Everything shut down for 6 months and somehow miraculously the economy just sort of chugged along without much shock until about 2 years later when all the consequences of the COVID aid/stimulus came home to roost.
>> They, for so long, refused to support RCS and downgraded the messaging experience with android.
>As a consumer I just can't possibly be made to care about this.
Not caring that you are not able to effectively use your *telecommunications device* with people that buy a different brand of telecommunications device is wild. Kool Aid is a helluva drug.
Who the hell gives a flying fuck about RCS? RCS is bullshit pushed by carriers praying they can get a sliver of marketshare back from Whatsapp, Telegram and Signal when it comes to text communications.
Carriers have been reduced to dumb data pipes and they haven't figured out how to live in a reality where the only thing that matters is service quality and price.
Anyone who wants to communicate cross-OS and doesn't want to use a whole separate application for it, when it should be a basic capability of the phone?
I don't know. I suppose it depends on what we're optimizing for, but from what I've observed, the most underrated skill is bullshitting.
I have seen countless engineers just while away the years modestly building and documenting incredible systems. Systems that "just work" for years on end. They never get fired because they're recognized for their value, but they also never get to the top.
Bullshitters, on the other hand, have no ceiling. They are never out of their depth because they transcend skill or accountability. They'll tell you they know everything, they'll tell you nothing is impossible, they'll gossip and disparage everyone else. The best bullshitters are full-on psychopaths and these are the guys that run the world.
I don't know. For as long as I can remember, game dev has had the reputation of being the most sweat-shoppish of all the software engineering disciplines. I have a hard time believing that game devs aren't also going to find themselves being crushed under the CTO imperative to "use AI or else" like the rest of us.
I feel like legislation that resulted in every taxpayer getting an itemized receipt like this would be hugely popular and a massive PR win for the representatives that sponsored it.
I can only conclude that the reason it hasn't been done is because they don't actually want you to know.
Yup. Agile definitely suffers from the "nobody ever tried Communism correctly" argument. As far as I'm concerned Agile is: A) nearly impossible to get right, and B) not particularly helpful at unfucking poorly run projects.
It's definitely not a magic bullet and I suppose the only reason it's had the staying power it has had is because unlike other project management philosophies, it has an extremely profitable "Agile Seminary" ecosystem.
Or at least think you've uncovered deception. It's not clear to me yet that any of these "AI detectors" are reliable, and if they are, it's just an arms race.
Indeed. And with the frontier AI models it's worse than that. You can literally just have them write test cases for the product you want to clone, then set it loose reverse engineering the code base.
That said, all these models are trained on the open source code bases presumably, so it would be interesting to see if AI-blackbox reverse engineering actually holds up in court.
My gut says it would infact hold up in current US courts, but only because the lionshare of corporations want it to and the courts have been stacked in their favor.
I personally believe it should not and that AI code should NOT be considered a "clean room" method. That said, IANAL.
Everything shut down for 6 months and somehow miraculously the economy just sort of chugged along without much shock until about 2 years later when all the consequences of the COVID aid/stimulus came home to roost.
That is exactly how this will play out.
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