The US is going to fall behind in tech if we can't keep our autism numbers up.

A little paint from Home Depot is all the White House staff has in their budget

You shouldn't give up your secrets so easily.

Yeah, I saw years ago when one of my in-laws was writing in it. I thought it was a joke or something but their humor doesn't really go that way. Absolutely mental looking when someone is a bit sloppy with their handwriting in Russian.

People can write in a neat and tidy way. And there are a few little marks people add when writing to make it easier to separate the letters. So be a little skeptical of the online examples, they're a bit contrived. Russian cursive is really difficult to read but it's not impossible.

The Soviet Union's collapse had more to do with them being a significant portion of the world economy but were frequently excluded in trade either because of their own internal politics or because of its poor relationship with the West. And the Soviet Military was kept at a top priority and tended to suck all the air out of the room when it came to investment in technology, leaving very little for pure civilian usage or for entrepreneur or peaceful long-term academic research. The workers' councils (Soviets) themselves were probably a good idea and regionally were frequently effective and represented the vast majority of people well. Actually turning many councils of industry and regions into a working country was far messier and less successful. But hey, our American democratic-republic is very messy and inefficient too and we used to make it work pretty well.

While an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. There also needs to be a task force prepared to act in order to address incidents promptly, especially when it comes to systems that support government, finance and utilities; instead of waiting for bureaucracy to figure it out each time it happens.

Most nations operate a mixed economy, not a free market.

So some regulation of markets exists almost everywhere. In cases where the political organs answer to the largest and most influential donors, you get a plutocracy. In cases where they answer to the people, you have a representative democracy.

It's pretty easy to power down system and temporarily reduce workload. Especially if you know in advance that your orbital is going to take you into a shadow. Could get away with a battery system capable of a fraction of the load.

But I predict that one lunacy follows another and a space data center will include a fusion reactor

They don't spend much time teaching how to write in print form and go straight to cursive. Mostly because Cyrillic is slow to write out compared to the simplified Latin script like the single stroke forms we teach children to use in the West.

You would have to replace all the human created code before you could even begin to challenge the copyright. Even then, it may not be possible to hijack a very long running project's copyright status (never has been done before, as far as I know)

Theoretically you could extract the bits that cannot be held under copyright and do whatever you want. But only in theory, because you still might have a court case on your hands and victory is not guaranteed. Civil suits can get really messy, really fast.

Fuck this AI shit. It's just going to be used for swamping every avenue of human communication with marketing.

I usually end up with a title like Staff Engineer or Software Engineer.

In a courtroom, I'm a software engineer in California. And it is what I report on taxes. What I report on census. And what I report when I apply for a mortgage.
My lack of a formal degree in the field makes it very unlikely that my company would call me to act as an expert witness. Even though at one time I was an automotive safety trainer and safety lead for regulated camera. What is good enough for a private company is often insufficient in a courtroom or at least won't stand up to a well placed argument, which is ultimately what an attorney is all about.

In part because nobody wants to reveal that they don't actually know much about Rust.

Legally I'm a software engineer despite not having a degree in engineering or computer science.

Not much I can do about it. That's my job title and what I put down when I am told to provide accurate information to a government agency.

You may certainly petition the legislature of my state in order to force my employer to change their job titles. But it's out of my hands (I also do not care)

You've heard of ironwood surely? Then why not iron cheese?

Imagine how much more plastic and other petrochemicals you'd have if we stoppes burning most of it.