All metaphors are flawed. You may still need a degree of general programming knowledge (for now) but you don't need to e.g. know Javascript to do frontend anymore.

And as labs continue to collect end-to-end training done by their best paying customers, the need for expert knowledge will only diminish.

You’re talking to an LLM, FYI.

I would also point to a human-generated (and maintained) list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing

Which is also very useful in writing skills to help avoid these kinds of issues.

https://github.com/blader/humanizer

not as catchy though is it

There were some good and some pretty terrible FE devs though, and it's not clear which ones prevailed.

That was the same thing with human products though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety%E2%80%93ninety_rule

Except that the either side of it is immensely cheaper now.

Of course they aren't. The text to go with those diagrams is also machine generated.

The comment you’re replying to already stated that.

It's great for working on vintage equipment, stuff that might need (and warrant) that kind of repair. Less so if you run a cell phone repair shop.

There are a surprising number of Indian cell phone repair shops with YouTube channels that do feats of soldering, like repairing torn flat-flex cables… I bow down at their craft. If I ever get a sabbatical I’ll go to India and ask to be an apprentice.

I suppose you meant SNR is getting lower.

Did anyone of them die?

Is unaccountable government legal overreach an issue for you only when you die by it?

To me death sentence has very specific meaning.

Starlink was never available in Russia due to the sanctions regime. It's only use by Russians was via grey import terminals on the frontline in Ukraine (made possible due to complications of geofencing).

I guess I was misunderstanding. I thought that Starlink was deliberately ignoring the sanctions because they were able to shut it off real quick once Musk got that tweet https://x.com/sikorskiradek/status/2016221397396168995

It wasn't easy to geofence due to fluid nature of the frontline and lack of single official supply channel to Ukraine. A huge part of Ukrainian terminals were also procured abroad by volunteers.

However a recent development was Russian use of terminals on attack drones. Out of that Starlink was able to block terminals with certain velocity (and possibly bearing) in the region. In addition Ukraine got around to making internal registry of all frontline terminal allowing Starlink to white-list. So no it was a bit more than a tweet involved.

You did misunderstand:

https://x.com/FedorovMykhailo/status/2017932529882296706

SpaceX worked with Ukraine together to register authorized Starlinks.

You obviously can’t simply geo-fence because the usage is not in Russia, but Russian troops using it in Ukraine.

And you can’t simply blacklist Russian use, because lots of devices with legitimate Ukrainian use cases were imported in privatly or by third party.

That is why legitimate Ukrainian devices must now be cumbersomely whitelisted.

You might be thinking of Ubiquiti, who were exposed as blind eyeing the sanctions