Just went through this with both kids… The word “need” always implies a goal. “I need x (to do y)”. Without context, the goal is generally either survival, or more often, comfort: “I need a drink.” “I need a break.”

When you’re speaking in the context of doing something, as superglue was, that becomes the implied goal. “I need those recommendations to automatically populate (in order for my wife to be comfortable using this)” is a perfectly valid use of the word “need”.

Ahh, fair point on the source. I should probably let myself wake up more before posting :P

You’re right though, it’s a weird “study”… feels more like a quick test I’d run locally to check my processes than anything with real rigor.

… doesn’t it say Republicans claim similar spam from Democrats got through?

My main takeaway is the Republicans want to block Democrat messaging, and via projection, assume Google is doing the reverse.

I believe they specifically asked about anarchy? If they know little about it, what could they have posted that would have been better than what they did post?

They’re open to a lucky 10,000 moment; don’t drop the ball!

Pretty sure this was just a play on the similar pronunciations between “Epstein files” and “Israeli pedophile”. It didn’t read to me as outrage bait or an expectation that Nevada should be releasing the files, just a joke that keeps the Epstein file conversation alive as a side effect.

AI will now supplement all interactions with the genius businessman

Teachers are generally awesome. But school boards and superintendents are almost stereotypically control freaks; and that’s who sets this stuff up. There are plenty of good ones too, but it’s not nearly as selfless a group as teachers.

Wow - I didn’t realize that until I read your post.

Thought they were going for a “lobsters eating your face!” vibe.

Go dunk your head! Seriously, you can see the effect in a pool - look at how well you can see things above and below the surface, go underwater, and open your eyes. Things will be fuzzier.

You’re trying to reason away an effect that people actually see, and that you can verify independently. That’s the opposite of how science works.

For a scientific explanation, my first Google got came up with this - an article about some kids who do seem to see normally underwater. It also includes this explanation for our blurrier experience:

When the eye is immersed in water, which has about the same density as the cornea, we lose the refractive power of the cornea, which is why the image becomes severely blurred

…so what happens when you use goggles? Or a camera?

Lakes can be dirty, but you can see the same effect in a pool. Or your bathtub.

I thought it was adorable! I’m hearing Portal’s turret dialogue with these.

“Hello? …are you still there?”

You’re not wrong, and I feel like it was a developing problem even before AI - everybody wanted someone with experience, even if the technology was brand new.

That said, even if you and I will be fine, it’s still bad for the industry. And even if we weren’t the ones pulling up the ladder behind us, I’d still like to find a way to start throwing ropes back down for the newbies…

No, but that’s the only way you get senior engineers!

My fear for the software industry is that we’ll end up replacing junior devs with AI assistance, and then in a decade or two, we’ll see a lack of mid-level and senior devs, because they never had a chance to enter the industry.

The difference being junior engineers eventually grow up into senior engineers.

Nice, thanks!

It sounds utopian…

It’s not that we don’t want robots doing it - honestly that’d be pretty cool. It’s that we want to be sure the people that are being replaced are being taken care of.

There will always be some jobs. That’s no guarantee that there will be enough jobs for everyone to live modest lives on.

Why is that the comparison, though? Sears developed mail-order catalogues in the 1800s. That’s what Amazon replaced.