I was in Italy recently and got chatting to one of the airport employees. She said she'd been working in airlines/airports for 20 years and it was fucked as a career because wages were decreasing, hours increasing, shifts getting less predictable, career/permanent staff being replaced by agency workers/temps and she had run out of fucks to give.

As a career, working in aviation is extremely hierachical and seniority based. If you're old, chances are you started making an okay amount of money and now are making absolute bank. Years of collective agreements and contracts have seniority king. If you're a new employee though it seems to be really shitty. The system is entirely tipped against you.

> multiple ways the pistol could fire without an intentional trigger pull

That doesn't sound ideal.

> no-one said they should be a proscribed organisation

Is this true? I'd be surprised.

> But just because shopping carts were a huge hit doesn't mean that whatever you're trying to push will be.

It may have helped that shopping carts were actively designed to be pushed.

> if people do not fully learn to adapt to it, it might be too late

Why would it ever be too late?

Age discrimination, saturated market, no longer a team fit (everybody is using AI and they have metrics to backup performance gains), etc.

Can't someone who doesn't use it just..start using it?

Sure it can become a hobby.

Are you implying that someone starting to use AI now has already been left so far behind by experienced users that they would never catch up? That seems ridiculous - it seems to be getting better understood with time, which should make catching up increasingly easier.

No I mean trying to start in a few years. Basically if you feel ai is a fad and are trying to wait things out.

Aren't Corollas reputed to be functional and reliable? Seems like a weird analogy.

Having always referred to Java as the Honda Civic of language-ecosystem, I take offense to this claim that PHP is the robust, cheap, and reliable workhorse.

Functional and reliable, but often maligned by Real Car People for being boring and underwhelming.

Granted, the specific directions of the criticisms aren't quite the same, but there's definitely a decent analogy in there.

I don't know much about particular models, but perhaps a better make to pick as an apt analogy for PHP would be Hyundai: formerly a brand with fairly widespread reliability issues, that cleaned them up a lot more recently, and now a very solid pick.

Yeah. I had a 1990 Corolla from its best selling car in the world period and it was functional reliable and designed with a lot of care even if it was a simple design compared to fancier stuff.

Could we recreate these optimum safety conditions by legislating for ice-feel tires? Then everyone would be in the slippery mindset all year.

> https://regmedia.co.uk/2025/07/30/hill7.jpg

Doesn't this photo show an inverted T?

I think a “normal” inverted T consists of half-height keys (i.e. used on most current laptops). ThinkPads used slightly higher arrow keys for a while, not sure about now.

A normal inverted T is what is on a standard desktop PC keyboard: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Arrow_ke...

While half-height arrow keys have become common on laptops, that's probably not what GP (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44769440) meant by "normal".

ThinkPads generally use slightly smaller keys for the arrow keys, but still significantly taller than half-height, like for example here: https://p3-ofp.static.pub/ShareResource/560x450/SSNP/4Y40X49...

What people really want is a full-height inverted T like on this Lenovo gaming laptop: https://p1-ofp.static.pub//fes/cms/2025/05/21/uft1eixrszoryp...

This can be switched in BIOS.

Not on my T42 from 2005 :(

How can I get one of these jobs? I am currently an OK web dev.

These $100mm+ hires are centering divs in flex boxes on the first try. They are simply not like you and me.

Hahaha well you got me there. They are earning it.

Get a PhD in a related field like math or computer science.

And have spent the last 15 years working on the cutting edge of AI research.

That is unfortunately far from enough. The majority end up doing ok but nowhere near this much money.

There are millions of people with PhDs in math or computer science, and none of them earn that kind of salary. Just like there are Usain Bolts and Michael Phelpses in the world of sports, there are similarly exceptional individuals in every field.

actually applied math or statistics.

it also helps if you happen to know a bunch of openai trade secrets.