Remember back when almost every scholar was employed copying books by hand? And then this jerk invents the print press.

The economy didn’t collapse and everyone suddenly had access to more books for cheap. Scholars could spend their time reading books for the sake of reading, not just copying them. They could spend time writing their own books.

Going forward we’ll just have the means to get more done.

There will still be jobs to do. We just don’t have titles for them yet. If I told my grandma back when she was alive that I’m a web developer, she’d think I’d lost my mind and become a spider.

We’re in a slightly better spot now where we have the means to feed and pay everyone without them necessarily having a job. There needs to be a political to do so, though.

Writing code was never 100% of the job. The hard part of software engineering is understanding the problem and figuring out the most elegant path to solve it. If AI can do the code-writing part faster, then it’s a good tool to use.

I still spend a third of my week in meetings. I put out on-call fires late at night.

I also spend a good chunk of my time interviewing potential hires. I pretty much expect them to use AI for their code assignments. Including prompt history is a plus if they do. What I do gauge is their ability to explain their code, defend the decisions and know how to adapt to changing circumstances.

I know how to get to this point by starting a couple of decades ago. I do recognise that I don’t have the same grasp of our codebase as if I had written it by hand. I do review everything that gets deployed, but the volume is higher and it doesn’t stick as well.

I don’t know how to get in as a jr today. We’ll know in a few years how it’s done. It’s a new landscape, but if you’re passionate about the field you’ll figure it out.

I wouldn’t it mind it if I was on a free tier. I’d think some of my subscription moneys would go to the creators.

Well, spotify. I did a run with spot-dl before ending my subscription.

I self-host with navidrome and stream/sync to my phone with Tempus.

But 97% of my listening nowadays is just streaming HYPR demoscene radio.

Millennial here.

I grew up with sneakernet through irc-napster-kazaa-limewire-directconnect-bittorrent-oneswarm. I gave all that up when netflix and spotify.

Those subscriptions have been ended a couple of years back and the eye patch is back on.

Netflix’ catalogue has just diminished, as everyone who owns rights to the good stuff want to do their own streaming service.

I wasn’t really listening that much ro spotify, but when they started injecting ads into podcasts I bid adieu. (Yes, injected - I’d listen to an English podcast and get very local ads between segments).

Only if it’s double-layered.

Single-layered are 4.7GB.

I’ll give that bot a 50% chance, too

That’s optimistic. I wouldn’t give chatgpt even 5 years. YouTube maybe another 20.

I’ve been using these for about 20 years. I just don’t feel clean without it.

There’s about a teaspoon worth of gunk there any given night.

H.264 frames can be coded out of display order. This is just an info log. Nothing to be concerned about.

Best of the 80’s? The Greatest American Hero.

Had to scroll way too far to find the right answer.

I had an infected in-grown toenail when I was 13-15.

The treatment is too cut the nail lenghtwise to the root and get rid of that excess root.

First try the anaesthetics didn’t bite because of the infection. The doctor didn’t believe me until she was at the root. Two weeks of antibiotics and she tried again.

Second time anaesthetics worked. The doctor tried to get rid of the root with lye. The only thing I felt was my foot going cold as she rinsed away the lye. It grew back in-grown.

Next time was are a private practitioner. Similar procedure, anaesthetics, cut it lengthwise to the root. But instead of lye, he just scraped down the root with his scalpel. It’s been great for 30 years now.

As far as music goes it’s definitely easier to be blissfully ignorant now than it was in the age of MTV and broadcast radio. You get your curated stream of recommendations with no reason to highlight what doesn’t fit there.

I wouldn’t know of Grande had she not been hosting SNL. I don’t know who The Weekend are. I saw a post a while back about Drake’s security being dicks, and I thought Drake’s security was the name of a security company.

I’ll excel at 90’s music trivia if it was on MTV. But now I’m set in my ways and only listen to HYPR demoscene radio. I excel at that niche genre now, too.

It’s a weird market.

Those H100s are $25k minimum. So $200,000 just in GPUs. Drawing 700W each, or 5.6kW total. At my local prices that’s about a dollar per hour just for electricity.

It’s going to take you a couple of years to break even at $20/h. They might still hold some value at that point. Or they might be obsolete.

My creative output is programming demos.

I do enjoy the process. Changing a bit of code and getting immediate visual feedback is a very enjoyable loop to be in until I’ve achieved what I set out to do. And those heureka-moments when you make giant leaps are just the cream on top.

I’ll bring two theories to the table.

a) they got caught distilling for their own models b) they re-sold their $200/mo plans as APIs

I usually don’t. But this year I have a new-to-me car that had a couple of cross-threaded wheelbolts. Changing the whole hub is pricy and the shop refused to replace just the bolt. I managed to re-thread the other.

Anywho, most lug nuts were really on there, so I gave them a dab of marine grease. I always re-tighten at 1, 100 and 1000km and before any longer trip. But they haven’t moved at all since the 1km re-tightening.

My toddler is thriving in pre-school. We can’t teach her how to be independent and socialise with other kids at home.

I can see a life situation where we would homeschool for a limited time. I’d expect both teaching parent and kid to do standardised testing to make sure the education is up to the national curriculum.

Home schooling should be be an excuse to not school, which it seems to be in some parts of the world.

Not really, but they’ve regulated very similarly to public schools. They have to follow the national curriculum and can’t charge tuition.

In practice I’ve only ever seen Waldorf schools as far as private goes. Maybe internatioal baccalaureate is private, too? I guess there might be some with focus on going pro athlete, too.

It works both ways.

I can tap my government ID card to my phone to identify myself on government sites.