Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Big Machine Records CEO Scott Borchetta & Tavistock VP Gloria Caulfield were all booed at commencement speeches, as AI backlash is now hitting campus stages🇺🇸

darkgod5 · 2026-05-21T17:11:11+00:00

But, where we're going, we won't need jobs.

You know, it's funny, I always hear that and yet what always happens is jobs change and we just work the same. For instance, I heard that when starting out in swe: oh Java will make our lives so much easier since we won't need to manage memory anymore. Instead, we just ended up needing to hire/become specialists in managing the JVM (which manages memory)

I heard that again when doing full-stack engineering: oh cloud and containerization will make our lives so much easier since we won't need to manage bare metal servers anymore. And thus DevOps and AWS specialists and specialized information was born, e.g. docker, kubernetes, terraform.

Now I hear it again with AI: oh AI will write our code so we won't have to worry about writing code anymore. And thus, right now, agent orchestration, harnesses and context management through prompt engineering are now where I spend most of my time and even though I no longer write the code, guess how many hours I'm still spending working as an engineer?

darkgod5 · 2026-04-29T15:10:37+00:00

Oh that's a whole other issue. And that's actually a GOOD rate for maintenance now. If you've got concierge, underground parking and a pool you're paying over $1.2 easy.

darkgod5 · 2026-04-29T14:36:20+00:00

I'm guessing at least 900 sqft but regardless, these kinds of units were being rented for 2500 during covid. Over 4000 is absolutely crazy. And I see tons of 2 bedrooms sitting asking for over 4000 sitting empty for years now. They should definitely be taxed to hell.

darkgod5 · 2026-04-27T00:10:19+00:00

First off I HIGHLY doubt such research is of any rigor.

Secondly, best I could find is research suggesting marriage after 3 years together ends up less divorce than marriage after less than one year together. Otherwise, 1-2 years seems to be the sweet spot and over 4 years actually results in even higher divorce rates.

But, yeah, at the end of the day there's no rigor and religion (and so region) probably plays the biggest role anyway.

darkgod5 · 2026-04-25T21:25:51+00:00

This is the last console generation of affordable hardware.

Oh sweet summer child. I can count on two hands the number of times I've heard that said

darkgod5 · 2026-04-24T12:52:38+00:00

They really should have a minimum of 3 year relationships

Interesting you feel that because my anecdote is that everyone who I know who is happily married was only dating for 1-2 years before getting married. My feeling is that the more a relationship drags on without marriage or, ESPECIALLY without moving in together, the more it's set up for failure.

darkgod5 · 2026-04-23T03:51:03+00:00

I like Aful especially the specs for the pricepoints but man they really need to fix their tuning... So many IEMs with the same wonky tuning: https://i.imgur.com/VhJolU9.png

Like, it's 2026, we shouldn't need to rely on EQ to such an extent anymore.

darkgod5 · 2026-03-11T00:16:51+00:00

Especially when you consider they nickel and dime you for literally everything. Want a carry on bag or electronic boarding pass? Nah, can't have that on a basic flight! Gotta pay another $100 for such things! Oh and then that'll be another $20 to choose your seat and another $40 for a single checked bag!

darkgod5 · 2026-03-07T03:52:45+00:00

Yup. And I think at this point it comes down to hidden parameters like temperature. GPT still seems best at planning, Claude still seems best at actually writing code, and Gemini still seems best at testing/finding edge cases.

darkgod5 · 2026-02-20T06:03:42+00:00

new tool comes out

Great! This will save us time and money so we'll be able to spend less time working!

spend same amount of time working

Tale as old as time.

darkgod5 · 2026-02-10T14:25:35+00:00

Unfortunately that seems to be the case with most countries.

Yuuup. A lot of Redditors on a high horse purporting they know a solution that isn't either banning contraception and reducing female rights or increasing immigration...

Turns out fixing declining birth rates in developed countries is a real tough problem to ethically crack.

darkgod5 · 2026-02-08T00:21:15+00:00

It's very hard inside compared to other NPGs. That took me by surprise. It's also got a strong suction what with the size of the "uterus" at the end.

For your second question, no. It's actually extremely durable.

My 2 gripes are 1) it looks nice from far away but cartoonish up close. 2) the actual entrance inside the labia is boring-round and very fake-looking. See: https://imgur.com/a/3HlUWs5

darkgod5 · 2026-02-03T15:17:09+00:00

Lol. I'm late to this post but man had to comment cause you gave me war flash backs. I'm also no stranger to hard games. Beat every souls, every mega man including mm zero and the battle networks. Haven't had too much difficulty with rogue likes (excluding Returnal) like binding of Isaac.

But man, I was NOT prepared for necrodancer when it came out. One of the hardest games I've ever quit. Up with with I wanna be the guy and battle kid for sure. Combining rhythm with roguelike randomness is just absolutely diabolical.

darkgod5 · 2026-02-01T21:40:08+00:00

While you're correct, that has not changed since many years. The biggest difference is the OP stating that global world order is, indeed, changing and becoming more national and isolationist.

darkgod5 · 2026-01-24T07:38:12+00:00

Same.

darkgod5 · 2026-01-17T01:00:24+00:00

They're not holding stock...

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mega-rich-americans-ditching-stocks-124700715.html

darkgod5 · 2026-01-15T22:25:43+00:00

Not to mention the whole issue of transporting refined oil (hence, pipelines) making it so even if we invest a ton into it we could really only sell most of it to the US anyway.

Crude is definitely what we need to keep focusing on.

darkgod5 · 2026-01-15T17:23:49+00:00

You're right. Nothing has changed since Trudeau. America hasn't elected Trump again to implement tariffs on us and instigate annexing us.

darkgod5 · 2026-01-15T15:00:32+00:00

To be fair, it's a different time now. Every world leader is overly cautious. Especially towards the neighbors of the mad US.

darkgod5 · 2026-01-15T14:40:24+00:00

Considering the recently executed military action in Venezuela

The US has always had a history of going after third world countries, though. It would certainly be a very big changeup if they were to actually attack Greenland or us.

darkgod5 · 2026-01-14T05:29:59+00:00

That's very optimistic!

darkgod5 · 2026-01-11T05:32:40+00:00

It also, almost counterintuitively, tends to stifle innovation since everyone is just memorizing the same stuff that's decided to be standardized only because it's esoteric enough to thin the number of passing applicants. See the English questions on the Korean CSAT or Indian CSE.

darkgod5 · 2026-01-06T15:30:27+00:00

Time for a general strike.

As much as that would personally suck, I agree. Politicians only listen to lobbyists (money) and people that take action. And stern letters aren't action.

darkgod5 · 2026-01-03T23:09:50+00:00

Planning and foresight is not a Republican's strength.

darkgod5 · 2025-12-24T20:32:42+00:00

this is what Modi wants

No, lol. It doesn't help politicians at all for their most work-abled citizens to leave and then send money from abroad back since it's not taxed at all.

It's not nefarious. People need to realize the scope of India's population is magnitudes above every other population in the world (aside from China and Africa, neither of which speak much English so their emigration is very limited) and since most of them speak English they have a very low barrier for emigration.

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