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Then separate UI updates from security updates. No need for them to be bundled. Gradients and insane padding pushing people to not update make them inherently less secure!

If I told you there are certain eye conditions/deformities that impact the refraction of light based on the wavelength? Lasik side effects can (and do) include increased distortion as wavelengths move closer to blue from red. And who cares if it works or not for sleep, it is shocking to me how little control modern laptops allow over their screens. Why is it not OS native to control gamma curves? Same question about audio equalization. Don't get me started on transparency and gradients that are clawing their way back. Looking at you "AI-Era" Google aesthetic and Liquid Glass. /rant

Hate that I'm biting on this, but this isn't constructive, whereas AI generated or not, the comment above is. It is the top one, it is succinct, and it articulates the point clearly.

You seem to lament AI and given the context of that comment, the author presumably does too. The world is moving faster and faster towards AI first so kicking an screaming "That's AI" will not help. AI generated noise sucks, nut this is not it. We're moving closer and closer to a self-censored, milquetoast internet. Don't bring down a person for putting themselves out there, instead build on their case or build one of your own if you disagree. Shitting on well articulated points only pushes them further out of common discourse. We are all strangers on the internet and owe each other nothing, including this feedback, so do with it what you will.

Who is selling these with enterprise trappings? What you're describing evaporated 2+ months ago. Everything is metered for enterprise users now. If there happens to be a stray vendor offering this I'd wager 2 things. 1) it's about to be phased out. 2) model limits will be in place so even that $200 plan won't go very far.

I agree century timescales are tough, I'm not convinced 4 of 5 of your listed things have been solved.

Rubber has been replaced with oil.

Fertilizer has been replaced with Natural Gas that comes from the same place as oil.

Coal usage has been replaced/displaced primarily by natural gas, see above.

Wood, or deforestation, was a real problem in the 1920's, but many uses were replaced by plastics (oil) and natural gas. Sustainable forestry helped a ton here too once it hit the paper industry's bottom line.

Oil is certainly not solved, so we solved 4 out of 5 with the 5th.

The Goal was written 40 years ago and talks about, among other things, the paradox/illusion of local optima. This isn't new, AI coding assistants are at some level just another NCX-10. This isn't a book recommendation thread, but I highly recommend that book to anyone, even if you've read its IT equivalent, The Phoenix Project.

Off topic but of all the Mooney images ever made, why a scary clown?

That aside, working with complex systems and constraints there often isn't an aha moment, there's just a decision to be made. As someone who loves that aha moment, I can get stuck trying to figure out perfect from good enough. Interesting to see there is indeed a positive emotion correlated with that aha moment that keeps people searching for solutions.

I wonder if there's a correlation between addiction and this aha moment. Like you get drunk and suddenly "aha!" those big unresolvable problems don't matter. The next morning they matter again until, aha, beer:30 hits.

Indeed, the job of an SE is deviating further and further from code, much like how very few people write assembly anymore.

An earlier iteration of your reply said "Is that really winning?" The answer is no. I don't think any class of SE end up a winner here.

Given it's 2025 and companies saddled with tech debt continue to prioritize speed of delivery over quality, I doubt the craftperson will win.

If anything we'll see disposable systems (or parts) and the job of an SE will become even more like a plumber, connecting prebuilt business logic to prebuilt systems libraries. When one of those fails, have AI whip up a brand new one instead of troubleshooting the existing one(s). After all, for business leader it's the output that matters, not the code.

For 20+ years business leaders have been eager to shed the high overhead of developers via any means necessary while ignoring their most expensive employees' input. Anyone remember Dilbert? It was funny as a kid, and is now tragic in its timeless accuracy a generation later.

I'd wager in bad economic times if someone can afford a new car, they would buy something more subdued as to not stand out. In good economic times they wouldn't feel that same social pressure?

Kind of like choosing an outfit for a funeral vs a birthday party.

This is novel to me. The last line is critical though, this only works if you are out-investing a maxed out 401k. Meaning, after investing over $20k, if you are investing an additional $100k, you are better off taking risks in that 401k because a moonshot there would be well protected and a loss there would be minor relative to other investments you presumably have.

Thanks for sharing, but for most this is, as you said, terrible investment advice.

ChatGPT is that curation, isn't it?

Consumes a bunch of info that no human ever could. Develop a map of said info. Generate content. Rinse and repeat.

Timelines matter here. Nation states separated by centuries are different than a child on the tube. At a certain threshold things become human history and we should be able to rise above "Finders keepers"/"No it's Mine" arguments over artifacts and instead find the best stewards.

I would have agreed with you back when I only watched concerts that cost $20 bucks and the seats were General admission. But lately most acts I see are $100+ and you're assigned a seat and eventually everyone stands. Examples include Foo Fighters, TSO, Dream Theater, Book of Mormon (no standing), and Doobie Brothers. All were at different venues and all were enforced assigned seats with no energy allowed. I'm not sure VR is there yet, but I bet in less than a decades time there will be economical virtual options that achieve parity of experience for some people.

I'm not claiming it's the same for everyone. I'm not claiming concerts are going to go away. I do however see a valid business opportunity in creating a new class of seat.

Remote workers could go together, long distance relationships could make it a date. Rural Polish fans of Japanese metal could see a more immersive set than just a YouTube video.

The issue I see is that FB doesn't have a moat for this type of experience. Anything in the metaverse can be replicated by MS (discord + Xbox), Sony (hardware experience + Playstation), or maybe a partnership between Valve, ticketmaster, and Twitter.

In short, virtual concerts, probably. FB being saved by them, probably not. But hey, I've been wrong about Facebook since their IPO.

If you read the post the timer from the race flagged her and the event owner said she could stay in.

So the system did flag her and those in charge ignored the recommendation of race officials.