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I used to be better at math and coding. If I pulled up my old project euler solutions I'm not sure I'd understand them anymore.

You have to be careful at low skill/knowledge levels, because it’ll happily send you down a crazy path that looks legitimate. I asked it how to do something in oracle SQL, because I don’t know oracle specifically, and it gave me a terrible answer. I suspected it wasn’t right so I asked a coworker who’s an old hand at Oracle, and he was like “no that’s terrible. Here’s a much simpler way”

I found it’s useful for code where I know like 70% of what I’m doing. More than that and I can just do it myself. Less than that and I can’t trust and diagnose the output. I’d rather have old fashioned stack overflow and tutorials, honestly. It’s hard to actually learn when it just gives answers.

I don’t have the means or motivation to do research now from the couch, so I’ll concede you may be correct. However, I think it might be even safer to take those same billions of dollars and invest them in mass transit and other infrastructure changes. That would mean fewer car accidents, less pollution, nicer spaces, healthier people, healthier economies, etc. private car ownership cannot be the long term solution. If it’s not an outright dead end, it’s certainly a side street instead of high speed rail (if you’ll pardon a strained metaphor).

Self driving cars are a great idea, but they aren’t a fix everything solution, they just one part of an overall solution. Why are they a great idea? What are they making better? How is it worth the real and opportunity costs?

Self driving cars have always been a stupid solution to the wrong problem. We shouldn’t be investing billions in them. We should be investing billions in creating livable spaces that don’t need cars so much. Then people will be happier and there will be less pollution. But I guess that’s not profitable so I guess we’ll just do idiotic garbage that gets people killed.

Much of this slots into time outside work rather than the workday itself. walk a different route to a destination pick an algorithm and walk with no destination (eg: straight until you hit a light not in your favor, then turn. Works in urban envs) go somewhere you don’t normally go. Eg: library, different coffee shop, that little art store you always see go to the library. Walk along the shelf with eyes closed and pick a book at random. pick a genre of music you never listen to. Listen to it. cook or prepare a meal unlike your normal fare go to a thrift store. Buy a cheap article of clothing you wouldn’t normally wear. Wear it. See how it feels find free or cheap art (music, theater, whatever) in your area. Go. journal. Spend a few minutes writing down your day’s details hit wikipedia’s random article button. Read it.

Arcanum is good shit. I played that so many times when it came out. straight damage dealing mage beat with an ugly stick orc fighter gun jerk charismatic elf girl who got everyone else to fight for her, talked the final boss down. I think maxing out time magic and backstab might have been the wackiest. Got like 90 action points and everyone else got 4. Stab stab stab stab.

Python. It’s pretty easy to get going. the debugger is very good. Being able to put a breakpoint and interactively fuss with it is so much better than print statements and crying you can (and should) use type annotations, but they are optional it’s on most machines already, but you don’t want to fuck with the system install of it. On Linux and Mac you can use pyenv or similar if the system came with a version you can’t use. (Don’t teach anyone python 2.) the standard library is very good. You could also do JavaScript, as that’ll work on any modern browser. However, JavaScript is a deeply cursed language. It’s really bad at like every level. I don’t recommend it unless your top priority is “it is definitely available everywhere” and “these are future web developers”.

It can get pretty crowded in some places at some times. Major transit hubs like Penn station, herald square, times square, all get pretty dense. I’ve been working from home so I don’t need to go to the busier parts at often.

Do I just get one shot or can I keep trying until I get it right? Basically anything that reduces Republican power in the US is probably a win overall.

Yeah if AI was actually good you wouldn’t need to mandate it. No one was like “everyone here must use Google search”.

Companies fill up with idiots and parasites. People who are adept at thriving in the role without actually producing value. Google is no exception.