I've started leaving off the prepositions, pronouns and such from sentences, and my 'pro' writing is starting to look more like casual writing - more terse. "You've got to lean into it." becomes "Lean into it."

Or I'll just resort to what an idiotic feminist college English lit prof used to call "antiquated 19th century writing style": writing long, syntactically complex but linguistically communicative sentences which convey a complex yet nuanced thought, something AI will absently and superfluously munge.

Often these are interspersed.

In the long run, we'll lose out on more people being able to do the "hard" things. Sort of like when schools start hiring on non-excellence criteria, you end up with students who can't do the coursework and the field suffers as a result. That's what's happening here.

In 5, 10 years when people are like "we fucked up, quick, hire good developers again" - or good voice actors, or good whatever - there won't be anyone in line to take those jobs. They'll have moved on - either finding different things to pay their way, and are no longer looking, or they'll have fully checked out. Either way, they won't be looking for the jobs. You'll probably have a mess of H1B types take their role instead.

It's going to be a huge mess.

Is this software company, by coincidence, trying to be purchased or IPO? Because that's the kind of behavior that you see before a company's founders bank out...

Every single one of Amazon's hardware products is used to siphon your data and bilge pump ads and product placements to you.

You can argue that's true for all of Amazon's properties at this point.

They've become a behemoth of a company like Microsoft did in the 90s - starting in earnest about 2 years ago, based on what I've seen from those who work there. Their culture has changed and the leadership has all but abandoned the leadership principles.

You need to keep not only Intel's 486 models but 486 work-alikes from AMD and others. If a CPU is actively supported all of the variants need to be supported for the claim to be meaningful. Even if that's four different models that still four machines that are over three decades old.

It's so strange no charges were brought on any of this.

creating a national sales tax so that he can shift his personal tax burden on to you.

Do you realize how crazy that sounds?

Have blind hatred for the man and the mission all you want, but none of that even remotely reflects either reality, or anything that's come out of this administration. There's more than enough reason to justify frustration and anger without making things up out of whole cloth and it just makes you look mental when you do it.

Most automakers use an automated assembly line for the body/frame construction, now. It's a long conveyor of pre-bent parts getting bolted on. There are humans involved through some of it, but the bulk of the work is a machine.

Ever notice how there's never anyone with an IQ under 120 in Star Trek?

A Star Trek economy requires a significant culling of the, primarily, unintelligent people in society. You need people to be productive and useful before they can become more productive or useful.

How majestic.

Just last week, we received notification that IBM is rolling out a "program" to upper-level employees with decades of experience. The idea is that we would work reduced hours for the next year at full pay, and then leave IBM after a year (next March, I believe.)

Of course, this is for US employees only. I think we can be sure that the replacements for these employees (if there are any) won't be in the US.

I'd not be surprised if they're utilizing the same "loopholes" created by the Biden admin that brought a huge number of illegals to the US and gave them IDs/exemptions to proper immigration procedure. They were giving out IDs to literally everyone they brought without any proof... it'd have been easy enough to buy those IDs from people, or simply intercept the procedure for some cash - it's not like they were scrupulous, moral actors.

I'd bet anything that's one of the approaches they used, since getting financial aid does require an ID.

How long before humans are forced into the forest, where we'll have no choice but to forage for berries and fight one another for the most coveted pine cone?

I'm both excited and amazed at what AI is doing, but equally worried about the human aspect being removed. Hopefully AI will only be an augment and never a replacement, and that we as humans will always just prefer the human derived stuff.

Most of these "limitations" to perpetual licenses are 100% due to changes Microsoft is making themselves to retroactively limit the software: patches making it difficult to use it, making it less stable, adding dependencies. And then, intentionally making data portability difficult by altering file formats.

"Your money constantly being worth less... so that saving is impossible... that's good actually"

Very bad take. You're also wrong.

Countries got rid of the gold standard because gold isn't flexible, and prevented governments from manipulating money supply.

BTC is more flexible but also is resistant to economic manipulations. It's a good thing for stability. Stability, of course, helps dissuade warfare.

The easy money that's been made available by banks for the purposes of war, to plunder? That wouldn't be available with BTC as a standard.