I feel your pain. I’m hunting for another software engineering job myself, and I’m also having to weed through listings dripping with references to AI coding agents and such. :\

• Be Pinto, the Bean
• Visit /c/fuck_ai
• People there hate AI
• Pinto, the Bean:

Theia… is a hypothetical ancient planet in the early Solar System which, according to the giant-impact hypothesis, collided with the proto-Earth around 4.50 billion years ago…

• Wikipedia page on Theia

(Emphasas mine.)

all traces of carbon-14 would be long gone after 14 billion years.

I don’t think anyone would seriously say that Theia is 14 billion years old. The universe is about 14 billion years old. None of the planets of our solar system developed until about 4.6 billion years ago, and I wouldn’t think the upper limit for the development of the hypothetical planet Theia (if indeed it ever did exist) could be much more than that 4.6 billion years ago figure. That said, your point certainly stands that Theia would be far older than that up “to about 60,000 years ago” figure, so carbon dating is inapplicable to any discussion around evidence for/against the Theia hypothesis.

this is a disaster that can’t continue forever

I thought the same about blockchain. And to an extent, I was right. Nobody’s talking about Bitcoin or Etherium (let alone NFTs) any more except the major weirdos who are still stuck in their own weird echo chamber. But the price of Bitcoin is still alarmingly high for something with literally no value. Largely because it’s being propped up by despots.

But more than that, I think the AI bubble is basically just a continuation of the blockchain bubble. Several companies with warehouses full of graphics cards eventually found it unprofitable to mine cryptocurrencies. Needing a way to salvage their profits, they took stock of their assets (lots of graphics cards) and considered how to salvage their situation. A stupid scammy bubble worked the first time. Why not a second time? And thus the AI bubble was born. A bubble which made use of… lots of graphics cards.

You’re right that the AI bubble can’t exist forever in its current form. But who knows what’s next? Quantum computers? (That’s already kindof happening.) Human brain cells in a jar used for computing? (Wired just had an article about that.) Dark factories? Some bullshit yet to be pulled from someone’s ass? (Not that all of these things are entirely bullshit. Some of them probably have more potential to be genuinely profitable than GenAI. But they also definitely have the potential to be sold in half-baked (or less-than-half-baked) forms atop a mountain of unjustified hype. And to be made the new cornerstone of an even more precarious economy.)

Blockchain was a bubble. And it’s… less influential than it was. (Not dead, but fizzling out.) But it didn’t really “pop” the way you’d expect a bubble to pop. It turned into another bubble. My worry is that the AI bubble won’t pop. It’ll pivot. And it won’t be the same. (I don’t really fear that I’m going to be forced by my employer to start supporting Bitcoin payments on our e-commerce site.) But it probably won’t be better in any real sense.

I fear we may be living in a “bubble bubble”. As in, the commodity that is being greatly overvalued and propped up by despotic governments is no longer a specific niche industry, but rather the production of bubbles themselves. It’s gone meta. (And I don’t mean Zuck. Well, yes I do. But you know what I mean.)

(Sometimes when I comment in this thread, folks ask me “is this just you speaking or is it the official opinion of /c/fuck_ai?” Just to head that question off, this is just me talking on my own behalf. Not on behalf of the community.)

You’d get better answers if you shared where you got the idea that we’ve found remnants of Theia. (I doubt most folks who would read this have heard of any such Theia-related developments. For that matter, I was completely unfamiliar with Theia until I googled it just now. But if you shared where you got the idea that we’d found “remnants of Theia”, even folks who hadn’t been familiar with that development could probably read/watch that and maybe provide some insight.)

Apparently Hy-vee is employee-owned

From what I’ve heard from former employees of employee-owned grocery stores, it sounds like “employee-owned” can often be an “on paper”, kind of technicality that bolsters their image marketing-wise/PR-wise while not actually being true in practice.

A former employee of the Price Cutter location I was talking about, when I asked about Price Cutter being worker-owned (it says so in a sign on the door as you walk in), told me that the union there was completely captured/controlled by the upper management. Like, the vice president had full veto power over what the union decided. (And why TF would a truly “employee-owned” company have/need a union. So you can collectively bargain with yourselves, the collective owners?) In practice, the union was kindof just to give employees some degree of illusion that they weren’t just wage slaves. And maybe to make creating a real union seem less feasible to employees. And maybe there are meetings that employees can attend and theoretically vote on things or whatever, but in practice, the attendees who vote don’t actually have any sway over the direction of the company or conditions for workers or anything.

Not to say I’m not filing a complaint. It probably can’t hurt to do so. But I don’t think “it’s employee-owned” is actually necessarily any reason to think results might be better than if it didn’t say “employee-owned” on the website, unfortunately.

Ah. I didn’t even realize they were. I’ve blocked all the pro-GenAI communities I’ve run across, so it may be that it’s been so long since I had enough exposure to any of the pro-GenAI content on programming.dev that I’ve forgotten about programming.dev being all pro-GenAI.

Yeah, my current job isn’t pressuring people on my team to use GenAI (yet), but unfortunately I’m going to have to change jobs soon-ish and I definitely worry about being pressured or forced into using it. :(

Also, another dev team at my company that my team works pretty closely with has been relegated basically entirely to the role of code reviewing slop committed by a third party contractor company. :( :(

Trumplandia. :\

old stuff needs to be pulled to the front

Yeah, the stuff I’m talking about is always the front unit on the shelf. I can’t always be arsed to search behind the front one for fresher units, but when I do, usually the entire stock on the shelf of that particular product is expired all the way to the back of the shelf. So I don’t really think that’s the issue in my case. I might be more vigilant about searching behind the frontmost unit in the future, though.

every major retail store in the country is cutting staff to save money

Yeah, this store clearly has huge turnover as well. Probably not uncommon to see in grocery stores in general, but I think it’s worse here than other stores. The checkout clerks, for instance, often times have to ask for help for things like “how do I ring up the gallon drinking water refills” or whatever. (Which, of course, isn’t the clerk’s fault at all.)

Why don’t you grab someone who works there and tell them…

Because I want to keep shopping there and don’t want everyone there to hate me. Plus I’m conflict averse. If I was going to complain, I’d probably try to do so as anonymously as I can.

(And I’m talking about the second location – the HyVee. The Price Cutter’s done for. I really don’t think there’s any hope for them.)

When asked if he acted alone, police responded: “He had some help. It ain’t like he can make this kind of mess all by himself.”

(Joke. It’s lyrics from a single Morgan Wallen and Post Malone did together.)

Remember DMCA is a US law and does not apply outside the USA

Ok, but to be clear, you’re not claiming it’s necessarily legal in the U.S. or in other jurisdictions with similar anticircumvention laws (as in, other WIPO treaty member countries), correct?

I genuinely hope that remains the case for you.

Every Miku is canon.

Why does lemmy not have a laundry dedicated forum?

Because you haven’t made one yet. ;)

Mind you, for a topic like that, I’d expect it to take a good amount of effort to make it “active”.

Has to be some kind of thrash or black metal.

(Happy cake day!)

That crab’s anatomy makes me uncomfortable.

My grandmother was really really good at Dr. Mario. She played the NES version first and later got into a Wii Virtual Console version of Dr. Mario. She’d start at level 20 every time.

Eventually her eyesight got the better of her, but until that happened, she was damned good at it.