If only there were a safe, reliable and well known preventative measure for this terrible disease. Some sort of “vaccine” if you will.
Stupid people are harming and killing their children. We currently lean towards freedom (you’re free to do stupid stuff and harm your children and the other children around them).
The question is: do we (as a democracy) want to swing away from freedom towards the tyranny of public safety? (I don’t say those words ironically). Personally I think you should be free to harm yourself all day long. Up to and including death by stupidity.
But when you harm others you should probably be stopped. Harming your children is a hard one. On the one hand I believe nobody should be allowed to harm children for any reason.
On the other hand. Freedom to raise your children as you like is important to a vast number of Americans. (Please note how the previous paragraph says my belief and this paragraph concerns the beliefs shared by some of my fellow citizens)
And ultimately do we really need to argue with them? By cold biological logic, stupid people killing their own children is something of a self-limiting problem. The problem will kind of take care of itself.
If that seems too harsh to you, by all means. Argue with the idiots and try to get the like-minded idiots in power to revisit their conspiracy based false beliefs. And I honestly do wish you the best of luck.
I use coding assistants about 7 hrs a day in fields I know backwards and forwards and fields I know not at all.
Ai does NOT do better than a reasonable person. It gets about 80% of the way most of the time. And totally wrong and broken sometimes.
It just writes 10x faster. Once testing, bug fixing, testing again, and manually fixing the occasional huge fuck up im about 5x faster than I was. Things would be even better if I was a better programmer to begin with.
> Ai does NOT do better than a reasonable person. It gets about 80% of the way most of the time. And totally wrong and broken sometimes.
I agree, but you're talking about something you're clearly very competent in. That doesn't mean AI isn't as good as a relatively junior engineer.
It also says nothing about AIs of the future. 2 years ago AI could hardly do any tasks without a huge amount of human assistance. Now most SWE will tell you they don't even write code anymore. Let's give it another 2 years.
Why would China need to foment dissent over tariffs? Everyone should already be infuriated by adding an unasked for and unnecessary tax on already expensive “everything”.
Might I recommend that you get assessed by a mental health professional? You could have a condition that can be treated by drugs to even out your swings (I’m not a doctor but bipolar affective disorder is characterized by swings of enthusiasm/effectiveness and depression)
If there’s something you like and are good at there’s no reason your schooling can’t focus on that area. (I don’t know how school works in your country but here you can switch your major in between class terms, finish out this term, meet professors in the comp sci department, ask to switch)
This is a weird (hard) time to be getting into software.
It is basically impossible to break in because there are so many experienced people available. Some people break in by contributing to open source projects (sometimes contributing to something that you really like that has a paid version and then building connections and trust to that company)
It’s going to take a while. I recommend not being homeless while that’s happening.
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