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This is part of the problem with AI, and probably the vast majority of sites online... even citations to textbooks (god knows how many papers have been superseded or are outdated, also).

I feel that people are not getting that is one of the larger issues with AI and pretty much everywhere people interact online.

Many of these places and projects were things we truly poured our energy into. But people change, just as operating systems and commandline executables do. At the same time, places like that, once they are gone, lose their weight... so any site that was really large or particularly represented a version of the zeitgeist of whatever subgroup, once it goes defunct, is kind of written out of any sort of AI historical lookup.

Also, there's so many answers on SO that a lot of people just use the Search function to find answers, if they choose to use SO instead of google or whatever. It is very useful for older and historical answers.

Mind if I ask if you stayed at that job, and if so for how long?

you know how, some bars, you can go on the porch and smoke a cigarette? others allow weed and it is illegal? and some ban smoking entirely (either, both) on the state or local level? sports betting was not SO bad when it was AC, Vegas and OTB... and maybe some shady weird dude whose name you got from some ghetto hustler that maybe had a few dozen clients. What is going on now is just disgusting. The sports is bad enough. People looking at odds for them doing or not something? seriously?

This should be illegal; these people should all be incarcerated.

a lot of places, including Microsoft, drastically cut or are in the process of cutting down on WFH also means what, vast distances between teams, coworkers, buildings, cafeteria, etc (for campus based companies). How many of these places that are "going back to office" (or have already) are doing more in-person and less or no Zoom/Teams meetings now, anyway?

Makes me nostalgic for when I read Coupland's Microserfs in the bookstore the month it came out and thought, this... finally, people I could feel less awkward working and being myself around, weirdness and all.

Tech is nothing like that now. Guessing a lot of people will find earlier retirement tempting with so many skills to keep up with now and AI rooting out personalities and ages subtley in the HR pool.

One of the inherent problems with capitalism is any logical person or company within a certain threshold is not going to pay for or employ people they do not have 'work' for or need. Just like you would not buy a whole bison without a freezer (single or with an extended family); it would be wasteful, regardless of how of I or others might feel a certain amout of those types of employees should be baked into the corporate model (and not as 'corporate welfare'). Most companies have dozens of employees with nebulous duties whose mere presence is something a corporation wants or needs for whatever reason. This happens often in Asia. It also happens because companies look for connections or things they cannot deal with a few days or times a year and people who can do them would not be locateable quickly or maybe want to do it; specialists, too.

Sit on your butt doing nothing for what I would not pay minimum wage for alone, all year, then essentially do a week of work or come up with a solution the company knows is worth millions, so they're largely left alone and paid well. I have, as have others I have known, had those sorts of jobs a few times (things aren't quite like that nowadays, people either get over or underpaid now, and mos of those people have retired by now, or the newer "those types" get stock in the "new model"). Often it is not a hard tech skill but a good gut in an emergency, in tech or business.

Then there is this newfangled "communist" or "socialist" model of "companies" and "work" we are seeing that have nothing to do with either of those "isms" or capitalism, where people protest layoffs and expect everyone can get a paycheck while still refusing to check their egos and selfishness at the door. Of course, the truth is "communistic" things are generally pooled and meted out among people in s "commune" where people share similar very specific values requiring trust, and a great majority of those places do not even have the concept of a paycheck.

Either way, income has to come from somewhere. I mean, I guess feudalism could make a comeback if we had a large population die off and people split their time up between farming with high tech harvesting machines and hanging out playing PS4 games off the solar panels after dark, but in general I think most of the people I have seen getting upset make little or no sense.

I mean, is the goal for firstworld and secondworld countries a handful of neuralinked (no thanks) tech overlords we beg for equal monthly monetary alotments from and a world like in "The Machine Stops"? What would you need to do for that ("Black Mirror" and credits?!).

We can't sure all be "YouTube stars" or "self-affirmation LinkedIn gurus", obviously.

Is is corporate slop speak entirely or are many of them just as flummoxed as many of us?

(disclosure: I usually do 1099 work, but I sure know what it is like to suddenly be blindsided.)

agreed.

rest in peace another hobby that used to relax me.

hey, is there any way I can email you about a (non-case-related) question about working in IP law? thanks.

I believe they used a different frozen compound than water, but yes.

As have I. Some people attach meanings to dates or prefer natural endings but only very few of us (no real humour intended) have the luxury of living in a social vaccuum, I guess, in the current domain parking environment that exists now. We are not the small close communities we were and it is difficult to feel like people you knew have been sort of cultized also at times. So much so that some of us do not even mention old friends passing away now with any specifics. I miss the ways people used to let the dead rest. I remember where I was when it all happened, and I still think of the trauma finding him that day must have been for his girlfriend. Thank you for your reply.

Going to be pedantic, and suggest you are always safer with nobody having your public keys that have no legitimate reason to do so. Is it dangerous in and of itself? Is it very likely to cause you a breach? No. But does it in some way expand the attack footprint, however theoretically? Yes. At least in the age of AI.

Why would humans as a whole want to, though? Why would you, personally, want to? Is it just a fear of what might happen (or not) when you die? What do you see the goal being?