I'm not quite able to parse this. Did you leave out a comma after genius maybe? Are you saying if you're not a math genius you won't be able to be a programmer because AI will take your job, and only mathematicians using a tool will be programming?

BTW, in my opinion being a mathematician, or thinking like a mathematician, is not particularly applicable to the nuts and bolts of programming, even when programming above 'code monkey' status, unless you're programming in Haskell.

It's just digital data, ultimately a bunch of ones and zeros, and all digital data that you want to keep, if you live long enough (like I have), you will find yourself eventually having to move from one media that is becoming obsolete to another.
I've moved data from floppies to CDs, then DVDs, now it's mostly on hard drives since they've become so huge and cheap in terms of storage capacity. My brother had old 16 mm home movies digitized, and I've digitized VHS tapes of home movies and my old LP record collection.

So whatever you have, be prepared to move it from one media to another every couple of decades.

I'm not a physicist, but given that photons respond to gravity, it would be really, incredibly strange if anti-matter behaved differently, seeing as how photons are made from matter and anti-matter collisions.

Of course, it was still worth doing the experiment. From what I understand, physicists are always looking for surprises, and how else are you going to find them?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rail_accidents_(before_1880)#1818/

Hmmm, I wonder if Netflix's move led to an uptick for Disney+ or whatever then,

I applaud your ability to extract info by googling because I tried to find something myself and failed. I would imagine one wouldn't need as much of this hydrogen impervious material in hydrogen fuel lines as one needs for the gas bag of a zeppelin. On the other hand, one would expect to make a lot more vehicles than the Germans made Zeppelins.

One thing I did come across when googling is that there are people who want to bring back hydrogen based dirigibles and blimps as a practical, economic form of transport. Hydrogen got a bad rap because of the Hindenburg disaster. Actually, in World War I, British pilots had a hard time shooting down Zeppelins because the hydrogen didn't burn and explode since it wasn't mixed with oxygen, showing that it's reasonably safe. But I wonder what these new Zeppelin advocates plan to use for their gas bags,

How did Zeppelins in World War I solve the hydrogen permeability problem? I saw a documentary on TV about zeppelins one time. As I recall, the Germans got something from the carcasses of cattle to make the hydrogen gas bags out of. Whatever it was, could something like that be used again?

I don't know how true this article is, but true or not, it reminds me of what happened when the marines went to 'the halls of Tripoli'.

Pirates and slave raiders based on the Mediterranean shore of Africa were attacking and raiding ships from European countries, and also the newly created USA. This included enslaving Europeans they captured.

This is from memory so it's simplified and maybe a bit off in the details (Any one interested can check themselves), but the richer countries, like Great Britain, bought them off, but the USA couldn't afford that so went after them, sending in the marines, and secured a treaty so that they would leave Americans alone.

Now, once again, it seems, the USA has threatened force to end harassment by another country, though less formally this time.

I wonder if solar powered dirigibles would be practical. From what I've seen of old movies with dirigibles (Charlie Chan at the Olympics is the only one whose name I remember), it looks like a nice, relaxed form of travel. Helium may be too scarce for use in a large number of dirigibles but hydrogen could be used. Hydrogen got a bad rap because of the Hindenburg disaster, but it was the paint on the Hindenburg that caught fire, and only from there did it spread to the hydrogen. During World War I dirigibles were bombing London and they were hard to shoot down until the pilots learned to concentrate machine gun fire on a single spot. They even mounted their guns pointed up from the plane especially for shooting the dirigibles down.

Sure dirigibles would be slower than jets but they might be more enjoyable. You'd probably be at lower altitudes. Imagine cruisiing over the Grand Canyon or the Appalachians or along the Pacific Coast in one.

OK, I know this ain't gonna happen but I can dream can't I?

One thing I didn't see in the summary was how much effort was made to disguise the honeypots to look like legitimate or desirable targets.

I would think that you'd have a range of honeypots. Some might look like the ancient, wheezing computer used by a backwoods church, whose superannuated operator barely knows how to maintain a mailing list. On the other end, have one with seemingly valuable stuff, financials on a big company or government agency maybe, and it would have reasonable security because you'd expect that. Then there would other computers in between the extremes.

Again, there are many scenarios. The times when I had to wing it I was working for a very small company and the product would get sold and then I'd be given a deadline to deliver. The only review was the customer took it and we waited to see if there would be bug reports.

One time I went on site to a place in France. Presumably I was installing and testing the product on the customers equipment but really I was still getting it to work. It had to parse Ada programs (It wasn't written in Ada but it had to parse Ada) and we didn't have any Ada programs or compilers to test it on ourselves so I was using their equipment to finish the job without them realizing it. I did manage to deliver and they did pay us, but it was kind of stressful. I did squeeze in time to see Notre Dame and Chartres though. The only time I ever set foot on continental Europe. That was being a programmer in the 20th century.

It's been over 20 years since I worked as a programmer, so things may be different now. But here's an example from the real world (or at least the real world of the 20th century) where the 'throw away the first draft' simply does not apply.

Sometimes I was given a project where I really had to wing it. No mentor, no guidelines, just a sort of spec on what the result was supposed to be.

What I would do is figure out some part of the project, some task within the overall project that I was sure was going to be needed at the end, and code that up, stubbing out inputs and outputs as needed and just hammer on it. It would be fairly small, and even then I'd break it up into even smaller bits that I'd code-compile-try, code-compile-try and hammer away till I was satisfied that it was working and that it wouldn't bite me with some obscure little bug way down the line. So there was never anything I'd call a 'draft' in that. And after this one segment was done, I'd move onto another one, typically what I regarded as 'adjacent', something that fed inputs into what I'd just written maybe, and go through the same process with that, working with small, easy to grok segments as much as possible. I'd keep going piece by piece until voila, the thing was up and running. So there was no 'draft'. No grand architectural design or anything like that.

The place where I worked where I first encountered them, back in the late 70s, they were called 'hardware debuggers'. Only later, at a different company, did I learn of the term ICE. Somehow I never got used to calling them that. Does anybody else think of them as 'hardware debuggers'. (BTW I always hated them. It was enough to make me really careful writing code so that I wouldn't be forced to use one.)

It isn't necessarily a political statement. It can be genuine curiosity. The notion that there's no such thing as 'bad' publicity is that people hear about something through any kind of publicity, and they've got to know about something before they can decide to buy it. Also, someone sick and tired of everything having to fit a particular form, be it political correctness or some other requirement, may just be looking for something different.

There have been people buying books they never read for a long time. Sometimes it's just to show off an impressive home library, or they think they'll get around to reading the book some day when they have the time. I think there was a satire by an ancient Roman writer who commented on wealthy Romans having books, or whatever passed for books back then, in their libraries that they never read.

Play your cards right and you may generate a stir so that people buy the book to see what the fuss is all about. Or cater to the crowd reacting to all the 'correctness' going on.