I watched tng and voyager 100s of times, I never have known any episode names of either. I recognized all the screens though and can tell what season and if it’s early or late in the season.
Can’t we not have some OS level thing which suppresses all intrusive dialog and puts them in a nice inbox so I can decide which I want to answer or ignore in bulk…
I still dream of driving to the moderators houses and hurting them. Not really of course but it was one nasty place in the end with all little tech gestapos on their sad little thrones. Happy it’s gone.
A city or town with no haze or light pollution? Where is that magical place?
While traveling even in rural parts of less-developed countries, there was a glow in the sky from nearby cities. When opening the curtains the sky was brighter than my room in the middle of the night!
I don’t think anyone has figured how to do 10x the work yet as we don’t know what the work is. AI cannot (yet) define the work that needs to be done, for some definition of needs to be done, and we need humans to figure that out for now. Us humans cannot work fast enough so we still build the same stuff but with less people.
Overall US economic productivity has gone up about 6X in 75 years, which included computers and the internet. So we absorb these things, but gradually.
> There is no obvious point where the microcomputer or the Internet made any major difference
I think it lags. There was a sag between the mid-70s and mid-90s, which is when computers and the Internet were being rapidly developed but weren't really hitting the business mainstream. But late 90s through today it clearly ramped up a lot -- my bet is this is because of IT. It just takes a long time, it's not a sharp jump because not every business gets on board immediately and productively.
My guess is AI ends up the same. But then again, I'm not an economist, only a developer, so I just think I can tell anything about that productivity graph.
Are we looking at the same graph? What I see is that there was a huge spike at the onset of COVID, and then it flatlined and even corrected a bit, and in the end seems to have resumed the same trajectory it had before COVID.
If I understand correctly, the spike in 2020 was not any kind of jump in real productivity, either, it is an artifact of how the calculation is made -- there was a sudden drop in hours from low paid workers who typically have a lower than average contribution to productivity (as measured), so laying a bunch of them off skews the per-hour calculation. Then as things settled down companies re-hired, and then over-hired.
White collar work may have been phoning it in (literally and figuratively), but the drop is probably more likely due to "Labor Productivity (Output per Hour)" being measured using revenue from things like the social, entertainment, and travel industries taking a hit in customer spend (an empty restaurant has less output per hour than a busy restaurant, for example). It's not clear to me from that page/graph alone that an increase in stimulus spending is a cause, vs a correlation, for the drop.
The covid productivity spike is because all the low productivity retail workers got laid off. Then as they came back to work productivity went back down
If you don't live in either, you might find them similar from the news we get. It does sound like a shit show in the US while probably most people living there notice nothing. As a tourist, US currently looks worse: I land in SFO and see streets with literal zombies while in Shanghai I do not. How can a country claim to be prosperous and yet allow that to happen. Some kind of starvation that is and because of misguided economic policies. Oh yeah, and both have dictators although you could argue that China is better at that too.
Did the delivery work functionally as expected? If yes, then they understood what they need to understand to do that work on code. You don't need to understand the whole codebase, just the parts relevant to the work at hand.
Ive worked and work with people who I dont consider super talented but sure as hell they understand the code, maybe just some lines, maybe the method, maybe the class, maybe the module and further.
Unless you worked at the shittiest company in the world, lets try to not bring others down just because they weren't as amazing as we are. They might have other skills weve lacked.
E.g. like a journalist complaining that they colleagues didn't publish books... who cares? Thats not their job, they need to write clear good concluded articles. If they write their articles like books, nobody reads that shit.
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