Thanks! I'm a Beatles song.

@Klaus said in The impact of AI on jobs: @Horace said in The impact of AI on jobs: Vibe coding will advance more and more in line with the promise of its name. What % of professional programmers work from spec currently anyway? I bet most. I see it as imminent that product owners will get together in a meeting room and create an app by talking an AI through it in real time. Anthropic had this impressive breakthrough recently where they let 10 Claude agents simultaneously produce code for a C compiler - which is insanely impressive, but if you look at the details you'll see that the "prompt" contained, among other things, thousands of test cases (which is part of the spec). Agentic AIs will build their own test cases, and so on and so on. I'm a bull on the power of this technology, given where it is, at such a young age.

Most annoying sound on the road has to be a two-stroke motorbike going flat out at 45mph . EV noise is irritating. Jenson Interceptor v8 noise my favourite. There's a modern Mercedes engine that rumbles nicely.

All OK here. We're about 10 miles west of there. Thanks for checking, though.

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Would be epic if he'd be cremated and somebody would give a "I love the smell of cremation in the morning" speech.

I was worried it might fully melt while I’m gone and I’ll come back to my car being parked three feet from the curb with a stack of tickets on it. But it doesn’t seem that’s going to happen.

@Horace said in Mildly interesting: I wonder why things have changed so much. Tobacco and alcohol probably didn't help much.

So they went to other entities hungry for the fight. That hardly makes it any better.

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Wow.

@jodi Butte. A toxic waste dump. (Seriously - I think it’s the largest superfund site in the United States). I know it well. The USEPA rep there gave me and a couple of colleagues a tour of the mine site. Disturbing to say the least. My maternal grandmother was born not far from Butte. Close to Virginia City in a little Irish village called Laurin - now, for all intents and purposes, a ghost town although the old red stone RC church and school are still in operation.

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Well, you could person them.

Englishmen are exempt from food critiques. They haven't been exposed.

No time to read the article but the concern is giving Xai preferential treatment for data center infrastructure in space. Like the railroads in the 19th century we try to avoid companies using a dominant position in one industry to dominate unrelated industries.