I once worked for a massive multinational company where I interacted relatively frequently with the enterprise architects. They were getting shit for their models being inaccurate, which they were, but this wasn't because they were creating erronous models but because the it architecture changed by the time they managed finish a model. When you have thousands of people constantly updating something, and not documenting what they're doing, it's hard to create an accurate up to date model.
You can of course create a high level model but that isn't very useful. What they realised had to be done was automating at least part of the model generation but since that couldn't get any budget for that (in part because they were behind on model creation!) they were stuck with manually updating their models and people not using their work.
Were their jobs bullshit? They were needed at the company but they things were structured in a way where they were unable to produce much value.
Ioper
14d ago
I don't really remember that. People didn't talk much about parenting in the 90s in Sweden and when things heated up at the end of the 90s and in the 00s all the negative discourse seemed to be about the opposite: "helicopter" and "curling" parenting.
Talk about parental neglect emerged later with "latte moms" and then more recently about parents using smart screens as a baby sitter. That mostly concerns babies and preschool aged children though and I don't think that is what people are talking about when they say "free range parenting"
The financial sector is both highly regulated and employs a disproportionately small number of people compared to it's share of GDP. While it accounts for 20% of GDP it only employs some 4% of the workforce, which is about half of manufacturing (which is supposedly dead in America) or less than a third of healthcare.
Even if the finance industry would be disrupted it would affect relatively few people, despite it's large share of GDP and would therefore not lead to wider scale panic. At best/worst we're looking at a mild upward pressure on unemployment.
Ioper
15d ago
Everything that requires extensive capital investments and permitting will be very slow to change, as will the government, and areas where there are natural monopolies.
Disruption isn't really possible for the majority of the economy.
Ioper
15d ago
In my experience the questions do not really need to be that hardcore, but perhaps we have different definitions of what hardcore is.
I do agree about LLMs being a very good way to get introductory information. How valuable this is for the median developer I don't know. A lot of people seem to be working with the same languages and APIs for a long time.
Ioper
15d ago
People are saying a lot of things and doing little. I've heard similar claims, but haven't seen any meaningful increase in SWE productivity and I've talked with friends and managers at other companies and they say largely the same thing.
The one thing I've seen is a slight cut back in use of consultants, particularly third world ones, but that might as well be a result of cutbacks due to economic uncertainty.
Ioper
16d ago
Brand new account makes poorly supported histrionic post (and follow-ups) about a subject that inevitably will bait a certain segment of themotte to make embarrassing long-posts, immediately gets linked on rdrama.
Ioper
18d ago
1/100? Maybe on tinder. They look like 7-8s not >9.9s.
You're doing more to convince me of the poor quality of the median man on tinder than of some great social injustice.
I'm 80% convinced you're just a troll.
I bounced off pretty hard myself. I don't mind it being a brutal world but it felt like the author repeatedly set up situations where the MC could act as a psychopath and it being acceptable "in universe" but for no meaningful material gain, despite the MC supposedly being this hundreds of years old rational person. It felt too much like entering the author's edgelord magical realm for my taste.
Its a shame because some of the world building was really interesting.
I'd say that the only real issue of those you raised is lack of granular heat control, which is often an issue with radiant heat as well.
Beyond that I'd argue strongly for getting something with knobs rather than touch controls. Touch controls are both really inconvenient and to some extent actively dangerous as they can get triggered by anything, utensils, spilled water, etc. I'm not aware of any brand at any price level that handles this well; I've never encountered it. My impression is that this is an area where touch controls are just a plain bad idea and they're used because it looks sleek and "modern" as well as maybe a cost saving measure.
You should probably be able to get something good for 3k or maybe marginally more depending on local pricing.
I prefer induction to radiant heat but the difference isn't massive so if cost was a concern ($1000~ difference for something you use daily and lasts a decade+ seems very small to me) I would probably go for radiant heat.
Ioper
20d ago
Isn't it pretty common for retirement savings being tied up in stocks, and other wealth in real estate?
A lot of wealth will be passed on to younger generations but that isn't primarily stocks, for the broad middle class anyway.
Ioper
22d ago
I mean, the urbanisation rate of those countries at the time of their civil wars were sub 30% which was about half of the European average.
Ioper
22d ago
Is there just a vast reserve of ball-washers on the internet?
Yes, and as more people get online the worse it gets. This is further magnified by negative comments increasingly getting filtered (often automatically) and positive ones getting boosted.
Its in general not in a content creator's interest to have their comment section not being positive, regardless of actual audience reaction.
I haven't read a ton of ACT and even less of the comments (due to tech issues with substack comments) but are they better than the SSC blog comments? Things were getting pretty dire towards the end there.
Ioper
25d ago
A most ill order them by location and dependency but mostly I try to not think about it at all because then I'll start procrastinating. The important part for me is to get going since that's the hard part for me. Once I'm actually working I don't need motivation to keep working.
Its like exercising, the hard part isn't finishing your workout when you're at the gym, it's going to the gym.
Ioper
26d ago
In the meantime, I'll get warmed up here.
My wife commented just today that it was intolerably hot outside at the playground. It was 22c (in the shade).
Ioper
26d ago
You don't want the type of people who are unemployed to take care of your kids though.
The people you want taking care of your kids are unaffordable since they've better options. The market can't really solve this for the middle class. The best you can do is usually hiring teenage girls from middle class+ families, but they can't do that full time for obvious reasons.
Ioper
26d ago
I don't really understand your complaint, having a cleaning lady is not some rich person extravagance. Its affordable for pretty much everyone in society. If you have a job, you can afford it.
Ioper
27d ago
Just reading the Wikipedia article leaves me with the naive impression that we know that it was a horror show of abuse and barbarism but that we have a very poor idea what happened on a demographic level (what percentage of the population died? How much of the decline was reduced briths as opposed to deaths? Was the decline 10% or 50%? Etc.) and to what degree the Belgians were directly responsible as opposed to criminally negligent.
Ioper
27d ago
Fucking everything I do is tiptoeing around not triggering anyone's anxiety so as not to be treated as a threat,
This unfortunately sounds exactly like something one type predator would do...
Discourse on the latch key phenomenon only briefly occured in the 50s-60s in Sweden and didn't amount to much. It completely died down once the municipalities were required to offer after school activities.
As far as I'm aware the majority of kids just went home anyway and that was completely normalised. Practically everyone had a key and went home before their parents from like age 10.
This has been going on for some 60 years now without any drama.
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