http://www.mspaintadventures.com/sweetbroandhellajeff/?cid=0...

Have wondered whether attorneys would find it easier to work in a programming language than english, once they'd learned the former? Do any have strong opinions on this?

In general, if American capitalism weren't so broken I would advocate for it as the strongest option, but American corporations are dead set on destroying it. The US may end up as "democratic socialist" if there is no capitalist reform.

The human element is "What do I want?" You have ideas about how you need things to work. Some folks don't care much at all about how things work, just that they can shove a thing out the door and get paid with minimal effort. Sometimes their boss is completely in agreement. Sometimes things fall apart because nobody cared enough to bother, and sometimes even that doesn't matter, and everybody gets paid anyhow.

Sometimes you wish things mattered more, and sometimes they do.

A lot of people would yell "docker isn't secure!" but if you're running Docker on MacOS (and Windows, I think) you're already running a Linux VM. But if you really wanna let your agent YOLO their way along, Docker is kinda restrictive, so that a full VM lets it install things, start services, and so on.

But yes, LLMs are likely to force permanent conformity.

One could also talk about how language in general shifts with the population, but LLMs are likely to prevent it. One would think anthropologists are already looking into this experimentally...

What matters is that they are wasting the time & patience of someone who is doing good work that others benefit from.

Any happiness gained from doing that to someone is parasitic.

Managers will be sure to tell you how much they respect you. Ask them if they respect the work and you'll get a blank stare.

BTW I've gone back to wired keyboard because most companies assume people who prefer wireless prefer as many unnecessary bells and whistles as possible to the point of compromising the design. There is no concept of some features being better than others, just a black/white everything/nothing.

Also refer to automobiles, tv's, all modern design...

I already know I'm dealing with huge perf issues caused by ORM & lazy-load semantics. I/O abuse is usually going to be so, so much worse than memory/cache issues. Java is mainly used for business information systems, where I/O is king. Plain vanilla memory abuse is also a big one.

But my main problem is a mgmt convinced the magic wand of AI will make all sorts of problems dissapear, and it's going to take 5 years for them to realize nope.

It's still fun to learn about cache optimization though, esp. when someone makes it reasonably digestible like this. And maybe it also helps people to recognize that OOP is not some great over-arching zen truth of truths.

Going back to our newer game, I realized that I am supposed to figure out where the number given should fall on the line.

A case study in modern useability - looks a lot cooler, can't figure it out.

A lot of electronic contracts are done like that and... nope, not clicking it... Mmmmm.... nope.

> How did he reach that conclusion? Basically, he asked “Are you conscious?”, the machine responded “Yes”, and that was that.

Oh, come on now. This is referring to Blake Lemoine, and while I doubt his conclusions, he wasn't being as simplistic as all that. He's not completely stupid.

edit - sorry, it is in fact adjusted, text is kinda hard to see

Examples would be a nice bonus but I think the author eschewed such because they weren't interested in writing a tutorial. They had a very specific point to make and stuck to it, resulting in a very informative but concise article that reads well because of its highly disciplined authorship.