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Cake day: April 29th, 2024

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  • High paying jobs with tons of new graduates have an oversaturated supply problem. It’s no surprise that when people figure out that becoming a software developer is easy street to 150k+++ WFH that there was a huge rush to get those jobs… now that there are TONS and TONS of young junior devs there is no shortage to hire someone for near minimum wage.

    Why pay 400k for a senior developer when you can hire a mid-level for ~100k to be a manager, and 4 juniors for 60k a piece, and augment them with chatgpt to help them learn what they are skill gapped by.

    Plus junior devs are so desperate you can force them to come into the office, something the dev divas ten years ago refused to do back when there was a huge shortage of coders.



  • Captchas have largely been solvable by machines at a rate higher than humans for a long, long time.

    It is very easy to train a model to behave like humans do by simply having a sample of human inputs.

    Here is an article from august 2023 covering how much better machines are than humans at accomplishing captchas of many flavors. Sauce



  • An adult would be content on half a medium pizza

    A medium cheese pizza from dominos is 1660 calories. A slice is 210 calories.

    630 calories (3 slices) for a meal seems about right.

    A pan pizza from dominos is 2320 calories. a slice is 290 calories.

    Two slices for the pan pizza seems fine too and with their typical pickup deals is the same price.

    Though their deals usually give you two toppings for free. My favorite is Chicken, Bacon, Ranch sauce on pan. It’s 2,960 a pizza, or 370 per slice. Right now my local dominos offers these for $8 each if you buy two. 6000 calories for $16. Stupid cheap and feeds minimum 6 people who want a thousand calorie meal each.



  • drones above a certain dinky threshold also require registration

    Basically 0 chance that this law applies to RC helicopters/planes/multirotors. They don’t contain GPS and they aren’t monitored by air traffic controllers.

    The newer regs boil down to you basically have to write your ID number in the canopy and avoid restricted airspaces… and who the hell is gonna roll by and check that you have a number written in your canopy? Maybe cops that get a complaint, and that is pretty rare. The older guys who have been in the hobby that I know completely ignore the newer regs, if you aren’t bothering anybody then nobody cares.









  • Raise the minimum wage to $25/hr, tie it to inflation…

    I fully believe this would cause runaway inflation as wages only went up and up as the majority of americans have more money and thus prices can be raised. This cycle would constantly repeat as raised prices cause a raise in wage until the american dollar is worthless and we’re all making millions or billions of dollars a year which adjusted to inflation… is like today’s $15/hr. Interest rates for loans would skyrocket to an unfathomable percentage as double digit inflation remains y/y.

    The billionaires would quickly turn into trillionaires and quadrillionaires as their investments rise in price proportional to inflation.