Afraid that the Iranian people finally rise up against the Mullah regime? Control of communications is high on the dictatorship 101 list.

And people are going to find out the hard way that they are not banks. When that happens it will take the entire economy down. If you are smart enough to see past this they will drag you down with them Great depression style.

We have basically all the elements now needed for a great depression.

Climate change means we are going to have increased food prices and shortages. Bird flu isn't going to help either.

The trade wars being used to counterbalance the incoming tax cuts for billionaires are here too just like in the 20s and 30s

And the Senate is ramming through 5 to 7 trillion in tax cuts for the 1%, so we have out of control trickle down economics.

And of course we're gearing up for war, in this case with Iran maybe even China at some point.

Everything we need for a great depression. Good job guys good job.. we never fucking learn.

The country is under active attack from a enemy that is well known to hate them. They're only going to be any dissidents right now. Nothing brings a country together like fighting a defensive war.

He will probably get them too. This is the most corrupt administration in American history. You have to go to failing South American dictatorships put in place by the CIA to find anything even remotely comparable.

To be clear even if you think you don't care you do. All of this crap instills a shitload of uncertainty into the markets and increases the odds of you getting fired from your job.

It also means that when you do get fired it's going to be that much harder maybe impossible to find another job. Certainly nothing comparable to what you have now...

There's a cycle in america. We put a republican in charge, he crashes the economy, we put a democrat in charge, the recovery takes longer than we want thanks to Republican meddling after the midterms, and then we put another Republican in charge... Lather rinse repeat.

The problem is every time we do that cycle we lose a little ground. Our economic system is designed to recover from market collapses by taking it out of our hides and we lose some every time there is one.

I would prefer to replace myself, yes.

I have a 37 year work history of finding ways to replace myself and folks like me. I already offer my clients free Ai consulting on the side to help them replace me. I'm already onto the "next thing" that will replace Ai in the headlines anyway.

Although honestly he could have flipped again.

Problem is he's creating insane amounts of uncertainty in the economy which is guaranteed to crash it.

One of the most frustrating things is I have yet to see a single Trumper admit they fucked up. I've seen some of them upset with what Trump does but I have never seen contrition. I have never seen a single one of them say I fucked up, here's how I fucked up, it is why I fucked up and why I won't do it again.

So assuming he doesn't die, and he probably won't his family is long lived, then we are in for another term of trump in 4 years. Lots of hand ringing from Democrats in the left but Trump still going to get a third term.

Especially python. There's a metric ton of old code posts floating around and it doesn't know which one to throw at you.

If the language is really old and unchanging like say c++ or c then you can get working code out of it because they're just isn't a lot of things that break completely under those languages. And if it's very very new you can get working code because the data it was trained on is very new.

What I found with python when I had to upgrade a python 2 app to Python 3 was any code I was given even to use as a template didn't work because it wasn't Python 3 code it was a weird mishmash of python 2 and 3.

Eventually I did just use Google to find the documents I needed to tell me how to update the code. But this is a pretty specific use case.

On the other hand if you fall into one of the other specific use cases then you can generate quite a bit of working code.

There is arstechnica article floating around with a detailed description of a guy using AI to drastically improve his productivity by writing common algorithms that you would normally have to write himself because they're not something you find in API for their mathematical algorithms. Not a lot of change there because it's math and just being implemented in his preferred language which I think was Fortran but don't quote me on that.

One of the problems I think people have is that they have to think in terms of All or nothing.

AI is going to devour jobs but it's not going to devour all the jobs. But it doesn't have to. If you cut the workforce by 20%, you drastically reduce wages because the competition for work becomes so fierce.

We are going to run out of work long before we have matter transmutation and it's going to be ugly. The phrase for it is techno feudalism.

Whether llms really make a huge difference the constant press AI gets has convinced every single CEO that they need to automate everything.

There are tons of things in every single organization that CEOs have held back on automating because they just didn't believe it could be automated. Like the old joke, go away or I will replace you with a tiny Perl script.

AI has convinced every CEO on the planet that everything can be automated. Add to that that the current American administration is driving the country into a recession via reckless spending and trickle down tax cuts.

So there will be heavy pressure to fire people with automation. And it doesn't even matter if it works.

If it works great and if it doesn't we will be knee-deep in a nearly permanent recession so you'll just have to work 80 hours a week to make up for the broken ai. Like having a useless coworker but it's a machine.

