Not to worry. I’m not so naive as to think that is how it will actually play out.

I’m sure like most things under capitalism, smaller companies will be liable, but we’ll bail out the big guys!

Given the high costs of AI, isn’t it reasonable to assume that whomever stands to make a profit is equally liable for it’s outcomes?

Let’s guess which five percent don’t get an increase…

Same. I had a brief pause where I wondered what I was missing all these years as an atheist

I know it’s not, but it looks like the Gardner “expressway” in Downtown Toronto, pretty much any time of day.

Choo choo, I’m a train!

Oh, come on. He’s hilarious to watch so you can play bullshit bingo

Autodefenestration is one of my faves. The act of throwing yourself out of a window.

If you’re throwing someone or something out, then it’s just plain defenestration

Only if you agree to stop calling them Hashtags and use their more-correct name of Octothorpes

This is one of the very rare occasions I believe what he’s saying…

Good point. But, while a dev says “My bad” and fixes the bug, a politician just shrugs and often doubles down.

At the very least, the Dev will explain to the team why a bug happened so that others don’t repeat the mistake, but a politician won’t address any of the three scenarios you identified.

I fear this metaphor is stretching to breaking point, but the central point remains that it should not be acceptable for a politician to lie, yet somehow here we are…

Except bugs are usually unintentional and, with a good team, found and fixed before they cause any harm - usually before they’re public.

The equivalence would be non-political fact checkers and public apologies and/or policy changes. The media has given up on the first (for the most part) possibly becase politicians just ignore the second.

Politicians stock-in-trade is information. This is their work product.

I am a software developer. If I turn in software that doesn’t work. I get fired.

JD Vance, and all other politicians who lie should also be fired for not doing their jobs.

This is the world I want to live in.

The web. It was good while it lasted.

Older white male here, and I fully endorse this. We just need to find one first…

Agreed with that. Two years is the norm in most of the G7, so why Canada is lagging is surprising.

Then again, where doesn’t Canada lag…?

Right to repair is only part of the solution. We’ll almost certainly need an economic shift that rewards (or compels) companies who make their stuff repairable. While we’re at it, we should also try and deal with planned obsolescence, too

40 months is slightly less the six years in the same way my pay check is slightly less than my CEOs

The headline suggests the Police are looking for comped accounts…

Isn’t flying the flag upside down against the US Flag code? Then again, so is turning it into clothing IIRC.