In a work environment there’s always been pressure to ship software faster. The industry has never been good at measuring individual or team effectiveness, which has resulted in all kinds of dumb metrics (lines of code, ticket count, etc). I see AI as just another amplifier bad behavior. Don’t use it? Odds are a teammate will and they’ll be viewed as more productive than you. In today’s world of tech layoffs that’s not a good position to find yourself in.

There’s a second angle to this too: there are two cohorts of AI users. Those who follow what I would call the YOLO path and those who spend the time iterate on the output. In my case, layers of management are blissfully unaware of this distinction, but they sure like the “line go up fast” nature of the YOLO crowd.

Out of curiosity when did you get out? We have kids in elementary school and they were issued Chromebooks. Our older one is expected to bring it to/from school daily.

I hate the device. Chromebooks kneecap computer literacy. This kid also has a (used) Thinkpad, but greatly prefer the Chromebook because it’s not locked down. It has no time limits, can access websites like YouTube with zero content filter, etc. It’s on a VPN so I can’t easily block sites like I can on everything else, but at least I can limit Internet access time to make it less appealing to use. The list goes on.

Another source of annoyance are the apps teachers use to communicate. Teachers are allowed to choose between two and one of the apps paywalls functionality behind a subscription.

Bill is currently 72. Independence day came out 30 years ago, so he was 42 in the fim. I would be all for someone that age being president, but man…

Roosevelt was 42 when he became president, but he wasn’t elected when he became president. He’s the youngest person to be president so far.

Kennedy was 43 when he was elected.

Clinton and Ulysses S. Grant were both 46.

Obama and Grover Cleveland were both 47.

Franklin Price was 48.

James Garfield and James Polk were both 49.

Everyone else was 50+. Obama, Clinton, and Kennedy were the only people under 50 who were elected president in the last 100 years.

Tech genius is only the most recent wave in this fad. We love our hero worship, which results in cycles of this type of thing.

The most recent example is probably the Robber Baron era of the guided age. Some notables of the time include Andrew Carnegie, John Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, Leland Stanford, etc. Edison and Bell didn’t reach that level of wealth, but they probably would have if they were alive today.

Don’t worry, a lot of that money is still around wrapped up in family trusts. Sure, they’ve given a decent chunk away to white wash their names but these weren’t good people.

0 is really cold, 100 is really hot. How hard could it be 🤷

/s

All units are made up to some extent. Things like oz vs cups vs pints vs quarts vs gallons absolutely drives me up the wall. Let’s not even talk about things like using cups as a unit of measurement for flour…

This is an actual thing. It even has a fancy name. Geophagia is nearly universal around the world in tribal and traditional rural societies.

She was always too small for her breed. Not sure why she was sick.

Sounds like a runt, which is fairly common with cats and dogs. That’s where “the runt of the litter” came from. It also applies to farm animals with singles litters (cows) and larger litters (pigs). I have not seen it get applied to a bird before, but it make sense.

A runt is just something with a low birth rate. It turns out that there’s a very strong correlation between birth weight and health.

Goodhart’s law in action.

But let’s only do it in some English speaking countries and not others! I am joking, but this is one of the reasons why American English has diverged from British English.

Relevant xkcd:

The number of things that run on excel in the corporate world is staggering…

Can confirm. I’m still rocking a 1070 Ti on a 1440 monitor and it more than meets my needs, granted I’m playing somewhat older AAA games. Looks like a 4060 is even better.