But then what currency would they use in eve online? How could we replace all of the iskies memes

I'm Canadian, the auto industry here died the moment trump started all of this tarrif talk in February, it just hasn't gotten cold yet.

Because of the tarrif and trade war our local industries will struggle and collapse, there's nothing we can do about that - they were dependent on US trade partners and markets, the Canadian market is much smaller. We have massive productivity issues, there's little chance we'll successfully build our own auto industry.

In the interim buying more from China doesn't really hurt us, and sends a strong signal to the remaining people who care about foreign policy in Washington that there are penalties to treating allies like enemies.

I used to really strongly oppose Chinese expansion and the rise of cheap products getting dumped everywhere - I still do, but I oppose the US admin more; and at least they're stable and clear about what they want

Seems pretty straightforward to me: Hey, China - start local plants and we’ll be happy to have as many EVs as we can build. After all, we’ll have plenty of idle auto workers.

If Chinese industry is willing to operate at a loss in order to poke the US in the eye, sure - markets too small and labor too expensive otherwise imo.

I full heartedly recommend anyone who wants to learn, to use the Socrates skill, and then build a daily 1 hour curriculum that you will tackle. It's painful and not pleasant, but it works quite well when to don't have a teacher and want to learn something really hard and complicated

My favorite - reply like I do, review my previous messages to understand my tone and verbosity. As much as needed, as little as possible

It'll end up like that episode of Dr. Who where they get stranded in a lunar tour bus -- slowly starting to mimic you, and then it'll predict and replace you.

Maybe it does for you, but everyone is different. It is annoying (and sad) to see both sides asserting their experiences as universal truths.

I cannot stand pair programming, but I don't begrudge that it might work for some.

And for some of us it works great… sometimes.

Like, not as a rule. There are times when it would be helpful to have my trusted coworker helping to work through something. The answers aren’t all obvious and we don’t know exactly how it’s going to go. We’ll feel it out as we go. He has better instincts for some stuff and I have better ones for others. We’ll get there better and faster pairing.

But most of the time we have our own stuff to do and have our respective things well in hand. Then there’s no reason to force a pair programming situation.

Compared to the time of great powers before WW1 and during, this has been by far the most peaceful the globe has been for a very long time

My Garmin instinct is kind of the perfect dumb smart watch, it has a very simple calculator style rendering and the simplest speaker possible. Alarms are vibrations and water proof to a reasonable depth, battery lasts 2 weeks. Really have no reason to upgrade

So, the existential dread bit - sure. That's a real concern and thing, but let's put that aside for a sec.

When you did math and long division by hand in highschool did you enjoy it? Did you feel like you lost something when you were allowed to use a graphing calculator on a test?

In university I dreaded exams that allowed calculators because I knew how much harder the exam was going to be - that's what genai is today in my experience.

Yes we don't need manual calculators as a profession anymore to land rockets, same as we don't need a programmer to necessarily fiddle around with divs or structs - but the exams are harder now. Now we need to spend our time actually considering trade offs and actually doing software engineering. This is harder and maybe not everyone who's had that job title is particularly good at that - but that's the new skill to get good at, and because the world is under constrained making design and implementation decisions will essentially always need to be done by the person building the thing.

If you liked the programming bit, I'm sorry - I'm personally happy I don't have to remember regex or how to figure out how to center a div or span again.

Nothing was lost using a graphing calculator because you assume the calculator produces the correct result every time. Imagine if, instead, 90% of the time it was wrong, and you needed to check the result and then take another pull on the slot machine lever.

Centering a div and using regex are basic programming skills that aren’t some kind of difficult exercise or the privilege of a select few. Everyone working (at least on typical business CRUD applications) should know how to use these tools.

If you don’t then I’m sorry - maybe you shouldn’t be a programmer.

I built a ML training framework from scratch in cuda in 2016, for earthquake forecasting - I know quite well how to solve low level kernel optimization problems :) I'm also regularly a rust developer and I do know REGEX thanks.

Building that project today, would not be impressive or particularly hard. There are great references available today to illustrate how to build that. Sure LLMs aren't 100% accurate, neither is an intern or junior dev you might offload a task to. Part of the job of a software engineer is collaboration. Understanding how to collaborate with teammates (local, AI, outsourced) and how to ship when your teammates make mistakes is quite important to know how to resolve.

That's why CI/CD and TTD exists! If you have a project where correctness is critical, why haven't you written a test to validate that correctness?

> you assume the calculator produces the correct result every time

The calculator itself sure. But the whole process of calculating using calculator? Definitely not 100% always correct. You can miss the buttons, hit the entirely wrong ones, you may put in entirely wrong thing. So if you care about the result you double check, especially if you get something unreasonable. The calculator being perfect is quantitative difference, not qualitative once. The process would be exactly the same if the calculator made 1/100 operations wrong.

Centering a div was a hack built on hacks based on a spec that was derived from random browser behaviors built over decades. I am super happy I don't have to do that shit again. Both because of flexbox and AI.

But yeah you need to know how to write a regex, if you want to be a programmer.

I can't do anything with a div, much less center it - I haven't touched web-tech in twenty years, but I've been a programmer the whole time.

Have you had an argument or dispute with a contractor before? It's better to just do it yourself when you can, and fix it when it breaks