Why do we always see these messages calling out Boeing, as though they had a hand in the crash?

For news reports for a car crash we don't commonly see things like Ford Bronco plows into crowd of people as if the Bronco or Ford had any involvement in the driver's actions...

If it comes out that it was an issue with the plane, and it's not a maintenance issue and really is a product flaw, then yeah, let's blame the manufacturer all day long.

Until then, all this does is associate a really horrible accident to a company/product that might not have anything at all to do with it.

What Andrew describes is the reality. I vibe code all day too, I admit it. It helps me reduce the amount of mundane code I otherwise have to write. But the non-mundane code, that always needs to be reviewed and often needs adjustments, etc. As a tool, it does make me more efficient, but it is a far cry from being able to replace me.

But that's not the hype. The hype is that it's generating complete apps ready for sale on the app stores, or a vibe coder gets millions of VC cash because they created an app in a weekend and they don't even know how to program...

The hype has the c-suite thinking they don't need humans for many jobs now, so they're eyeing those big bonuses they'll be able to rake in by laying off large portions of their organization. They should be thinking how much more they'll get from their workforce by making them more productive, instead they expect to get the same level of productivity but with fewer (or better, no) people.

Boy, are they going to be surprised when that just doesn't happen...

RTFM has always been a problem in our industry. I can remember in Usenet days asking questions and getting responses like RTFM or "I found your answer over here on http://goatse.cx/ ..."

SO works until everyone gets tired of answering the same questions over and over because the posters don't want to RTFM, they just want a quick answer.

And so AI is killing them now because AI doesn't care how many times someone asks a previously asked/answered question, it will happily reply to every question as best it can (even though it may hallucinate a response, it's still better than RTFM).

It would be one thing if the ISPs were taking what they made, investing in infrastructure, expanding coverage, improving capacity and speeds...

But these assholes are only upset because they can't make as much year end bonus bucks...

The problem is in the actual content of the report. It too is full of made up crap sourced from unknown origins all to support a questionable policy position by someone with no medical training and generally considered to be on the fringe on most topics.

The citations only prove that they're making crap up to support their arguments and positions.

We have a bad habit of telling HS students that they need a name brand degree, when often any degree can get them in the door.

Name brand schools can be hard to get into, often come with a great deal of debt, and often the degree isn't worth any more than one from those of the typical state schools (from an employment perspective).

I had dreams of going to Drexel, but I did just fine graduating from BGSU.

If I attend, no I don't expect to understand all their jargon.

But if one of the speakers is going to come to slashdot to self promote their paper? Then yes, I expect them to ditch their jargon and speak to the larger group.

I asked ChatGPT to redo this really fugly summary they used here:

Sure, but the options they give you don't include "fake trailers".

Of course I'm interested in the movie, I'm interested in the other aspects, I don't want Google to filter out any of those things.

I'm just not interested in fake crap created by someone trying to monetize interested in the film, but that's never an option that shows up as a filter.

The worst part is that google thinks I actually like fake trailers since I was tricked into clicking a few, now it's like all I see in the feed, and I can't get rid of them...

I seem to remember there was an episode where a failed launch resulted in a Russian Venus probe running around the deserts of California, and only the Six Million Dollar Man could stop it...

Google didn't invest in the web browser to help humanity.

It is full of all of their hooks to get every scrap of personal information out of you that it can, and they use this info to make billions of dollars as a result.

They had a vested interest in building and pushing Chrome. The push to sell is to separate the concerns, to let the browser & the web develop independently from the gorilla that wants to squeeze money out of you and everyone else.

Their report failed to mention that well over 19 trillion of those videos are pretty much crap.

It's because businesses like I Am Becoming rely on additional money they get from Shopify, so they turned Brandon into a product just because he purchased something from them.

And Shopify then sells all of those products that they paid for to whomever is interested in paying them for it.

So when

he's really referring to how doing anything online makes you a product for someone else to buy or sell and, oh yeah, f*ck you if you don't want to be a product.

Apple is big enough and important enough they could announce they were pulling out of the EU.

This would cause such an uproar that the EU would likely have to rescind the order...