I worked as a contractor at my last job and they charged $1.25/km, or $1.50 when gas was above $1.50/L.

My current company reimburses me at $0.67/km for my personal vehicle if I drive it for work.

No, they hire nobody and pretend they’re hiring so shareholders perceive them as successful and growing. The work from that role gets distributed among the employees who are still working there, eventually leading them all to work 70-80 hours a week and feel like they’re doing 3 jobs at once the entire time.

All of the best employees left, or those who don’t have sick family members or their own “pre existing conditions” so the company is left overworking under-performers and mediocre employees who couldn’t get hired elsewhere, or who are severely burned out trying to afford their wife’s chemo

If you haven’t seen It the largest steam train in the world was restored by union pacific, #4014 big boy. It’s basically two heavy freight locos welded together into one machine over a hundred feet long. Lots of great videos of it online including a great video where it helps out a stalled mainline freight train running actual customer UP freight.

I eat enough fiber if I don’t go multiple times a day I could literally explode

Pictured above: microslop’s PR lead

Your cybersecurity and compliance group reading this

It somehow reminds me of a rant I heard from a Microsoft office instructor. They would teach office products and basically every class would go “yeah if you crop an image in word the cropped portions are still viewable, so if you rely on that for redaction you’re not actually redacting anything unless you do X to permanently remove cropped parts of an image”

Without fail at least 3 people would get an “oh fuck” look on their face and urgently leave the room.

Yep that’s the one

Yeah

There’s a revelation about coding that all programmers realize relatively early in their careers: code is read far more than it’s written.

You write something once and someone is going to need to read it and understand it for years or decades.

Managers never understand this if they don’t need to touch code…

Yes, you can ship product faster. In the coding world we call these “footguns” meaning something ideally suited for removing your foot, sometimes including your entire leg.

I’ve seen AI produced code bases and they’re unmaintainable. I’m not exaggerating… AI is great at narrowly scoped problems but it can’t see the full project context at once to architect a solution like a senior engineer can. It can’t wrap its head around it fully for a large project. You end up with hundreds or thousands of files (where a dozen or less would suffice for a human made version) and insane amounts of duplication and wasteful code.

AI is amazing at making rube Goldberg machines in the shape of a code base…

What AI is phenomenal at is making unit tests and well defined integration tests for your code. Sometimes even regression tests. That is a superpower that can dramatically speed up a programmer.

I firmly believe AI is a tool, not a replacement for programmers. It doesn’t have the ability to replace them yet (not even mythos. Which is going to be more expensive to run than a senior dev who is more reliable in their output.)

Low code solutions always cause layoffs and then a mad scramble to hire devs back, often on the terms of developers. The pendulum has always swung back…

“AI hangover” feels like the right term. They went on an AI bender, shit out a massive unmaintainable code base nobody understands (and anyone who could have was laid off or fired months ago) then suddenly SHTF and they need to hire real humans to maintain it because Claude hiked their token multiplier by a factor of 9X.

I’ve heard of companies hiring interns and junior devs again to do the ditch digging work that’s suddenly too expensive for AI to do with token price increases.

What is AI for then? We already know it can’t do the work of a senior developer…

MuttMutt@lemmy.world made a comment in this same thread and he goes in depth on it. His late wife was Jamaican

https://lemmy.world/comment/23743668

There are a lot of plants we consider weeds that used to be cultivated as staple crops. Industrialization meant only the most productive species got attention for mechanization. Less productive species fell out of favour and now are kind of lost knowledge.

Lamb’s quarters: also called goosefoot or wild spinach. It’s related to quinoa and both the seeds and the leaves were eaten.

Purslane: grows in poor soils and is hardy. Still used in Mediterranean cooking but is considered a garden weed in a lot of the world

Dandelions and amaranth: both were cultivated, and most amaranth varieties are considered weeds now

Sorrel: tough leafy green with a tangy flavour used prior to citrus in Europe.

Ground elder: hated by gardeners and farmers. A nice spring leafy green planted around monestaries

Mallow: used to thicken soups and stews. Still used in the middle east and Mediterranean but is considered a weed elsewhere.

Nettles: you’ve probably heard of this one? Not farmed anymore to my knowledge.

Also a lot of universities have encouraged AI use and adoption…

I’m old enough I only had social media in highschool, and knowing how bad kids are in elementary and junior high I think having access to social media and messaging apps then would have destroyed me. The level of bullying you can pull off with Snapchat or WhatsApp groups is cruel and unusual.

But muh universal healthcare death panels!

Unrelated but you’re reminding me of the load bearing mac mini at Twitter

“may you live an interesting life during interesting times” is an old Chinese curse that we’re all living in

Fake tolerable left vs right, while driving a wedge into and causing infighting of leftists so they never coordinate enough to make meaningful change and redistribute wealth.