo great that everyone should have to shell out hundreds, if not thousands, of their hard earned cash for completely new kit once every 6 months to an unrelated hardware manufacturer. Just so that poor random dev doesn't have to look at the fuglyness of their own scrawl again!

I don't think you understand who the bitch actually is in this industry.....

It's going to be worse. The problem is that those who cannot without the LLM's help are eventually going to say the LLM's output is "good enough" and that will drop the value of everything above it. I.e. It won't matter if you can do it yourself without the LLM or not. People will only pay for what the LLM produces and not a red cent more, and the LLM can produce it at the push of a button so it's a fungible good. Replaced completely in seconds, which means you aren't living on your work anymore the second that the LLM gets "good enough" into the market.

Don't believe me? Go ask the white collar workers getting replaced by "good enough" genAI. The LLM doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to generate acceptable ROI for the investor class, and it's already "good enough" in many places.

This is the ultimate end game for profiteering. No-one can make any money because the industry made a machine that can do it all. Dropping the value of the work to near zero, bankrupting every company that didn't get out in time, and creating droves of unemployable workers that now must retool into something else. (With that something else being an ever decreasing list of things because the AIs never stop improving.)

Well you got rid of manufacturing, and made everyone a service sector employee in the 00's. Then when there wasn't enough jobs to go around, their only options were to make stuff no-one else was or entertain others. Now that AIs can do the same thing but far faster and cheaper, there's a dearth of garbage because the AI's masters are trying to hoover up what little wealth exists in that market too. It's just like the housing crisis. Buy up all of the homes with venture capital, and those that need them can't afford them due to the price hikes. Now, it's suck up all of the wealth from even the smallest markets, and those without a regular job can't afford anything.

"Post your entire life online and share it with your friends! Yes even when you take a shit! Pass ULTIMATE Judgement on the turds of others!" - Social Media companies.

Nuff said. They monetized people's insecurities and desires to connect with others. Then they ostracized anyone who didn't jump off the cliff with them and called those giving warnings to others conspiracy theorists. Then they pushed the idea that everyone knows and does it anyway to kill privacy. Then they normalized the idea of whoring yourself and others out to companies as the expected form of perpetual payment. (ADs everywhere makes the world go round!)

See above about things being "good enough." They don't care and nothing you say or do is going to change that until they find out that their "good enough" means they get to starve on the streets in a puddle of their own piss.

Congrats you've seen the next move for the Capitalists to make. Not that it will prevent you from entering Terrafoam.

Nope, it's going to be a leased out time slot in a server farm. Don't think for even a second that they'll let you just keep a digital slave for yourself without some form of recurring payment.

Oh, they'll still be able to learn alright. They just won't have the means to put that knowledge to use, so they'll avoid learning to keep what little time they have left for other things.

The reply is more than one sentence because in the real world you're expected to use your head to solve problems that can't be summarized into one single statement if you want to get paid for your labor.