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The fundamental problem is that everyone is expected to pitch in to help train these AIs, but only a handful of people benefit from it.

The fundamental problem with interviewing is that you're not preparing yourself to understand a business' problem and needs, but you're preparing to have to impress your potential colleagues, a non-trivial number of which are already jaded.

Big tech can afford this because they have a constant stream of candidates.

Probably the only thing holding the reins on AI takeover is the lack of legislative coverage. Once the AI user is not held responsible for the AI's actions, (and let's face it, this is the likely outcome. It's not like politicians are going to decide in favor of regular people) then we are going to have a new social class of completely useless people.

What does the government plan to do with them? Kill them off? Because if they leave them to die, they will revolt.

It's brutal out there. I'm currently 36 years years old. I got laid off in March last year from an outsourcing shop because no work was coming, mostly working with PHP, with some Javascript and python sprinkled in there. I thank the Lord for not having a wife and children, because it would have been so painful watching them suffer because of me, and I thank my parents for helping me float through the tough times.

I got a small leyline around September with a part-time job doing Wordpress stuff for a former client. No days off, zero security, just barely surviving month after the other. Fortunately, things are turning around for me! I'm starting a new full-time job next month. It's pretty well paid too, hybrid role, so I will be able to rebuild my savings, contribute to my pension fund, keep up with my balooning mortgage, etc.

The Lord is indeed merciful! I really hope I can make it work, because I get maybe an interview every few months or so.

I think the most brutal part that no one talks about is just how many scams are out there that target unemployed people. I tried doing freelancing for a while, but I never got paid even once. Contracts don't even matter because I don't have the muscle to enforce them. I almost fell for a bunch of scam job interviews/offers as well. I think I broke into tears after an interview that seemingly went well, then I got forwarded some forms to fill, one of them asking for my credit card information for payment.

It's beyond my powers to help him, but I hope things turn around for the OP as well.

I think the real crux of the issue is : why does education cost so much in the first place? Because it's excessively bloated.

I thought European universities were bloated, but they look like lean running operations compared to American ones: high quality food, parks, gardens, recreational facilities, sports facilities including personal trainers, courts, etc. It's more like a vacation resort and I think students often end up treating it like one.

Back in my day, the food at the university cafeteria was pig slop and we liked it!

I was there for the total eclipse from august '98. It was absolutely surreal! Chickens were going to bed.

I hope I am not being too inflammatory by saying this but it's ... quite amusing how sheltered Americans are in thinking that a little political tension is a danger to their own country.

Bosnia was about to be destroyed and more recently, attempted to be divided by neighbors and they're still fine.

Look at anywhere that's not Americas or Western Europe.

Of course, this is just an anecdotal observation, but I think what changed weren't the games, but the players.

I was playing Dark Age of Camelot back in the day and we'd spend hours just waiting around, chatting, meeting new people, trying to group up and try to clear a dungeon. Of course, our compositions were less than ideal but we'd try to make it work. Hey we have no one durable but if we take little Timmy's mercenary here and put some high armor gear on him and dual wield shields maybe it would work. Of course someone would go to bed or to dinner and then off to find a new player we go. Trying to make it work was the name of the game. With time, you'd amass a big friend list of reliable people you know you could call on a moment's need if they were online and most of the time they would be happy to help.

Modern players are borderline obsessed with time. No one wants to waste time experimenting with content so they look for guides to clear as fast as possible. Getting wiped immediately results in remarks of "you're wasting my time". The human aspect of the MMO has been stripped away by bots, fast travel, people generally being rude and the mumble/teamspeak server or discord group chat. Somehow, it feels like the MMO is a reflection of our current society.

This article's conclusion isn't wrong but the premise is. Standups are NOT for developers, they're for business types to tighten grip over a project, to make sure everyone is there at a certain hour, reporting to clients, etc.

We have two daily standups, one in the morning and one in the evening, each about 30 minutes or more. Moving from a company with no standups to one that treasures meetings so much has been a killer on my soul...

I'm in the same boat.

Honestly people like to say "x social media sucks" but in actuality it's far simpler than that : people suck in general. Only now you get to see it for yourself at a more general level as opposed to anecdotal experience.

> I will say though, the US has historically had a very hard time taking ideas from European countries and getting them to work the same way here.

I think this is because everyone only sees the upside of the system. When getting down to the nitty and gritty, a lot of sacrifices are made to keep those systems in place, sacrifices that go against the individualistic fiber of American society. To take some spicy issues to put them in this framework :

"Free" education. It's not that free, it's just mostly accessible. European Universities are very lean running operations, whereas American universities are grandiose and more like a vacation resort.

"Free" healthcare. It's also not that free, just accessible and most of the time, overburdened. There are a ton of public health measures put in place to cut costs of it. Just this week for example they announced doubling of taxes on alcohol.

The USA can make it work, for sure. It's the most powerful nation on earth and runs laps around everyone else combined on pretty much every metric. It would take over 100 years of continual USA degradation for anyone else to even start measuring seriously against it. But for systems like this to be put in place requires a serious shift in how people think about society which will not happen in our lifetimes.

>Like, salaries do not seem to have similarly risen, so who the hell is buying these houses?

People and institutions looking for a way to 'park' their funds in a safe investment.

How is your Phaser experience so far? I like how intuitive it feels, but the fact that it uses the same javascript I use at work makes it a huge turn-off for me.

To be fair, the user profile also changed a lot over the years. What used to be a 'programmer for power user' space, now it's all about minimalism and pretty, dysfunctional interfaces. I can see why one would become jaded and separate themselves from users.

Also another problem that doesn't seem to be talked about a lot is that way too often, the stake holders and the developers have nothing in common with the end user.