US college is a joke, especially to young men. Raw deals left, right and center. You're more likely to get your life ruined by a guilty-until-proven-innocent sexual harassment accusation than finding a mate "for life" that isn't saddled with obscene amounts of debt like you are, ready to bail out once you've paid through the nose for both of you.

US colleges now trying to be "places of connection" for young men has to be the biggest joke of todays age of misandry and man-bashing.

If I were a young man in the US, college would be the very last place I'd be looking for connection these days. And for just about everything else - highly specialized degrees in engineering, CompSci, physics, chemistry and such aside - I'd steer just as clear from US colleges. As a regular young guy without huge amounts of money to burn you're way better off learning and working a trade than going to college these days.

Laughably overpriced US colleges are going the way of the Dodo, and they're feeling it. That's what this recent change of mind is all about, nothing more.

... and that somebody as omnipresent as an LLM-bot would influence those way more effectively than a regular human should be of no big surprise.

Just what US for-profit college needs. Great.

... complete retard in that way.

Disclaimer: German here.

German carmakers today are precisely at where US car-makers where in the mid to late 60ies: aloof, disconnected and arrogant, relying to much on brand-recognition to pull off non-sense like planned obsolescence or subscriptions for your heated seats.

Thank you for pointing out these "minor details" of this "nuclear-fission-including-all-of-its-problems on steoroids".

... of a thing to begin with.

It came to fame when some Java guys finally discovered convention over configuration, built yet another web framework around it and bedazzled the world with a 15 minute presentation of Ruby on Rails. The marketing of the ruby on rails FOSS project was the true genius behind all the hype. However, Ruby itself was still struggling with basics such as utf 8 and other details, so people stuck with php, Python or whatever else they were using at the time.

Rails never really caught on in a larger scale. If it had, Ruby would be a thing today. I think it's safe to say that TypeScript has taken its place.

https://volla.online/

I'd say the similarities in name aren't by accident. I wish Jolla good luck they had a nice product but 400 euros for a crow funded phone from a company know for it's volatility probably doesn't inspire confidence in long term viability. Just saying.

You might call it a tad goofy to turn a somewhat b-movie "hero" into a high quality bronze statue and place it in public display, but this was entirely a private initiative and it's standing in a commercial property and the owners where in on the fun. That's how stuff like this (and weird woke projects) should be done.

I get the joke - RoboCop was also a commentary on the derelict state of Detroit - and would pay the statue a visit.

I'll add to that Africa's geography is fucked... the coastline is old, smooth, and shallow which means you don't get many ports. On top of that, the African escarpment means that interior rivers tend to have huge rapids that are basically unnavigable. All of this greatly complicates logistics and hampers internal trade... for instance, getting minerals from the east Congo to the Atlantic requires ~9 different transports (e.g., switching back and forth between water and land vehicles). Europe and North America, by contrast, have an embarrassment of riches... loads of glacier-carved deep water ports, extensively navigable interior rivers, and (at least in the U.S.) lots of inter-coastal waterways.

Geography isn't the only thing that hindered Africa. Tropical diseases and the Tsetse fly also fucked things up pretty well by devastating livestock populations. Cattle means you can farm more land with fewer people (and fertilize it too), plus they're a food source. I'm sure there are other factors too, but these are big ones that would inhibit any would-be society.

... is that it's a protocol designed and built by someone who knew what he was doing (Linus Torwalds) resulting, among other things, in the fact that migrating your upstream Git repo away from a commercial service like Github takes something like 20 seconds, if you're having a slow day.

Git is one of those things that bring the genius of well planned and built software to full display.

BTW, if you want to host your own web-interfaces upstream repo, Gitea is a very neat open source software for doing exactly that.

If a bot-car can be held up by a gangster simply stepping in front of it in a situation where you'd actually like to rather plow through, how safe is that car for the people in it? Given, cars are more dangerous for their environment most of the time, but sometimes its the environment that is more dangerous for the car and the people in it.

Also driving through a rising river that is a meter deep may usually be a bad idea, but if the flood is rising it might be well worth the risk and a very reasonable decision to attempt it. You want to be able to actively make your car do that in those situations.

... wether a dumb command or AI deletes everything makes no difference.

I hope he had it in place or learnt his lesson.

No need for AI or other fancy stuff. Just redo your constitutional setup. Multi-party representative system, 5% barrier to entry for parliament, President becomes (largely) a ceremonial role, coalition government, independent non-private federal bank, independent default subsidized media, any member of a government that exceed 3% of debt per legislative period may not be re-elected ever again and a few more details and you're good for the next 250 years.

This isn't rocket-science. We all know what's broken and needs to be fixed and contrary to what some USians like to think, you can have a total revolution with not a single bullet fired. It's not that the vast majority of people in the US ain't noticing that fundamentals of the US system have to change. You got this.

After all, you guys already helped build a (quite well) working prototype of USA 2.0. It's called "modern Germany".

Given, the Soviet-Russian style of space technology has always been more pragmatic. But this looks rickety and somewhat ghetto-style, like deterioration by neglegt. Or they used chinesium for the structure and it failed before EOL.

However, it could also very well be that they've been using those exact same folding gantries for decades beyond EOL now and the finally simply failed due to wear and tear, no matter how rugged they initially were built.

It's probably a combination of both.

It would be absolutely hilarious if they can repair this russian-Soyuz style with a crew of welders and junk from a scrapyard in two weeks or so, spec-ing be damned. I wouldn't be surprised if exactly that happens. LOL!

... has to be just about undisputed #1 of nightmare material. Think Warhammer 40k but IRL.Basically the exact opposite of the Ian Banks culture. Imagine a fanatic revengeful god the l00nies can actually talk to and get new mayhem instructions from. Really malicious ones at that.

Yippee, nice times ahead.

No wonder the experts are warning us left, right and center.