njovin

Hard to justify your trillion dollar ladder when there’s I can get the darn good Chinese one for a fraction of the price and they provide the plans.

You nailed it. I have a full sleeve tattoo with elements nodding to The Road. For me “carrying the flame” is the lasting message of the book and it’s one of hope and courage.

AFAIK in every US state a company can fire you for any reason that’s not protected, and “we told you this was okay but changed our minds” is as good a reason as any in the law’s eyes.

In my limited experience providing tech support for family members with touchscreen laptops, it's awful. The touch-targets are mostly designed for mouses, so they're easy to miss. Your screen gets filthy. Moving from keyboard to screen and back is tiring.

I'm sure there are good use-cases, but IMO everyday average-home-user computing is not one of them.

Can't speak for GP, but I hold a similar 'justice doomer' viewpoint for two reasons:

1. The current president has shown no hesitation about pardoning anybody he owes a favor to or feels allegiance from.

2. SCOTUS has give the office of the president basic blanket authority to do anything and everything under the sun for "official acts".

3. Half of our two-party system has abdicated all oversight powers for the current administration.

When you combine those 3 things, it's hard to imagine how somebody like Trump or Elon could possibly face federal consequences. Hell, Trump could say he launched his shitcoin "as an official act to help prop up the failing Biden economy" and I don't imagine SCOTUS or anyone else would push back much.

You still commit the ADRs and keep backups. Adding agents to the loop doesn't free you from the basic responsibilities of developing software.

None of those are exclusive to xbox.

I have a hard time believing that making “a really good harness” justifies pre-ordering half the world’s GPU compute for years in advance.

What exclusive IP does Xbox even have anymore? They tanked all the studios that were doing good work for them and AFAIK Halo’s done.

By this logic we shouldn't prosecute serial killers, just confront them with evidence to ensure they won't murder agin.

I’m not advocating for no source control, but you can avoid loops like this with Architectural Decision Records. If you’re real lazy, let the agent maintain the ADRs and they will usually call out when these “painted into a corner” scenarios happen and you can then reason them around it.

Another caveat: many of that same group seem to have a shared delusion that they’re birthing a super intelligence, and those are the same ones claiming the vertical curve.

I don’t think Zitron is recommending anyone short anything. That’s carries a ton of risk.

What you consider “losing money” I might consider “choosing not to participate in an ongoing global financial scam at the cost of my retirement growing slightly slower for a while”.

It's 14GB of something I don't want, need, nor have any use for, on a machine that is notorious for making storage upgrades difficult.

I've been running a latest-1 version of a few of their products on silicon Macs since M1 w/ 8GB RAM without issue. I use minimal plugins and work on medium-sized codebases and their IDEs are some of the most reliable software I use.