what is there to call false? A half dozen sentences about Republican suckitude, then an utterly-unsubstantiated blanket 'but Dems do too'. It's empty. NOT A BIT OF SUBSTANCE BEHIND IT. WTactualF? Then, this epitome of ludicrosity burps out 'so maybe deadlock (which includes NOT DOING A FUCKING THING ABOUT NET NEUTRALITY) is a good thing.

Srsly, stupidest comment of the day, and you're defending it without substance, too. "Was it false?" Hell, what's that matter -- let's try: could either of you state an informed opinion!?

I can imagine use cases where this sort of 'bunch of leads and a ranking on where to burn money' is helpful. Just like I can see times where a AI-generated document or code is easier to fix than for me to write from scratch.

CNC is often 'clone this machinist's actions' and iterative adjustments/improvements, then it just runs that 1000x or whatever. I'd rather have an AI-start on process documentation that I quickly edit/fix than to continue lying to myself 'I"ll write it soon." The code and documents I've seen resemble what you describe: glaring deficiencies hiding under a facade that a lay person may be fooled by. But I can envision ways it saves time / does drudgery: tests for Test-driven development. Policy templates. Procedure documentation. Monthly status and metrics. All those manager-assigned 'bring me a rock. No, a different-colored rock' nightmares.

Hmm... Admittedly, journos aren't scientists, and generally say unscientific convoluted phrases trying to 'popularize'. Still:
The study likely gives the specs of what it considers 'eating a US freshwater fish', and the dose of PFAS one would get.
We know (even if via another source) the contamination of us drinking water, and OP listed the EPA standards.
We know (somewhere else likely) 'how much water we consume per month'.
So, there's the amount of PFAS from a fish vs/ the amount from drinking water in a month. Sentence makes sense.

Yay, you've gone from being a commodity mined by Twitter to a commodity being mined by Post.

Your whinging relies so heavily on jargon that I'll concede maybe I'm misreading, but if you're intending to say the risk of liberal control is fucking hijab laws, that's some utterly insane projection. The religious **RIGHT** are counterparts to Iran's demanding everyone comply with their belief system.

Liberal religious freedom = believe whatever you want; don't expect me to comply with the tenets of your faith.
The bullshit of the American Religious Right and Sharia and Iran's government = everyone MUST comply with MY religion's rules.

Hell. No. Whoever's telling you this is lying to you. Maybe stop watching OAN and Fox.

A few times in my career, I've encountered older coworkers who chose to keep working on rather than retiring, who shared a funny rule: "I'll continue working until you saddle me with managerial / meeting responsibilities, which I hate".

Ain't no reason you can't just make that same counter-offer, adjusted for your priorities. When they say 'everyone back on campus', counter-offer.

Meanwhile, whatever your field is, look for peer groups to become active in: trade associations, standards groups, or whatever. The folks you meet might find you a similar job even if your boss doesn't relent.

(reads replies, riddled with dumbassery and antivax false-equivalency, generally in anecdotal form)

Holy fuck, what just happened. Even a sane anecdotal admission like yours, aligned to science, triggers a maelstrom of denialism and antivax insanity. What a mess. My favorite is the dumbass thinking that we're injecting ourselves with poison and disarming, so surely they're going to win in the end. NBC reported on https://www.healthaffairs.org/..., saying "Average excess death rates in Florida and Ohio were 76% higher among Republicans than Democrats from March 2020 to December 2021, according to a working paper released last month by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Excess deaths refers to deaths above what would be anticipated based on historical trends. A study in June published in Health Affairs similarly found that counties with a Republican majority had a greater share of Covid deaths through October 2021, relative to majority-Democratic counties."

I'm also in the 'covid predictable day downtime' camp. Easy choice. Every. Damn. Time.

Yeah, it's probably better if they're called Amateur, but rocketry like this is a niche enough thing I kind of understand someone not knowing and just saying Model.

IANAE, but slashdot's had articles about these in the past. If I remember right, the USA's Federal Aviation Administration licenses a few tiers of amateur rocketry (e.g., the more fuel and the higher they go, the more stringent the FAA licensing). Delft University's group, DARE, is a preeminent european group.

https://friendsofamateurrocket...
https://dare.tudelft.nl/about/

'We are not ... er, Google's AI is not sentient. Those responsible for saying otherwise have been sacked."

'a little bit more'?!

An engineered concrete cover is in NO WAY relevant to the complexity and cost of a hydropower system. Water must come from the lower dam (energy is a function of water pressure), which means a need to manage flows mechanically rather than via a spillway, introduces risks (fouling of the turbine, risks to anyone 'sucked against the intake). Turbine sizing is a function of flows, which leads to hydrologic modeling needed. The power needs transmission lines into the grid, and flow/use needs to be integrated into grid management (e.g., let a power company manage when it generates power so it happens when needed). Hydro on/off cycles affect irrigation and stream ecology and recreational use. And sometimes they override the hydro planning. That's litigated, so now the hydro project needs lawyers.

Good luck.

yeah, I also tilt at windmills when folks abuse the term 'hacker'. Won't die on these hills, but it's worthy to burn off some rage from time to time.

Well, fuck. Posted a lengthy 'I second OldMugwump'' remark, with a summary of what Cypherpunk is and /.'s fucking 'no anon' mechanism destroyed it when redirecting me to authenticate.

Not doing that again, but cyberpunk is dystopian technoSF. Cypherpunk is Hughes, Tim May, Gilmore, Finney and Zimmerman and Assange and Back's PGPsig and Anon Remailers and the mixmaster and cryptocurrency and the fucking EFF and FreeSWAN and TOR and anyone fighting tooth and nail against Dorothy Denning (damn, remembered her name -- called her Dorothy Whozname first time around) and governmental backdoors into crypto (Clipper chip, . It's OTR. It's privacy-as-a-foundational-right, enforced by tech since fucking governments hate it. It's knowing the tools can be abused by pedos and mobsters and nation-states, but building them because they're an equalizer -- people can protect themselves from thugs and nation-states with these tools. And so much more.

TFA embarrasses us all. Please Stahp acting bandying those two terms interchangeably.

" we now have access to a wealth of information that we never had before, and able to communicate with people from around the world with all walks of life. All because these companies found a way to make it profitable, "

That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Internetwork communication didn't need to be monetized to succeed. From bangpaths to fidonet and academic connections, communication happened without commerce. It still does, if one strives to avoid commercial providers.

'placing people in STEM jobs who aren't good' is flawed logic. STEM expertise != calculus. Frankly, I'd be weeded out by organic chemistry and other biological science classes. Among friends who sucked at calculus, are great talents in stats, circuit design, process improvement. And most of them can intuitively handle function curves like exponential growth/decay, 1/(x+n) asymptotes, slope/rate, multivariable functions, and trig/oscillation.

Partly true. Specifically, one can shift to a different finger for fingerprint biometrics. Biometric sensors often have uniquenesses to their detection mechanisms which mean that one machine's 'fingerprint data' won't pass another design. And that just gets funkier if we stack biometric with other controls ("hey, that gummy finger doesn't have a pulse").

And just as we can configure security to vary (e.g., "default to password only, but these privileged accounts need 2FA tokens"), we could default to biometrics but allow alternatives for edge cases. An in-law of mine has Renaud's syndrome and seems to suck for fingerprint-recognition tech. We got him to fair success on his iphone by having him record *3* different circumstances of a single finger. He was *thrilled* to shift to facial recognition.