That's like saying you shouldn't use slang because people have to look it up.

Relatedly, "i18n" is hard for non-native speakers to understand too, how ironically apt.

I find it ironic that in order for your comment to be accessible the reader must lookup “a11y” to find that it means “accessibility”.

Yeah, this is actually a great point, and also a possible contributing factor.

Your paranoia is getting out of hand, seriously. 2FA here, OTP there. Idk about you, maybe you do have such sensitive data that you have to double guard everything, I and the usual average guy doesn't.

Why do I care? Because this craze has already reached the real world. Amazon requiring 2FA on deliveries. Wtf is wrong with my passport or other document? Nothing. Now I have to be physically present and recite some fucking code they sent my via fucking email or app if installed.

I can't log in anywhere anymore without having to double prove that the password and email is indeed mine. STOP THIS MADNESS ALREADY!

This is the baffling side of the EU to all outsiders/newcomers. When I first moved here, that was my first thought as well. There is just so much in common, why repeat everything everywhere instead of single effort with branches everywhere?! (police force, consular services, Identity services, and pretty much any Government paperwork one can think of, transportation services etc). However, the population is very localised and divided. The French do it their way, Italians another way, the Germans on their own way etc. It is hard to find gain common ground beyond what EU already represents(which is very good IMO). I do wish doing things at EU level becomes the norm, and individualities slowly disappear.

Imagine a single European rail service (not Euro rail where you can buy a single ticket that will make you take Dutch train, and then connect on a German train, and then on an Austrian train, and if you miss a connection, good luck figuring out your replacement..)

And that’s fine for the average HN audience; what disturbs me is that hiring managers see articles like “I had ChatGPT rewrite my code and it went 100000% faster!!!”, and then decide that they don’t need more than one engineer.

If we could automate away engineers that’s fine with me, but i just don’t think that ChatGPT is there yet. I actually think Wolfram is kind of onto something with having ChatGPT work with Alpha to be used for stuff that has “objective” answers.