You are most emphatically not.

AI is as good as the human in the loop. Two rules would help in the long run: accountability (AI proposes, dev accepts, therefore dev gets the 2AM call when it hits the fan) and understanding (thou shalt not commit code thou cannot explain). If you have the power to push these, you have a fighting chance. Otherwise ask Claude to polish your CV.

Look up Matt Pocock, he developed a set of skills that seem genuinely useful in a dev context. There are similar approaches out there, but this one seemed like a good starting point.

God forbid they would do something with a story.

RIP BioWare, you will be missed.

Wait until he learns about Amerigo Vespucci.

I say he's not going far enough. Why not rename the country to American Americas of America? AAA will always and forever be first wherever alphabetical order is invoked. AMERICA FIRST!

Never heard about W until today. And now, having heard of it, I feel no compulsion to join. Aside from politicians, journalists and sundry public figures, who is this for?

Not so unrelated question: which of you, dear readers, have no problem handing your Lemmy account to authorities, potential employers etc.

TIL Bible swatting is a thing.

Nothing to see here, just Bill making sure he's either going to swim by himself or sink with the lot of 'em. My current prediction is: absolutely nothing will continue to happen.

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I'm just here to bring to your attention Lev Grossman's "The Magicians", both the books and the assorted TV show, which is quite awesome in its own right, even if it diverges from the books by quite a bit. There's a whole world of awesome outside of HP, and even if it wasn't, I refuse to recast in my theater of the mind the extremely talented and deeply regretted Alan Rickman and Dame Maggie Smith.

Doctor: "You have an oedypian complex."

Oedypus: "I have a what?"

Doctor: "You heard me, motherfucker."

It's just like old music. People have been making music since the dawn of time, and the ratio of good to shit music was relatively constant. The only thing is, shit music tends to be forgotten over time, whereas the greats still survive.

People that are into old music, regardless of the period, are almost by definition listening to a curated bunch of greatest hits. Ditto for retro gaming: the by-the-numbers, derivative or unplayable crap is long forgotten.

As I was reading this, I disappeared in a flash of light and landed in 1945. But I have a plan.

• Learn acoounting, get a job, grind for 10 or so years
• Start investing in Ford, GE etc. and wait for the compound interest to kick in
• Buy a farm, continue to invest. Retire "early"
• Grow a beard, get some white hair paint
• Travel to "relatives" in Australia for 6 months every year
• While in Australia, get rid of beard, set up alternative identity as my own nephew, get involved in fledgling computer domain, invest
• Back home, take up fishing, end up disappearing at sea one day, nephew inherits everything
• I am nephew. Got enough money now to stop working, buy a vineyard in NZ, spend 6 months in the year abroad
• Invest in IBM, I should be filthy rich by now
• Hire professionals to set up a dozen or so alternate identities in English speaking countries. Kill nephew, avoid Australia for the next 20 years
• Numbered Swiss accounts, different looks, pro theatre makeup, the works. By now my 10+ offshore companies own 10% of Berkshire Hathaway between them
• Rotate identities as needed. Invest in the dot com bubble from 100+ offshore shell companies. Cash in and buy tech stocks after the crash. I am now richer than God, but still not intervene in not-yet-current affairs
• No posh events, no media, no socials ffs. My ghosts come and go. I own a few law firms that take care of business and identity management. When suspicions arise, I change countries. Ireland works for a while. I now own 10-20% of all major tech companies, because I bought them before it was cool
• I get into crypto early. Money has no meaning anymore. I mark the days and months remaining to May 19, 2026, when all of this began. I need to insert myself into my old life right as past me begins the journey, will probably feign a nasty flu afterwards to get back on track. Small price to pay for total freedom

And here we are. Money wise, I own about half the world and now I can finally act. Where should I start?

"US, Russia and Israel oppose me."

That was his whole campaign.

Yes, but you see, this is an airport. Law becomes very flexible in an airport: we can pull and stretch it every which way, until it does what we want.

I remember thinking back then, here comes the worst American president I'll likely see in my lifetime. Dubya, we were so. very. wrong.

No. That would be achievable through reallocation of funds, e.g. from tax revenue. If the quote is correct, that's just increasing monetary mass, aka printing money. Which is Inflationary AF.

That being said, I find it hard to believe that a CEO in this day and age wouldn't have at least this basic understanding of how the economy works. This being Musk, there's no need to invent extra character flaws. The man has plenty to go around.

"Accidentally" my foot, the one with bells on it. The engineers knew.

Whether Elon knew and green-lit it, or even ordered the move as payback for his unceremonious departure from DOGE is anyone's guess. But I stand by what I said earlier, this was intentional - and more power to whoever pushed it to production.

Your salary has been made available in your corporate account, but why would you want to use it all and deprive your employer of the extra security a cash reserve brings? Work well done should be its own reward after all. A shareholder cries every time you make a withdrawal.