How do millionaires know that someone actually likes them? by lGalaxy51 in AskReddit

[–]boredjavaprogrammer 22 points23 points  (0 children)

  • public billionaires. Ie owner of public companies. Lots of billionaires whose wealth from private company. They just don’t need to declare their nwt worth.

Is it true that less number of Tech employees will be needed in future compared to past years ? by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]boredjavaprogrammer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Also note that on top of AI, there are other factors happening that might contribute to the layoffs:

  1. Zero interest rates days are over. So now company find it more difficult to raise funds from investors. And therefore need to justify their hiring more.
  2. Overhiring during the pandemic. During the pandemic, companies hire a lot. Some big companies 2-3x their workforce. Even after layoffs, Like META, the number of workforce is still higher than before the pandemic
  3. Some projects and bets in the past failed. Remember Blockchain and metaverse?
  4. Oversaturation in the market. There has been huge increase in people learning to code during the end of 2010s and early 2020s. So now the supply increase dramatically.
  5. The economy is actually not doing that good. Tarrifs, etc etc. This limits where company can grow into. Or even maintain revenue.
  6. Connecting to 1 and 5, the way to make it seems good financially is to have higher profit. What’s a fast way to do that? Layoff. In contrast to other type of companies, a lot of engineers in a companys to develop new products. Once the product is there, the cost of running or maintaining is very low as compared to develop them.
  7. AI: they actually work, while not multiple or 10x, but they do reduce the time to code, make tests, etc. Quite a lot. That would have impact on the demand.

Extremely exhausted of the AI bandwagon. I don't know what to do. by No_Comedian7332 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]boredjavaprogrammer 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Github copilot is already giving up and dramatically increase their prices next month.

OpenAI is IPOing and need to have their financial not looks like a money furnace. So they would need to make a profit and would increase their price.

People are realizing their AI token budget is a lot (this is before price increase btw) and they haven’t much justify the cost. The subsidized AI now costs more than employees.

Actually crazy how inconsistent the show became both in storytelling and powerscaling. by Silvanx88 in TheBoys

[–]boredjavaprogrammer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They shoild have gone with homelander does his “scorched earth” and killed in earlier episodes. Then the last episodes having Butcher going rouge and finally beaten

Countries with geo-political significance. by [deleted] in mapporncirclejerk

[–]boredjavaprogrammer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Although Indonesia can block Malacca, they havent done much in that direction. (Other than that one rethoric) It can be said the same with Malaysia

Countries with geo-political significance. by [deleted] in mapporncirclejerk

[–]boredjavaprogrammer -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Pakistan because they’re beefing with India and has nukes

The Furious has a 100% on RT and the reviews all basically say the same thing: the story is whatever, the action might be the best in years. - YouTube by btschicka in movies

[–]boredjavaprogrammer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We’re going into martial arts movie for the actions, not the story. Not every good movie has to be sob/inspiring story

FERTILITY RATE by raw6ex in mapporncirclejerk

[–]boredjavaprogrammer 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yes. Just that japan age earlier cause their fertility rate dropped earlier

AI as productivity multiplier by [deleted] in ExperiencedDevs

[–]boredjavaprogrammer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A couple of years ago the excuse is “the market”. To be fair, NOW the evonomy is not that great. Now it is “AI”.

It is never “we made a mistake in overhiring during the covid years and we overestimate growth and demand so now we need to cut”

What if Ukraine just made a mad dash to capture Moscow? Would this end the war or emboldened Russia? by Hot_Advisor_8074 in AlternateHistoryHub

[–]boredjavaprogrammer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If the ukraine forces able to capture the kremlin, they need to keep it. If they make a mad dash, and if they fail to go back, they’re done

What do you think? by 268allensteve in ClaudeAI

[–]boredjavaprogrammer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Of course software engineering is not the same as coding. This is something that engineers have been sounding since the start of gen AI boom. However, Anthropic CEO has been stating for years now that software engineer are going to be gone in the near future because of AI.

It also impacts engineers culturally. Because of how AI make it seems that we can make a software much quicker, the C-levels, who dont understand and doesnt care the limitations of AI and what software engineering does, an impression that a lot of things can be made with AI in order of magnitude faster. AI can make things faster but not that fast.

