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I swish xylitol crystal after each meal for five minutes and then spit out. I no longer have plague on my lower bottom teeth, a problem area for most people. I like the fresh minty…

Well you can read python, you can't read machine code...

Same situation here, Copilot the only available option. But I get the feeling of things moving ahead...

ha ha, this is the response from Microsoft Copolit when I asked: If 5 or 6 software developers can do the work of 10, do companies choose to build 10% more stuff? Do they make thei…

AI says: 1. The default outcome: fewer people, same output (at first) When productivity jumps (e.g., 5–6 devs can now do what 10 used to), most companies do not immediately ship 10…

The future is so bright we need to wear shades...

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Yes. Excel macros mostly these days. Used to do Access database projects but they are slowly being phased out by Power BI.

"We have more stuff; they have more time" What say you Hackers? would you trade more stuff for more time?

I don't think there is any different brain chemistry at work. It is just human nature to want to do something with their wealth, for good or ill or whatever. It is more likely that…

Listening to Lex Fridman's podcast with tech bros and billionaires, kind of easy to see what Paul Krugman is talking about.

Is it the death of expertise? Can tech billionaires do it all?

There is no such thing. And if you keep wanting such a thing, you will be scammed out of your money…

A falling population is a problem for China as a military power. But if you’re thinking about the Chinese economy, it’s much less of a problem.

There’s a stereotype that to be a millionaire in China, you have to write computer code. But that’s not true. The vast majority of rich Chinese are rich because they were in the pr…

A successful growth model will disproportionately benefit certain constituencies. And it will also make those constituencies disproportionately powerful. Which makes it politically…

China’s growth model has two parts. First, through a variety of policies, you increase the share of national income that goes into savings and reduce the share that goes into consu…