At this point I just wish they'd do it faster. I understand that at the end of all this constipation there should be a turd produced. I see no turds.

We need the "Do something" meme, here. They rarely do a damn thing. When they do it seems to often be a rights grab. Same with all the Trump decisions. Just make them already and get on with shit, win or lose. On the rare case they do something helpful to individual rights, they still take way too fucking long.

This is how I feel about public school teachers. They are lucky they didn't get replaced by VHS tapes and cheap proctors in the 1980's (which would have been far better). However, time's about up. After all their antics during CV1984, it looks very much like we can do without them and their continued paychecks are harmful to the rest of us. Time for them, their propaganda pushing, and their expensive pensions to go. Back to a merit based system post-haste. We can just make videos or AI's from the few good ones.

Doctors, lawyers, screenwriters, actors, and psych-majors can also feel free to go ahead and let AI eat them. However, school teachers first. You guys gotta GO.

Lawyers, Doctors, Teachers, Screenwriters, Authors, and Actors are all very concerned about AI. I'm glad. I want them to be. They think AI is my problem as a coder, but I've got news for them: AI does your job better than it does mine. I hope it puts every one of the fuckers out of business quickly and permanently (especially public school teachers and doctors). I saw their true colors during CV1984 and now I want them put into the same internment camps they wanted to put me into. Short of that, losing your job and bitching about it loudly will do as I feast on your salty tears.

Correct. They are all insecure and that was a bad idea from the start. More security won't work/help, most likely. Tough shit.

You can go back to known-good codebases, though. They might have some vulnerabilities but if they aren't catastrophic remote-root problems, they can be ring fenced by firewalls pretty easily to create "secure" environments (ie... maybe not secure as in "maintained with the latest patches" but secure in the sense that you know it's not backdoored by China).

No. That's not how the classes were structured. C++ programming intro class *was* 200-level. The 100-level was in C and TBF, they did get an intro there, but C++ has some fairly different conventions for even basic things like cout versus printf. Also, your nitpicking is irrelevant. The professor admitted to trying to make the class obtuse to "weed out" folks.

So, I take it you're against property rights, then? Am I misinterpreting you? Can you be clear on it?

Libertarians are quite mixed on IP protections. Some libertarians, like Ayn Rand and Objectivists, support patents as a recognition of individual creativity and property rights. Others, like Murray Rothbard disagreed with those types of protections. That is where I stand. I see patents as government-enforced privileges that favor large corporations and create barriers to entry. Instead, I'd suggest innovators rely on trade secrets, first-mover advantages, or contracts to protect their work.

They don’t just slap “mob rule” on anything that doesn’t suit them. They’re against government overreach that stomps on individual freedom, period. It’s not about protecting just their own power; they’re all about everyone having the same shot at life, liberty, and property. The idea that libertarians are cool with “the mob” handing them property rights but cry foul when there’s any limit is a strawman. Property rights come from hard work and fair deals, not some public handout. Libertarians push back on restrictions when they’re random or rigged to favor cronies, not because they hate all rules.

I have thought that. I believe that's pretty much where I'm coming from. The question is: why does it seem to happen so often? Perhaps it's not merely a vehicle, it's like a cancer that always metastasizes.

Exactly. Once they get control they refuse to share it with "the proletariat" or anyone else. Ask yourself what to do about it. Should we dreamily wish for rainbows and hugs and Communes winning out or a society where individual rights are protected at the expense of the convenience or security of politicians..

Nice try with the strawman, but libertarians love laws against bank robbery; it's textbook aggression against property rights. We just don't cheer for government 'robbers' who use taxes, eminent domain, or regulations to pick pockets legally. If you think opposing crony bailouts means we support actual thieves, you've got the philosophy backwards.

Wrong again; libertarians oppose coercive regulations that screw anyone, period. We fight licensing cartels that block barbers from working poor neighborhoods or tariffs that jack up prices for everyone. That's not 'protecting my interests'; it's dismantling barriers so others can thrive without Big Brother playing favorites. Your zero-sum worldview is the real cronyism enabler.

Libertarians don't oppose self-government; we oppose mob rule disguised as democracy that lets 'other people' vote away your rights. Madison warned about this in the Federalist Papers: majorities trampling minorities. We push for real self-governance: voluntary communities, contracts, and tech that lets individuals opt out of the state's 'empowerment' games. Your take sounds like statism's defense of the herd over the individual and it's super weak and super easy to debunk.

Ah, there we go. I was waiting. You couldn't resist the "But that wasn't REEEEEEL Communism." could ya? Well, here's a thought, since Russia, China, North Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, and the rest of the horrifying Leftist genocides weren't "reeeeal" communism, then what is it about Communism that always degenerates into slaughter and evil? Could it be that it's a fucked up excuse for people in power to smash individual rights and seize power under the guise of equity? Nooooo, couldn't be that, right?

Yep. Seems right in line with my thesis/ideas about LLMs and vibe coding. Key sentence: "Surprisingly, we find that when developers use AI tools, they take 19% longer than without; AI makes them slower."

Well, he had an awful lot of ideas about economics and business. None of which seemed to do him any good, ultimately. He took several loans from Engels, too. I'd be surprised if he got paid back. So, maybe him being an utter failure in life isn't indicative of the merit or value of his ideas, but the 100M dead might want a word on the topic, too.

For most folks, when it's a choice between video and reading, they choose video by default. Smartphones mean they have pretty much 100% access to video or social media so they are never going to pick up a book again.

Encouraging them to get Hugo winners is a losing strategy now, too. They give awards to lame authors like N.K. Jemisin simply for being black women. Go back to the 1980's and read the fantasy authors from that era. Then you'll get no woke recommendations beyond Anne McAffery (and she had some good books before she lost her mind and started writing lesbian literotica) and no AI "enhanced" authors, either.

Folks just see sci-fi and fantasy as being full of neckbeards who need a woke reducation. They even claim LoTR is racist. LoTR!

My professors didn't seem to want the kids to learn. I remember I took a C++ 200-level programming class and the instructor started with Vectors. I was like "WTF, you haven't even taught variables or control structures yet!". I did fine because, by that point, I'd been coding for years and done several projects in C++ (to my sorrow). However, when I asked the professor he said "We have 45 students in this class and many of them are CS majors. We only can have about 16 get through the upper level math classes because we only have the one professor and the classes are the highest demand in the school. Many majors need 400-level math to graduate and we have to strictly moderate who gets into those classes. So, we have to weed them out somehow."