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The "if violence doesn't work, you are not using enough" way.

I know it from Polish usage. In Polish it's "odpukać w niemalowane [drewno]"/"knocking on unpainted [wood]", wood is typically not spoken, the important part is that the wood is unpainted/raw. Superstitious people would especially leave the underside of table unpainted or leave some unpainted wood nearby in living room just for this occasion.

Knocking on wood was about knocking on unpainted wood, so that you have actual direct physical contact with wood. Remote knocking seems to go in the other direction...

I only truly understood logarithms when I had to use them in a plot drawing module I had to make. But I started with BASIC and people at the time said that basic leads to less understanding from students. Now I've commercially developed in C,C++,Java and Erlang, so it seems that the kids will be all right. The curious ones will find their way to more knowledge also thanks to AI, because it can be the most patient tutor explaining everything in the way you understand the best.

Poles say "Niemcy", which essentially means "mute people".

I was recently hired at a datacenter buildsite. The pen is the most important tool here.

> But that gives me hope.

> It was not the insidiousness of these LLMs that was changing me but the nuanced incompetences.

AI doesn't yet improve on it's own, so it's slow at picking up all those small incompetences. We still have advantage in rate of learning, and some people are essentially specialised in learning themselves (I think that this applies to 90% of HN'ers and defines THE bubble we're in). But when I write that, I still have to remember in the back of my head, that AI knows waaaay more than me, so small incompetences I can still see are just a side effect. And I sometimes make the error and correct AI, which will probably be used for it's training in next rounds...

Your username sounds like something a pidgeon would say...

It's better for the engineers and normal people because they don't have to keep up with the constant drama of leap seconds and can kick the bucket to the engineers 1000 years in future. Maybe the beings at that time (who knows what we become in 1000yrs) will find some trivial way to deal with it, at least they will have 1000 years to think about it.

Unfortunately most people don't think like that. They might say fuck those contracts, but then next day will say "why is my heating so damn expensive, I want cheaper gas!". And how do you think they can get cheaper gas? Definitely not from USA.

I'm probably tired from eating too much calories. Vit B doesn't help a lot. But I changed my lifestyle recently from almost constant sitting to almost constant standing, a lot more movement, less calories, lost a lot of weight (still a lot to go) and it helped, but not that much. I tried a lot of supplements along the way. Looks like I'm destined to be the pidgeon...

There are larks, owls and then there are people like me: constantly tired pidgeon. I tried early and late night lifestyle and nothing works for me.

Maybe you. I sweat a lot and if I'm wearing polyester, I stink so much even I can't bear it. I would need at least three suits a week and they would need to be cleaned each week. Tossing cheap cotton clothes into washer every week is much easier and I always wear zip-up hoodies when it's cold, so it's easier to thermoregulate.

> The historical precedent is those people get other jobs

Heh, got fired from my old company for reasons not connected to AI. Then couldn't find job. AI suggested one that is perfect for me, helped me put up webpage (I can do everything from electronics/firmware/backend/iot/cad, but nice webpage is not something I can do easily), then helps me every day to learn new things and make useful products I always wanted to make. And I found something safe for now from AI and big companies - making old equipment work with new systems. No one will touch it, because you have only small projects here and can't extract a lot of value at once, but a single person who can do anything with some help from AI can carve out a whole niche.

I think such solution - thousands of small niches by small entrepreneurs (1 person companies) who can use AI for some small skill they are lacking - are our future and they will absolutely extract a lot of money from people, who hope to make some more money with small optimisations of already working businesses. One example of such small optimisation - making a slightly better wood drying controller for small woodmill owner. He already put up small cabinet with cheap tuya controllers and needs to control them though atrocious app. Now I can make a small module that will add several more sensors, give him some simple dedicated control panel on webpage. Not even medium company would make such small product, because planning phase alone would cost more than what I can charge for whole system and do it in a week.

And it all started with one prompt - "Given my CV, what single person job would you recommend?"

I worked briefly in aviation and the part I've seen was very understandable and easy to extend and modify in understandable way. Some parts were hard, but by necessity. We also had very good tests. But maybe that one software was just a good exception.