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The US does the absolute bare minimum in everything you listed.

>emergency rooms cannot turn away patients Sure but that's not real "health care".. again, it's the bare minimum.

Saying the US takes care of it's old people is sort of silly. Healthcare is through the roof. Social security is so low. Elder care is insanity expensive. People are worked far older than they should be because they can't afford to retire- especially with medical costs. Old people continue to pay property taxes on a home they might have paid off 20 years ago.

Really just do some searches yourself; it's like most other developed countries than the US.. health care, education is not insanely expensive, a lot of paid maternity leave, childcare assistance, etc. They provide the base people need.

That shows exactly how much they care about their people. They are not willing to let individuals be selfish and ruin their society with regards to Covid.

I fully support what they did.

China works as a society to truly try to help their people. They invest in their country and people. That is why they are prospering. It's not just "catching up".

The US for example doesn't take care of it's people. They do the absolute bare minimum in the name of illusionary "freedom". The only people who are free are the rich.

Call it whatever you want.. but there is great benefit in having a government who recognizes that society comes first- not the individual.

Dim?? I'm getting a sunburn from my OLED at the moment.

This is C# so basically just automatically detected that I had 4 object types I was working with that were being updated to the database that I want to keep in a concurrent dictionary type of cache. So it created the dictionaries for each object with the appropriate keys, created functions for each object type if I touch an object to get that one updated etc.

It created the function to load in the data, then the finalize where it writes to the DB what was touched and clears the cache.

Again- I'm not saying this is anything particularly fancy, but it did the general concept of what I wanted. Also this is all iterative; when it creates something I talk to it like a person to say "hey I want to actually load in all the data, even though we will only be writing what changed" and all that kind of stuff.

Also the bigger help wasn't really the creation of the cache, it was helping to make the changes and detect what needed to be modified.

End of the day even if I want to go a slightly different route of how it did the caching; it creates all the framework so I can simplify if needed.

A lot of times for me using this LLM approach is to get all the boilerplate out of the way.. sometimes just starting the process by yourself of something is daunting. I find this to be a great way to begin.

Sounds like you are using it entirely wrong then...

Just yesterday I uploaded a few files of my code (each about 3000+ lines) into a gpt5 project and asked in assistance in changing a lot of database calls into a caching system, and it proceeded to create a full 500 line file with all the caching objects and functions I needed. Then we went section through section of the main 3000+ line file to change parts of the database queries into the cached version. [I didn't even really need to do this, it basically detected everything I would need changing at once and gave me most of it, but I wanted to do it in smaller chunks so I was sure what was going on]

Could I have done this without AI? Sure.. but this was basically like having a second pair of eyes and validating what I'm doing. And saving me a bunch of time so I'm not writing everything from scratch. I have the base template of what I need then I can improve it from there.

All the code it wrote was perfectly clean.. and this is not a one off, I've been using it daily for the last year for everything. It almost completely replaces my need to have a junior developer helping me.

It's also wild how the majority of humans still don't want to accept that we are in fact animals.. which I presume is why it comes as some shock when a lower intelligent species exhibits signs of ourselves.

Counter point though- what if it was trained on your specific code base? Wouldn't it be able to then help with those given nuances?

The code base I have I would love to be able to just give some AI free reign and learn the structure since a lot of it is fairly repetitive; I know it would be so easy to say "hey add X just like Y" and it would be able to do it easily.

Anyone that didn't see this coming is so naive- Trump only cares about optics. Look at the message when opening tiktok "Thanks to President Trump"... there is no way he didn't say "look, you HAVE TO PUT MY NAME OUT THERE or you are being banned".

But yet morons will be like "trump saved tiktok!!!"

That's MOBILE games.. it's not video games in general.

Yes, 99% of mobile games are utter crap that don't try to create an actual game, only a way to make money.

My kids have only played a handful of mobile games but they have been deep into computer games for 8-10 years. You absolutely cannot just lump video games in general into that. Not to mention that I want my kids to be kids and have fun, they have also learned an insane amount from playing video games.. whether it be helping with their reading, math, optimization, and also social learning.. learning how to play together and with their friends, having conflicts and resolving them etc.

>We had to ban YouTube, and doing so was possibly the single best boundary we've set as parents

Sounds horrible. My young teens have been on youtube for like 6+ years. They can watch hour long videos no problem. So what if they are trash sometimes? They are into it, paying attention and it's their entertainment. But then they also end up watching and learning so many different things they aren't going to see anywhere else. Or randomly come across chess videos then start watching those etc.

My kids have more screen time than 99% of kids I know, yet they are super well behaved, have many interests, do well in school, etc. I couldn't ask for better kids.

>If we hadn't we'd probably have never spoken to our kids again.

Sounds like a You problem. Not a YouTube problem.

>It indeed seems like GraphQL saved your client in this case.

Yeah.. no.

>Are you proposing just to add new field to a JSON response, even though they are not needed?

That is exactly what OP is proposing and it makes total sense. More data != bad. Just ignore if you don't need it. For 99.999% of cases the bandwidth of extra data is entirely negligible.

For business cases you just want to get things done. If the server has added more data, which is obviously relevant in some regard, you can see it and might want to use it etc. With GraphQL you are completely stuck without SPECIFICALLY requesting it. That means every client needs to know about the new data and specifically request it. In theory that might sound like it makes sense, but in practice this is virtually never the case.

Give me all the data and I'll use what makes sense.

Sure, but just how often is the client the one who defines what data it needs without the designer being able to create obvious endpoints?

Surely there are some good use cases.. just so few and far between. No one should be using GraphQL unless absolutely necessary.

