SamuelAdams

It is worth noting that RED is particularly difficult to get a decent ratio on. Spend some time googling reddit posts, there are plenty of examples of people not being able to build solid ratios due to competing with scripted bots.

I wonder if this will cause a reduction in remote jobs for citizens. Compliance with US laws like HIPAA and FERPA have strict requirements regarding access. Many employees use 2FA on their personal devices, which if passed this law would interfere with.

For me I have a recurring calendar appointment reminder for when I get paid. So anything that requests calendar access would know that.

This is an excellent point. For example, here [1] is a list of all films released in 2025. However I bet most people 10 years from now will only remember the top 10-20 [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_films_of_2025

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_2025_box_office_number...

I love working with dotnet, but lately I’ve been writing more backend applications in Python. The code is simpler, testing is simpler since method privacy doesn’t really exist, and code is quicker to deploy because you do not have to compile it.

This could also change but in my experience AI is better at generating Python code versus dotnet.

The silver lining is the Demographic Cliff of 2025:

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/08/nx-s1-5246200/demographic-cli...

PDF warning: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr73/nvsr73-02.pdf

Colleges will need to reduce class sizes, or close entirely, for the next decade at least. With smaller class sizes brings the opportunity for course instructors to provide more time per pupil so that things like in-person homework and project review is possible.

I will stick with Firefox due to multi account containers. Chrome does not offer a comparable alternative, and this extension makes working with AWS significantly easier.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/aws-sso-conta...

It does make me wonder: why are aircraft takeoffs and landings not recorded more often, with higher quality cameras and more angles? If I can watch an NFL replay in 4k a few seconds after the ball is snapped, why not record (and overwrite) all flights that take off and land at every airport?

Like a dash cam, they can save the footage only if there is a problem. Surely that would be much better than splicing together many third party camera recordings.

You’re going to give your tax data - some of the most sensitive data to some constituents - to OpenAI / Google / some other startup?

That seems like a nightmare of a product as far as privacy is concerned.

You can run it natively, but it is better to downscale to 4k or 1080p. I run three 5k versions of this monitor and they are all downscaled to 1440p. I get 1:1 pixel mapping so text looks crisp in every app except Microsoft Teams.

It’s not about CSA, it’s about illegal content. And laws change all the time.

For example, an individual can generate AI images of Hollywood actors using Stable Diffusion and a decently powerful computer. Said individual had the right to share those images online with a community.

Now however the sharing and distribution of said images is considered illegal in my USA state.

So, are the images said individual created and shared three years ago subject to prosecution? Even if the law went into effect 3 months ago?

> We are creating young people that have a very limited attention span, have no incentive to think about things, and have very pleasing metrics on the dora scale. When asked what their code is doing, they just don’t know. They can’t event explain the choices they made.

This has nothing to do with AI, and everything to do with a bad hire. If the developer is that bad with code, how did they get hired in the first place? If AI is making them lazier, and they refuse to improve, maybe they ought to be replaced by a better developer?

That more than likely because after 15 years at Google, you’re probably financially well off enough to retire and do whatever you want.

I was hoping for more content on AR and the next phase of the Apple Vision Pro. Is the Apple Vision Pro considered a failure at this point?

Nonetheless, it looks like this new legislation is expanding the previous 2019 legislation:

> This announcement fulfills the promise made by the governor and the New Mexico Legislature when they created the Early Childhood Education and Care Department in 2019. Since then, New Mexico has expanded access to no-cost child care to families with incomes at or below 400% of the federal poverty level, reducing financial strain on tens of thousands of families.

> With Monday’s announcement *universal child care will be extended to every family in the state, regardless of income.* This amounts to an average annual family savings of $12,000 per child.

(emphasis added)

Is there a mandated state ratio of workers to children? In Michigan, by law, it is 1:4.

It is great to offer free childcare to all citizens, but if those childcare facilities are inadequately resourced the quality of care will decline.

Assuming you are in the States, it would be cheaper to enroll in one course a year and use the universities library system to get the papers you need.

What always bothered me about those though is their terribly clunky UI, dozens of redirects, weird auth flows, and more.

I am speculating, but I think the real motive for cancelling renewables is to appeal to coal counties in the USA.

Coal is in a scary place right now in the US, see this as an example:

https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/1mmqwd3/i_live_in...

Basically coal is less profitable and more expensive in places that have always been coal counties. The only thing to do in these areas is mine coal, so the concern is that entire regions will be rendered worthless if coal collapses.

Which means local residents cannot sell their homes without taking significant losses, and they probably lose their jobs in coal, which manifests into a poverty trap for the entire town.

And there are hundreds of these towns all through Appalachia.

So renewable energy will always be a political issue over the next 50 years, because entire towns and regions depend on its political outcome.

I was also confused. In our organization all PR’s must always be reviewed by a knowledgeable human. It does not matter if it was all LLM generated or written by a person.

If insecure code makes it past that then there are bigger issues - why did no one catch this, is the team understanding the tech stack well enough, and did security scanning / tooling fall short, and if so how can that be improved?

In my experience enterprises do not want to pay for excellent software, simply because it is expensive. I would love to work on software that was:

- in more than two AWS regions

- required screen reader / disability support

- required multi-language support

- required multi-cloud

- actually needed a big Hadoop cluster - most enterprise data processing can be done on a MacBook Pro M4.

> Kodak aims to conjure up cash by ceasing payments for its retirement pension plan

I have always wondered, what happens to a pension plan when the company files for bankruptcy? What happens if the lump sum payment is not enough for retirees? Are they financially screwed until they die?

What is the advantage of using this over existing OSS solutions?

The only way I’ve ever seen engineers care about PR’s is if the software or product is tied directly to their paycheck. If uptime or bugs directly impact a quarterly bonus, or result in a layoff / getting fired, they spend a lot more time reviewing PR’s. Furthermore, the work and its estimate is expanded to include enough time for the team to thoroughly review the change.

Unless someone is getting fired for bad code the “lgtm” culture will never die.

The cited article is a better source, and it was written a month ago. I am not sure why this is making the rounds now.

They cite 99.9%, and “reduce the risk”, not 100% like this sub article claims.

https://www.gilead.com/news/news-details/2025/yeztugo-lenaca...

Ideally the git history provides the “why was this test written”, however if you have one Jira card tied to 500+ AI generated tests, it’s not terribly helpful.

It also makes the code easier to read, and that is what our org optimizes for, all else being equal. Code is read 10x more than it is modified, so if you can make it a little quicker to understand it’s generally recommended.

Well, allegedly Apple could have designed, advised and tested the solution, and if a contractor builds it, then the statement is technically correct.

Apple (and many other organizations) contracts work out for liability reasons, this is not the first instance of it.

Also note the language - specifically a “back door” or “master key”. If you call it something else, literally anything else, the statement holds up.

Yes but also it is one of the most common programming questions for non-FAANG companies. Are grads not preparing for interviews? It is one google search to Jeff Atwood’s blog.

Or, alternatively, the crop of current grads education is abysmal compared to past graduates, and companies are reluctant to hire them.

This is the first graduate class since Covid. Pivoting to online learning quickly resulted in worse learning outcomes for k-12 and college as well.

Companies are seeing a decline in base-level skills typically expected from previous classes of new graduates. They can either hire now and pay the cost of training for possibly 1-2 years to get them to an appropriate level, or hire no one and instead hire from the classes of 2026 and 2027, assuming those students improve from the post-Covid education system.

And it assumes you do not have twins or triplets.