To be fair, JD Vance doesn’t really know what a “fact” is. It’s not that he’s willfully ignorant; he doesn’t have the mental capacity to understand.

Conservatism triggers extreme reactions.

As a Democrat, I say don’t redact any of them! If there’s Democrats in there, everyone needs to know. Everyone needs to know all the people involved!

Stop being pussies and use this as a proper stepping stone to remove your rivals in the GOP! That’s how villain organizations are supposed to work!

Any company that sees themselves “in the Business of selling printers and ink” thinks they’re strictly “in the business of selling ink.” Because selling ink is incredibly profitable.

This is exactly the type of situation that could be fixed with government regulation: Make it illegal for printer companies to sell ink/toner!

The day such regulation came into effect, all printers would double (not triple!) in price and we’d have like three standard cartridge sizes that you could source anywhere. They’d all be refillable and the world would be a better place.

You’ve obviously never tried to get any given .NET project working in Linux. There’s .NET and then there’s .NET Core which is a mere subset of .NET.

Only .NET Core runs on Linux and nobody uses it. The list of .NET stuff that will actually run on .NET Core (alone) is a barren wasteland.

If it’s written in C# that’s a huge turn-off though because that means it’s likely to only run on Windows.

I mean, in theory, it could run on Linux but that’s a very rare situation. Almost everything ever written in C# uses Windows-specific APIs and basically no one installs the C# runtime on Linux anymore. It’s both enormous and a pain in the ass to get working properly for any given C# project.

As an information security professional and someone who works on tiny, embedded systems, knowing that a project is written in Rust is a huge enticement. I wish more projects written in Rust advertised this fact!

Benefits of Rust projects—from my perspective:

• Don’t have to worry about the biggest, most common security flaws. Rust projects can still have security flaws (anything can) but it’s much less likely for certain categories of flaws.
• Super easy to build stuff from scratch. Rust’s crates ecosystem is fantastic! Especially in the world of embedded where it’s a godsend compared to dealing with C/C++ libraries.
• It’s probably super low overhead and really fast (because Rust stuff just tends to be like that due to the nature of the language and that special way the borrow checker bitches at you when you make poor programming choices haha).
• It’s probably cross-platform or trivially made cross-platform.

Also, stuff that gets mis-labeled as AI can be just as dangerous. Especially when you consider that the AI detection might use such labels to train itself. So someone who’s face is weirdly symmetrical might get marked as AI and then have hard time applying for jobs, purchasing things, getting credit, etc.

I want to know what counts as AI. If someone uses AI to remove the background in an image or just to remove someone standing in the background is technically generative AI but that’s something you can do in any photo editor anyway with a bit of work.

Meh. Nothing in this article is strong evidence of anything. They’re only looking at a tiny sample of data and wildly speculating about which entry-level jobs are being supplanted by AI.

As a software engineer who uses AI, I fail to see how AI can replace any given entry-level software engineering position. There’s no way! Any company that does that is just asking for trouble.

What’s more likely, is that AI is making senior software engineers more productive so they don’t need to hire more developers to assist them with more trivial/time consuming tasks.

This is a very temporary thing, though. As anyone in software can tell you: Software only gets more complex over time. Eventually these companies will have to start hiring new people again. This process usually takes about six months to a year.

If AI is causing a drop in entry-level hiring, my speculation (which isn’t as wild as in the article since I’m actually there on the ground using this stuff) is that it’s just a temporary blip while companies work out how to take advantage the slightly-enhanced productivity.

It’s inevitable: They’ll start new projects to build new stuff because now—suddenly—they have the budget. Then they’ll hire people to make up the difference.

This is how companies have worked since the invention of bullshit jobs. The need for bullshit grows with productivity.

You can hang out in the back yard and hand-feed our 100+ pound giant sulcata tortoise. She’ll come “running” if she sees you have treats (e.g. lettuce).

You can keep the puppy busy outside so she doesn’t have to worry about “forgetting” and doing that inside (puppies are trouble).

You can fish off the dock or swim in the pool. At night, I can setup the projection screen and we can watch some old movie out back and roast marshmallows at the fire pit.

Or you can just hang out with me in my garage/office and lose endless amounts of time watching the 3D printer print something (as is tradition with 3D printing!).

Also have a rather large robot to play with and an awesome HTPC setup and wifi 7 with 2 gig Internet. Actually, forget all that other stuff; 2 gig Internet is living the dream! 🤣

There’s hot shingles in your area! They’re just waiting for you to attach.

Do it on the roof! Doctors hate it!

This just proves he’s closer to soulless undead than a living being.

Republicans: “Google keeps blocking our emails!” Google: “Yep. Stop sending spam!”

Ugh, if only that worked for longer than like a month.

Eventually all these materials you can throw under throw rugs to make them stickier end up failing. Catastrophically.

Make sure to get a throw rug that has the non-slip feature sewn in. Make sure it’s nice and heavy too and never put it in the dryer (it’ll ruin the non-slip part). You should probably air dry throw rugs anyway, actually 🤷

The rug threw you. That’s why they’re called that!

Xerox is a bad copy of themselves from decades prior.

Try this and the result may shock you!

Doctors hate it!

…and people that work with resin and 3D printerers.

I’m going to assume the standard was poorly understood because I can’t imagine a multi-billion dollar company hires idiots to set standards.

Ahahahahahahaha! Oh man, you got a good laugh out of me this morning 🤣

To be fair, they probably don’t want anything to do with a BootLoop.