I only have one experience with a client using GraphQL and it was horrendous.

My biggest complain is there seemed to be no way to just to query all fields. I know that is intentional and the point of GraphQL.. but they should support something for the server side to enable this. Maybe they have over the years, I don't know. But my experience was during the implementation phase the client kept adding new fields that I didn't know about and then I had to constantly ask them for the fields because I thought I was missing data. If I could have just queried ALL the fields, then saw what came in, and chop them down to what I need.. great.

The only way GraphQL seems to make any sense is if everything is basically completely defined and you are at a final project stage. After many many years of experience... this is rarely the case.

Cool piece of technology? Sure.. but hardly practical except in scenarios of extreme amounts of data and only when it makes sense for the client to return specific fields.

Although I think still for 95% of even those extreme cases, you just write a REST endpoint that returns the fields that make sense for the query....

Maybe I misread your post but why was there no mention of crypto and synergies?

We've been using ECharts for many years now and it's great. Built some of our own overlays to create the charting json.

Highcharts was something we originally were going to use but it's just too pricey.

ChatGPT is my default now basically.. almost anything I search for is technical in nature and it gives me the proper result almost all the time. Even if it's setting up a dedicated server for a game etc

That's a bunch of bullshit. The tips advantage the EMPLOYER because there is zero transparency to the consumer.

I have no idea how much every server I go to is making. How do I know if it's good or bad? How do I know if they have any benefits? Especially now that everyone wants a fucking tip. I buy some ice cream with my kids and I'm supposed to tip 20% to someone for scooping my ice cream? I have no idea if the server is making $15/hour or $4/hour to determine if the tip is part of their pay or pure bonus etc.

It's baffling you blame the consumer. Employers are the ones that don't want to pay what their employee is worth.

Honestly the entire country is broken because of simple issues of non-guaranteed healthcare and non-guaranteed time off etc. If basic human rights were guaranteed we wouldn't have to play this constant game of figuring out what to pay people at a minimum.

>it’s simply too perfect and conducive to life

Conducive to life as we know it. Every 'version' of the universe and every little difference would lead to a different kind of life. And in all of those scenarios you would say the same thing. "Look how much it's conducive to us!".

The smaller context is people saying that earth is the perfect difference to support our life, therefore it must be god that put it there! If the earth was much closer like mercury, there would be no life to say that "well, we weren't placed in the right place- no god".

>and what happens when we die

It's more arrogant to think that you are more than a biological machine. Stab someone in the head with an icepick and they will be brain damaged and possibly even have a different personality, memory loss etc. So when that person "dies" you think what.. their conscious magically lives on? Which one, the one before being stabbed or the damaged one?

Does every other living being on this earth move on to something else? Humans aren't special. We are animals no different than anything else on this planet.

What in the absolute hell are you talking about?

Groceries are up easily 20-30% over the last few years. Some items more, some have stayed kind of stable.

It's ludicrous.

Would anyone reading this say their grocery bill has gone down since 4 years ago??

eyeroll I give you a direct example of a 50% price increase and you just blah blah with some irrelevant bs

Ok, then let's look at my local Safeway. Shit is OUTRAGEOUS. If you don't think groceries haven't gone up 30/40/50% then apparently you don't look at any prices while you shop.

Have you been to a restaurant lately? 50% increase is not an exaggeration.

Food? So many items are insane. Costco popcorn. I buy that all the time for my kids. Pre-pandemic it was about $9 (maybe 10). Now it's $16/17.

Bag of chips? $5-6 for less

My healthcare premiums went up 20% last year- I don't even want to look what it's going to cost next year.

>CPI does include food, fuel, and housing costs

You can say that all you want, but however they are doing it just doesn't translate to reality for most people.

The bigger point is.. who the f cares? This obsession with the stock market is probably one of the worst inventions in human history.

>Not one mention that inflation is caused by the government and central banks expanding the money supply.

The recent inflation is more because of unfettered capitalism. Supply chain issues? Ok let's just keep on raising prices as much as we can. Things back under control? Ok, well we are still going to claim we have issues and just keep on raising prices.

Workers want more money? Ok instead of us shareholders taking the hit, we are going to pass on every bit of that (and more) to the consumer because "we can".

Want to go to a football game? A concert? Disney world? Cool- we are just going to keep increasing prices like crazy because there is a large enough people in the top 10% that will pay because that increase doesn't really matter.

Prices are being driven the fuck up because of greed and income divide.

Does it cost you anything to call the police or the fire department? No- it's free to use. You know what it means; stop trying to muddy the waters with disingenuous arguments.

I'm just going to default to the: how do you think other countries do it?

I'm really tired of being told "we can't afford to give healthcare" "we can't afford to give higher education" "we can't afford early childcare" "we can't afford maturity leave" "we can't afford guaranteed sick/vacation"

Of course we can. The powers at be don't want that because it levels the playing field, costs them some money, and ultimately makes them less powerful.

>It’s still a small niche

So what? Go play and enjoy.

>VR hasn’t felt necessary to the average gamer

Not even sure what that means. You come across as someone who likes to complain and never actually enjoy something. Good luck with that.

>So what’s the killer app?

There isn't one and there never will be because people like different things.

Why do people like you constantly say "what's the killer app" ever time something new VR comes out? I've been doing VR since oculus dk1 and VR has been crazy enjoyable from time to time. VR is cheap as hell now. Quest2 was $300 for quite some time even before the Quest3.

If you can't find enjoyment with virtual reality from a $300 stand alone device that's a you problem.

Which is not a facebook account..