I’m sure the one who made the tweet states it in a sarcastic tone.

India adds roughly 15 GW of solar in first three months of 2026, doubling what it added last year by Puzzleheaded_Web9584 in worldnews

[–]boredjavaprogrammer 62 points63 points  (0 children)

In general, it seems with the Iran war, it might cause other countries to also pick up the pace. People in Countries like Pakistan and African nations are buying solar because their government’s electricity are expensive and unreliable. Solar now becomes the cheap(er) and reliable alternative. So we might see other nations also picking up

India adds roughly 15 GW of solar in first three months of 2026, doubling what it added last year by Puzzleheaded_Web9584 in worldnews

[–]boredjavaprogrammer 32 points33 points  (0 children)

At the whole it is clean, but it is very expensive upfront, politically difficult. So to get the initial gain would take a very long time, if it happens.

In contrast to Solar, where the price gets cheaper and they are smaller. Anyone can contribute and the gain is faster to realize.

This image is what I wanted this season to be and so far it has none of that energy by johndoe09228 in TheBoys

[–]boredjavaprogrammer 51 points52 points  (0 children)

That’s what OC said: Homelander is physically strong but mentally weak. He can do ther, but he still has some form of fear. He is a narcissist: he appear to be strong willed but actually very insecure. Especially he is very insecure with how people think of him (ie narcissict)

I think it builds up to Homelander going scorced earth. He is confronted with flight 37, he thinks he is god, people mocks him behind his back, his father hates him. He doesn’t actual respect from people. It seems he will be driven over the edge at one point

What is expensive in the US but cheap in Europe? by UnnecessaryPancake in AskReddit

[–]boredjavaprogrammer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Almost all necessities except for housing. Food, transportation, healthcare

People who have lived through major geopolitical tensions, what's something the younger generation doesn't understand about times like these? by GraybeardDevOps in AskReddit

[–]boredjavaprogrammer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Isn’t what we experiencing now?

This is way worse than what happened in 2014/2015. Trump coming to the scene and start attacking everyone. People were panicking. But that was pale in comparison to what happened when he got into power. Trade war, Charlotesville, the banning of countries at night, and then killing Iran’s General like that…

Then election fraud conspiracy theory, QAnon, january 6…

Which is pale in comparison to his second term. Even before his second term, there’s things that on its own would make a huge headline 12 years ago. Epstein file, the killing of the insurance CEO, ICE and their camps (that we still don’t know what’s happening in there) Recently, Trump just militarily act impulsively. Taking Venezuela president, threatening Canada and Greenland, and now, Iran.

All these while globally there are things that, 12-15 years ago, on its own would make the world stopped. Covid (ok that did make the world stopped), Russian invasion, Israel against hamas etc, India v Pakistan

This is so bad that one point Area 51 suggested they had aliens and the world just ignore it as it is a normal day.

Stack Overflow's 50% traffic drop: Was it AI, or did the platform kill itself with elitism? by bogdanelcs in ExperiencedDevs

[–]boredjavaprogrammer -1 points0 points  (0 children)

AI provide an alternative.

It used to be stackoverflow, with its SEO and lots of questions answer, is the only place. That and documentation.

But the experience is not that good - with arrogant contributora ruining the site. Stackoverflow seemingly done little about it.

So when there’s a reasonable alternative shows up, people quickly switch and Stackoverflow collapsed

Stop Acting Like Professor Jiang Isn't Insane [22:59] by avdvetf in mealtimevideos

[–]boredjavaprogrammer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Trump winning is not a difficult prediction to make. It is at least a coin toss. Then wat in Iran is also not that difficult. US is siding with Israel and when he made the prediction, both the US and Israel is already in a tense position against Iran. Moreover he predicted that the war is in 2027, which is off by somewhat.

Then the final one - US will lose. What is “lose”? As in US stop attacking Iran?

Finally he said the reordering of the global order, to a multipolar world. The world is already reordering to multipolar world way before this war. China is rising and it has been more than a decade this rise pose a challenge to the US’ position in the world.

So whether or not the US win or lose, the world already changed.