I'm not sure it's possible to convey how absolutely deadlocked any legal changes have become in the US. Jon Stewart fought for years to get September 11th first-responders the healthcare they were promised, it was a single page of extremely popular bi-partisan legislation.

The system is as it is because that's the way it was in the 90s or so, and since there's no pressing need and no one has a reason to fight for years to change this particular aspect it will continue this way. Possibly for the next millennia or so.

Well yes. That is the problem with capitalism. It's almost like there needs to be a functional government countering corporations for the public good.

With a few notable exceptions there's not a lot of mourning for general programmers not knowing CPU instruction sets, or manually placing binaries instead of using the install wizard. At this point you're lucky to get an install wizard.

Same as yours.

Different shops had different practices, who knew!

It was seen as training on how to use the machine and access to what the more experienced coder was doing. It was of course also back when on-the-job training still existed instead of just throwing the new guy in a corner and expecting them to pick it up themselves.

Can do you one better.

Automation Dependency is a legitimate worry. Aviation has also been safer post-1997 than it was pre-1997.

Once upon a time the junior dev's job was to clean the mainframe and type up the punch cards.

It used to be that airliners had a captain, co-pilot, and engineer to manage the engines and other systems. With increasing automation and system reliability the engineer position was made redundant. No profession is safe from stagnation.

His crimes/actions are alleged. That he's "involved in the Epstein Files" is not.

Which is why it's important to transition to more of a focus making those things with it instead of just burning it as fuel.

That's the clip the person you replied to, is replying to. Carter's demonstration.

All of those are basically front-ends for the National Weather Service and other mostly(?) public institutions that have actual weather satellites and generate the actual data.

I'm a fan of Windy because it lets you choose and compare/contrast forecast models. You can even compare which model has been more accurate for your location in particular.

Don't know if it was you but someone pointed out a few months ago that the 7900 was the last 24GB card to be found for less than $1k and I grabbed one as an upgrade from a 3070. Running local models it's less reliable than Claude at work, but not by much, and it was a good upgrade for gaming.

Before the return period was up it had gone from ~$900 to past $1.2k and I wasn't eligible for a repair/replacement just a refund, the market is completely sideways.

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