We’re a small company so I do the opposite and am avoiding any co-authored tag being applied to the code I publish.

I review and test my code before it’s published to make sure that it works and that it’s the right solution to the problem, and I’m the one responsible for fixing it if it goes wrong late at night in prod.

That was the case when I was using Intellisense and codegen tools and that’s still the case now.

That makes me the author.

Anything else is a lie, a violation of engineering ethics, and is flat out not SOC2, nor regulatorily compliant for anything that matters.

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That used to be the case, largely because we used to be really bad at converting AC to DC (and vice versa) so would incur a ton of efficiency loss at the conversion step.

But for the actual on the wire transmission part, high voltage DC is inherently more efficient at long distances because you don’t get drift between the voltage and current phase (which reduces its effectiveness).

These days though we are far better at converting DC to AC (and vice versa) so high voltage DC systems are overall more efficient (plus let you connect distribution systems without synchronizing them, or connect ones that operate on different frequencies like 50Hz vs 60Hz).

Their downside is that conversion equipment is still more complicated and slightly more prone to failure then AC systems.

The US has already literary intentionally tried to starve the people of Cuba for decades and it’s accomplished nothing.

America’s cruelty in service of America’s incompetence really exposes what a sad, atrophied husk it’s become.

All empires collapse, at least others have managed to do so with dignity.

Acquaint with better people.

How about a fund that spreads out the money globally?

How about reinstating US international AID at a bare minimum?

Pretty horseshit to act like they trained AI on only American data so only Americans should benefit.

What about the literal entire rest of the world? They get nothing right?

Just another example of America exploiting the world for their own benefit. Even the good ones are so corrupted by their system that they do it without realizing.

In North America I would guess coyote, in Europe, I would guess a fox or feral dog chased him until he found somewhere to hide from it.

Could also just be another cat. Big Tom cats have a tendency to chase other cats around.

I meant a single individual living forever and morphing into a different species, which is what Sam Altman is talking about, not a whole species evolving into another across generations of individuals…

The first one has never happened and is the topic being discussed, the latter is irrelevant.

Yes but even that research is a generalized average, there are still dumb people who are very self doubting and smart people who are over confident.

Does anyone know anyone who has ever admitted to getting below 100 on an IQ test?

I’m guessing the answer is no. In which case, presumably none of us can know whether or not we have. You would need to have to know someone who both scored below 100 and was willing to admit that to know for sure.

This isn’t really extinction in that sense. The author is being pedantic.

Extinction in the form of living forever and morphing into a different species is just not something we have a word for because it’s never happened before.

No, that’s because a lack of labour laws in the US allows them to do that.

If they weren’t allowed to force their CPAs to do that, they would have to hire more CPAs, which would increase the overall salary for CPAs and attract more people into the field.

I’m always slightly skeptical of this answer just because residency pretty much intentionally gaslights doctors into thinking that exhausted decision making is normal and unavoidable… All because the guy who started medical residencies had a massive cocaine addiction and it was 1900.

I’d be curious to see a study with data on patient outcome, wait time, use of resources etc, that measures exhausted double shifted doctors, vs fresh doctors with more context switching, vs fresh doctors + appropriate overlap to avoid context switching.

They don’t have to be as good to replace us.

This is too dismissive.

Industrialization and automation has already eliminated an entire class of work that was otherwise there.

In a hunter gathered society or an early industrial society there was always work for everyone, in modern capitalist society, there quite frankly isn’t, and that leads to huge numbers of people just being cast aside.

And AI may wipe out a huge number of the rest. I genuinely can’t possibly fathom how it will do anything but exacerbate every single one of society’s problems.

The US tariffing the world to bring back domestic manufacturing is not a dumb idea on its face.

The execution has been dumb and alienating but that is one of the few areas where it’s been baffling watching leftists flip from being anti free trade because it lets corporations siphon money and avoid regulation to suddenly being super pro free trade because Trump is against it.

Free trade is what has hollowed out North America’s manufacturing industries. Corporations have used it to effectively send money to poorer countries where labour is cheap while getting paid bonuses for “efficiencies”.

In a single country you can do things like set a minimum wage, with free trade companies can simply move manufacturing to somewhere with a lower minimum wage, pressuring governments to race to the bottom in terms of how badly they abuse their workers.

Yeah, they do sometimes and in some situations, usually when you have some major disruption, but the problem is that the disruptor often ends up becoming the enshittifier eventually.

Case in point, look at Google. On a technical level Google genuinely cracked search in a way that no other company did, and made it so good that it became the dominant way to find information online.

They then ambitiously decided to use those resources to try and break into / disrupt several other markets like web browsers, email, office software, mapping software, operating systems, video broadcasting, etc.

During those early years we got a bunch of genuine improvements. Chrome was way better then Internet Explorer, and substantially cleaner and faster then Firefox, and still open source and not developed by ad-focused people.

Maps was way better then MapQuest, Google docs at least gave you an easy and accessible alternative to Word, Gmail was way better then Hotmail with way more storage, the original Chromecast and Chromecast audios were amazing value.

But then companies get entrenched, they start tying every product together, building walls around the garden, and start pulling up the ladder behind them. Then when everyone is thoroughly walled in they start extracting every possible opportunity for money and we’re back to enshittification.

More righteous excuses to not read, think, or use your brain.

If I say the word Hitler, you stick your head in the sand and pretend they don’t exist.

Good luck changing the world by ignoring reality and not listening to people. I’m sure it’s a rational strategy that doesn’t play directly into the openly published playbooks from Russia and China that detail how polarization is how you break society.

Some of that money goes into producing Canadian Content which employs Canadian artists and the broader Canadian arts industry. That’s better then that money going to Hollywood and supporting the American arts industry.

Either way the benefits are just trickling down rather than going directly to artists, but with these laws more money stays local in Canada rather than going to the US.

You are arguing about whether that money should trickle down or be given directly to artists and that is quite frankly, completely irrelevant given that both options here (the rates increasing or the rates not increasing), don’t effect that.