The reaction to sports pseudo-stats is what really separates casual viewers from real fans. It's the only way to raise stakes on otherwise forgettable games.
"This team is on a 5 game win streak": 🥱
"This player has never lost an away game in June": 😯🍿
Retrofuturism as others have said, but probably more specifically cassette-futurism
The post misses a few things:
C-suites don't want know about software and don't care about non functional requirements (security, availability, audit ability, etc...). They just want to wave a magic wand and have a product appear, which is what Ai provides the illusion of. That's why all current Ai software is garbage, but the smarter companies will catch on
I don't doubt it's possible to get better consistency but the juice is really not worth the squeeze for me. You end up churning through huge expensive models, orchestrating sub agents, writing out boilerplate hand-holding instructions ("please don't break this, stop trying to commit to main, please lint ffs...").
I don't use it for Java but that would make sense with rigid enterprise patterns and VeryVerboseNamesThatAreEasierForAModelThanAHumanFactoryClazz {...
I don't think our career is boned, moreso that all juniors trying to get in are boned. Everyone who knows what going on transition to a more hands-off architect role.
But like I said, our tokens are heavily subsidized right now. When they pull the rug, code monkey jobs will start to get listed again (with lower salaries of course).
Things I've realized while working with AI (Claude code):
All in all it can be useful when used with care but will never be a magic bullet.
Someone remake this but with Good-Bad-Fanservice
Though to be honest I don't usually use a recipe or cook anything. I cube a block of soft/silken tofu, dump on some chili oil, add some kind of vinegar (and maybe sesame oil if I have it), and eat it raw and cold.
You could probably do it with any kind of sauce you like and put it on rice if you're feeling fancy
Photos are the same as most other data, you can store them pretty easily long-term in a physical medium. Of course, capturing an image is much easier and more convenient with a digital device, but that doesn't mean it has to live digitally indefinitely. It's simple enough to have an instant digital camera with a built in printer and access to a high quality scanner.
If you held a gun to my head, I could pick out a few dozen personal photos that I own that are worth saving physically. If you allowed me a modern flash drive's worth of storage (64-128GB, ~5000 good quality images), I could pretty easily store every picture worth a second look from my entire lifetime.
Apple's marketing driven perception that every single person needs a cinema quality camera (and cinema sized storage) in their pocket is ludicrous. Only a tiny fraction of people actually truly need that. Let them borrow that gear from a library if we want to preserve fair access.
To be honest I don't have any personal digital information that I give a shit about. It's value is only derived from its ability to identify + track me, either for my convenience or for the highest bidder's. Computational liberty is only an issue because we've made everything digital by default and that mindset has leaked into critical social functions (taxes, law, logistics, healthcare, etc...).
Software and data bloat is more astronomical than most people realize. Only about 10% of persisted data is ever touched again (don't look up the ecological implications). Amazon could capture 90% of all compute hardware and the entire human race could get by just fine on 10%. We wouldn't have access to niceties like app stores full of niche apps, 24MP phone cameras, 4k movies, 10 sluggish layers of software abstraction, 15 years of photos you never look at, etc...
But you could run a simple message server on basically any scrap of IoT e-waste. A highly available static website can be hosted with an old phone and a solar panel. Any device (fridge/watch/calculator/pregnancy test) can run Doom. All of Apollo 11's source code is a fraction of the size of most web pages.
We're continously expanding our hardware usage for infinitesimally small gains. We should demand that our governments legislate digital austerity for dozens of reasons, just pick what resonates best for you. Personal privacy, energy usage, ecological damage, corporate capture, information rot, brittle supply chains, national security, etc...
Crazy that companies will do this shady stuff with client side code. At least it was slightly obfuscated at first, but that's just incompetent fraud to leave it so obvious that a self professed non-software engineer (though clearly a smart guy) can read it and deduce what's happening. Throw a tiny bit of random noise to the stepdown logic and it becomes much harder to find and reproduce as proof.
My shameful secret is admitting that LLMs are great for things like getting comfortable with a programming language. They're generally trained on the same publicly available samples as these courses and the conversational extrapolation is great for identifying concepts you forgot the technical terms for (ie. "How would I do this in python: [Java code]")
Vibe coding sucks, but walking through some examples with an LLM and a REPL can save hours of navigating docs or Hello World blog posts.
Couple of reasons of varying importance:
I probably wouldn't do it outside of a tiny solo project. There are plenty of frameworks which do similar things (such as db driven apis) without compromising on flexibility, security or features.
It's not super great odds to begin with but part of the issue is people not being mentally/physically prepared for it. This paper says only 46% of bystander cpr was performed effectively. Still almost always better than nothing, but optimal cpr should leave at least one broken rib and you exhausted.
Brackets are infinitely easier because any IDE (and most text editors) have a dead simple linting plugin which auto indents for you and lets you know when you fucked up. Your editor can barely do anything with whitespace only because everything is valid syntax.
Also lemme take this opportunity to say fuck yaml for exactly this reason.
That's a great question! I'll be happy to help you count the lights. I see five lights.
Here are a few ways you can improve indoor lighting:
Car Trek
Come on, it was right there...
This is such a weird essay. Almost nothing about the function of our modern world is related these ancient empires and small modern dissolutions. Yes, life in an agrarian society probably improved somewhat when your food was no longer being taxed to feed an army.
In our global economic reality, basically no country is self sufficient. We don't have a 90% rural population ready to adapt to subsistence farming. Even putting aside reductions in QoL and luxuries, nearly 60% of global population lives in densely populated urban centers. Once the logistics supplying these centers break down, the surrounding areas don't have carrying capacity to support them (much less so when you account for dependence on fertilizer and pesticides).
When things fall apart on a large scale in 2025 we don't get to revert to a humble bucolic life, at least not until a ton of people die
Out of curiosity, what is your experience/usage like with this? Spotify is very easy to justify if you heavily use some of their features because there's not a way (that I know of) to replicate them. For example:
From my usage, sacrificing a majority of those is a non-starter because my Spotify usage has become more than mp3 hosting and organization.
What are your favorite RSS feeds?
Uncle Bob is a piece of shit