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  • Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's daughter calls TSA 'unconstitutional' after pat-down

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  • Evita Duffy-Alfonso said on the social platform X that she nearly missed her flight after opting out of a body scan because she said she is pregnant and concerned about radiation exposure. She said she waited 15 minutes for a pat-down

    If taking an extra 15 minutes to go through security is causing you to almost miss your flight, then you're already not arriving at the airport early enough. Shit happens. Gate changes occur. Overbooked flights are a thing. Long lines at bag check or security happen without any apparent notice or reason. Even something like unexpected traffic getting to the air port is common.

    and that TSA agents were “rude” and “tried to pressure” her into walking through the scanner.

    Welcome to the world the rest of us live in where the average citizen has to be the calm and collected one in the confrontation when dealing with law enforcement lest you earn their ire (or be shot because they're nervous or angry).

  • Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's daughter calls TSA 'unconstitutional' after pat-down

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  • I'm thinking its also confusion about the backscatter X-ray machines that were used before the millimeter wave scanners replaced them in most places. I had heard some small airports still use the backscatter machines.

    I still take the patdown instead of the millimeter wave scanners when I'm randomly selected for more scrutiny than the bog standard metal detector.

  • What was a time when you drank the kool aid?

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  • Just when you exhibited a moment of possible self-reflection, you just threw it all away and reinforced every negative connotation your prior statements have held.

  • What was a time when you drank the kool aid?

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  • There was a time I actually thought that Elon Musk wanted to help save the planet by making electric cars mainstream to displace fossil fuel vehicles, and by helping humanity return to space simply for the science and exploration value.

    Musk's "some kind of pedo guy" comment about the diver that dismissed Musk's efforts with the cave children was the first WTF moment, but I wrote that off has him just having a bad day as he apologized later. Musk fighting the COVID lockdown was also more evidence that concerned me. This was all before Elon's embrace of trump and GOP Nazism, and long before Elon's double Nazi salute on national television.

  • Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft

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  • Maybe MS couldn't stuff enough ads into the old Start Menu requiring a re-write to allow for more ad space. /s

  • Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft

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  • In every version of Windows up until now which has contained a taskbar and start menu, as far back as Windows 95. Not just Windows 10.

    Sadly not true. Microsoft removed the Start button in a version of Windows before. It was in Windows 8 (and Windows Server 2012 for some godforsaken reason) with the cursed "metro" interface. MS did it for the same stupid reason they're citing here "tablet and touchscreen users". The uproar caused MS to release Windows 8.1 a year later where they returned the Start button.

  • Where does the drive to do anything come from?

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  • Dopamine.

    Now, what your particular wiring that triggers dopamine hits that are unique to any of us, we only find out by exploring ourselves by exposing ourselves to the many experiences in life. For some of those things we'll instantly connect to it (because of a dopamine hit) or identify some part of the activity which will lead us to refining the experience to get the better result.

    My thought is if we replace the small dopamine hits we get from these genuine experiences or interests with easy chemical dopamine sources (drugs or alcohol) in excess, we would become bored with life. If we can get a 10x hit from simply drinking something rather than the 1x from a small personal improvement in a skill we have an interest in, that drink will nearly always win out.

    This isn't supposed to be preachy though. Each of us gets to decide for ourselves. This is just how I figured out how I work.

  • Which of your most fucked up exes tried to come back to your life in the most fucked up way?

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  • I offered to tag along to their meeting, just to see his the look on his face when I walked through the door and introduced myself as her husband.

    Oh man, that would have been priceless. The one-liners you could have used are endless:

    • "Wait, this is the guy who thinks he's the 'master race'? Seriously?!"
    • "Did you find out if he has to shop for his white robes in the children's section?"
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  • I misread the topic and thought this was about the "sexiest stereotypes" like a woman smart woman talking about a topic she's passionate about or a man that frees trapped wildlife.

  • I feel used, and not in a good way...

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  • "My life would easier and more comfortable with the AI off."

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  • That will backfire on employers. With the shortage of seniors with good skills, the demand will rise for them. An employer that squeezes his seniors will find them quitting because there will be another desperate employer that will treat them better.

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  • But inexperienced coders will start to use LLMs a lot earlier than the experienced ones do now.

    And unlike you that can pick out a bad method or approach just by looking at the LLM output where you correct it, the inexperienced coder will send the bad code right into git if they can get it to pass a unit test.

    I get your point, but I guess the learning patterns for junior devs will just be totally different while the industry stays open for talent.

    I have no idea what the learning path is going to look like for them. Besides personal hobby projects to get experience, I don't know who will give them a job when what they produce from their first efforts will be the "bad coder" output that gets replaced by an LLM and a senior dev.

    At least I hope it will and it will not only downsize to 50% of the human workforce.

    I've thought about this many times, and I'm just not seeing a path for juniors. Given this new perspective, I'm interested to hear if you can envision something different than I can. I'm honestly looking for alternate views here, I've got nothing.

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  • It won’t replace good coders but it will replace bad ones because the good ones will be more efficient

    Here's where we just start touching on the second order problem. Nobody starts as a good coder. We start making horrible code because we don't know very much, and though years of making mistakes we (hopefully) improve, and become good coders.

    So if AI "replaces bad ones" we've effectively ended the pipeline for new coders to enter the workforce. This will be fine for awhile as we have two to three generations of coders that grew up (and became good coders) prior to AI. However, that most recent generation that was pre-AI is that last one. The gate is closed. The ladder pulled up. There won't be any more young "bad ones" that grow up into good ones. Then the "good ones" will start to die off or retire.

    Carried to its logical conclusion, assuming nothing else changes, then there aren't any good ones, nor will there every be again.

  • Stack Overflow Rolls Out Native Ads in Q&A Feeds for Funding Boost

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  • I'm imagining code snippets that would actually download ads into applications people are writing. This would target those that copy/paste'd code without having any concept of what the code in question does.

  • Barron Trump's Reputation Goes Up In Flames Over Rumored Bond With Andrew Tate

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  • 2028: The law was changed and now Barron is president.

    If you look at the history of what donald did to his dad, you'd see why donald would never let his son have power of him. They're all horrible people.

  • TIL Howling Mad Murdock from the A-Team (1983) is also Lt. Barclay from Star Trek: TNG

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  • Did he learn nothing about empathy and compassion from playing Barclay on Star Trek!?

  • Always with the upsell

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  • Isn't that convenient! One lesson you learn as you get older is to simple "let people continue to be wrong". That's what I'll do now. You should probably just block me then because I must be AI, right? I think you'll be doing both of us a favor. Have a great day!

  • Always with the upsell

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  • Are you being intentionally evasive, or is that just your "thing"?

  • Always with the upsell

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  • Gotcha, no hard feelings. I think we both appreciate the art and the artist.