We have such powerful AI tools these days. Every media recommendation service should have a slider you can set to indicate how much you want to be "challenged."

High challenge = CS papers explained

Medium challenge = bridge engineering videos

Low challenge = some guy playing video games for you on YouTube

Yet they still keep the word "open" in their name

Google is good at buying existing products and scaling them, which is exactly what they did with DeepMind.

Deepmind was their worst acquisition ever. It is a vanity project that burns cash.

As a quick and dirty heuristic: the C in disc is for CD (or other optical media).

It's a privacy problem because permitting things like this can lead to abuses.

"It's really not hard to create your own coal power. Our engineers have built a small coal power generator and simply get coal from our mines (which I'll describe in a future blog post)."

LOL'ed again IRL :).

If they throw out things like due process and reasonable doubt they can do a whole lot with the data they've collected.

That may sound hyperbolic but I hope it's obvious to most people by now that it's not.

They can do parallel construction or use "undercover" informants etc.

Fuzzy Dunlop (it's from The Wire). Their CI was a tennis ball (with an unauthorized camera inside).

Depends on the race of the engineer. If you're gay or live in a blue city/state then you also lose your protection

911 informs the cops of your sexual preferences when they dispatch them?

Sorta, if you live in a blue city—so really just a city at this point-then it wraps around a small amount and your local police are, at least when it comes to this crap, largely on your side. ICE is making huge messes and leaving it to the local PD to clean it up which is not exactly endearing. Nobody likes when a bunch of people come in and start pissing in your Cheerios. Especially when those Cheerios are "rebuilding trust with your local community."

Have any of you tried talking to a police officer in real life? If you're just polite to them they treat you like they're your private protection force.

Moreso in blue cities, I have no idea what point you're making there other than crime you've seen on TV is scary.

It’s conditional on whether you are affirming the opinions of your employer or oppositional

I'll be sure to bring my mechanical keyboard and secondary vertical monitor out in public so they'll know I'm one of the good ones.

There is no protected class from malevolent government. Everyone from oligarchs down to the have nots can be targets. Let's not keep relearning that lesson.

Engineers are just workers

AI is a good tutor, helping you understand what's going on with the codebase, and also helps with minor autocomplete tasks.

You should never just let AI "figure it out." It's the assistant, not the driver.