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Yeah we saw the same concept after the attack on Venezuela, many Venezuelan ex-pats I know were celebrating, many with the hope that they will finally be able to go back home.

The reason I'm not gonna post about Iran is not cuz I don't care (I have family in the region).

It's cuz at some point it gets real exhausting to get "You think the attack was bad? So you support Khomeini?" from one side, and "You think Khomeini was bad? So you support Trump Bibi?" from the other.

Fun!

Why does it feel like it's every Shabbos lately?

Though the short term looks like it could be painful...

Yeah, the speed of writing code was never the bottleneck and just like any of the may levels of abstractions we've traveled up since the days of vacuum tubes and punch cards haven't put programmers out of work, they only made them more productive I'm not worried about the long term prospects here

Oh gosh! Everyone is sharing the graph of Block's stock jumping at the news of the layoffs, but zooming out just a tiny bit shows that the bump is a lot smaller than it looks!

They are still 3% down from where they were a month ago, 20% down from 6 months ago, and 75% down from their all time high!

"You can save on your grocery bills by dumpster diving for discarded fruits and veggies..."

"Dying your hair is assimilation" is... a collection of words lol

Awwe so much fun! I love that for you!!!!

...find that replacing humans with energy-intensive GPU farms is not quite the bargain they thought it was...

The reality is that there's no way for that to happen. AI companies are heavily subsidizing AI use, even paid enterprise plans don't come close to paying for themselves.

When the cost of AI shoots up as AI investors get impatient about getting returns on their investments companies will suddenly...

The flaw in the argument being made (the cost of producing software is falling so fast, companies that don't adapt by slashing headcount (the way Block did yesterday) will find themselves losing the market to cheaper, leaner competitors) is that it assumes the cost of AI will stay this way.

I guess a hug would be nice... :sigh:

I once replied to someone on LinkedIn who said something to the effect of "all programmers will be replaced by vibe coders in six months" with "only for the vibe coders to be replaced six months later by programmers brought in to clean up their mess...."

The hubris of tech workers convincing themselves they were 'special boiz' who didn't need to unionize....

That meme plays louder and louder the further I kept reading... 😬

A headline that reads "Software development now costs less than than the wage of a minimum wage worker." article by Geoffrey Huntley. Can be found here: https://ghuntley.com/real/

Chat, is it a good sign when the guy in charge of promoting AI in your company shares, and then unshares, this article in Slack?

A Catholic Priest and a Rabbi were chatting one day when the conversation turned to a discussion of job descriptions and promotion "What do you have to look forward to in way of a promotion in your job?" asked the Rabbi. "Well, I'm next in line for the Monsignor's job." replied the Priest. "Yes, and then what?" asked the Rabbi. "Well, next I can become Bishop." said the Priest. "Yes, and then?" asked the Rabbi. "If I work real hard and do a good job as Bishop, it's possible for me to become an Archbishop." said the Priest. "O.K., then what?" asked the Rabbi. The Priest, beginning to get a bit exasperated replied, "With some luck and real hard work, maybe I can become a Cardinal." "And then?" asked the Rabbi. The Priest is really starting to get mad now and replies, "With lots and lots of luck and some real difficult work and if I'm in the right places at the right times and play my political games just right, maybe, just maybe, I can get elected Pope." "Yes, and then what?" asked the Rabbi. "Good grief!" shouted the Priest. "What do you expect me to become, GOD?" "Well," said the Rabbi, "One of our boys made it!"

Also this discussion is reminding me of this joke (which I was too lazy to type so I Googled it lol)

I mean, can't argue with that...

Jewish pope Andreas - Wikipedia

I mean, if the legend is to be believed...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_...

I don't know the actual answer, but I do know I would probably avoid getting any extra attention from the US right now so probably best to leave things as is, at least for now.

שבת שלום ומבורך!

Talmudic thinking has a reputation for a reason 🙃

The second week, the landlord lit his own lamp thinking he would then give it to his Jewish tenant, so the tenant wasn't allowed to use it, but the landlord lit the tenant's lamp thinking he'd take it for himself so essentially he lit it for himself which is why the Jew was allowed to then use it

The rule is that he's not allowed to use a lamp that was lit for him. The first week the landlord lit his lamp for him so he wasn't allowed to use it, but the lamp the landlord lit for himself wasn't lit for him so it wasn't a problem.

But this time Foleh told him that because he lit the lamp having in mind the switch, this week he'll keep his lamp and the landlord could keep his own lamp. At that point the poor guy completely gave up on understanding the Jews and their weird customs

The landlord thought it was strange, but he was a gracious host so he indulged the Jew with his strange requests.

The next week the landlord remembered so he lit the two lamps and then wanted to exchange them and give Foleh his own lamp.

When Friday came around the landlord wanted to give R' Foleh his lamp but Foleh told him he wasn't allowed to use the lamp he lit for him, but he suggested that if he switched lamps and gave him the lamp the landlord lit for himself then he would be able to use it.

It was really far north and in the winter it got dark in the early noon so every day his landlord would light a kerosene lamp for himself and then light another one which he would give to R' Foleh.