I don't own a computer. I am not a programmer. I do everything from my iPhone.

In the past 10 years, I have spent tens of thousands of dollars on human programmers to create 3 web apps. Zero of them ever were finished. ZERO.

I used Grok AI to create 5 web apps. 3 of them were monetized almost immediately and have paying clients. All 5 have passed security checks that look for bugs or hack entry points.

One of the 3 monetized web apps took me all of 30 minutes using Grok, on an airplane, using my iPhone. I was able to download the files and upload them to a web server and the site was live. Literally 30 minutes and that website has created thousands of dollars of passive income.

I use vibe coding DAILY to make spreadsheets better for me and clients (I am not in IT). I use vibe coding DAILY to come up with cool functions for my web apps that people pay me to use.

If he's doing it from the White House, it's not personal business. Actually, it's really difficult to be sure that anything a sitting president does is purely personal. Proper presidents address this by avoiding anything that even looks like it might be a conflict of interest.

Because Bondi doesn't know what the Attorney General's job is. She -- and Trump -- think it's to be his lawyer and advocate. It's not. It's to be the American people's lawyer and advocate, which would include going after the president except the DoJ has a long-standing policy that due to the complicated conflicts it will not prosecute a sitting president.

Trump and Bondi affirmatively declaring that the Trumpcoin dinner was not official business may enable prosecution after he leaves office, though the incredible breadth of the Supreme Court ruling will make that hard. SCOTUS ruled that not only can a president not be prosecuted for any official acts, nothing that even looks like an official act can be used as evidence to substantiate personal criminal behavior. This effectively means that as long as Trump is talking to a government employee, even if it's about personal business, the judiciary has to consider it an official act which makes it inadmissible in trial.

Also, at the rate he's going downhill, by the time Trump leaves office he'll be incompetent to stand trial.

Of course, what really should happen when a president abuses his power for personal gain is not that the DoJ should prosecute him, but that Congress should impeach and remove him. Of course, there's no way the GOP is going to do that, no matter what Trump does.

In theory, Congress is supposed to be the check on this sort of thing, which is why it's generally fine that the DoJ is part of the executive branch. There's significant value in ensuring that the judiciary and the cops don't report to the same boss, because there needs to be a little tension between them.

So the way it's supposed to work is If the president is abusing his control of the DoJ for personal or political purposes, Congress should impeach and convict. This is perhaps the clearest and simplest form of "High Crimes and Misdemeanors" (which is a phrase that doesn't refer to either crimes or misdemeanors in the usual sense). But this assumes that there is also tension between the legislative and executive branches, so they can check and balance one another. In the current situation, the GOP does whatever Trump says, no matter how corrupt, and the GOP controls both houses.

It's a bot. They take my comments and run them throughan LLM. I haven't quite figured out what they are up to except that maybe somebody is trying to train an LLM off slashdoters and I have an older account so I'm much less likely to be another bot.

If you're referring to their Q4 earnings from 2024 that's because that's when they took the charge down for all the firings they are doing and for some depreciation on the previous generation node hardware for your old i7s.

Basically it's just an accounting trick to avoid paying taxes.

If you take that away they made a ton of money. In terms of just being a business that sells things and makes money they are doing very well they just aren't doing as well as last quarter so they're taking a buzzsaw to everything for short-term market gains.

This is why their stock went up even though they reported a net loss. Because it's not really a net loss just accounting.

From your car after the billionaires take your house are you going to do it with the same sense of glee?

So far I've watched multiple face eating leopards devouring right wingers and I have yet to see a single one actually have a moment of clarity.

The Republican party was best summed up by a woman who said "he's not hurting the people he's supposed to be hurting"

Trump always chickens out. Although not always unfortunately. He's not going to chicken out on the tax cuts for billionaires. He did back down from the absolute worst of the trade wars but only until after the midterm elections while he consolidates his power.

This doesn't mean that tons and tons of people haven't lost their jobs or the bad shit hasn't hit. Also his cuts to foreign aid have given China enormous power and the rest of the world and directly killed 300,000 people.

The problem here is you have no fucking idea how economies work. It's that classic right-wing thing that you cannot comprehend anything that doesn't happen to you personally and directly. So because you haven't lost your job or your home or your retirement nobody else has and nobody else ever will.

And when the billionaires take your house you'll blame Joe Biden because that's what TV tells you to do and like all right wingers you always do what TV tells you to do.

Just don't say I didn't tell you so.