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It's true that 2 layer boards are very cheap, but there's a big jump in price when you go to 4 layers, and 5+ layers and beyond is a huge jump in price. I think that for PCI, below 6 layers will be tight and below 4 layers would be impossible.

Look at all those wires! No wonder hobbyists haven't bothered with the PCI bus much.

This is just prompt noise that any RE will be able to easily coax claude to ignore. It exists to get the big loserly game companies like Nintendo and Sony off their back.

Deskilling is good, actually, as long as it's the right deskilling. "Skill" in software development is partly raw IQ and partly knowledge of complexity. Programming author Fred Brooks (author of The Mythical Man-Month) categorized complexity into "essential" and "incidental". Examples of incidental complexity are: React/Rails/Django/Laravel makes a backward-incompatible change to their interface and you need to scurry around the codebase fixing invocations. Or a senior developers on your team have a weird in-house coding style and all the junior devs need to learn it to get their code approved. Or management wants to move everything from one cloud provider to another so you have to change a bunch of resource URLs. Examples of essential complexity are: Self-driving car algorithms. Making your code run faster on the CPU. Adding support for a new web standard like SPDY.

I'm not lamenting the days when you needed to pull a seasoned (read: exquisitely expensive) COVOL developer out of retirement to make a change. Now AI can figure it out well enough, I just need to know how the basic concepts work.

A lot of talk about the demise of Stack Overflow. But let's have some positive reminiscence: They really captured lightning in a bottle at one point. On the internet, everyone has an opinion, and they fight like hell to defend them. It's amazing that SO was able to remain civil for as long as it did. People actually wanted to help! And the best answers typically rose to the top. I don't know what went wrong, I suspect it was a variation on Gresham's Law: "bad social currency chases out good social currency".

Can you blame them? I blame the administration for crashing the economy and making it hard to run an honest news site.

Your mistake is assuming that the company is anti-ICE.

That's too bad, I would have liked to visit it one day. I hear Mt Everest will be demolished next to make room for a bodega.

> None of the substantive code was written by AI.

That is impressive

If a decent, empathy-forward place like Eugene, Oregon is powerless to control their police department, what's the point of voting?

Something I've been thinking about lately is how doing anything well is an unknown factor more difficult than you originally think. Your initial estimate of how hard something is to do is usually terribly wrong. Once you think that you're 20% into a project, you realize that you're only actually 5% into the project. Then later, when you reach what you think is finally 20% again, you realize that, once again, you're only 5% into the project! This repeated discovery of "more to do" really beats people down and discourages them from doing ambitious things.

(See also Hofstadter's law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's law.)