The population of the USA was dragged kicking and screaming into having more education the last few generations, and will gladly receive less.

There will always be a minority who actually want more, most less

It sounded better in my mind last night. And I should have just said genocide.

I’m reminded when a tidal wave of change starts with tiny little things, which are not very noticeable or apparent for their later importance.

Maybe this will be the last time Washington DC will be demilitarized

You know the difference between a democratic and gop leader? The gop wants to do crimes domestically and in Gaza. While the democrat just wants to do crimes abroad

Murder most foul

The teachers I had opened the window and shouted at the office

I am getting out of a mild depression myself, one that was not helped by an extended bout of food sickness or related ( not sure what happened)

I work from home, with hours determined only by myself, and when I slip into depression I have no steady schedule.

So, I will try what worked before: a daily schedule that is constant, with exercise and good food

One thing I keep missing in these AI layoff articles about the United States is that a huge percentage of tech workers lost their jobs because of tax changes. It was a little known tax code that was modified.

The tax code allowed a deduction of worker salaries and benefits if they were engaged in pure research. This write off is what powered many of the invocations from the USA and was done for decades. The change mandated this be deducted over ten years instead of the next year.

For a long time, companies could write off the cost of salaries on their taxes, if the workers were doing research. This was changed by the republicans, and most of these private research departments closed . It was what caused a lot of the major layoffs this year in the mega corps.

That, coupled with the public research departments being laid off , caused a cascade bouncing off entry level jobs in tech.

Very little of this has to do with AI, and I think the misinformation is driven by a combination of AI hype, and PR by some companies laying off workers.

When adding code this way, one needs to look it over and read to fix bugs or things that are not quite correct; stats show experienced developers often are faster not using this approach because debugging existing code takes longer than writing it fresh.

The speed is not the issue.

What matters is sometimes subtle bugs are introduced that require several people to catch. If at all. These issues might be unique to the Llm.

Having large sections of generated code offers the possibility of hard to find problems.

Some codes are more sensitive to such issues.

The details of how the code was added, and what it does, may render this issue harmless or very much a problem to be avoided.

This is why it’s a flag and not a condemnation

Soon to be a few trillionaires and a thousand billionaires

This redistricting should be seen more as a failsafe or backup to keep bad governance. There are several other reasons why good governance cannot happen.

While what is happening is scary and enraging, it will only matter in elections should there be a movement to actually count the ballots by hand in the next generation.

But there is a secondary reason this is happening. Most Texans have no clue their ballots are miscounted, in primaries and general. Having such districts prevent movement in all parts of the state to question this. This future-proofs the cheating past the 2030s

Using RT for Ukrainian news is like using NYT or WSJ or BBC for Gaza coverage.

“Yes, one or two people may have been harmed”

But like every other highly biased source, it has it’s strengths

Never faced justice

I would think all this only temporarily slowed down the global research?

A government sabotaging all the data it can, and eliminating protections on hundreds of things will hurt that country much more in the long run than anything else.

Yes, a run away American environmental damage can make things worse for warming; but much more depends on what other countries can do.

The USA has been foot dragging its response the last generation; and would not have done more than cosmetic enforcement had a more rational government held power. So, unless the Americans really cannot have good government, this will probably spark a backlash, and may begin a true response to the crisis when a halfway competent government wins the tribal wars

Now with LLMs to provide extra security (not)

LLM is avoided by many experienced developers and competent medium and small companies.

Tools like cursor are sometimes ok for small things like people learning, or to generate boilerplate.

But it is seen by some as a warning flag when it’s in source code for larger projects

I used the word 50 years ago in a conversation once; I own it

Maybe you jest, maybe not, but scams and bad actors will be a required milestone for popularity

I wonder if both the cold cloud and a supernova happened at the same time?

Ancestors… wow I feel old