A lot of younger folks in IT, like myself, have been on the brink of exhaustion since 2022.

Sure, there was the “obsoletion” of PHP, Java, plain JS, etc. before, e.g. in favor of one of the JS frameworks that get released every other day.

But this one feels different. They are trying to sell you the idea of everything related to sw development and programming will get “outsourced” to a computer. The problem is, LLMs can’t do the necessary thinking to build resilient systems as they can’t “think”, neither effective nor efficient. They can be great tools when used the right way, but that’s about it.

This blog post summarizes this, admittedly subjective experience, way better than I could.

Cries in amdgpu

Democrats: There definitely are some news sources you could at least compare to each other if not trust.

Republicans: Fox news and Joe Rogan all the way folks. Nothing else to see here.

Edit: There is an App called Ground News. It tries to outline which topics get reported by which outlets and where the left and right have their blind spots.

Sorry for being nitpicky and thanks for naming them all. I just assume the term average is equivalent to mean average in peoples heads. For uneven distributions, like wealth or life expectancy are I assume, mean average in itself just wouldn’t be a useful measurement.

From Wikipedia:

Human life expectancy is a statistical measure of the estimate of the average remaining years of life at a given age.

What you described would be the median, not average. Those can be very far apart, a good example is the distribution of wealth. Put 10 homeless people in a room with Bill Gates and everyone’s a billionaire on average.

Today I read a thread of people using the photo mode of death stranding to prove they are Norman Reedus. While this certainly won’t be the end to the story, it’s kind of funny this iteration of a clearly unfinished age verification system got out there. Makes me wonder how good they are going to protect their “customers” data.

inb4 Linux users sweepingly get declared as criminals for some flimsy reason. There was some news of Facebook filtering out Linux content because it seemed harmful to them.

In other other news: The planet is burning alive and pushing blindly glorified, inefficient and power hungry word calculators won’t necessarily make that better.

Manufacturers: To deliver solutions to nonexistent problems. Free money.

Politics: To save our economy. It can only survive if people buy new stuff all the time. Could also come in handy as surveillance measure one day.

People: Oh how cool, I can monitor my chicken nuggets from my couch ~5m away.