It doesn't. What it means is cutting through a lot of big parcels whose owners have big money, so they can be big impediments. There has to be a happier medium than this between respect for individual private property ownership and the needs of the many, but we are clearly uninterested in finding it in this country.

Are you unready or ill equipped for the conversation about making them not stab-happy in the first place? Because you leapt rapidly to throwing away the key.

Oh look, a one-issue sock puppet has shown up to Charlie Kirk the discussion.

So then the hard part is creating the reactors which don't exist, as usual. It's a weakness shared by literally every proposed SMR project.

That's not what "native" means.

Who invented pluggable file formats anyway? The first place I experienced it was AmigaOS 2.0. NeXTStep had reusable controls but AFAIK it didn't provide formats to all installed applications.

Exactly this, the "spec" is almost always a very rough draft that is largely written and consumed by people that want to feel like they contribute to the project even though they don't understand the customer or the developer situation that well. You might reference it a bit in your first offering and then ignore it as the stakeholder sees what the spec produces and realizes the spec wasn't really what they wanted when they see it live.

Once upon a time more weight was given to design, but the industry largely realized that all that very careful effort just became a liability of sunk cost fallacy when they realized the resultant output was not desired, but so much work had gone into the spec we don't want to change.

Nowadays it's a way that PMP minded folks feel like they are core technical contributors without learning to code. This is of course the target audience. Spoke to an executive that sincerely believes the only thing of irreplaceable value is his 'insight' and over 90% of his employees are going to be dismissed since he can just do it all himself. In practice his is the *first* job that could go to LLM, as all he ever says is either obvious stuff or just confidently wrong and his business decisions amount to "all we need is more customers and for them to pay more for it and we will be profitable"... Genius.

Do you have an example we can look at? Anyhow, if no one is needed, all done by robots how does that jibe with your statement of all the sad people working in the huge Datacenters, when everything is done by robots. Did you mean to say Sad Robots?

Medical Doctors have one big issue - they are nowhere near as smart as they think they are. 8^)

Your example reminds me of Video work. Before non-linear editing, A lot of places used the Amiga with a video Toaster board. I used one. So Lightwave had a demonstration at my university. Everyone was wowed. Then someone spoke up. This is great - we need it for the PC. The Lightwave guy said, "We don't make it for the PC, because the Amiga has many custom chips inside, The PC can't do it." Our guy said "You don't understand. We are a PC university that uses Windows. We want your device, but it has to be on PC, not Amiga or whatever you call it. PC, do you understand?"

I'm sitting there laughing.

Yes, I agree. It is like so many things, if one group doesn't do it, another one will, and the competition really tends toward better. Stasis loses.

Who designs and implements the robot. Your humongous datacenter will need a lot of them. Do you design datacenters that you know the implementations?

Lot's of people are sad anyhow.

Jobs, careers. Working for a living, professionalism. There is a difference.

If you want to be a professional, there are certain aspects of your workalike you have to adapt to - or have the temperament to do The big datacenter example is not uncommon even today in different jobs. Automotive factories are humongous. They use a lot of robots, but the humans inside are just a cog in the machine. Even the engineering jobs are not all that exciting. I have a friend who interviewed for a work at Ford once. The engineer he was talking to was all excited because they had chosen the paint color for the engines that morning. I dunno - how exciting is to decide on Ford Blue - again.

But here is the important thing. All of these not terribly interesting jobs are perfect for people who aren't that interested in the work. They are great for people who work for a living, not career oriented or professional.

And that is okay.

I nuked my nice fast Windows 10 laptop that was no longer eligible for W11 update. Now it works flawlessly and fast. My new W11 laptop is fast, but W11 is buggy. This operating system feels and acts like early beta.

Maybe Microsoft could think about getting W11 to function first instead of providing users with roulette wheel malware.

Even in my lifetime, it was almost impossible to have one job that would last your entire career. Especially in technology and technology adjacent careers.

Life long learning we called it. Prepare for the next thing. Think of say, electronics from tube to transistor to IC to early to modern computing. A woman photographer who worked where I was refused to do digital photography. Or at least the impeded it at every chance. After I designed a new process of digital, she then turned her stasis seeking onto me, saying I was too secretive for her to learn. The supervisor said "I have an almost 3 inch thick stack of memos and process outline, and your name is on the distribution list." She ended up losing her job because she refused to adapt.

