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That's good, that's good!

A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat!

Nudge, nudge, know what I mean?

Now the makers of the Yo app should sue iyo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo_(app)

If they could use THEIR AI to replace human workers, they would. If they learned that Claude or ChatGPT was better than an IBM consultant, they'd probably keep that to themselves.

If it's inappropriate for him to have a "position," he should not be saying things like claiming "Roblox is a problem"

When you're too poor for smelly clown meat, you know things are bad.

Yeah, it was always a headache to put together complex data structures in Perl. It's kind of like bash in that way. Every time you need something like "a hash table that contains lists" it quickly turns into a quagmire. In Python you just... do it.

Um, does this guy realize that the dotcom boom was 25 years ago? The software field has grown exponentially bigger since then. Perl being "as popular as it was during the dotcom boom" (even if true) basically means that it's dead.

[edit: also, even his own graph of "releasers" shows that if current trends continue, there will be essentially 0 "releasers" in 10 years]

Python is great for data science. Anything where you need to wrap a C library like BLAS, tensorflow, PyTorch, matplotlib, numpy.

It's hot garbage for writing simple cross-platform utilities because of the need for an elaborate environment setup, painful dependency management, and constant compatibility breaks.

There's an awful lot of dongle-related drama in Ruby these days.

Most dialects of BASIC didn't have booleans.

Everything old is new again.

It's important to understand that only a small percentage of academics will ever get tenure. The rest will keep toiling away on increasingly poorly paid and desperate postdocs until they finally age out and decide to take a job in industry. That job will pay less than the equivalent job for someone who never took the PhD track.

Of course, the percentage of tenured winners varies a lot by fields. It's very low in the humanities, somewhat better in CS and math, etc.

Once you get tenure, if you ever do, you will indeed have a lot of freedom, but you will also have a lot of work to do. Sure you can pass grading and other jobs off to grad students and postdocs (which you were for the last decade...) but in many fields, the need to fundraise never ends. It's sort of like funding a new startup every year with a different set of grad students.

Most people don't want to sit alone in a closet and think deep thoughts (well, ok, mathematicians do...). But if you want to do something in the real world, you'll need funding, and that means writing a LOT of grant proposals.

Sounds like a dril quote.

Saruman definitely seems like the kind to use AI.

Apple only promises to support devices for 5 years.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102772

They do sometimes end up supporting devices for longer than this, but you can't rely on it.

It was only a matter of time!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7MrDt_NPFk

Do people really believe that knowledge from more than 30 months ago has no value? Even the people doing keyword searches on resumes are smarter than that.

Grok, what was Stack Exchange?

No, it's Pocket change. Which could be better spent on the CEO's salary!

https://www.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/18b6tdp/mozilla_c...

You have achieved enlightenment.

Now you no longer need to post here.

Your own link says that the GDPR applies when companies "offer goods or services" to people in the EU. That's why a lot of websites block the EU.

> I mean, who is building Windows then?

Armies of H1Bs frantically copying and pasting from Stack Overflow until something compiles.

They don't want to be sued in the EU for releasing a model. One way to do that is by not releasing it in Europe.

It's the same reason a lot of websites block the EU rather than risk being sued under the GDPR.

The main thing it required was the Soviet Union to stop whaling.

https://psmag.com/social-justice/the-senseless-environment-c...

This isn't a story about the free market run amok.

  > End-Permian seems tied to the Siberian Traps basaltic eruption,
  > but that eruption had been going for thousands of years before
  > the dieoff started.

The eruptions probably hadn't been "going for thousands of years." We can't "see" time periods as small as a few thousands years from a vantage point of 250 million years later.

Biologists like to proclaim that things are gradual when they're really more likely sudden. This often reflects mathematical ignorance. For example, if the last specimin of a certain rare fossil is found in a stratum slightly older than the K-T stratum, does that mean it went extinct earlier than the K-T event? Probably not; it just means the fossil is rare so your sampling error is larger.

Yes, these are good questions. I don't know how to fix it. But I do worry that if it isn't fixed, it may kill the field.

Rest in peace

The problem is that over-promising and under-delivering, when combined with many documented cases of fraud, can be fatal to a field. After enough of this, the field may get a stink on it that never washes off. Ask the cold fusion people.

The field needs to get better about catching fraudsters, and start delivering results. Otherwise it will be defunded, no matter how eloquent people are. This may not be "fair" but it is the reality.

> Because it is single market. Just like inter-state commerce inside USA.

No. The US doesn't do this for interstate commerce. For example, California doesn't reduce its sales tax on an item just because Illinois already charged some other tax on that item.

> Now why the corporations inside USA have failed to lobby mechanism that allows them to get refunds on sales taxes when they export stuff is reasonable question to ask.

It's not the job of US corporations to fix discriminatory tax and tariff schemes cooked up in Europe.

On the other hand, in Washington, some people are starting to take notice. If the Europeans want to slap a 20% price increase on US goods, we also know how to do that for European goods.

Whether the buyer or the seller pays the VAT is not relevant. If the price to the consumer is higher, the economic effect is the same.

As another commenter said, this is the same as tariffs. If someone said that tariffs disadvantage foreign producers, you wouldn't smirk and say "idiot! tariffs are paid by the buyer, not the seller!" Instead of trying to demonstrate how very smart you are, you should engage with the arguments that I'm presenting.

I already explained why the VAT makes the foreign product less attractive. It's because the foreign product already paid taxes in the country where it was made. So it gets taxed twice, whereas the domestic product is taxed once.

And before you comment, I do understand that the EU allows VAT tax collected in one member country on a product to reduce the amount of VAT tax collected in another member country. There's no such arrangement in place for the US, which is what makes it discriminatory.

Please respond to my actual argument rather than insulting me.