Uh, I'm gonna say "no".

Lutnick is also the guy who thought Americans would get really excited at the possibility of millions of new jobs screwing tiny screws into iPhones all day.

These administration billionaires really do think everyone else exists basically to be their slave labor, and the slaves should be happy about it.

An autonomous (or semi-autonomous) robot could be used for robbing banks, and it would be more bullet-resistant than a human.

That is somewhat surprising to me. They are 95% crap these days.

Are those two things somehow mutually exclusive?

So are scars, but people still skateboard or rock climb or whatever. If you care that much about what you might think about it in 10 years then a tattoo is probably not for you. It's an imprint left by a decision that past you made on current you. It's just a little more intentional than that time you decided to dive for a fly ball and landed on a broken bottle or whatever.

Yeah, current you might not align 100% with past you's choices, but that's life. You integrate them into your identity as best you can and mostly you don't think about it, and when you do it's a nice reminder of where you were in a certain point in your life. Or it's just a pretty decoration that you got because you like the art.

With scars they happened because the person getting them were enjoying the activity that generated them. If you enjoy rock climbing, and you get scars from it, it's a mark you got doing something you enjoy.

Meanwhile, getting a tattoo of say, your girlfriend might seem like a good idea now, but in 5 years when you break up not so much. Unlike a scar, which you might consider a battle wound from when you enjoyed rock climbing but no longer do so, the tattoo now gives you bad memories and removing it is expensive and painful.

So yes, I don't have a tattoo, because there's nothing I can think of that I'd want forever.

But in modern times it has stopped doing that. Now it is a hard-to-learn, hard-to-use historical artefact. Either move to something that makes sense today or stop complaining. You are doing it to yourselves.

And then we have victims with Stockholm-Syndrome that are deep in denial and mod everybody down that states the truth...

Indeed. With raising security, reliability and usability demands, it is just becoming more and more obvious that they do not have it.

Indeed. Although I would submit they _are_ already Boeing. The complete hack of Exchange online, the actor-token disaster, the Sharepoint-disaster, their part in the Crowdstrike disaster, AD still being a mess, Win11, Office, etc. There is not a single well-usable, reliable and secure major product they make.

The problem is, while MS has decidedly killed massively more people than Boing when comparing aggregated lost lifetime, all these are non-spectacular, there are no smoking data-centers with ambulances rushing the injured to hospital, etc. The second problem is that Boeing has competition, which keeps them somewhat honest (yes, that is a stretch, but still true), while Microsoft lacks that competition.

Indeed. And it is not only Windows. Office is slowly getting worse and wastes more and more user time. Azure got hacked several times and has crass vulnerabilities only explainable by extreme incompetence.

Same hardware, same software on three systems that ran win10 before. No problems with Win10. Now I observe system, driver, gui and application crashes that never happened before. I get notification tones that I cannot identify or turn off. Things are harder to find. Log-in screen pictures vanish. Some things got slower. And other crap.

Win11 is a pretty seriously worse product than Win10. Fortunately, all my critical systems are Linux, but Microsoft is obviously going downhill.

Wouldn't doubt it at all.

"It's not like SpaceX did not have any missteps on their path to creating reusable boosters."

They weren't really missteps. It was part of their design philosophy. Build it enough to get past a "goal" (say, get past the launch tower) and test. If it doesn't meet the goal, ID the failure, redesign and test again. Once it reaches that "goal", create a new "goal" (sat, reach 20,000 ft). Repeat until it's reliable.

While this involves a lot of explosions, the actual time it takes to get a workable and reliable rocket was dramatically reduced.

Looks less like a failure on China's program and more like China learning from Musk.

I would have thought by now, after 40 years of computerization, that there would be some robust Asian language fonts available in the public domain or perhaps licensed through government agencies to promote their use.

All the way back in the 1980s, I was involved in a Japanese/Chinese/English photo-typesetter project using what I believe were freely available font sets.

Seems like the Japanese game companies should switch to Google or MS fonts. $20K/year in Japan is someone's salary.