If an artist uses a song writer, has plastic surgery, uses musical instruments... They should all have to disclose this.

Velvet Sundown is no different than when a studio assembles a group of four boys, pays songwriters, dance choreographers, makeup artists, musicians, etc...

An artist sat down, used AI as an instrument and made music.

According to the article, the hit rate of drones isn't all that amazing, either.

Artillery pretty much works by saturating the area with explosions until some of them hit something. So a low hit rate is expected. Maybe a decade after the war ends we'll get some actual numbers to compare to other theaters.

That is correct, though it doesn't seem to have affected the course of the war noticeably.

Source?

That's a bold claim.

The article I linked to speaks about that. Essentially: Yes. But: Not the cheap stuff used, and stuff like fiber optics come with their own drawbacks.

The article I linked to includes prices.

Meanwhile, some reports from the frontlines indicate that while drones are ubiquituous, they aren't the game-changer the tech-industry wants them to be.

tl;dr essential bits: a) most drone strikes could have been done by other, cheaper weapons. b) drones are an unreliable weapon due to jamming, dependency on weather and light and many technical failures.

It's like visual coding or RAD all over again. Whenever suits and PHBs are told there's a magic wand that'll allow them to do without paying people for the nitty-gritty bits, they get all excited and convince each other in their echo chamber that their dream of a company of all managers and no workers is just around the corner.

Then reality says "hi", the hype dies down, a few scam artists got rich and the world continues as it was, with a couple new cool tools in the toolbox of those who know how to use them correctly - which is generally the same people that were supposedly being replaced.

That's how I see AI. I've been writing software for the better part of 40 years. What I see from AI is sometimes astonishing and sometimes pathetic. I would never, ever, ever put AI generated code into production software without carefull checking and refactoring, and I would fire anyone who does.

Code completion is mostly in the "astonishing" part. If I write a couple lines of near-identical stuff, like assigning values from an input to a structured format for processing, the AI most of the time gets right the next line I want to write. Anything more complex than that is hit-and-miss.

Mostly, I use AI the way I would use an intern. "Can you look up how to use this function correctly? What are the parameters and their defaults?" or "Write me some code that's tedious to write (like lots of transformation operations) but not rocket science by far.
Essentially, it does faster and a little bit better what previously I'd have done with Google and Stackoverflow.

I have no fear it'll replace developers anytime soon. Half of the time the code is outright wrong, most of the time it has glaring security issues or isn't half as fault-tolerant as it should be, and for any case where I know how to do it without any research, I'd be faster writing the code myself then going through several iterations with an AI to get it done.

I get much better results than you. As a substitute university computer science lecturer, I also get much better results from my students than other lecturers. I'll share my secret.

Expect your subordinates to misinterpret you unless you provide enough details to that it's impossible to provide any result except what you were expecting.

I receive exceptionally good results most every time. It takes extra work to get started, but as with anything you get out what you put in.

I wonder why Slashdot isn't publicizing that. She showed up at the airport, followed directions, boarded the plane, and flew... High up in the air. So high they had to use a plane with a pressurized cabin.

The flight was extra impressive because she's a girl. And it's always more impressive so we can say that "to all the little girls of the world, when you grow up, you can accomplish great things and let the world ignore everything else except that you're a girl. So, it's best to only do easy things like flying on a BO rocket rather than studying hard and working hard because the press doesn't reward hard work. They hype that you're impressive for being a girl".

Is it because she straight and white? Would Slashdot publicize her accomplishment if she was a different skin color or maybe a new and unexplainable sexual orientation?

Wait!!!

Great idea for Bezos. Space hookup trips. There are lots of things that are illegal on earth. He can facilitate those things by bringing rich people to space.

I was thinking precisely this.
Rewriting code in a new language might give better static code analysis, but, it doesn't make it safe.
I have a lot of application code I can translate to Rust, but unless I completely rearchitect all of it, it would be terrible Rust code.

