This reminded me of Rome Sweet Rome, which I guess we’ll never get.

I’d watch it.

What are the gains?

Everyone I know with PhDs don’t really get paid more for doing the same job(s) I do.

And some are in research so it’s just a constant stress of continuing to get funding and stuff.

Oregon here, it has seemed oddly humid feeling to me personally. I’m super sensitive to humidity and heat though.

It isn’t like the south, but definitely more than I recall historically.

It rained today randomly so that doesn’t help either.

I mean I pay like…$15/yr which isn’t bad and I can nearly cap my 5gbit line and not have to deal with seeding.

What movie?

Replace torrenting with usenet, but absolutely yes.

Wow, it’s that bad?

I live in rural Pacific NW and just upgraded to 5gbit symmetric fiber.

That’s funny because everyone I know at AWS recently said there was this big memo or meeting or something and they straight up said demand for some of their services and/or upsells has decreased because of prolific access to AI.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

Hmm, darn, was hoping this came first.

I was more poor back then, certified mail cost extra, also getting to the post office during business hours was nearly impossible.

But I understand the logic (maybe moreso now…) - but poor me was too busy just trying to get by day to day and survive.

I had a landlord that would let you mail checks to get around it. But the leasing docs explicitly stated there was a 6% fee for every day rent was late and rent wasn’t considered received until the check cleared.

So we had to mail the check like 2 weeks in advance in case it didn’t arrive quickly enough and then sometimes he’d deposit it 1-2 after receipt and then it’d be a nail biter if it fully cleared in the 24-72 hours necessary for him not to consider it “late”.

I hate that guy and he’s like 90 now and still not dead despite cancer and two heart attacks.

Ah, yes, let’s go with that.

As someone who games banks as best I can this would absolutely not work.

Afraid of quitting not so much, but they are underpaid for their skills. At least for what they need the person was more skilled than me, but being paid ~$40k less. So…yeah…

Improved efficiencies should mean we all benefit across all sectors and ways of life.

But improved efficiencies actually mean none of us benefit except those at the top. We should all of us be paid more, have more time off, and have more excess - but at a high level we are all paid no extra, we get no extra time off, we get no excess - that all gets enjoyed by those at the top.

This is one of many reasons this should be a class war, not a culture war.

A recent job I had, Product kept saying this over 2ish years…

…at the end of the stint and with ~2 weeks until launch, they laid off all but one person on the team (some 12 engineers or so, myself included).

I often wonder how much shit that person is wading through leading up to launch and post-launch fighting fires.

The problem is LLM use will become de facto standard to get by, and then the corporations that own them will cater output to drive sociopolitical change (for the worse).

I 100% expected this movie to suck and was even saying up to its release that it would flop.

I’ve seen all the Superman movies since the 80s. And all the TV shows.

This is my favorite movie.

Feel free to message me, maybe I can help. I create web apps and other tools for companies as a career, so the only caveat is that I’m pretty booked right now so my ability to take it on would really depend on the complexity.

let it rip