These days, being a janitor might be the safer bet. But yeah, we’re finally at the point where a CS grad could have done their entire degree with ChatGPT.

10 years ago I had a senior director at a large fortune 50 corporation tell me that because of the dire state of US education, the only way to ensure a candidate could read, write, and do basic math was if they went to college. As someone who now does lots of corporate hiring, it’s only gotten worse. It’s especially bad in technical fields where about half the CS grads I interview can’t even answer basic questions like “What’s an IDE?”

Lactose Intolerance

Spider plant.
Spider plant.
Does everything a spider can’t.
When it sits.
In the sun.
Photosynthesis just for fun.
Look out!
Look out for spider plan.

To be fair, it doesn’t feel like we’re that far away from camps for undesirables and the Bell Riots.

Honestly the Canyonaro doesn’t even seem that big anymore.

Nope, 2026.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/2020s

The guy doesn’t know what he’s talking about, the Slate doesn’t even have a FWD option, RWD only.

I went with the Gerber Viper as the second best unit under $1000 but cheaper than the Toto. It’s so good I just ended up replacing my other toilets with the same model.

This is incorrect, the US has large deposits of Rare Earth metals, such as the Mountain Pass mine in California.

It would need to be $1.05 now.

Have you ever tried to setup a development environment in Windows? Windows fucking sucks for development unless you’re committed to handing over wads of cash for a VS license, and even then it’s really only good if your okay using a bunch of proprietary MS stuff.

Storage and bandwidth definitely weren’t cheap in 2003. Additionally Steam provides features that a brick and mortar store could never even think of providing, including updates, DRM, instant access to global consumers, community features, in-depth data analytics, and the ability to adjust pricing in real time.

While a lot of the work Valve has put in Steam seems both obvious and ubiquitous today, these were features they pioneered for both developers and consumers.

I’d also like to point out that the only digital marketplace I’m aware of that charges less than 30% by default (Epic) is famous for losing billions of dollars in the endeavor.

Before steam, digital sales of games wasn’t really a thing outside of a few niche examples. The 30% cut was the same percentage that retail stores were taking.

More like low below (the surface)

Slipknot is not where I saw this thread going but I’m here for it.

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More like 1/3 if you only include those who were eligible to vote. Even less of you include the “entire population.”

It’s not useful to compare health insurance profit margins to other industries because the Federal Government requires that they spend 80% of all premium revenue on care. This is effectively a cap on profits and also creates an incentive for insurance companies to pay higher costs for care so they can make more profit.

Quantum computers are only good at a very narrow subset of tasks. None of those tasks are related to Neural Networks, AGI, or the emulation of neurons.