I need someone to explain to me why it’s always “if you can’t pay rent, buy fewer lattes and avocado toasts” and not “if you can’t pay your employees a living wage, buy fewer yachts and real estate”. Explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten.

When he was nominally campaigning for president in all those small Iowa towns, did Vivek ever share his searing cultural critique with the locals? I would love to have seen the reaction to him upbraiding rural townsfolk for unduly venerating the local high school football star

Today was the day we found out who is getting rich by screwing over the American worker

When the autistic kid causes so much chaos you punish the whole class

Think how much GDP would increase if humans moved into hives?

Americans will be clapping for Digital ID, facial recognition software, and techocratic lockdowns in no time. And they'll call it a W.

Every man's worse nightmare came true for me today. For years I've accumulated all the cables I've ever had into a drawer-- you know the drawer. After years of collecting dust, I finally convinced myself I could throw away my VGA cables. A few months later, I need a VGA cable.

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Wise words

A truth that seems to be getting lost in the AI hype: every task AI can do would be far more efficient as a purpose-built piece of dedicated code. AI is just trading power and compute for the time it would take to implement a targeted solution.

The evolution of "vibe coding production software as a non-dev" the last few months Success stories do exist... ones I see all come from people who are/were software engineers Learning to code / build software not a waste after all?

The AMA (and many others) here concerned about H1b policy on doctor shortages. But, did you know that mid-career MD/DOs are leaving or scaling down faster than new MD/DOs joining? Because bureaucrats have destroyed morale. So, where's the same concern for attrition?

One of my favorite modern things is, over time, observing all of the new fancy devices to dispense soap in public bathrooms... That are all still empty.

"Las maquinas dominaran el mundo" Las maquinas:

You know the job market is bad when the author of the pragmatic programmer is looking for a job.

There is no way to survive as a nation without aggressively restructuring health insurance and Medicare as rapidly as possible. Healthcare has gotten too expensive for what it provides us.

The unemployment rate for new grads, 20–24-year-olds with a bachelor’s degree, hit 9.3% in August, higher than almost any month during the 2008 recession. That’s the worst level in 25 years, per the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

François Chollet If someone is trying to sell a treasure map, a good question to ask is "why don't you go get the treasure yourself?" A company that has the capability to produce high quality software at will should be out making big bucks from commercial software. x.com/geofflangdale/…