I mean part of it was good financial sense. Money saved early has longer to grow. But I don’t think they “needed” the money that bad. Two full time jobs is nuts. And there were plenty more instances where he clearly communicated that work ethic was equal to a persons value. But yeah, he was a good Dad.

Ever wonder how “work ethic” became a trait that defines the quality of an individual? You can probably guess. Religion. Which of course needed people to work hard so they could donate more money to them.

My dad worked two full time jobs for a while to help the family get ahead while we were little. I think spending time with his young children would have been time better spent for everyone. He did stop when we got to school age. And he did spend a lot of time with us. Was a scout master, tball coach, all that. So I know he probably would have rather been with us than working that extra job. But from a young age it was drilled into him that work came first.

Now with younger people less into religion. We see more and more who realize that working hard for someone else doesn’t need to be a defining characterist of a person’s quality.

More science to do… made me think of portal. :)

I took some obviously ai genetated code (it had comments so I know they didn’t write it) from an offshore senior engineer and asked chatgpt what was wrong with it, and sent the result back to the guy… cause it was right.

We need to figure out two words for AI that represent off shoring. I can’t think of any though.

Yeah, I’m hosed either way. I’m in my late forties and my kids are a tween and a teen.

This is really the ideal path. Fracture fast, begin the healing.

I still haven’t really figured out why they did so much over hiring during covid. It seemed to be everywhere and with no particular reason. Almost a “because everyone else is doing it” kind of thing.

Great write up. A few things caugyt my eye. You meantioned AI realtime checking code as it is written. IDEs do a pretty good job of that already. To do much better, it would have to know what you want to do. And that seems to be a barrier to how AI is developed today. It doesn’t “understand” why.

Now QA is interesting. I wonder if anyone has built a model based entirely on clicks that can predict where a user is going to click. That would be very interesting. It would work really well for testing functionality that is already common on existing sites. Most webapps are made up of a large part of things already done… date chooser, question submitters, and such. Like how many apps out there are for scheduling an appointment. Tons. And so many apps (even mobile games) are just the same thing in a custom facade. In this case I don’t think it would replace QA much as places writing that stuff don’t test much. But it could speed up developers by reducing the number of customer reported issues in code they wrote months ago.

It’s yet another barganing chip he is trying to create. Somebody with these things doesn’t do what he wants, he just declares the ones they have are fake. Person, country… as others have pointed out, this will tank the value of them as well, and probably trigger inflation. Both of which in a way reduce the federal debt so he can claim he did that. It just also causes a lot of much bigger issues.

If you mean he is working for them… nah. He wouldn’t do what they ask, or would screw it up. They get smarter people to manipulate him into doing things in thier favor. I suppose that could be called a foriegn asset to. Not sure though.

Yeah, I looked it up. I must have been thinking of something else.

My bad, I though that area extended down the east side of the state.

It would certainly be tricky. They would need support from the US military stationed in those states. That seems like a stretch to me. They wouldn’t defect “just cause”. You would need an action from the current US government that would force them to pick a side.

Curious… what in Oregon gets DOD money?

But that is where all the food comes from…

And youtube. Kids sucks so much because they don’t really want anyone to use it… Sadly though, they don’t have to plan to do these things. They just don’t invest in making them kid safe.