I don't think there is a solution. In all seriousness, if I were starting my career from scratch today, I would avoid anything that can be done purely remotely, and quite likely go into a skilled trade - Not romanticizing "hands-on" work, I realize it has its own down-sides, but it's becoming increasingly clear we'll still have elevator techs and plumbers longer than we'll have programmers and accountants.

AI has effectively already killed white collar jobs going forward, whether or not those outside tech have noticed yet. It can more-or-less replace junior-level workers today, and with no juniors there will be no seniors later and no principals twenty+ years from now. Though even if we somehow find a way to backfill the experience pipeline, I have little doubt AI will be coming for even the best of us within a decade. Maybe it'll hit some unforeseen ceiling before then, but that's not a bet I'm eager to take.

Respectfully, no, it absolutely doesn't.

Their reasoning sounds plausible only if read from a "business weasel" perspective. If there's a market for RPis with more lower quality RAM, nobody is "undercutting" RPF; they're selling the products they want to, at the price they want to, and choosing not to offer big/slow/cheap OEM RAM configurations. And even if someone could undercut them on the exact same components - So what??? RPF may be a non-profit, but I am not!

The RPi is specifically targeted at DIY'ers, providing a cheap and stable base platform for us to add on whatever freaky shit we want to. Blocking owners from doing exactly that, whether it mean adding on a toaster or oodles of garbage RAM, is some classic Apple-level control freak BS and fundamentally antithetical to their entire purpose. Buh-bye goodwill when it looks like RPi is working hard to make itself just another whore of an SBC manufacturer. And I can promise RPF if they really want to compete in that market, China is going to eat them for lunch.

High stress jobs that require physical confrontation tend to do that. Military, corrections and policing all have this issue. Most police spend 90% of their time being bored. Less than 1% of the time is in physical conflict in most departments. But it can happen randomly at any time. Do you think that's a fun time? Linemen that work for electric companies are also over represented. High stress, unpredictable jobs that a person can get injured or killed doing are not great for mental health. Maybe departments should put more money into mental health programs for police. Weird how everyone wants more mental health for criminals but never discuss it for police.

That's one department. LAPD has been a mess for years. That's one out of 18,000 departments in the US. There are others that have/have had issues as well. But it's not the majority. LA is famously bad for a lot of government decisions. Most departments that have corruption issues are in areas where there is corruption in the government. You see it in small cities with corruption historically as well.

I assume you're referring to NYC in 2024/2015. The number of complaints filed dropped by 5%, give or take, during that time period. That's not the same as how many crimes occurred. If people know it's a waste of time calling the police, then I would guess that the number of calls would drop.

Murders in NYC in 2013:335, 2014: 333, 2015: 352, 2016:335. The murder rate was lower than 2014 until 2020. AN aggregate of murder, rape, robbery, assault, burglary, grand larceny/of a motor vehicle were at a six year high of 111,335 in 2013. They went on a downward trend starting in 2014 at 106,722, 2015:105,453, 2016:101,716, 2017: 96,658, continuing to drop to 95,593 in 2020. The strike started in late December of 2014 and lasted 3 weeks. Theft and DUI's increase during that time of the year. Violent crimes are generally in hotter times. So the "strike" was irrelevant.

Are you 12 years old? Or stupid? Having worked with law enforcement 30 years ago and dealing with them on occasion since then I can tell you that some are certainly bastards. But they are the exception and not all or even the majority.

There are tens of thousands of law enforcement encounters every day in the US. You never see the good ones. Just the same handful of bad ones over and over. Is there room for improvement? Of course there is. There's always room for improvement in everything. Why don't you ask your LEO about their ride along program? See what they actually do. Or better yet, join you local police force. Make it better instead of posting bullshit on the internet.

Why are the heads of these companies asking for regulation? Are thy claiming they can't regulate themselves from doing something world endingly stupid? Or are they afraid that without regulation one of them could have a breakthrough that would end all of the others over night? Or even worse, some scrappy new start-up could come up with a better solution and end them all. My guess is it's more about trying to make sure no one dominates this space unless it's them.

