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That's fair. I'm all for taking control of your tools in life. I try to strive towards this myself. >The dream then is hopefully _also_ finding a technology job that also furthers …

Therapy takes money, I've been short on money the last few years. It is not for the lack of trying that I do not open up to professionals. And yes, I feel it is opening up to say h…

Me using the right number would have helped. My apologies, I meant Section 178, not 174 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/174 As a TLDR it's a way to amortize taxes for R&…

>Of course if they get fired that has a big impact, but that is unrelated to how they feel about their job. I see. I guess in my case it's semi - related. I still have larger goals…

On one hand, you are right about AI keeping the US from being in an official recession. On the other hand, I'm not sure how much longer they can gaslight their constituents into sa…

You posted about a lot of worldly things when what I was ultimately asking about was "why are you venting about how your friends not taking your advice to quit their jobs?". And yo…

I do perfectly believe that there's a lot of progress in renewables and am happy about it. I also think of how much farther we would have come if it wasn't in spite of 40-50 years …

It sure is... it's also doing terrible right now if you are trying to do it for survival. Games has never been stable, but AI as a catalyst has also accelerated that. But if financ…

It can be a bit sad scrolling through reactions to stuff like this and seeing a bunch of shrugs or outright dismissals of the issues highlighted in the article. But this was a nice…

>Trepidation is a part of excitement. Sounds like a line I'd hear straight out of Cyberpunk. Or perhaps Outer Worlds.

Being a ignorant college student in the early 2010's certainly didn't help. 2016 was a wakeup call but I still figured the checks and balances would be there. 2024 was my "fool me …

At least factories and mills were smart enough to unionize. Tech feels like the fable of the scorpion and the frog as of now in terms of this. rather pretend they are the top of th…

>if you are looking for a safe and stable job, it does not exist. Are all safe and stable jobs "day cares" in this lens? This issue isn't limtied to tech these days.

>it has not happened yet. That's the worst part. The idea of it replacing people is impacting people. Even though it is not ready yet. >Software, as a profession, has no credential…

> I frequently suggest that they stop. It has not worked. Are you offering to make up for their lack of a job yourself? If no, I'm not surprised people don't just upend their lives…

Not being laid off helps with that mentality. I was not so lucky. Owning assets also helps. I was not so lucky.

And society wonders why males never open up. Yes, perhaps I can fix this issue, once and for all.

This isn't a good market to transition into anyway. Healthare is the only growing sector and that sector will start declining once boomers start dying out in the coming decades (wh…

>but very few seem to be interested in working on what our future should look like. That involves policy, and people here are still squeamish to talk about the dreaded P word, desp…

Starting over isn't worth it anyway. Entry level is being hosed the worst, so this isn't an issue you can retrain yourself out of.

> Just a recent tidbit: I think it is Anthropic that is buying old (some antique, vintage) books, scanning them, then pulping them. I wouldn't be surprised if all the companies are…

> It's not that they don't deserve it, it's that the resulting corrosion destroys the entire system, including the good parts. You're right that it's not the right way. But if thin…

>AI won't get offended for being "micro-managed". And you say the quiet part out loud on why some people really, really want AI pushed in at all costs.

> but work is still a lot of what I derive meaning from Not work directly. But my rent sure does threaten to take my meaning away. Can't create when I'm begging for scraps on the s…

having some 6-7 yeras of fruitful work followed by 3 years struggling to make ends meet. I thought getting over the 5YOE hump would mean I'd be set for any future roles, but that d…