They won't. Just as most modern devs can't edit assembly and would take days to write a bare bone network communcation, they won't need to learn certain things we did. And they will excell in other skills, making some old aged senior devs obsolete. A senior that uses modern dev tool chains will allways have a huge edge. That has allways been true. But that senior relying only on their hard earned knowledge will become the kind of dinosaurs we knew when we started.

Yea they can't edit assembly because they have reliable tools that work 100% of the time, always. They don't have to manually inspect the output of the assembler every time they write any code. This is not even close to the same thing as LLMs.

Russia has a history of intense state surveilance und state sponsored hacking. Pair that with immense corruption and an authoritarian law system.

Do I think that the USA does the same and is allready in our system? Yes, though a bit less likely and more 'with an option to'. But the big difference is, that we are formally on the same side and I do not have to fear my systems to be made into a Spam-Bot network that undermines individualism and western ideas of freedom.

We use this technique as a guide in our company. If someone (knowledgable) would ask "What does this method call do?" and the method name does not answer that, your PR doesn't go in the master.

E.g. getString(path) for loadConnectionStringFromDisk(configFilePath), tryConnect(30) for testSqlConnection(timeoutInSec), even the reader now knows what happens here and what input is expected.

That's a dead end link. Try to create an archive.org link.

We could use an international magazine or media channel that focuses solely on tools that have prooven to be robust and reliable. And on trustworthy companies with good value for money ratio. I'd love to spend double for some things, if I'd be able to know it lasts way longer and works better.

That's kind of what the Wirecutter was until (irony of ironies) they started "innovating" too.

It's really hard for me to not think of mallice when people say things like "The governments takes half my money!"

In germany, when having a (quite high) 100k pay, you effectively pay aprx. 32% taxes on it. I think thats fair considering wellfare, healthcare, studying, school etc. is free.

42% is just the percentage you pay on the income beyond ~65000. The first 65k are taxed lower (in increasing steps)

Sure, some financial things are very hard in germany. But especially as a "regular" citizen, or when you have hard times, you are cared for quite well.

I said clearly about total deductions seen on monthly payslip, gross to net. Income tax is only part of them.

> when you have hard times, you are cared for quite well.

In hard times you better don't lose Anmeldung (e.g. asshole host deregistering you by sending an email), because then the delicate and expensive support system collapses instantly for you.

Thats common chemical knowledge. Don't be that guy.

Still, as other pointed out, he missed the point by a mile.

Here's the thing: there's a big gap between some scientific terms and terms as normal, ie, most people understand them. In this case, the word is 'inert'.

I don't think it's at all unreasonable to want to know who is telling people PFAS are inert, with the implication being 'safe'. Nothing 'that guy' about it.

One can't switch to a different tab, out of the browser or lock the phone while continuing listening to the video/podcast/music.

One actually can - using an extension called Video background play fix

A simple realization helped me to get out of the loop of night thoughts a lot quicker:

At night your reasoning abilty is massively impaired by melatonin. Thats why your thoughts keep going in circles and one does not find the most obvious solutions for a problem. There is only one thing to do. Let it go. You are at your worst, you're not supposed to reason right now.

This simple fact fixed crushing night thoughts for me and a friend of mine.

I can't simply put down the thought, even though it is often mostly circular, until I can resolve it. I can stop thinking about it, but then I'll just lie there awake and many hours pass :(

tldr: the foundational problem is lack of liability

The whole ecosystem of modern programming and software is just insanely opaque. As an enduser you have very little clue who is to blame for an error or a slow machine.

Imagine your car would not been build by a single company, liable for the whole product, but you would buy the individual components from twenty+ different companies, rangin from ibm to small startups. No central planing. They all have their own take on it. They just set a few standarts for how the things bolt up. It would be the same mess.

Like in the earlier days of analog tech, ransomware attacks today are blamed on bad luck. Just put up some Antivirus gemstones in your Outlook and don't forget to get your security christened with some certifications.

But to be fair, people seldomly die from slow software.