Point is people have a desire for stasis, somewhat understandable. But if you were a miner, the days of hundreds of men laboring underground are almost over, at least greatly diminished. In my area, the coal mining is now handled by just a few. people and at an incredible pace. If you want employment, you need to look elsewhere. AI now. It is difficult to know firmly where this is going. One thing almost certain is that the present form of AI is a huge bubble, which complicates things. But this is another shift in technology adjacent employment. So I'd be paying close attention to what develops. Best to get in on the ground floor rather than wait too long.

The whole point of dark energy is to explain why the cosmos is expanding more than it theoretically should be. If it isn't, then you don't need dark energy, or if it isn't expanding as much as formerly believed then you don't need as much of it.

There are values and there are values. I told my wife no tattoos, and she knows it is a deal breaker. She has her own deal breakers, and I comply. In your family, I take it you have no deal breakers? Your wife can do anything at all and you would just say " Okay dear - have fun"! Tell Bob , Jim and Sally I picked up the hotel bill for you guys.

Rather than go down the standard road where you end up calling me the M word (admit it, you want to) I have standards. I have boundaries. My wife has standards and boundaries. We respect them because- and I emphasize this we respect each other

And yes - another of my boundaries is respect. It isn't a deal breaker though, just gets a rebuke - after she cools down. Her's? She demands support and respect as well. Extramarital sex is also a deal breaker on her part.

Now back to tattoos. At their very best, they are gilding a lily. Almost all women have an element of beauty in them. Feminine beauty is real. Evolution has insured that.

At their average they are garish, and end up looking like a skin disease, fuzzy and unidentifiable after 20 years.

At their worst, they are a symbol of your love for youe ex, that you would expose yourself to a tattoo artist, and wonder why your new boyfriends don't stick with you. Or then I've been seeing women with teardrop tattoos. They think it is cute - look up wht a teardrop tattoo symbolizes. She better not show up in the wrong place.

You can think all of that is okay if you like - it is your opinion. But acting like I'm some sort of jackass because I don't like it. Is kind of rude

I also like women with freckles, I like tall slender women with long dark hair and blue eyes. But they have to have standards, and boundaries, and they have to respect my standards and boundaries. If tattoos are okay in your book, then that what you like - or maybe accept. Here's one for you - if your spouse looked like this, would you say "You slay queen" if she decided to look like that nightmare fuel on the left?https://www.tyla.com/life/true-life/worlds-most-tattooed-woman-shares-throwback-picture-943343-20240216

Finally, is there a level of tattoos your wife could get that caused you to say "no more!. ? If there is, you have a standard. So don't high road me.

Which is why I said they would have to get them on their genitals or a tramp stamp, below the bikini line. I noted that I have seen them sleeveless, in shorts, in backless gowns. in bathing suits, It ends up being a additive process. I'd I've seen the uncovered arms, legs, backs, necks, Not all at once, but over time, most of them.

And the other thing is that most of these ladies are not the mentality of a woman who gets tattoos.

Funny, I've lived in the boardroom for around 20 years, and you know how many C-suite women have tramp stamps? Explain how you know this fact.

I've worked with enough highly placed ladies to get close to them as friends, and they are simply not the type. They tend conservative, they tend understated, they tend to have husbands who pretty obviously wouldn't put up with that.

I certainly would not. If my wife came home with a tattoo, we'd be divorced ASAP.

You might not like it, you might believe that a woman covered with tattoos on her whole body is empowering and putting to the patriarchy - but you can't shake the opinion of many men that tattoos on a woman is a sign of making bad choices, and the more tattoos the more bad choices.

The fun part is after the empowerment and showing men that their bodies are their choices, after a while, the tats fuzz out and if you have enough, they look like you have a skin disease.

In the end, it is a great way for men to winnow out who is worth it or not. Many of us look at tattoos on a woman as similar to the rattles on a snake or the colors on a poisonous frog - stay well away. And it is a great way for tatted women to avoid having men who don't like tattoos to stay away from them.

Would you marry a woman with immediately above her vulva a tat that has "Bobby forever" or a tramp stamp that Say's "Only for you Bobby" ? What if she wanted to reconnect with Bobby for a week or so to get "closure" ? A lot of moderns like to do that. Closure is very important.