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Cake day: August 2nd, 2023

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  • What’s the article have to say about why the selloff is strange?

    • it reflects something more ominous as President Donald Trump tries to reshape global trade: a loss of confidence in the U.S.
    • Global trust and reliance on the dollar was built up over a half century or more … But it can be lost in the blink of an eye
    • the dollar has fallen 9% against a basket of currencies, a rare and steep decline
    • It is no longer hyperbole to say that the dollar’s reserve status and broader dominant role is at least somewhat in question
    • the ballooning U.S. federal debt, which is already at a risky 120% of U.S. annual economic output … Most countries with that debt to GDP would cause a major crisis
    • he will force interest rates lower to boost the economy even if doing so risks stoking runaway inflation. That is a sure fire way to get people to flee the dollar.
    • This is the first step down a slippery slope where international confidence in the U.S. dollar is lost

    Hm, strange indeed. It’s just happening on its own and nobody can put their finger on why. Better say it’s “strange” and not “POTUS is intentionally destroying the US’s global standing via disastrous and illegal policy”






  • AI certainly can do it. But here’s the thing with generative AI: the answer is only as good as the question you ask. If you don’t know exactly what to ask for and which details are important, the AI doesn’t know what you meant to ask and can’t infer that. AI usually does not pick up implied context that an experienced person would. A person would be able to make an educated guess about what you actually meant and answer that question.

    As someone with 20 years of programming experience, I would recommend against using AI to learn to program. You’re asking something that doesn’t actually know how to program to show you how to do it. From my experience with coworkers using AI, it doesn’t improve their work; it simply accelerates the rate at which they can produce low quality work.

    Once you’re more skilled than the AI, you can use it to speed up menial tasks, like generating boilerplate and stubbing things out. It absolutely will be wrong in some ways, and you need to be able to tell when it’s wrong and know how to fix it.




  • West Coast is best coast! People are generally a lot more chill than east coast. If you’re of a particular age, just consider Tupac vs. Biggie. Their personalities sum it up nicely.

    Work-wise, business in the US will already be underway when you get to work, and starts dying down after your lunch. If you interact with people on the east coast, mornings are busier and afternoons are much quieter.

    West Coast is generally more racially/ethnically diverse, depending on where you’re comparing. It’s also a lot more liberally aligned. Conservativism hits differently too. There’s less evangelical “Jesus is my personality” types and more “get off my property and leave me alone” conservatives. It’s how legal weed was passed in CO first; conservatives joined in on the yes vote because what you do in your own home isn’t the government’s business.

    The weather is generally better, IMO. It’s drier and sunnier year-round, except for the PNW region. That means less vegetation though. The dense deciduous forests of the south/east have their own appeal, and you just won’t get that out west. The land is a lot more open and sparse.






  • I think they’re setting this up to be a whole bunch of nothing. Their current plan is to just tell the states to deport everyone. States don’t do shit on behalf of the federal government for free. If the fed doesn’t pay, the states say no way. So a few red states will deport some people but then he’ll go start to blaming dem states for cock blocking him.

    Don’t get me wrong, this will destroy the lives of thousands of people and be a stain on our nation. But no way they’re deporting 20,000,000.


  • It’s totally possible! I live in CO and Comcast had a legal monopoly per state law. Nobody else is allowed to compete with their cable service. But you know what isn’t cable? Fiber! A local broadband company just installed fiber in my neighborhood this spring. I signed up for $89/mo gigabit service, no data cap, no installation fees at all. Between when I signed up and when they turned on service, they upgraded my service to 1.2 gigabit, same monthly price, no cap, no commitment, no upsell (their only other service is rural satellite Internet).

    I talked to the technician installing it and he said they aren’t getting any subsidies from anyone. Not the city, state, or fed. It’s simply economically viable to run new gigabit fiber for $89/mo. All it takes is a company that can make the initial infrastructure investment.