I really don't know to be honest. Could be both. It's not something I've personally tested lol.
How Tesseract dev felt before getting found out.
Just watched this movie for the first time on Tuesday. I highly recommend it. (The Lawnmower Man.)
You may like this VSauce video about this topic called The Future of Reasoning. I spent a lot of time in 2020 and 2021 arguing with people online about covid and election fraud. I was under the impression that if someone just calmly, gently, respectfully laid out why they were wrong they'd accept it. I mean, for goodness's sake, one of the claims I responded to was someone saying something about X number of people voted in some county but there aren't that many people registered there. I told them it's easy to debunk and that I just searched Google for the county's official website and voter registration numbers and, as expected, they were different and higher than the number of people who voted. You wanna know what their response was? "Google is biased." Even though the information wasn't from Google, that's just how I found the site. (And I probably even used duckduckgo but didn't want to explain that lmao, point still stands.)
This video came to me after I'd already made the conscious decision to just stop doing it for my own mental health. It was really impactful.
Perhaps the most ironic (or unironic) thing is that had I seen this before I had that experience, I may have disagreed with the video.
I got permanent damage on a CRT by playing with some magnets neat it. Never left them around it overnight or anything. They were the magnets from the magnetic beyblade arena lol. The sides of the screen got sort of more red. If bright colors, especially white, were on those areas for a long time they'd get progressively more discolored. It would fade back to its mostly normal dull red shade after some time without the bright white. So it wasn't the worst damage ever, but it was definitely permanent damage and definitely noticeable.
Magnets can damage CRT televisions and mechanical hard drives (not solidstate ones I don't think). I'm not necessarily going to test it by rubbing magnets all over, but for the most part those two things have fallen out of use. Tech is a lot less... Moving now. I guess is a good way of putting it. With hard drives specifically it would cause the arm inside to move and scratch the disk.
Not really. A big problem is the energy usage, which would not go away.
Distributed computing is a real thing though. Check out GIMPS and Folding@home if this interests you. The first is looking for extremely large prime numbers. The second is to learn about proteins. I believe amateurs get more benefit from it. I remember a service to help jailbreak your 3ds used distributed computing. Also there are some folks who search for Minecraft world generation seeds with specific properties using distributed computing.
Assuming this is a real post and not satire, my best guess is that they don't think it's a bottleneck, but still believe a way to talk to the computer without disturbing others in the office is useful. Like if Tide detergent said it would save your marriage -- they don't think it really will, but the ad is humourous and likely to gain attention because of it.
If you're still in college, try to get an internship. Once you have something on your resume, it's a lot easier to get into places. Plus try to network and stuff. Getting recommended by someone is much more likely to result in an interview.
The AI shit is really rocking the boat right now, but ultimately I don't think it's sustainable. I don't know what the future of dev work will look like or when it'll balance out, but right now, these AI agents are effectively heavily subsidized by investors. At some point, they'll need to either turn to the public (IPO) as a last resort, or actually begin to turn a profit. I think this happened with Microsoft's Copilot. "Tokenpocalypse" was the term that got thrown around. They can't undercharge for this stuff forever.
Even if AI does end up being a significant part of work, actually knowing how to code will make you better at using it. Your skills aren't useless. You'll be better at noticing when the agents make shitty code or shitty decisions. If agentic development ends up being too costly for everyday use, you'll still be able to assist with "manual" code writing.
AI companies over hype their products and say they're world shattering as a way of marketing. They say the idea of developers are over because they want people to invest and buy their product. Agentic coding has gotten pretty fucking impressive in the past few months, but something's gonna break at some point. The bill always comes due.
But yeah. Internship and networking. Learn AI, but don't eschew traditional development practices entirely.
Heh, still living in the stone age? That's why I use my Superwhisper™.
Lol. "Hide NSFW communities by default" and in the same commit totally blocks blahaj.
Pedophile and perchance
Yes, hello, cyber police? Yes. I have a backtraced IP to report.