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> It's crazy to think what the world might look like.

Since when has ANYONE in power done anything substantial for those not in power? Since when has any form of organization not tried to maximize profits?

Why do you think this ends well in any capacity for common, middle class, and lower class people?

Almost every engineer I know has had downsizing/restructuring in the past 6 months at their companies.

Can I ask what kind of work, and what models? Because I don't, I'm a senior embedded engineer working with frontier models, and I haven't seen a major mistake in at least few months now, since earlier in the year.

It will sometimes get things wrong because it made non-viable assumptions, but that's on me and prompt accuracy.

What I see is: it makes tests against desired features or bugs or mistakes, and iterates until it gets it correct. I steer as it goes.

(I hate this, by the way, zero job enjoyment anymore, but I don't know what else to do.)

Don't do free roam. Do career, is what I did. You'll see everyone else, you can join races, make lobbies, etc.

(Recommend turning on ghost mode! There's literally thousands of other players.)

I can't stop laughing. There's hundreds of cars all spawning at the same time, running routes around the map, all doing burnouts and honking at each other. It's absolute chaos, and 2006 year old me is having so much fun.

Any retail version of this game is mostly unplayable on modern PCs. Really appreciate the nostalgia bomb. I wasted so many hours of my life on this game on the original xbox.

> So yes maybe it happens more often now

Yes, that's literally the point of the people you're responding to. Has HN lost reading comprehension, or are you arguing in bad faith?

It used to happen occasionally. Now it happens instantly. That delta is the problem.

There is a list maintained by Graphene and community about Graphene OS compatibility:

https://github.com/PrivSec-dev/banking-apps-compat-report

https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compa...

It's a pun

I have the same SSH qualms. I still use it because there's not much better for what I need.

True or not - this vibe of "deal with it, it's how things are" feels really crummy to me.

There's legitimate concerns and emotions here. No reason to be a dick when discussing it.

> This prediction was too pessimistic, but I'm not sure what general point you are trying to make by cherry-picking one article from 14 years ago. Care to expand?

They're trying to downplay or deny climate change, without actually taking a contradicting position, because they know that will actually get downvoted to dead.

It's cowardly and intended to further the denial position.

Climate change is the most well-researched and cited ongoing-event in human history.

If you don't believe it and want to ignore science, that's your ignorance.

https://science.nasa.gov/climate-change/evidence/

I want to believe it's bots pushing propaganda, and not that a non-insignificant portion of HN refuses to believe in climate change. But I really don't know these days.

They'll see it, tell a manager, it'll get added as a ticket to an Azure Devops board under the initiative for this month under the epic for employee suggestions, which will be reviewed & prioritised by Copilot and sent to a different middle manager as a weekly summary email and then automatically closed when no human ever interacts with the ticket after three months.

> And wouldn't making that "open source" violate every license that the original data has? You can't release someone else's work.

Tangent, and not the person you're replying to, but you just independently re-discovered why so many of us despise the AI companies.

Because that's what they are already doing. Selling a repackaged form of the stolen work of all of humanity, without credit or payment.

This trend upsets me so much, because my brain actually does work like that, concepts and ideas exist in 3d space and have likenesses to each other.

I used to write like this, but I can't anymore. (I suspect enough people did in the training set that that's why it ended up being part of the vernacular.)

Norway. Same.

At the peak of the shift (usually when DST comes into or out of effect) we're either losing or gaining an hour of daylight per week.

Throwing an hour shift one way or the other does nothing for us. And in peak winter the sun isn't up for me until 10 anyway, and it's down by 3, so what are we even saving?

Hitting me right now with the time change, and pitch dark at 6pm. It changes so fast every year.

We have technical unions in Norway for engineers, it's not preventing layoffs. :/

That's not how the world works, and I don't need this in a thread where I'm dealing with the grief of a good career. Please shove off.

I would gladly not work and learn cello and physics independently if that were a real possibility, but it's not, and it won't be within my lifetime.

I had a job in a system that required jobs to survive that genuinely didn't bother me. I actually quite enjoyed it most of the time. Now it's permanently dead and I need something else, or I am homeless and starve to death.

> No, I fully reject any notion of life value coming from work, and those who hold your view are basically jailors to those who don't want our identity defined by work.

Fuck off.

> and some of them are going nuts now.

Pretty much this. I know it sounds melodramatic but it literally feels like rotting.

I don't solve anything anymore. I don't get any spark of fixing bugs. I don't DO ANYTHING, and it's fucking chipping away at me.

Also I'm fairly sure people are going to realise soon that if they're happy with slop, they don't actually need highly trained engineers anymore.

This whole thread actually prompted me to look into electrician work, especially in renewables that we have here in Norway.

I might fix my burnout and go to school to get my 2 year qualification. AI can't rewire a hydro dam.

It's really bad now, yeah. :( It just really hurts that I spent well over a decade of my life learning and honing skills to engineer safe, quality software and now it's just, useless.

No one cares at best, or I'm callously told "keep up or fall behind" at worst. When that's not even the problem, it just, sucks now. There's no joy in anything I do professionally.

Can I ask where you went? I'm seriously looking for an exit, I just don't know what yet. Maybe a trade, in Scandinavia the pay is actually comparable, I just don't want to go back to school.

No one at all claimed that, certainly not the person you responded to. They're talking about how to use these tools in a way that gives you insight into what they produce. So, as an engineer, you know the shape of the output, before it's made.

That's it. Maybe you should go re-read?

> doesn't make you as special as you might think.

Way to come off as incredibly insecure. There's no need to randomly put people down.

I work on my code this way, but I have no idea what my colleagues are doing, and it's impossible to review thousands of new/changed lines a week.

I just approve PRs, because I have to. I don't know what else to do. I can barely keep an eye on all my code.

Actively looking, but job market is rough in Northern Europe. I quit caring about quality in any capacity here, the company has clearly chosen its direction, against my very vocal complaints.

My last interview, with what I thought was a great company, failed when I didn't understand what NLP was when they asked me about it.

> NLP? > Natural Language Programming, it's the future. Claude, GPT, etc.

I laughed, he didn't, looked offended and said it was a serious question. I had thought it was a joke, said "oh you mean LLMs". I tried to answer seriously, of course, but that was my third round technical interview and I didn't get a call back.

Just getting a paycheck and producing mediocre work until I get something new. (Senior engineer, 10 YOE, patents, 3 years at a unicorn).

Also considering becoming an electrician.

So much ascribed intent to a comment I wrote in 30 seconds about shit statistics. The math is bad, the reporting and conclusions are bad.

That's it, really, I'm not some evil wordsmith with an agenda.

But okay man, sure.

Ask me a question in good faith and I'll gladly answer.

Oh good catch. Ok, so nationally, if each campus held only one event per week, we're saying 0.07% of all meetings had someone speak up against it. Less than a tenth of one percent.

I couldn't roll my eyes any harder. This certainly is a national crisis.

Math: 200/(50*6000)

It's not deplatforming if campuses don't want to hear someone speak. This seems like a bonkers term to use.

200 deplatforms in a year? (There were 75 in 2003, the 30 year trend is gentle at best.)

There's almost 6000 higher education institutions in the US. This is fabricated outrage.

Seriously, I have no idea why the onus is on the generation, the framing should be "education is massively underfunded, teachers are abandoned with ever increasing class sizes and ever decreasing agency, and kids are left with smartphones to fend for themselves in an environment where they may be shot and killed at any moment".

We, the older generations, have failed them.