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  • I’ve been unemployed for 7 months. Every online job I see that’s been posted for at least 6 hours has over 200 applications. I’m a senior Dev with 30 years experience, and I can’t find work.

    I’d say generative AI is an existential threat as bad as offshoring was for steel in the early 80s. I’m now left with the prospect of spending the last 20 years of my work life at or near minimum wage.

    After all, I can’t afford to spend $250,000 on a new bachelor’s degree, and a community college degree might get me to $25/hr, and still costs thousands. This is causing impoverishment on a massive scale.

    Ignore this threat at your peril.





  • However you use heat energy to generate other energy, it will not solve the problem of heat being increased in cities. Heat is an end State energy form.

    This is why you may have heard the phrase the heat death of the universe. Entropy can be thought of as all energy being converted to heat, evenly distributed in the universe. The best you can do is move the heat elsewhere.

    Heat death of the Universe happens when the heat is evenly distributed and there’s no way to move it to produce other forms of energy, like electricity.

    Theoretically, heat can be turned into matter per Einstein, but we haven’t figured that out yet.











  • I’m old enough to remember when none of this stuff existed. I have a threshold Beyond which I simply stop using the service.

    I’m actually pretty close to my lifestyle from before 1995. I don’t have any cable I have basic internet I don’t do any of the Music Services. Video-wise I only have Prime and any free services I can get on Chromecast for TV. I’m getting close to my threshold with prime, as the annual fee is getting real high.

    I’m already starting to lose interest in most YouTube channels. It’s not so bad here, really. I get to experience reality more.



  • Lower level languages are definitely helpful in learning how computers work. When I was in college, I was not taught C, but our algorithms course was in C. We were expected to learn it on our own.

    lisp and Prolog were used for AI - those we learned in class. Assembly was the ultimate “get intimate with the machine” language, and we wrote a simple compiler for VMS.

    All of this is meant to help us understand how to work with machines. It doesn’t mean that that’s how we should work with machines. Sometimes the higher level language is the better choice. Sometimes it is not. We are expected to make that decision based on the situation at hand.