This is why the rich don’t understand how the poor “can’t work”. They have kids yo. And lower end jobs oftenhave very strict hours. But the upper end jobs have lots of flexibility. And the rich of course just don’t volunteer at their kids school, or they have a parent home with the kids to do all those things.

I get the point and idea behind the existence of the “most people understand…” argument. A hot dog isn’t actually made from dog. But when it comes to truth vs lies… if you aren’t an entertainer, you just shouldn’t be allowed to lie. And if you are an entertainer, it needs to be beyond obvious in you marketing and such that you are an entertainer. If you channel is called anything news, you are not an entertainer. Google search can be entertaining, but almost no one would say it is entertainment. So there is just no justification for it lieing with impunity.

Right… I’ve been “programming” for 20+ years (though not as a developer). Something about golang just won’t click in head. May e it would be easier without the years of perl, tcl, and python. But I am sure it ain’t no “easy” language.

Just use AI to fill out the assessments. We are interviewing and only half joked that if the applicant didn’t use AI in some way they aren’t qualified. Just don’t try to hide it.

A generic version of what many people are saying… support the middle class and poor by making their lives easier. Same thing with teachers. Pay would be great, but actual support in doing their jobs would make a much bigger difference. Most poor and middle class people don’t really want a handout. They want less stress and more security about their future.

I think the value of the phone ban is actually very simple. Banning it from school entirely makes it an administrative issue, not a teacher issue. So it takes “some” load off the teachers shoulders. That of course won’t manifest as better test scores though. But it might have a tiny affect on teacher retention.

Yeah, it’s hard to make a law that stops this, but doesn’t get used against actual journalists. And the way the news media is trending more toward being social media influencer isn’t helping. Maybe entitling the person to compensation based on what the influencer got might be possible. That would keep at least free journalists out of the picture. And the paid journalists can afford to pay people if something goes viral, or to take the time to get a waiver or something. Or maybe a combination involving secret recordings, since most of the regular news media is pretty obvious.

I think you can ban using such recordings in social media posts and such. The line your have to watch for is news reporters vs social media influencers. But it would at least enable prosecution of the dumb ones who don’t even claim to be news reporters…

“We shouldn’t even be in this situation, …” We aren’t. Revision control. This is an inconvenience mostly. You might lose some uncommitted work at worst. And as pointed out, using the phrase “ignore all previous instructions” in the attack code causes any reasonable AI to refuse to comply. Odds are, not a single person lost anything. This was really just a dev making a statement.

I very much agree on math. But writing… I hardly ever handwrite anything anymore. Doesn’t seem critical. And more time spent learning what to write than how to handwrite seems like a good trade.

Highly variable by district, and even school.

Well you said they were the only things… we need to do more.

Average in orrgon is 77k. But don’t forget the pensions and such. In most other jobs, retirement money comes out of your pay. In states that have decent teachers unions (always blue it seems), it is on top of the salary. And it usually includes access to subsidized healthcare insurance for life. (All assuming you meet the retirement criteria).

One class seems too few. 75% of jobs in the US use computers regularly. Even the plumber shows up with a tablet and such. On top of that, what ever was the point in making us write the essay twice, rough draft, the final… and have to rewrite the whole damn thing if we made a mistake. When it comes to writing, computers are where it is done.
Math… yeah, pencil and paper, calculator for the high level stuff. History/social studies… videos and articles are just easier to distribute via computer. Though initial presentation with follow up commentary is ideal. I think computers are overused in school, but 1 class is too far in the other direction.

If only… oregon pays teachers well, and does free breakfast and lunch. But the results don’t line up. There is more to it. To me it looks like the administration is often pretty terrible. But my sample size for that is small.

Yep, they know they need a break, and it’s kinda like being sick anyway. :) I just avoid working that hard in the first place. I almost never stay up late to work. Like once or twice a year if it’s some truely critical thing. Or just something I am really interested in. And if I work after 5, it’s nearly always because I am gaining some sense of completion or satisfaction from the specific work. Never just because some arbitrary deadline was set.

I don’t know if it can actually see your gait. Might be that your legs are technically invisible to it. It’s just looking at how you uniquely disturb wifi signals. It maybe that your torso does most of that or something.

I don’t favor forced adoption… but your second sentence just isn’t true of individual people. It is ture of the industry in general. But individual people tend to stick with what they know and shy away from new things until something forces them out of that state. Usually it is someone else who tried a new tool and is suddenly able to do things easier or what not. It only takes a few power users to turn the tide. So forcing shouldn’t be needed. Just enabling those power users.

hm. Well I tend to work with smaller companies that have less people overall. So we need a lot of automation to enable the devs to be more productive. We have fully automated cicd pipeline where everything in the pipeline can be run locally. Most of the scripts support the pipeline allowing quick and easy reproduction of anything that might not work in gitlab. We have scripts to authenticate, validate, build, deploy, unit test, integration test, performance test, lint, e2e test, vuln scan, terraform, teardown, updating tickets, generating release notes… It’s a very transparent system to the developers. And it works pretty well, which is why they don’t need to have all the scripts memorized. They just don’t need to run them much. But when the pipeline fails in a way they don’t understand, access to all this allows them to self-serve finding out why. I know that plenty of places just make the devs do a lot of this manually. And since they are doing it often, it’s easy to remember and a required part of the job. But humans make mistakes, or cut corners and such which leads to bugs getting out into production. With working automation the devs don’t have to do these things manually very often which means they don’t need to memorize all of them, and less opportunity for bugs to slip through that could have been caught. The fact that they don’t have our scripts memorized is actually a sign of success for the automation. I have always been of the opinion that the more we can automate the mundane tasks away, the better. The people I have worked with prefer spending their time designing and coding, not memorizing mundane processes. Even with all our automation, our devs are always hoping for more.

I’m not so sure about that. Real time voice recognition is still pretty poor in my opinion. Chat takes that out of the way. So the failure of voice doesn’t mean chat can’t work. And think of how often you use grep. It’s pretty effective. AI can be a more advanced form or grep. And most importantly, we can tune where it looks and such. So like an easier to configure search engine, or really several that can be tuned for the specific search. If a search engine in the form of an AI skill can be highly specific, it can be better then a general search engine. Now put like 10 or 15 of those together with specifics to how your specific team/company works. And toss configuring the AI on top of that to know which one to use for what. Feels like we could make it very good. But of course, it isn’t going to work out of the box. We have to take ownership of it and make it work. Then give it to the whole team…