I have noticed that employees that guess get the same reward. The appearance of progress gets more reward than that the guy that got the real answer on paper but was asked to stand down before submitting it becuase someone already turned in a guess.

Please keep the sun overhead at noon. You can just ask businesses and government to open an hour sooner. If you don't think they would do that, what makes you think they wouldn't just counteract your change to the clock by changing their hours to the actual time they want.

"neurotoxin?" How about just bust out of the snake like furry Xenomorphs, do a wet-dog shake, walk 10 feet east, and start virtual foraging again.

T5000 Really? As in T for Terminator. No matter what you use it in, I can't shake the picture of it ripping people in half.

In HS I had written several APPs used by the staff and students, learned fairly advanced networking, wrote the school's website, and knew what ever single file did in the System directory. When I graduated at 18, I tried to transition from washing golf carts in the summer to an actual foot-in-the-door tech sector job where I could make connections at. But this was after the .com crash. I remember one of my interviewers was at an ISP, I was asking for $12/hr and afterwards the interviewer told me: What your asking for is not impossible, but frankly, most of the tech support guys here are in high school and ride their bike to work for minimum wage. So after a few years of retail electronics which Is all I could find in my area, I finally found a real tech sector job. Over the next 25 years I worked at 3 different companies, and rose from entry to lead engineer to director at each of them. I moved on in each case for better pay. But I'm still not anywhere remotely near 160k yet. The jobs have never been cushy high paying jobs, they have been stressful and require continuous-education. Sure maybe if you had moved to California it was possible to start with a six figure entry level salary but how about some numbers that actually have any meaning whatsoever to the rest of the US.

I always try to offer worms to Fish but they also turn me down.

I got 6 out of 6 correct. But, I do not ever phrase things the way they are in the tests linked above. For the people I write to, the logic here of using semicolons instead of commas wouldn't help them comprehend these long sentences any better.

Starring: Blah Blah Dinks or is it Bar Bar Blinks? Actually the best spoof for Jar Jar might be to 'not' mock him like every other character but instead portray HIM as the legitimate, wise, powerful master that saves the day with common sense and adultness.

Hypercard was kind of a forerunner to Visual Basic with a Document based theme. Add buttons, fields, menus, graphics. you could place these items in the foreground or background idea of a stack, meaning user could then add new cards which shared the same background elements sort of like making a new row of a database but in graphical form. on top of that, you could copy binary functions into the resource fork of its stack, and then call those functions from its simple scripting language. Those add-on functions (XCMDs) ment you could do almost anything in a stack. It was fun to copy those extensions into your stack from vast libraries of third party created functions publish on AOL(years later). In some ways its ability to link from page to page with interactive content was a precursor to the web and AOL before it existed. I wrote a hypercard stack that was like AOL instant messenger for our school's local network.

Don't forget that people are getting stupider, so for the roles that do require a human, we will need more of them. :).

You perked up the ear of every Mac fan on Slashdot by mentioning Bungie software and Marathon! While I did play Doom/Quake/Quake2/Unreal. I spent more time in Marathon Infinity than all the former combined becuase they included their map editor so anyone could make your own 3d worlds. This included all the switches, triggers, doors, and logic that you could setup Like HalfLife for that existed.) We would then play all those custom levels as LAN games over localtalk/appletalk/ethernet. Who needs regular deathmatch when you can have Secret doors, crushers, enemy spawners, transporters. :) So what do they call this new Marathon? Marathon infinity +1. Ok. Im reading the article now.

How can it weigh 34000 times the mass of the sun in an area only 40 moons wide, and not be star or black whole? something doesn't add up. :)

I ban my kids from playing roblox, just because of its stupid malware like insistence on running at startup, restoring its loader if you disabled, restoring its shortcut icons all over the place after I delete them. This malware/crapware if it ever existed.

Jobs to support the plant, maintain robots, deliver goods, and all the other loose ends that will still take some time to be supplanted by robots will come to the US. This 'will' bring some jobs both directly, and second order. Thats always better than nothing. Then there are all the other benefits of more secure supply chain. And when it comes to electricity, Arizona has no shortage of Solar. and the US has no shortage of Energy options or materials when needed. Your concern about energy is valid point, it does need to be primarily clean energy to run all this AI stuff, (same case with bitcoin). While the US can easily produce energy, which includes wind, We need some reasonably competitive production of solar panels for domestic use. even if those are also robots.

Thats not what the article says. They are making the actual chips in the US which is the hard part. Building the rest of a computer: PCBs, resisters, capacitors is not a problem and can easily be done domestically. "Entirely within the US" may not include the supporting components, but that not an issue. This is good for both the US and for TSMC, it gives TSMC options to stay on top. While it's true that staying only in Taiwan has some protectionism benefits from the countries that depend on them thats certainly not a proactive approach that will last for the scale of time they need to stay on top.