I can't recall any business moguls jumping up and down about this. On the other hand, I haven't heard anyone screaming from the hills about the high costs of such a change either, and business never, ever fail to bitch about regulatory costs. So I have to discount your supposed concern.

That I can recall. Yes he did. He mentioned it on occasion in speeches, so this no surprise to me. Obviously it's not a big vote-getter of an issue, so he didn't walk around in a big red "MAKE CORPORATE REPORTING GREAT AGAIN" hat, but it was a point in the campaign.

We've all seen the "WTF Happened in 1970/1/2?" meme. Now, no one can credibly claim that whatever that stuff means had anything at all to do with the inception of quarterly reporting around the same time. I can claim, however, that somehow, some way, the US economy did, in fact, function pretty well before Nixon's SEC mandated quarterly reporting. So, perhaps Trump's change isn't actually the end of the world and the dawn of the Forth Reich.

If it helps overcome your knee-jerk Airbus vs. Boeing hang-ups, 737 MAX has a known failure mode that will rapidly gas the cockpit with vaporized oil. Equipped with this necessary whataboutery affordance, you should feel safe in at least allowing for the possibility that Airbus is also not flawless in all things.

Cockpits and cabins have been getting filled with various gasses since the inception of pressurization ~80 years ago. To Boeing's credit, the 787 has set a legitimate engineering precedent in aircraft design and eliminated at least some of the major sources of air contamination. Eventually, when Airbus copies it, you'll be able to safely ignore this. So no worries.

You're missing that both a bleed air system AND poor maintenance are required for this problem to manifest.

Presumably the other planes with a bleed air system are getting better maintenance, so haven't been a problem. No idea how the 787's maintenance is, but since it doesn't have a bleed air system, the problem of dangerously contaminated cabin air hasn't manifested.

More specifically, this happens when engine oil or hydraulic fluid leak into the engine while bleed air is being drawn.

You should try dealing with a hospital, doctors are royalty and surgeons are gods. At one local hospital we swapped out the old keypad door latch on the doctors' door with a key card reader. The doctors threw a tantrum and we had a EMERGENCY SERVICE CALL the next day to swap it for a keypad reader, and they forced us to allow everyone to use the code 1992 since that was what it had been for the previous 15 years (this was after an armed ex-husband had previously entered that door using that code, mind you). Other places we had to allow them to have multiple key cards, so that they could leave one in the Mercedes, another in the Porsche, and yet another in their desk drawer in case they drove the Range Rover.

Of course they don't, no school system administrator (or healthcare admin, or law enforcement admin, etc.) is going to pay an IT flunky more than they make. This is one case where "you get what you pay for" is true.

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As a Windows admin since NT3.51 I suppose I should take offense at that, except that you said "in general". Windows systems **CAN** be made secure, and for no cost and not much more training, but since politicians refuse to fund IT departments adequately the type of people they end up hiring tend to be close to the bottom of the barrel. I've encountered the same situation at police departments, public works, and our state data center. I've seen same thing happening wherever corporate executives prioritize their bonuses and stock price over security, such as healthcare (abysmal), financial industry (awful), energy (bad) and pharma (not good).

I spent the last 16 years of my working career in physical security (key cards, cameras, alarms, etc.), and for the first half almost everywhere I was given god-like access whenever I requested it. Then I went to work at Amazon Web Services and ran into a brick wall. The Windows admins (almost all security systems run under Windows) were exceedingly tight-assed and would not allow exceptions to their security policies (of course we didn't allow them exceptions either, so I suppose that was fair). The result is that AFAIK to this day there has never been an external hack of AWS, either through Windows or Linux/Unix, the only data leaks have been from contractors with data that they were not supposed to copy out of the system (mostly test data).

Bill Gates' moment of brilliance was when he realized that "good enough" was actually good enough for most customers. Unfortunately that also enables people who are "barely good enough" to become admins.

Specifically, they cherry picked 2022/2023 and pretended those numbers were good examples of "normal" hiring. Looking at the chart, it's clear they had a huge hiring boom, enough to overcome the prior 5 years of demographic shift. This is consistent with the general hiring boom in tech that came about then, just before LLM hype launched into the stratosphere.

They talked as though 2024 was a precipitous drop, but as you say, it was just a return to 2021 levels.

Without AI, we probably would see similar employment trends in tech and note it as a "correction". With LLM in the mix, it becomes hard to say how much is genuine shift to LLM to take care of things or LLM as a rationalization to get rid of the tech workforce the companies probably didn't need to hire up so much in the first place. Can certainly say which option generates more clicks though...

What are the charges? Uploading a film, a succulent copyrighted film.

There is something wrong when the authorities of a country care more about copyright infringement than the 40,000 murders that occur yearly.

And only 6 hours of gameplay.

That's the normal console expectation.

I don't own a console any more. Last one was a Wii. Thought about a Switch 2 but not with the way Nintendo have been acting.

In the Glorious PCGMR good indie games like this are commonplace and usually go for £/$20-30. I bought Captain of Industry last week and it's like electronic crack, same with Schedule 1 and both of these games are still being developed and updated with new content. Last AAA game I bought was WH40K Space Marine 2, also bought last week as it had dropped below £30 and really I'm not enjoying it that much. It really represents what's wrong with modern games, too much button mashing, quick time events, stupidly long load times. I'm glad I didn't pay full price for it but I suspect I'm not going to bother finishing it for some time.

Because someone who steals a phone will never lower themselves to selling something they know doesn't work.

Plus this little nugget:

That means they can just send the stolen phones overseas... That's where most of the UK's stolen cars go, no point in chopping them up here when someone in Bulgaria will buy them whole no questions asked. Phones are a lot easier to move. Maybe this might stretch between the US and Canada or UK and EU but as mentioned, phones are easy to move and crims have no compunction selling something that doesn't work.

So... We can start planning the invasion of this planet next week?

Pretty much this.

I suspect it's less to do with AI and more to do with the current global economy descending into chaos. So companies aren't hiring as much and the first group to suffer from this are graduates. If your hiring budget gets slashed, you're only going to hire experienced people... then make those people work 80 hour weeks for less pay. Welcome to capitalism Comrades.

Same things happening in the western world too.

As for AI... Even as terribad as it is I suspect it'll be a better script reader than most call centre flunkies. It's not going replace an engineer that knows what they're doing but it will instruct Auntie Gladys on how to reboot her router.

An aircraft like this will likely be a lot further up the logistics chain, using existing airports to transport blades from near the factories to other places where they're loaded onto local logistics (road, river, sea). I suspect a lot of the larger wind turbines are being used offshore. This is similar to most other outsized cargo aircraft (I.E. Airbus' Beluga).

Making multi-piece blades makes them heavier and more complex, meaning more prone to failure. A wind turbine blade is expected to have a service life of decades under all weather conditions. Complexity is a huge problem.

Also I suspect this plane may never see the light of day. The whole thing sounds like a pitch for VC funding.

You just need to lower down the windows. Easy.