> > I would never assume the AI answer to a consequential problem to be authoritative, unless it shows me the source and I can click on the link to verify the source and the data presented (search engine use case).

> That remains the elephant in the room - the tendency to make up fake answers. Until that's fixed, LLMs are only useful for problems where the cost of such errors is an externality, dumped on the consumer.

That’s one of fears. The general public and politicians alike will trust AI without scrutiny. We’ve already seen examples of judges relying on flawed software, with devastating outcomes for innocent people. With the rapid push and widespread enthusiasm for AI, a darker future looms if these problems aren’t addressed.

> Today's kids have smartphones, PCs/Macs, Video Game Consoles, and movie streaming devices and are unsupervised on the Internet. For role models, they have rap stars who sing about sex and drugs.

I don’t know if there are any stats to back this up but anecdotally I know plenty of kids with all kinds of freedoms and gadgets who are extremely respectful, well-mannered, and responsible. They respectfully disagree with their parents on some issues and some of old fashioned parents may consider disagreement as disrespectful. And they might not accept mistreatment from authority figures, but hardly any real misbehavior issues.

Maybe it’s my circle but average gen z kid seems like way more mature than us when we were their age.

Rude kids that I have encountered are mostly from parents who are already rude, entitled, or have macho mentality. Kind of people I rarely hangout with. Many of these kids have more restrictions too, no video games, must play sports, extra tutoring, cannot dress certain ways, etc.

> Maybe it’s a culture thing — most C# devs use IDEs. Not sure what PHP devs use, but I suspect tools like PhpStorm will make this easy to work with somehow. Devs using no-LSP editors will likely have a different view.

This is probably one of the big factors. I am also not a huge fan of “magic” even though I use IDE (vscode). I started off as a PHP dev, directly editing files on production server using vi. Any “magic” simply slowed me down.

Years later, now I can simply cmd+click to anywhere in code but it feels a bit off to me. Perhaps, I still miss my old days of dev.

At my first job, I largely used Notepad++ and grep, and the result tended away from object-oriented code and code paths tended to be not much more than `require_once("common.php");`

The second job introduced PHPStorm, and a single page load can bounce through dozens of files and classes; it would probably be untenable without modern tooling.

Same. And another issue with games is that every game is so long. Games like Tomb Raider used to be 10 hours. Now such games are more than 20 hours. It is a bigger commitment even if you like the game.

That’s why I prefer to buy older games that have received enough reviews from regular people.

Yes! I tried to play the new Spiderman game, and just the sheer amount of stuff to do was overwhelming. Especially because I like to do all the side missions.

I know I sound like the oldest gamer here, but I miss the ratchet and clank style games. Long enough to be engaging, very replayable, but not a full-time job.

Nothing beats plaintext format. I use Google Sheets but download it locally as csv every year or so.

If company has 10 positions open for X months but their headcount is still same, then you can argue these are fake postings. We have big enough population that high bar, unless unrealistic, should not be problem.

And try sharing a phone number. Almost every service assumes that everyone in a household has their own phone. Which is of course not true.

It just makes many services such as Credit Karma unavailable to anyone but the first person to signup.

> Why in the name of all that is unholy would you ever think that?

Seen it many times where engineers are making more than their managers. I had jobs where there was no real difference between my pay and my direct manager's.

There were fewer programmers for each programmer's role than managers for each manager's. Not sure if it still applies though.

Recently, I canceled a subscription for a newspaper, they make you go through chat to cancel. The agent was so nice that it was annoying.

I don’t mind waiting in silence, but when they keep asking about weather, vacation plans, etc, I find it hard to not respond. This might part retention technique though.

Outsourced call centers obsessing over dumb metrics like "dead air" and "hold time". They think you are gratified by obsequious groveling and fawning reassurance. There is always some guy in management who gives pep talks about improving outcomes by avoiding words like "can't" or "impossible". He demands improvement to an already satisfactory situation, and so they scramble to out-customer-service themselves.

Read your lease carefully, there maybe a clause that restrict mining or other abuse of "free" electricity. They may not have individual power meters but they may have other means to determine if one of their tenants is using too much power.