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Another post where someone starts with a personal anecdote and then presumes to project in on to the rest of us

US only

Methinks you are just trolling

Retrofitting sound dampening to a system not designed for it will rarely work due to economics I would imagine. IE the cost involved would be prohibitive

I'm glad on a daily basis that I retired before this became my reality. I still hand-code 3+hours a day as a hobby and it brings me great joy.

What an uncaring attitude to nature

Similarly for enum handling I always add a default statement which spits the dummy

I've just retired after 30 years of coding and still program as a hobby 3+ hours a day. FWIW I don't and never have used LLMs

"Our software is crap but we have a great website"

I prefer to catch the moon peeking in a window when I turn off the lights to bed

But not actually to modify their algorithms ?

Just an expensive distraction from the realities of existence

I'm not convinced that the majority of people have either the skill or inclination to craft a good prompt nor the awareness to determine whether the answers they get from the softw…

Hinging your argument on a single example from a specific historical period does not make it true, as reassuring as it sounds

I always have a few novels on the go at the same time. As I finish each one I put it on the 'read' pile and pick another complementary book from my bookshelf whose last rereading I…

Ugh

The first pic produced the strangest optical illusion for me, making the house seem to be rising up from the ground

Hahaha, the man doth protest too much

Perhaps the 20% are the ones most at risk

There are ways and ways of defending yourself and then there are targetted videos

I am vastly less tortured since retiring. 'Happy' is an unlikely possibility for me based on my life's experiences but 'not in constant pain and suffering' seems like a good fit

It all boils down to 'care'

Not. Even. Remotely.

I love hand drawn construction drawings. Reminds me of my roots as a structural engineer in the 80s just before CAD really took off.

A thinly veiled attack by cat haters