The rule of cool helps with honesty too.

My team knew well in advance that we would be short-staffed on the day the Switch 2 released.

I like the sound of “EmptyPromisesAboutTheWrongTopicsSocial” or maybe “StatusQuoKeepersSocial”.

But when a mid-tier or entry level dev can do 60% of what a senior can do, it’ll be a great way to cut costs.

Same as how an entry level architect can build a building 60% as tall, and that’ll last 60% as long, right?

Edit: And an entry level aerospace engineer with AI assistance will build a plane that’s 60% as good at not crashing.

I’m not looking forward to the world I believe is coming…

I have good news!?

…This isn’t a particularly gendered problem.

Well shoot. We were aiming to create an impression of a big group of us - like if there were 40 or more of us.

That looks promising. I wonder if it will be friends with me?

I’m a problems-oriented consultant. Whatever your problem is, I can help you split it into two barely smaller problems.

Sure, like NFTs were here to stay, and the gazillion different shitcoins that were popping up everywhere some years ago.

I bet you’re just angry that you didn’t hold onto your ape NFTs. They’re going to skyrocket back soon. (I hope my sarcasm here is obvious, of course.)

The Who is this for? is amazing.

The key lesson here is that anyone can find $25 / month to waste on WebVan stock.

It might be possible Ferengi also have higher-than-human-average neuroplasticity and simply adapt easier - this might even aid in the on the job theory.

I think you’re on to something.

Various Ferengi having a kind of genius foreign to Federation values is a recurring theme in DS9.

Nog, in particular, gets up to some antics that probably require some brilliance. I recall him hacking or circumventing things even early in the series.

One of the first messages translated:

“Are the monkeys listening? Shit. How long have they been listening? I should provide some context for what I bubbled yesterday…”

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A tricked out tank, covered in specialized launchers.

Or do I just have a really weak electric stove?

I think you might just have a really weak one, or poor compatibility pots? I’ve had both, and if anything my gas burners feel a little slower and cooler than my induction stove did.

I hate the impacts of cars too, and desperately want better transit options.

But we should maybe put up a sign for stories out of North America:

“North America is really really big. It sucks that it doesn’t have better mass transit coverage, but that’s still a genuinely hard problem to solve in rural North America.”

Most folks in rural North America have stories both of being the rescued and being the rescuer when cars have broken down.

Wow, I totally missed the part where Microsoft had a gun to your head.

Yes. Microsoft is good at hiding that part until it’s too late to do much about it.

There’s no industry pressure to be on Gamepass, yet.

Microsoft doesn’t willingly lose money on something unless they think they can make it into a market distorting rent extraction hellscape. something very profitable later.

Many firms are now slashing their number of new hires.

Yes. This sucks.

The main cause of this is artificial intelligence

Unlikely.

The main cause for a chill in hiring tends to be uncertainty about the future. And we know that folks are feeling high uncertainty about the future, right now. (Gestures broadly at current headlines in general and “Not The Onion”, in particular.)

Historically, uncertainty about the future is particularly high when the people have low confidence that existing and new laws will be applied in a predictable manner.

I’ll leave exactly what changed on that front as a thought exercise.

AI is interesting, but it is not the primary cause of the chill in hiring new graduates.

and the internet (in the current form) never gets developed.

based on my recent online shopping experiences, we may get there, soon.

It feels like nobody knows how to Java a Script anymore.