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The goal of AI is fictional, and there's no solid evidence today that it will ever stop being fiction.

What at have today are stupid learning algorithms that are surprisingly good at mimicing intelligent people.

The most apt comparison today is a particularly clever parrot.

I'm all for having the discussion about how to handle AI when we have it, but it's bad faith to apply it to what we have today.

Critically, what we have today will never ever go on strike, or really make any kind of correct moral decision on it's own. We must treat it like dumb automation, because it is dumb automation.

Credit Unions exist, though.

Marvel: Can we just keep churning out the same formula every year and just keep printing money endlessly?

Me: Yes, if you pay your staff equitably.

FYI, there's one key way that Discovery season 1 doesn't feel like proper Trek that is a setup for a huge plot twist in season 2.

It might not redeem season 1 for you, of course. But it did for me.

With only 2 developers, CI/CD can be your best friend. Automate the daylights out of testing your code.

Remember to tag your regression tests in some way - any test that is preventing a production bug that actually happened needs to be marked as a 'regression' and treated as high priority to keep passing.

Treat all others tests as more art than science. Keep the reliable ones, toss out the brittle ones.

Look for a network traffic recording/replay library for your toolchain. Reusing integration tests as unit tests is a huge time savings.

If you have live data access, build yourself a few charts that represent a typical day. Knowing what "normal" looks like in your database can be priceless on a weird day.

Pro tip: If you draft documents in Markdown, lots of programs have a "preview" that renders perfect formatted text to paste into a Word document.

I find it saves me a ton of hassle to leave Word to the very last step, when .docx is required.

Yeah. Google needs to get in there with another product that they will leave in Beta until they cancel it in 18 months.

I like to think the best we can hope for is that the speed of light limit is somehow naturally localized and the border to that localization is nearby enough for us to discover before we make ourselves extinct.

It's not too likely, since there would probably be solid evidence of it already in the light at can see.

Oh well.

Wilsooooonnnnn!

"At Viridian Dynamics, we build our robots with ethical AI, whatever that means; so that humans and androids can live in peace - we hope."

That's a good point. No company has had a great time throwing their handheld into the market across from a Nintendo product.

Steamdeck and Evercade seem to be holding their own, at least.

Your note reads a lot like "let's not let any of the measurably smart people be our leaders". Might want to work on that elevator pitch.

Ssshh. Let's not give away that little hint - there may be bosses present.

I learned Linux on the boss' dime and it created tons of career opportunities.

Yeah, as the gap between paid OS and free ones narrows, we see the free ones in use in more and more contexts.

Cloud and phone went first, now it's finally the year of the Linux desktop, again.

Yeah. It was embarrassing all those years we declared it the year of the Linux desktop, before. I'm glad we finally got there this year!

Bingo. Unionization is on the rise, so expect unending "economic collapse" headlines regardless of what is happening in the economy.

Plus on Pixel you can run GrapheneOS.

Dad voice:

Do we want innovation and increased prosperity instead of crime? Because this is how we get innovation and increased prosperity.

Send kids who started at a disadvantage to free college, you're gonna get innovation and increased prosperity. There's no getting around it. It's gonna make everyone better off. I hope that's what California wants, because that's what they're going to get.

I know it's not a competition, but I bet O'Hare airport will win.

Same here, but I use EleventyJS as the Markdown to HTML step.