Right there with you. Not that great in my field. Got headhunted, 50% raise, company is only able to hire talented people (and they need them) by out-paying competitors. All contractors, vendors, partners are the same. We are definitely high-tech. Been hearing about this “recession” for nearly two years now. Just smells like media trying to create one.

A lot? A lot?

That’s capitalist talk!

NPR doesn’t produce inflammatory, biased news and clickbait headlines, so this is not surprising in the least.

Definitely. I have experimented with image generation on my own mid-range RX GPU and though it was slow, it worked. I have not tried the latest driver update that’s supposed to accelerate those tools dramatically, but local AI workstations with dedicated silicon are the future. CPU, GPU, AIPU?

The current breed of generative “AI” won’t ‘die out’. It’s here to stay. We are just in the early Wild-West days of it, where everyone’s rushing to grab a piece of the pie, but the shine is starting to wear off and the hype is juuuuust past its peak.

What you’ll see soon is the “enshittification” of services like ChatGPT as the financial reckoning comes, startup variants shut down by the truckload, and the big names put more and more features behind paywalls. We’ve gone past the “just make it work” phase, now we are moving into the “just make it sustainable/profitable” phase.

In a few generations of chips, the silicon will have made progress in catching up with the compute workload, and cost per task will drop. That’s the innovation to watch out for now, who will de-throne Nvidia and its H100?

Nah, it’s Gilead.

I fail to see how someone can understand the aircraft parts industry enough to enter it and become a supplier, and at the same time believe you can get away with forging certifications.

Uh huh, and how many of these “sold” vehicles are on roads as opposed to sitting in a field somewhere.

I’ve been reading more books.

And have you noticed your boobs getting firmer? Not that we care about such things in this day and age…

Oh here we fucking go again.

Ten thousand “studies show” articles will be published.

Antivaxx idiots will continue ignoring every single one because “it’s what THEY want you to think”

Pets will get sick and die early.

Facebook groups will pop up and swell with idiots and their stories and bullshit information, because no real consequences.

Can we just ignore this one?

Aside from “beardless Riker” I cannot think of a truly unique or memorable moment from that movie that really stands out from the rest of TNG.

Hell even beardless Riker in a way just harkens back to Season 1.

u/poem_for_your_sprog?

I have suspected for a while now that the only way I will leave my current company is when it’s bought out and I am made redundant or downsized. Good to know the symptoms.

Not even a Pudding of the Month Club subscription?!

My local library! I’ve taken out hundreds of materials over the past few years completely free. Discovered a new genre of books I love, and used their other benefits to noticeably improve my skills - free professional lessons and seminars, free access to Lynda/LinkedIn Learning, free one-on-one resume coaching, and lots more.

But MUH TAAAXES!

Reader mode is still here and works 100% fine, at least on Android…

Marge sounds rough lately. Definitely needs to end.

“Trudeau refuses to sign statement condemning Russia” is a headline he does NOT want right now.