As someone famous said, "everything is relative" :) Compared to the new applications that have been coming out, Emacs and vim are a paragon of lightness.

On that note, why are the keybindings for vi on a “modern” Ubuntu different from fedoras? I remember having to mess with ^H in a vimrc or something to that effect to mimic the behavior I was expecting.

So true, but this has been going on for quite a while. Phones accelerated it and I have seem many of the concerns come up in IT where I worked.

A couple of examples:

1. My favorite, about 10 to 15 years ago. A user said this finance report always had 2147483647 in the total. This was looked at for weeks by another group.

After a few weeks our manager's manager called a meeting with everyone to look at the issue. Everyone had no idea what to do. When I saw the number it look real familiar to me. I then released it was the max value if an int. I told them the issue was its variable could was too small. A simple change fixed the issue.

Another old programmer who was not at the meeting asked me what happened. I showed him the report and he know instantly what it was too.

2. hex dumps, no one can read them now. About 25 years ago I was looking at a dump to see where a packed numeric value was, people who saw be thought it was magic. I had to explain how that number was read and what the hex represented.

I fear what will happen if AI becomes a real thing.

This would not be happening if it was not for the US dummy in chief. The EU was looking to do this for a while, but where taking its time until recent events.

the US was really, really foolish to crystalise the risk by locking out those judges

prior to that it was just a theoretical people were yelling about

now it's real, and there's a continent of hungry businesses lobbying for resources to be diverted domestically, instead of being sent to the US

and that's the EU's bread and butter

They will not be coming back soon.

Do you think the Trump admin thinks about the consequences of their decisions for more than 5 minutes into the future?

They're all about making a quick buck via scams, insider trading and rug pulls, future consequences be damned. Sometimes they make a good call when they listen to what their corporate lobbyists say.

But sadly over the years, some unions became very corrupt and others were allowed to be killed of by Companies and the US Gov.

Again I am glad I am at the age I am at. With that, I feel real bad for the young. From what I am seeing, between Climate Change, Living Costs and now AI, the young seems really screwed :(

My generation allowed these oligarchs to take over the US, it is not like no one knew that started happening in the 80s. So here we are.

The way that I guarantee my job treats me well is by being willing to quit whenever it stops working for me. Despite everyone panicking about AI layoffs, I still consistently get messages from recruiters trying to fill AI-related jobs. In your ideal world where the union is supposed to represent me but oppose AI, do those jobs still exist?

That will work until it won't.

But you're deciding to leave power on the table. That's kinda like leaving money on the table. And of course, it's typically the unsophisticated people who do that.

The literature backs this up: not all of the productivity gains from AI are captured by employers. At least some of it is captured by employees, with the split varying by study.

You can call me unsophisticated, but that's like telling a 1970s assembly programmer that they're a moron for ever supporting using a C compiler. Obviously they're working against their job security, right?

100+ years ago, Electric Vehicles back the were correctly touted as having far less maintenance that fossil fuel vehicles.

Here is the thing, Items EVs do not have/need:

1. No Transmission

2. Oil Changes

3. No radiator

4. No exhaust or catalytic converter.

5. There are other things not in EVs that need regular maintenance.

So to me, maintenance should be much less for EVs, 100+ years ago the only drawback was range, and that has been solved with modern EVs.

It's excellent and cheap (at least it is now after thousands of customers have been used as guinea pigs and sold cars with wildly defective underpinnings) but it does mean that virtually any damage to the casting will total the car since it's not practical to replace or repair it.

Given that the majority of EVs on the road in the US are one of those two models, it really does spike average EV repair costs.

The cost of those remaining maintenance items are the issue. That said, it's a reasonable hypothesis to say that this is an economies of scale issue.

(Also, as I understand it, tires are used up more quickly on EVs still, but tire companies are learning to adapt to EVs so that may not be as true today.)

1. If you count drive gearing, it has a transmission. Teeth will experience wear if not properly maintained.

2. Almost all modern EVs now are oil cooled. There are a few exceptions. See above.

3. All have a radiator for cooling. See above.

4. The 'exhaust system' is 100% gone. Heat the only waste product.

5. There is plenty of rubber and plastic hoses and gaskets in EVs that will break during the lifetime of the vehicle, just like they do in ICE.

I totally agree that the service is much less of a burden to the owner. About an order of magnitude less 'work' for them.

I paid like €120 for it.

Not sure where your "ev services are expensive" rhetoric comes from.

Its damage repair where the problems start. Labor is expensive in US, skilled labor (electricians, welding aluminum, panel beating) double so.

Almost all EVs come with a radiator and cooling loop these days.

There is talent in the US, all it takes is training. Decades ago companies would train new hires out of college, but that trend ended in the 90s.

Wall Street started forcing these companies to chase fast market growth and high stock prices. In many cases profit has no meaning for these startups, the only metric is stock price growing. Then once the investors can sell the stock, they bail leaving the company to figure out how to survive by itself.

Decades ago engineering salaries were a fraction of what they are today, developing countries did not have computing and educational infrastructure, and we had worse solutions to the logistics challenges from off-shoring.

It is increasingly difficult to justify the US salaries and I'm not sure that the talent pipeline in the US is so superior to make up for it.

As folks optimize for getting these high paying jobs it is increasingly difficult to find someone who has legitimate problem solving skills vs someone who has invested a lot of effort into looking hireable.

That may be so at the FAANGs and the companies trying to become FAANG-like, but I'm not sure that's the case for people working at more ordinary places.

3 decades ago I worked at a place making retail software for Windows and Mac. I had ~15 years experience. The net tells me that today median total compensation for that kind of job at that experience level would be around $150k/year.

I made $63k that year. My recollection is that this was a pretty normal amount at the time.

If we adjust using CPI that would be $132k now, which suggests my salary then was about 12% lower than an equivalent salary today. However, if we adjust using the indexing factors [1], which are usually consider better than using CPI for comparing wages across time, my $63k then is equivalent to $169k now.

[1] https://www.ssa.gov/oact/cola/awifactors.html

Training is expensive and can fail.

That's why experience has value.

Focusing talent only in a small geographical area has its own risks.

What alternative do you propose?

8+ billion people cannot grow their own food, and if you factor in climate change, many food producing areas will be unable to grow anything eatable.

So I would like to know davidguetta thought process. Maybe he was being sarcastic.