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>>> Of course, woe betide those with social phobias.... True but maybe a blessing in disguise. As a shy college kid once (although not with any real disability), being forced to ge…

Indeed, and I get that one can ignore those features (I do), but finding them in existing code or having the AI coding agent use them diminishes the "easy for beginners" aspect.

Deming wrote, "quality control is a management problem." When you see a plant where workers are cutting corners on quality, they're probably under pressure to do so. Factories face…

>>> The pay is also so much worse in my experience. The result is that anybody who can program well enough to develop software is doing so. Those with any programming skills who re…

You do have to protect them from deer for the first few years.

Indeed, all I do is live performance. Recording is too much work. ;-)

I had some level of faith as a scientist. Today, I expect that scientists will be replaced by faith in AI before we're replaced by AI. Either one is a threat to my job.

Agreed. I'm a musician. Talking pictures. Then piracy, and a few things in between. Now music is either a spectacle, is carried out in private, or as a labor of love by people like…

I don't think this is as absurd as it sounds. Come to the US Midwest. "Wisconsin nice" is a stereotype, and makes us seem a little bit like hicks, but it's real. People really are …

Wow, we're heading back to mask-programmed ROMs. I'm feeling young again.

Or having to plead the fifth when asked about your work.

That could happen today, but the chief scientist presumably comes up with the hypothesis. I still think the US has a comparative advantage in science, but it's under attack. Beyond…

Are you a scientist? People have idealized views of science. >>> Yes but science is well-structures and practically designed about repeatability so its a lot easier to automate tha…

I'm a scientist. On the one hand I take some comfort in thinking that I will always have an advantage in the lab. On the other hand I'm not taking anything for granted. And my adva…

>>> For example, if I want a highly toxic chemical, how difficult it would be to procure that in the US vs China? With trustworthy composition and purity? I work with researchers i…

The people who told us to push all of our data to the data lake are the ones who are now telling us to feed all of our knowledge to AI. In both cases, the dream was to replace us w…

One factor is that we struggled for a long time under proprietary tooling, and don't want to go back there.

In the past we had to use multicultural crayons. https://econocrafts.com/products/crayola-colors-of-the-world...

Contracts are shorter now. ;-)

An odd little factoid: A metalworking lathe will usually have a mechanism for cutting screw threads, with a multi-ratio gearbox for linking the rotation of the spindle to the motio…

I think that both the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales are now defined in terms of Kelvin and a formula. Most if not all of the units of measure are no longer related to their history…

I'm not in love with the system, but it does seem like a last resort for imposing discipline on corporations. The dilemma is whether the tort system is preferable to an approach in…