Use them?! First: why would I want to be locked into Meta's proprietary APIs? And second: it doesn't even include a near-infrared swimsuits mode. I can't believe they omitted such a basic feature. (Zuck, you call these perv glasses!?!)

Besides, from a style perspective, they just aren't nearly gargoylie enough. Whatever perv glasses I buy will have erect antenna(s) (not integrated into the frame), much larger aperture cameras for astronomy, and lots of blinkenlights (including a cool-looking Locutus-style laser). It doesn't surprise me at all, that the more style-conscious sex isn't buying them.

Meta's specific product is ridiculous. But I nevertheless defend the overall tech.

Whoosh!

Is Nvidia, an S&P500 listed company which grew 8x faster than Bitcoin over the same period, also just gambling?

That said, let's be serious for a moment - The real implied payoff here is access to "A network of hundreds of instructors, hiring partners and guest speakers includes OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, neuroscientist Andrew Huberman and Microsoft chairman and CEO Satya Nadella".

Of course, that's really just going to be for the "Founding" class hand-picked (and largely sired) by those same big names. By the time suckers are signing up to pay for that access, the school will be just another diploma mill milking naive upper middle class kids "on par with the cost of an elite private university", only to discover the curriculum is 100% pre-recorded webinars in every way inferior to the likes of OpenCourseWare or Khan Academy's free videos on YouTube.

its advocates have already gotten so much of what they could have possibly hoped for

Except the one thing that actually matters: being able to really use it. I still (in 2026!) can't use Bitcoin to pay for things at my local grocery store, car mechanic, or even Amazon.

Bitcoin didn't take off. Unless it suddenly gets more popular by a few orders of magnitude, it remains a useless dead end.

That's total, not YoY. Calculating since the first time BTC received serious attention in late 2013 to today's price, BTC gained 73.3x in 13 years, or 39% YoY average. Over the same 13 years, Nvidia went from a 2013 high of 0.41 to a high yesterday of 229.98, for a mind-blowing 561x gain, or 62% YoY. Admittedly Nvidia is unique in that regard, though we could come up with another handful in the 40x range. And if we want to bring the likes of Kalshi into the mix, you can find high double digit gains almost on a daily basis (though I won't defend that as any more legitimate than your local bookie).

The more important problem with your phrasing is the word "investment". BTC is not an investment, it's an intangible commodity. It has no fundamentals, no sales, no revenue, no debt, no equity, no overhead (though the cost of mining has stayed in the same ballpark as the price per BTC for the simple reason that if it goes lower than the expected cost of power, more people mine, and vice-versa). It is "worth" what someone is willing to pay for it, no more, and no less.

Despite what the haters may feel, it's not a scam. It sure as hell isn't something Grandma should be day-trading in her retirement portfolio; but that's a function of volatility, not because it's any more or less safe than gold or FCOJ.

During the campaign, she accurately predicted almost every atrocity the administration has inflicted on both the US and the world in general, over the past two years.

When our Stupor Intelligent admin accuses his enemies of something, it's because he did the same thing earlier that day. See the connection? We just need to figure out how Hunter Biden's penis factors in, and where Obama was on 9/11.

Pssst - President Autopen has been out of office for 611 days. And before you go there, Smart Black President has been out of office for 3543 days.

At some point you need to accept reality: If there's a turd sitting on (or at) the Resolute Desk, it wasn't teleported there from the past.

Blaming Wharton School of Business for what Trump tried to do with the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario is absurd. By all accounts, he didn't learn anything in his time there and his professors didn't think highly of him. There's no way his university had anything to do with that.

Besides, lots of people graduated from Wharton. Which others, who graduated from there, suffer from Trump's derangement syndrome and a need to rename geography?

Is it weird I won't even let AI tell me how to make a hotdog without double-checking its sources... Yet I would be sleeping a hell of a lot better if our super high IQ administration would just outsource all their thinking to it?

Not trying to be snarky here, but that's always been the simplest answer to successful collaboration on a coding project.

And even on solo projects it doesn't hurt. Sure, I can keep track of a few thousand lines of code (and to be clear I'm not paid by the line) in my head on a solo project. Above that - or throw one junior engineer in the mix as a "helper" - and all bets are off. Document, document, document, and then stick to the plan.