As a software engineer who started programming when he was 11, I get what you mean about “ladder climbers” feeling alien (my elitist term for them is “9-to-5ers” or “pedestrians”).

However, I think this question is dumb at least so far as it won’t work to weed out the people you think it will. I don’t read fiction often, and the only scifi books I remember reading are Dune and Prey, but that’s very out of character for me. It’s pretty much luck that I read those, and more a factor of me just being an old fart (I’m almost 30, and that’s a lot of time to stumble upon at least one scifi book). Ask me this question a few years earlier and I’d draw a blank.

Both were good books, but nothing that would consider a “favorite”. Dune is memorable to me just because it very clearly was based on Lawrence of Arabia, which I found neat. As for Prey, I only vaguely remember something about killer nanomachines, and that it was a fun read.

But if you’re specifically looking to hire someone you can talk scifi novels with, then it’s a very good question (as long as you’re mature enough to hire someone who says their favorite book is one that you hate).

Calculators made mental math obsolete. GPS apps made people forget how to navigate on their own.

Maybe those are good innovations or not. Arguments can be made both ways, I guess.

But if AI causes critical thinking skills to atrophy, I think it’s hard to argue that that’s a good thing for humanity. Maybe the end game is that AI achieves sentience and takes over the world, but is benevolent, and takes care of us like beloved pets (humans are AI’s best friend). Is that good? Idk

Or maybe this isn’t a real issue and the study is flawed, or more realistically, my interpretation of the study is wrong because I only read the headline of this article and not the study itself?

Who knows?

Is it just me or is that title worded as confusingly as possible?

Any Fedora Atomic desktop, or any UBlue one.

Immutable distros are the future of the Linux desktop. They work and they never break (I dare you to try).

I switched to and exclusively used vim for about a year. I switched back to Sublime one day, and found I was like 10x more productive and comfortable.

Just use the editor you like. There’s no right or wrong answer!

… And btw, Sublime 4 has improved LSP support. Just install the base LSP plugin + plugins for the languages you want. Some even give the option to install the LSP server automatically if if’s not detected.

Two things can be true at once:

• More Rust in the Linux kernel is good
• Brigading on social media is bad

Open source work is collborative. No matter how good an engineer someone is, if they can’t figure out how work with others, then it’s better to kick them out. A potentially insecure kernel is better than a non-existent one.