They hung an elephant in 1916. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_(elephant)
I thought it was funny that Jobe got addicted to short form content. Larry was even like "ya know, there's something to be said for slower absorbsion, like reading a good book."
I got permanent damage on a CRT by playing with some magnets neat it. Never left them around it overnight or anything. They were the magnets from the magnetic beyblade arena lol. The sides of the screen got sort of more red. If bright colors, especially white, were on those areas for a long time they'd get progressively more discolored. It would fade back to its mostly normal dull red shade after some time without the bright white. So it wasn't the worst damage ever, but it was definitely permanent damage and definitely noticeable.
Magnets can damage CRT televisions and mechanical hard drives (not solidstate ones I don't think). I'm not necessarily going to test it by rubbing magnets all over, but for the most part those two things have fallen out of use. Tech is a lot less... Moving now. I guess is a good way of putting it. With hard drives specifically it would cause the arm inside to move and scratch the disk.
Not really. A big problem is the energy usage, which would not go away.
Distributed computing is a real thing though. Check out GIMPS and Folding@home if this interests you. The first is looking for extremely large prime numbers. The second is to learn about proteins. I believe amateurs get more benefit from it. I remember a service to help jailbreak your 3ds used distributed computing. Also there are some folks who search for Minecraft world generation seeds with specific properties using distributed computing.
If you're still in college, try to get an internship. Once you have something on your resume, it's a lot easier to get into places. Plus try to network and stuff. Getting recommended by someone is much more likely to result in an interview.
The AI shit is really rocking the boat right now, but ultimately I don't think it's sustainable. I don't know what the future of dev work will look like or when it'll balance out, but right now, these AI agents are effectively heavily subsidized by investors. At some point, they'll need to either turn to the public (IPO) as a last resort, or actually begin to turn a profit. I think this happened with Microsoft's Copilot. "Tokenpocalypse" was the term that got thrown around. They can't undercharge for this stuff forever.
Even if AI does end up being a significant part of work, actually knowing how to code will make you better at using it. Your skills aren't useless. You'll be better at noticing when the agents make shitty code or shitty decisions. If agentic development ends up being too costly for everyday use, you'll still be able to assist with "manual" code writing.
AI companies over hype their products and say they're world shattering as a way of marketing. They say the idea of developers are over because they want people to invest and buy their product. Agentic coding has gotten pretty fucking impressive in the past few months, but something's gonna break at some point. The bill always comes due.
But yeah. Internship and networking. Learn AI, but don't eschew traditional development practices entirely.
Lol. "Hide NSFW communities by default" and in the same commit totally blocks blahaj.
Pedophile and perchance
Let's be real here, the concerns about what the copyright is of code that's produced by AI is still sort of in the air, especially for a site that wants to host content from across the globe. Codeberg picking its battles and not wanting to deal with that for now seems reasonable.
7. You must not share projects that mostly consist of code written by "generative AI"-tools (including services such as Claude, OpenAI Codex). Such projects having an unclear copyright status (see requirements § 2 (1) 1 and § 2 (1) 3) and furthermore have little safeguards to ensure that they do not include harmful code (c.f. § 2 (1) 5).
That feels like a reasonable middle ground. Allow some things with some AI written code, but don't allow stuff that is a majority of AI code.
Well I loved it!