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Agree. Marketing, Finance, Legal, already having huge impact for junior positions.

> I’m back to where I started: a plain text file called todo.txt.

Nice, mine is called todo.doc, as I can easily copy screenshots in it.

There is probably somebody on HN who's tasks is to train this neural network right now.

Italy pales in comparison to Vietnam.

> Feeding someone who is hungry or not feeding them when they cannot provide for themselves is a moral question.

There are many examples of programs where people are structurally fed. None of these have positive results, and all of them are based on quasi moral arguments. Yes, we don't want people dying of hunger in refugee camps nor we want children falling behind in class because of their failing parents. But there is nothing moral about choosing the easy way out of the problem.

I had a university friend with an Amiga and another with a similar setup with the Commodore. They had stacks of floppy disks with one game more beautiful than the other. Both spend most of their time gaming and one ended up 8 and the other 9 years before finishing their masters.

I just had a Tandon 286 PC with a 287 coprocessor (yes, probably twice the price compared to an Amiga). But it did run Matlab pretty well, as well as WordPerfect - all I needed for my study.

Enlighten me, what is moral about lunch? All kids bring it to school. Of course, my kids also would like an a la carte restaurant for lunch, but we as parents think it is more efficient and cheaper if we just provide a lunch bag from home.

Am I missing something? My kids have to bring their own lunch to school. The school is for education and the parents' job is to feed them. And it gets even better: after 12/13 yo they grow self supporting capabilities, so as parent you only need to replenish the fridge.

Nonsense - there is already a decade plus of litigation on copyright and sorts with China. The days you could find carbon copied designs in China are of the past.

I had to replace a handful of clutches, but never had any maintenance done on automatic transmissions (having owned 10+ manual, and 5+ automatic). For just the money I would opt for automatic, let alone the performance that is much better than with manual gear nowadays.

Absolutely. I am creating more code than ever, but mostly copy/pasting it.

Two thoughts, AI will enable more people to express their creativity. And wait for large self trained models appear. I mean, how different is that from learning Go? It is a matter of time and AI can generate original work.