By no-code/low-code and ChatGPT. Wasn't this expected?

It also matters how close to sea level starting point is. Apparently in this case much of the land being discussed is relatively close to sea level as a starting point. The article projects that over the next 100 years, the land that 140 million people currently live on will be below sea level IF conditions remain the same. Conditions never remain the same for 100 years, but if the land that 1.4 million people are living on each year is actually sinking below sea level that seems pretty significant.

Yeah, the use of buzzwords by CEOs always instills confidence. The Wisk Aeros look like small V-22 Ospreys, so I guess the Marines have had "Flying Buses" this whole time. :/

Do Boeing execs think that just because they are building the Wisk Aero VTOL airplanes in Japan, that they can call them flying cars? Cars do not have giant dangerous exposed propellers on them last I checked. These Wisk Aero VTOLs will be limited to helicopter landing pads and airports. There is nothing "flying car" about these machines other than Boeing's poorly thought through plan to make these "pilot optional". Can't wait to hear the chatter between these things and the towers.

people who have just generally irritated other bankers. -- That is how you get to 5.3 million records. The U.S. government's list is under 20,000 persons and entities: https://www.trade.gov/consolid...

To this: "So you'd be barred from getting that which you don't even know"
-- Thomas Jefferson would have said "exactly". Maybe our "Senior Administration Officials" need to read up on not just the constitution, but the further discourses of the founding fathers on topics like this.

Exactly, companies like Palantir will offer a "Cloud AI" interface that aggregates these data sources and the government will buy access to the "Cloud AI", not the data. The "Cloud AI" will really just be a query interface, but as long as it is called "AI" and not "data" everything is good. Then there will be a new law, and the companies with the established relationships will provide high dollar analysts to the government as contractors and the "Cloud AI contracts" become :"labor contracts".

1. Start with DWAC that raised $293 million
2. Merge with Trump Media, a company worth $0
3. Give 70% of shares of new company to Trump and cronies
4. Remaining value of company is the cash not given away: $88 million

No one benefits when Trump is given gifts, except Trump.

Why do you interpret this as "Broadcom will be providing some ongoing security patches"? In their annual budget presented to investors last month, there was no line item at all for this work. The entire budget was devoted to "Cloud Foundation". I interpret this as "Broadcom decided that taking existing customer money is better than not taking it" for those willing to pay for a license that comes with essentially no support.

8.3 came from Gary Kildall (who never worked for Microsoft) in 1974. Microsoft wasn't even founded until a year later and in 1980 chose to make the DOS file system compatible with Kildall's existing CP/M. None of this seems unwise or shows a lack of foresight on Microsoft's part.

"Program Files" has a space in it for the same reason Linus put tabs in his Kconfig -- to force devs to handle spaces in paths correctly.

There is something on the order of 100,000 WordPress plugins ... maybe people are finally running out of new things to use PHP for in this domain which accounts for a large amount of the PHP code out there. Someone else made a COBOL comment, in some ways, PHP is the new COBOL. 40% of all websites (but not web pages) are implemented in WordPress which sits on PHP. Its a mature environment that does not appeal to the technos that always want to do the next new thing.

Selling locks anyone can open is straight up fraud. This has been going on for years now, to the tune of millions of dollars. One would think the FBI would be all over a slam-dunk case like this. They like easy big wins, and this sure seems to be one.

The expectation that we should be able to observe an advanced civilization seems highly misplaced. The db loss of the Deep Space Network to the Voyager space craft at the edge of our solar system is over 300 dB. I do not understand why our failure to detect an advanced civilization translates to the assumption that they are not there. The reality is we may simply not ever know one way or the other.

In 2103 the Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) stellarator was fully modeled before being built plasma reactor, so in effect the experiments in 2015 at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics were the first times plasma physics was more science than phenomenology. Again with the MUSE stellarator we finally have the ability to model over one hundred thousand small rare earth magnets. With coil based magnets, current could be varied after the fact to tune a stellarator, but with the MUSE, they have to get the design right from the beginning. The big news is that we can now do this. We have entered a new era of plasma physics because our compute capabilities have reached the point that we can actually design plasma reactors.