That is a question I’n trying to answer. Until I know what ai can do I can’t have a valid opinion.

That can help - but ai reviews still miss a lot of bad code. Still a first pass - if the ai finds something it is rarely wrong - so fix things the ai finds before you bother others, or justify why the ai is wrong. But if all you do is an ai review of ai code you get garbage

I’m writing code because it is often faster than explaining to the ai how to do it. I’m spending this month seeing what ai can do - it ranges from saving me a lot of tedious effort to making a large mess to clean up

I’ve been writting a lot of code with ai - for every half hour the ai needs to write the code I need a full week to revise it into good code. If you don’t do that hard work the ai is going to overwhelm the reviewers with garbage

I took typing in school several times using QWERTY. I learned the IBM typewriters were really nice to type on, and what the “correct” way to type was. It didn’t make any difference though at the time because typing speed was never the limit, it was thinking speed. Then in college I got into IRC and most things didn’t need deep thinking and so typing speed was the limit so I learned to apply the “correct” way because it was faster which I needed. (I never did meet a worthwhile girl on IRC so it didn’t do anything for me even though I now type faster)

I find ai can turn out code fast - but then I spend a week or more turning it into good code and so the time saved isn’t near as much. I’d be embarressd to call it my own and as a professional can’t allow garbage-

https://acoup.blog/2019/06/28/collections-oaths-how-do-they-work/ has a very interesting discussion and you should read it all. Not everything applies to modern world but the majority does

It works if you believe your religion. If you are a roman swearing by Jupiter you are asking Jupiter to strike you with lightening if you lie - and as a believer you honestly think that will happen. since most people are christians they swear on the bible knowing they are asking to go to hell if they lie - even if otherwise they are good enough to be forgiven. Muslins generally swear of the quarn - to similar reasons (i’m not clear on what muslins believe happens if they lie, but they believe in it which matters)

of course a large number of people are not religious these days - so this is often pointless.

Wood breathes. You will need something watertight lining the inside. Paint is not enough. 8mm plastic is my first thought - but many plastics also allow moisture through and I’m not sure what is safe. An epoxy finish on the inside might work. But getting a continious layer could be a pain.

Depends one where you live. In the US where I live until you get to $50/person or more all restaurant meals are exactly as your parents say - reheated in some way. Even at that high price level many of the meals are the same reheated things the cheaper ones are serving with better arrangement, but at least then some things are cooked yourself.

You live in Europe - there are some great restaurants there that are cheaper. However there are also a number of reheated garbage just like we have in the US.

It isn’t hard to learn to cook for yourself, and once you do it is hard to see why people pay so much money for just garbage food. But people do all the time and don’t see anything wrong with it - some even call it good.

Decay is always lumpy. In general you are correct, but this topic isn’t the general state of Russia, but the state of their nuclear program. By all reports that program has done much better than the typical program.

People in the west who have access to classified information are acting like the think Russia’s nukes work. We also know that at the fall of the soviet union the people who lead the nuke programs got more power. As such I think Russia has working nukes - if there is any decay in the program it would have started at most 2 years ago - not long enough for there to be many failures.

That is different from sabre rattling - they get plenty of propaganda value from a threat that they are unlikely to use. They are well aware that launching a nuke means they and all their loved ones die (it is unlikely more than a few thousand humans would survive the result), so they are unlikely to use their nukes, but reminding everyone they have them is helpful. And they have a few deranged people (likely everyone) that we can’t assume they won’t.

Maybe a decoy account. We know the CIA is only obvious when they want you to look away from something else

I’m blind without my glasses. I’ve thought about surgery but I’m wear ansi safety glasses anyway - I know what it is like to go to the bathroom without my glasses - that is okay in the middle of the night - but I have no interest in my whole life being like that so I’m protecting my eyes as best I can.

You forgot inflation. If you are happy with 40k today that could be 80k by the time you retire and likely will be over 150k by the time you die.

You are not wrong - but the point is there is value here, are just not getting it to the right people.

All spying needs to be owned by the person who owns the car. GM or however might have data, but it needs to not be accessible by them except by my agreement. Do I want my dealer to know when I need an oil change - maybe (depends on if I trust my dealer), or maybe I want my independent mechanic to know this, or maybe I change my own oil and want only me to know.

There are useful things about internet connections and phone home. Maybe not for you, but for many.

For company vehicles when the car is due for an oil change the mechanics should be informed not the driver. Likewise the company should be able to track where their cars are and when they are driving (and restrict them from driving outside of their territory). For things like snow plows the company needs to track where they have plowed already.

When it is cold it is nice to tell the car to start warming up 5 minutes before you get into it. For electric cars that are currently plugged in this is important as it lets you spend grid energy to warm up the car instead of range.

It is also useful to have up to date maps on the car - there are things a built in system can do that android auto / apple carplay cannot do. Though you have to drive a lot for this to be worth it. (My car as GM’s onstar and no android auto - I don’t pay for it, but I could see in a 10 minute test drive how onstar is better if you are driving the car for hours every day - since I mostly work from home or bike it isn’t worth it, but I can see how it is better despite not being better)

But there needs to be a non-charge option for things like remote start.

Somewhat, but it also scares me.

I know that I’m very introverted. I like to go “heads down” writing code all day. However I’m also painfully aware from experience that not talking to others means I’m out of the loop and soon I’m developing great code for something the company doesn’t need. I need to spend time in the office listening to others talk - I get much less done, but at least what I get done are things the company cares about, and in turn I’m much more likely to keep my job (having to find a new job is one of the worst things that can happen to an introvert - I have to convince strangers to hire me)

Right now I go to the office about 16 hours a week, which seems to be enough. I also live close enough to work that I can ride my bike - in turn commute time is also exercise time, something I need to get more of anyway.

Onless you will die in a few years growth should be where most of your retire early money comes from. As you get older you need less growth though.