It’s both. The tech giants and the defense sector pushed for “everyone should learn to code” because it increases the labor pool, but they gladly take H1B visas at the same time. Their intention is the same for both, more laborers makes for cheaper labor

Yes, this is what I intended to write but I submitted it hastily.

Its like a catch-22, they can’t write code so they vibecode, but to maintain vibed code you would necessarily need to write code to understand what’s actually happening

Vibe coders can’t debug code because they didn’t write

The students themselves are doing it, it’s not the commenter’s fault.

From the high school and university teachers I’ve talked to, AI is commonly used and it actively undermines their learning.

It’s a pretty new tech so many schools don’t have a solid policy on its use. It’s a mess

I know how futa makes money

And generally the exceptions boil down to “you being late is affecting a fellow worker”.

Office jobs, which is most likely what these Gen z are referring to, is very different from rotating shift work

“4k” is supposed to be a term for cinema widescreen resolution, but got taken over because it’s short and marketable because “4k is 4x as many pixels as 1080p”

What makes it worse is that then 1440p becomes 2k because “it’s 2x as many pixels”

The flip flop irks me

Bread becomes slices, slices become bread sticks, bread sticks become croutons

My mind palace is overrun with goblins.

You know about mind goblins?

I find that chatgpt and claude try to give you one answer and sounds mildly to very certain about themselves without giving references.

Perplexity actually gives reference links for each claim it makes, which I find better because I can check it’s work and fork off and explore further myself at any point along it’s reasoning.

As a definite AI Hater, I find it to be a good middle ground LLM / search engine

An American worker spending 1hr each way commuting to an 8hr+1hr lunch job is spending 2 out of 7 of their free hours in this machine. It’s understandable that the demand for their vehicle to not be an oppressive environment would arise.

But I do agree that not all cars should be packed with these superfluous amenities

Do you use the *arr apps? Radarr lets you set profiles that can prioritize file size as well as codec. Then the process of acquisition is more automated but still prioritizes your preferences

Your examples are … not good.

Food service employees are still pressured not to take personal time and/or scheduled tightly on short notice. They’ll feel this pressure regardless if people look down on the job or not.

If you’re a plumber with a team but can’t weather planned or unplanned man shortage, that’s a management issue .

If you’re a solo plumber with this issue, you’re the manager you should blame for not being able to take time off for yourself.

I like Pocket Casts, I don’t think it’s owned by big tech.

Though I’m not liking their pivot to subscription, I still think it’s a good app

Is this a common enough occurrence that you’d pay a subscription for an app to do this? I can’t think of many use cases

me too …

I’ve recently moved away from Spotify and to Pandora, ironically.

Pandora premium let’s you play whichever track you want, they are not longer exclusively stations, but their station algorithm is the reason I decided on them over other spotify alternatives

Nope. At some point spotify forced FREE users to shuffle play playlists. You couldn’t pick which specific song you’ll hear first. And with ads, obviously.

My understanding is that prison is waaaay worse. Needlessly cruel, you might say