My mother and her husband are COBOL devs for a US state government. She works on the health insurance side for teachers and other state employees. Think claim processing.
Lots of batch jobs running at night. Their alert system is an actual human who calls my mom when jobs fail in the middle of the night.
My father is 75 and he still works, has his own software development company with his own back-office program written in cobol. He started a company back in 1991 with two other cobol programmers, they are retired now, and while almost all of the code they wrote has been replaced with c# code by younger programmers there are still some parts of the code written in cobol that he still maintains.
いいスレだなァ。この世代で親がプログラマってどういうかんじだろうといつも思う。
…if you woke up on a Casper mattress, worked out with a Peloton, Ubered to a WeWork, ordered on DoorDash for lunch, took a Lyft home, and ordered dinner through Postmates only to realize your partner had already started on a Blue Apron meal, your household had, in one day, interacted with eight unprofitable companies that collectively lost about $15 billion in one year.
という Why City Life Has Gotten Way More Expensive - The Atlantic からの引用がほぼすべてを物語っているが、エーアイ課金はこのところ値上がり著しいのであまり VC money のおこぼれに預かれている気がしない。なお自分は上記のようなサービス群は高くてシャレになんねーということで、特別な時しか使ってない。こういうのにカネ垂れ流してるアメリカ若者、経済回してんなと思う。
Gen Z, It Turns Out, Is Great at Saving for Retirement - The New York Times
こんな若者たちも昔よりマシというんだから、自分がアメリカン・マインドを理解できる日は永遠に来ないことでしょう。
The Tech Job Meltdown - Professor Axelrod
But, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017 amended Section 174, effective for tax years beginning after December 31, 2021. Starting in 2022, R&D expenditures must be capitalized and amortized over 5 years for domestic research (and 15 years for foreign research… which is pretty untenable.) This change eliminated the option to immediately deduct R&D costs, increasing tax liability for companies with significant research budgets in the short term.
The short version is: this rule change has increased taxable income for businesses in the short term, as they can no longer deduct R&D costs immediately.
これも T 政権のやらかしだったのか・・・。
These young engineers - squandering their opportunities to learn how things actually work - would briefly glance at the AI-generated code and/or explanation messages and continue producing more code when “it looks okay.”
こういう sentiment が数年後にどう感じられるか興味があるので記録しておくものなり。
Hyprland:
Hyprland provides the latest Wayland features, dynamic tiling, all the eyecandy, powerful plugins and much more, while still being lightweight and responsive
DHH が使っている というので存在を知った 。おもしろそうだが、自分のラップトップは NVIDIA GPU つきなので色々と面倒が多そうである。次のラップトップは NVIDIA-free にしようと誓う。
Earlier on Sunday, Trump’s treasury secretary said Musk should focus on running his companies and keep himself out of politics, a day after the world’s richest person – and a former White House adviser – announced the formation of a new political party.
すべての文脈を無視してこの発言だけを見ると、個人的には同意してしまうな…
Yeah, pretty accurate. Perhaps even eerily so. Upon first reading, I was surprised when it nailed age range, location, family size, etc.—details that I didn’t expect to be represented in a data set that I thought mostly consisted of Hacker News posts. Shows you how much can be inferred by a simple trail of “likes.”
似たようなことは Gemini で自分の検索履歴を使える personalized mode でもできる:
ただしそんなに賢くはない。上の記事では o3 なので、だいぶ色々 guess できそうである。