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It’s a fine idea, but it’d be best implemented as an escrow account used to leverage the federal government into following the law.

It’s great at bullshitting that it did what you wanted, even if it obviously didn’t, which I guess is what counts for results at Microsoft.

It would be much better if they treated it as the slightly better (yeah, I said it) auto complete that it is instead of the beginning of fucking sky net – which was supposed to be a bad thing anyway, remember?

But that wouldn’t move the needle on all of the share prices, so instead we have to pretend it can do people’s jobs when it fucking obviously cannot.

So, instead they keep pushing this AI (auto-complete insanity), and keep burning more and more cash. Imagine if we just put a portion of these billions (approaching trillions) into anything that could actually help anyone. Or don’t, because it’s pretty fucking depressing to think about.

But I’ve never had sympathy for engineers who think all the process around them is net negative, because nothings ever stopped engineers from striking out on their own, without all that, and making great businesses.

Not all process is pointless, but needless process by definition is. There are also a shit ton of things that stop engineers from “striking out on their own”.

If your PM and VPs are bringing you down, go it alone. If you can’t pull that together into a paycheck then maybe it’s not all as useless as some say.

The whole talk of “go[ing] it alone” kinda strikes me as “bootstrapping”, libertarian non-sense.

I don’t want to do marketing, sales, finance, legal, and product bullshit myself. That’s why I’m an employee.

Two things can be true at the same time, for instance, a company can have a lot of bloated, needless process that stifles people and still pull in enough money to be able to pay for their employees to live a life.

With the amount of market concentration there is in every sector as far as the eye can see, nearly every software-producing company has a cash cow of some sort, and then has a bunch of complete money losers that are subsidized by that cash cow.

So, it’s completely possible that the company overall fully sucks and hasn’t developed anything new of value to someone in decades, but the legacy business keeps the miserable employees from the bread line.

To return to the point, AI doesn’t solve any of this or even help with it.

I agree AI could easily take on the role of the biggest dork in the company, which is largely what the CEO is.

The problems in software still remain the same though:

(1) Bureaucracy

(2) Needless process

(3) Pointy headed managers

(4) Siloed teams

(5) Product people who have no idea what they want to build

(6) Shitty, poorly performing legacy code nobody wants to touch

Honestly, AI is just the latest thing that can boost your productivity at starting up some random app. But that was never the difficult part anyway.

Jordan Peterson would not approve…of the cleanliness of his living quarters.

(The rest of it he’d probably give a 👍)

Framework laptops are about as upgradable as you’re ever going to get. The 16 now even has a video card upgrade.

No

Dude the switch 2 is $500. Having a general purpose computer that hooks just as easily to your TV as a gaming console for double that price is perfectly fine IMO.

That’s awesome. I always wondered why more computers didn’t add support for that in general.

I’ve seen dongle-style things to add CEC support, but I heard mixed things about those.

Yes, a 50 year mortgage will drop your monthly payments by a significant margin (maybe 15ish percent) increasing affordability for the long term.

The actual numbers will likely not bear that out. Some back of the envelope math in this article and others has the payments dropping as little as $150 or $200 on a $2000 mortgage.

The problem is that rates for longer mortgages are naturally going to be higher as they are today. Most of the “gain” of stretching out the loan is eaten up by interest.

What does never seem to catch anyone’s eye though in general is…you can pay more than the minimum on your mortgage just like any other type of debt. If these products were available, I’d be slightly tempted to use one to lower my required monthly payments slightly while I saved up the principle to repay the loan in full.

I can’t imagine having a variable rate loan and then finding out due to the Fed raising rates that I know owe another couple hundred per month.

Mortgage products like this were in the causal mixture for the 2008 crisis. People could own three or four different homes, maximally leveraged, and then get ARMs on them. This house of cards “works” as long as the interest rate stays low and prices go up. Then there was a rate adjustment upwards and all hell broke loose.

I wonder if the steam machine supports hdmi cec.

Both Canada and the United Kingdom use FPTP voting and they have more than two viable parties that regularly win and hold seats.

Sure, but they also have prime ministers and parliaments, and are generally run differently from the United States which has had two main parties since its inception because that is what the system will produce.

All of the games you listed here were pretty under hyped IMO except for perhaps Silksong.

I understand this is all subjective, but I think you’re leaning toward like indie gaming hipster material with this comment…and that’s my opinion.

The repubs should definitely nominate newsom over vance for president. He’d be a much better candidate than all of this maga crap.

And if AI is going to be the last straw, how long can we put it off for? Could it pop next year or can we still hold it off for another decade with even more ludicrous number-fuckery? I think that’s where the trick is going to be.

The thing that boggles my mind in all of this is the possibility that Trump installs some absolute toady tool bag in at the Fed and then just has the federal reserve bail out all of the bad investments. It’d mean probably hyperinflation, but who cares about normal shmucks trying to live a life? It’s much more important to pay the genius, scammy billionaires so they can keep their mega yachts fully gassed and assed.

I remember the news reporting about record breaking amounts of mortgage defaults in like 2007 as well. The signs were all there, but people were too oblivious or high on their own supply of farts to see them.

Anytime people are like “we couldn’t see this coming” I never understand why they are allowed to pass that obvious lie off in public.

The AI bubble signs are in plain view everywhere you look right now. If (or much more likely when) it bursts everyone will be talking about how they couldn’t possibly see it coming again.

If people say they couldn’t see this shit coming, maybe their myopic asses shouldn’t be in charge of anything important ever again.

Just realized that logo kinda looks like lips