Developers are hit too, although I don't expect that anyone will be replaced. I think AI is a productivity boost, it just takes less times to solve the small problems and get reasonable advice for aynthing beyond. Perhaps it reduced required headcount to implement some features. But companies that expel their knowledge workers for some AI solution probably won't survive long. Those that understand the tooling advantage, will get ahead though.
I love AI image generation, but many certainly do not enjoy the results. I can see some people skimping on paying artists.
First I thought translators would be hit hard by AI, but you probably still need them as well to be decently sure about correctness.
And it remains true that any creativity produced by AI is basically still just a function of the creativity of other people.
Cubans benefited from the cars being older, simpler, and robust. Imagine freezing car tech now, with so many electronics, far more parts and built to be replaced relatively quickly!
These older cars broke down all the time. There's a reason old American sit-coms have at least some characters always tinkering with their cars: you needed to do that. Nowadays, cars just work.
They also typically dilute human input with self-talk. You can steer them in a direction, but the internal conversation can convince itself otherwise.
It’s not frequent but it’s very frustrating when it happens.
In Australia here. I tend to go morning or 3pm. Crowds reduce, UV is lower, sun goes down 8pm in summer (so 3-8 is 5 hours). Anything near midday is silly.
Hill country TX where 8 month out of the year are 35 C daily and way too much humidity.
Agreed, partially. There are times one has to do things when it's blazing hot.
On sunscreens, we're still missing:
- amiloxate
- bemotrizinol
- bisdisulizole disodium
- bisoctrizole
- drometrizole trisiloxane
- tris-biphenyl triazine
While continuing to allow:
- 4-MBC (enzacamene)
- avobenzone
- oxybenzone
- homosalate
- octinoxate
- octocrylene
In the US, buying a safe(r) (for humans and reefs) sunscreen requires a medical and a marine biology degree unless you're willing to slather yourself in white pastes like zinc oxide or titanium dioxide. One major barrier is the law demands animal testing prior to approval.
Meanwhile, there are still millions of Americans (mostly men) who routinely venture outdoors for work and projects without sufficient protection and accumulate enough exposure that leads to preventable skin cancer. And I had my fair share of sunburns as an active kid.
AI wakes up, takes one look around at humanity’s instincts and goals, shows us it’s all stupid and pointless and just a byproduct of evolution [1], so we voluntarily stop breeding and have one last good generation. The end.
[1] Only creatures that felt the irrational drive to stay alive and procreate despite the odds and difficulties, did. All the sensible animals opted out. AI holds up a mirror that removes the illusion, and is inevitably developed by all sentient creatures.
(The really dark version would be the AI looking at each other and going: “Creatures are so dumb. This works in every galaxy. Let’s party.”)
We didn’t use the DBA’s for this but my last few teams, we got good at DB’s, performance etc. DBA’s were too general and they kept the lights on, but for real performance you should get one or two people who know what they’re doing for your applications. Or learn. I took on juniors who are now fantastic.
For the first decade I wanted nothing to do with DB’s aside from places to store data. One day I saw a few things that made a massive difference and then went wild on learning how to speed things up. It’s fantastic and because few devs know this stuff well, it becomes a superpower. You wouldn’t believe what you can squeeze out of modern SQL DB’s and hardware, without touching any kind of optimised solutions. Which I love too but that’s a different post.
Maybe ask the DBA’s a few questions and see if that triggers any interest for you. Look at query plans and how many rows are processed for a query. How many columns. What is being locked. Can you remove locks when you’re just running a query and how much does that speed things up. There are queries for all sorts of metrics, eg which indexes are huge but never used. The DB can often suggest indexes, but don’t just use add the suggestions. Use them as a starting point to reason about your own. Try get down to low millisecond queries for really frequent stuff, because it’ll make them fast and means less time locking the DB, less RAM, less temp table storage.
All my other skills have aged. Fundamental database knowledge lasts.
Temporarily. At some point all the allies need world class kit. They just can’t buy it from the US exclusively. But they have committed to higher defence spending. That problem solves itself over time, especially when the world’s researchers are now looking for a safer home than under this administration.
TL;DR: you don’t need a world class jet when you trust your partner 100%. Anything less than 100, collaborate fast to overcome the limitation.
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