I suspect he was ignored. Adobe hasn't just made buggier products, they've also just made worse products, where nobody with any design sense or empathy for a user would allow it to be released. They've always been terrible, but their products are nearly intolerable now. They have the best tech and the worst everything else.

Less experience means you don't have to pay that person as much. You don't get the same quality of work out of them—and crucially, you never will. Unless you're using an LLM to help you learn as a specific goal, you won't learn much from prompting it to solve your problems for you.

So basically you have a workforce that never gets better, no matter how many hours they put into the work, so you can continue to pay them poorly FOREVER. They're just prompt-generating meat-sacks. I've argued for years that there's no such thing as 'unskilled' labour; fast-food workers, farm workers, manual laborers all learn skills and are meaningfully better at their jobs as time goes on. But AI workers? It's getting pretty close to being unskilled. If there's any differentiation between the results one person gets vs. another, AI companies will roll those into the model to homogenize the results.

That said, I don't think this future is going to happen. I don't think we can underestimate the value of human work just yet.

Your statistics are terrible.

Single women raising kids have a higher chance of raising a criminal because there are so many more of them, and women are generally paid less than men, so they have fewer resources to aid raising those kids. Men are less likely to even TRY to get full custody of children, so there's a massive selection bias here—single dads are the ones that actually have the resources AND the desire to raise children.

I wasn't able to find any credible evidence that the problem is specifically with single mothers, though it does seem that single PARENT households are more likely to raise criminal children. But again, this almost certainly has to do with the fact that regardless of gender, one person wasn't meant to raise a child—it takes a village, as the saying goes. People without support will have a hard time doing a sufficient parenting job, through no real fault of their own.

Moreover, in study after study, single women are HAPPIER than married women. Married women are miserable because the men are SO BAD. Women have looked at their options and decided that between living with a couple of cats alone in an apartment or taking care of a douchbag that never does the dishes, the cats win every time, and I DON'T BLAME THEM.
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Single women with kids do LESS housework than MARRIED women with kids; men are a net negative in their lives.
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1. I am now BEGGING to get into chats with actual humans because the AI agents suck SO HARD
2. I interviewed with a company and asked about their AI policy and the policy is: we don't use it for any of our code. The guy said that if it were up to him, he MIGHT allow it a bit, but only at the senior level and above. Otherwise, you have to do your time and learn your lessons. I respect this.
3. I'm surprised at how well people actually DO recognize AI slop and resent it.

So yeah, it's changed my opinion about jobs and interacting with people. I'm literally never going to go to a cafe with automated baristas. I want to talk to people about coffee and what's good and what THEY like. I want to know their dumb little coffee making rituals and what grinder they like and the best cafe THEY'VE ever been to. All AI has done is cement in that I don't like computers as much as I thought I did.

That's definitely the case with things like dinner etiquette. Nobody REALLY cares about which spoon is which.

But politeness, being kind in your interactions, thanking people, etc., that's all there to help interactions with people that aren't your friends or family. I say please and thank-you to the folks at the farmer's market. I don't know them well enough to do anything else. There's a little bit of social lubricant there that gives me a framework of how to act with someone that's mostly a stranger.

I get that sometimes the niceties are annoying—don't ask me how I'm doing if you don't actually care; I'll TELL you and then what are you going to do?—but lots of them are just a way to make life a little easier.

Women aren't any more or less logical than men, from my experience. They may sometimes have a different set of assumptions, but most of the outcomes from there are internally consistent.

I've had a LOT more trouble with men being illogical or saying "that's just how it is" or something similar. They're far less likely to change their minds in the face of overwhelming evidence.

It comes down to who you surround yourself with. If you find that the women in your life aren't very logical, it may say more about how you've decided to associate with. (If you claim that you haven't chosen these people and they were somehow thrust upon you, that's worse, and still your fault.)

No, I haven't. The code that LLMs generate is suspicious at best. But that's the thing with so-called 'vibe coding': it's something that non-programmers do. They iterate using the prompts, not by taking the code generated by the LLM and fixing it up themselves.

If you're 'vibe coding', you're not interacting with the code anyway.

Well, no. You can see the difference between BL2 and BL3 despite them both being cel shaded games. You want fancy visual effects and the lighting still matters.

Also, we should be clear that Unreal isn't just a graphics engine, it's a whole game engine, and I don't think that we should be surprised that UE5 is a bit heavier and is doing more things. BL4 is a more open world game; I'm sure that's doing something.

Anyway, I haven't played it yet, and launches these days all seem to be a bit difficult for companies, so I'll reserve judgement until I get it on sale on Steam.

It's using UE5, so I'm not sure what you're getting at here? That it didn't need the new engine? That UE 5 is worse somehow?

Also, they can't drop the cel-shaded look, it's part of the character of the game. I'm not sure what they would transition to--more realism? That would be weird.

If you don't plan correctly in an ICE, it doesn't start at all. The 12v battery won't turn your engine over.

There are drawbacks to EVs still, for sure, but we talk about ICE vehicles like they've solved the problem of extreme temperatures better and they really haven't.

I mean, you tell yourself that if you want, I guess, but there are two eras: pre iPhone and post iPhone, and the Android phones before the iPhone did NOT look like a modern smartphone. That was Apple. And Samsung and various Chinese brands still copy Apple to this day.

It's really just a fact, though you can cover your eyes and wish it weren't so, if you want.

Apple's phones never used thunderbolt. If you're talking about lightning, you'll note that before Apple made a cable where it was impossible to plug it in upside down, Android phones used micro-USB, one of the worst interface standards. There has been some talk that Apple itself was the progenitor of USB-C and they gave it to the USB standards consortium, but I've never been able to verify that. They WERE on the committee that developed it, though.

Wealthsimple will refund up to $5s in ATM fees if you have an account there. I think it might require an account minimum, but their chequing accounts pay out something like 3% (it's pegged to the Bank of Canada rate).

Anyway, I got super sick of the fees at TD, so I've switched basically all my banking over. I feel strongly that everyone in Canada should take a look at their bank and probably switch to either a Credit Union, or some sort of online bank. It doesn't have to be Wealthsimple, just get away from the big 6 banks. They're bleeding you dry with high fees and strongarm sales tactics.

"His concerns are echoed by Mercedes CEO Ola Kallenius, who recently warned the European car industry is "heading at full speed against a wall" and could even "collapse" if the EU doesn't reconsider."

Why is everyone a capitalist believing that the market will give us the solutions we need up until the time where they were caught sleeping and now they want us to please be nice to them?

We do not have time to coddle these babies. Figure something out or die, that's not my problem. My problem is that fires get worse every year and the droughts get worse every year, and more people die in heatwaves every year.