I did however just revisit Rust. I wrote a simple CNC milling code generator. I explicitly told it how I want it structured. Copilot handled it nicely. I could maybe see myself vibe coding a useful tool with it. But I HATE abbreviations like pub, fn, and mut. And f64 feels like single letter naming. The language might be structurally elegant, but it's awkward and tacky... Like as if you're hoping to take with "James Robert Paddington II" and the phone gets answer by "Jim Bob Jr." Or "J.R. Jr.. Junior Junior... Get it?".

So Rust is kind of a language Jeff Foxworthy could make a standup routine out of.

Diminished maybe, but not all that much.

I think we can reasonably assume that if there's a huge blackout, it won't last forever. A lot of smart people will work hard on getting things up and running again. A few years ago in the USA it lasted for a bit longer, what was it, a week or two? Recently in Spain it lasted a few days. But all those power stations and power grid operators don't just shrug and go home. So getting through those days is probably all it takes for any reasonably realistic scenario.

And you can build things up piecewise. I've got my solar now. The next thing will be a battery. Once I have that, I can think about an electric car.

Wouldn't China footing the bill for R&D and proving the tech viable potentially be a major benefit to everyone else?

Companies like Huawei can quickly, reliably and affordably deploy renewables across any country who wants to benefit from China's taking the lead. You should see their data center tech. Trade restrictions forced Huawei to innovate amazingly for power and cooling. They're like, if we need 10 Chinese GPUs to math one NVidia GPU, we'll have to invent data center tech to support it. The have end to end tech solutions from diverting divers to solar and battery and waste heat recycling and carbon capture.

The UK could never do this. The british government sabotages every major project as soon as they find how to line their wallets from it.

Do you believe that anyone exists who is a better fit for the job?

They would
1) Need to control inflation so people can shop
2) Cause inflation so mortgages become more affordable over time which results in equity and retirement funds
3) Strengthen investor faith in American credit so investors will continue to buy bonds and feed the economy. This is done by increasing the interest rate.
4) Lower the interest rate to reduce burdens on the people
5) Strengthen the dollar so the US can avoid issuing too many treasury bonds during trade deficits
6) Weaken the dollar so American inflation remains low while exporting exports remain affordable enough to attract customers.
7) Able to work with the major branches of the US government where generally everyone is hostile because he has to screw voters of both parties daily to keep the economy afloat.
8) Able to work with reserve representatives in 200 countries to maintain the balance of the economies. This includes Russia and even Iran.

But, would I be correct that you know someone ... Maybe even yourself who would be a better fit for the job?

I smoke a pack a day. I haven't looked at a cigarette pack in years because the EU passed laws requiring grotesque images to be printed on the packs, but my guess is that there is a warning somewhere on the pack telling me that if I choose to smoke, it will hurt me.

I believe banning Deepseek from the store is contradiction and a violation of my liberties. I don't believe the government has the right to ban me from harming myself in their eyes.

First, I seriously doubt Meike Kamp is informed enough to make decisions on my behalf. I do feel he has the right to attempt to warn me of the dangers as he perceives them. I also believe his job should make him pressure Deepseek to operate using EU laws while operating in the EU.

That said, if I believe the rewards outweigh the risks, then I want the option to use Deepseek.

Also, privacy is long dead. I also distrust the Chinese government less than the Trump or Modi governments. If you ban Chinese apps, you should also ban Americsn apps and operating systems.

Anyone with an actual computer science degree should be ok. However, most universities don't teach computer science anymore. They teach IT or programming.

Computer scientists are taught how to think and problem solve. They are mathematicians and sometimes physicists with keyboards.

The applied computer skills like Cyber Security never belonged in the university except as an add-on.

My daughter starts her summer internship on Monday. The largest university in this country has a total of 9 students in entering their third year studying CSEE in the physics department. Every one of them are being attacked with extremely good offers by companies begging for their education. By comparison, thousands are studying applied computing such as programming and cybersec and only 60% of this year's graduates are likely to find jobs.