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Comment Re:Crrot and Stick (Score 2) 97

Industrial R&D is important, but it is in a distrant third place with respect to importance to US scientific leadership after (1) Universities operating with federal grants and (2) Federal research institutions.

It's hard to convince politicians with a zero sum mentality that the kind of public research that benefits humanity also benefits US competitiveness. The mindset shows in launching a new citizenship program for anyone who pays a million bucks while at the same time discouraging foreign graduate students from attending universtiy in the US or even continuing their university careers here. On average each talented graduate student admitted to the US to attend and elite university does way more than someone who could just buy their way in.

Comment Everyone's bilding stupid junk (Score 5, Insightful) 30

Like nearly every product in this area, these podcasts are scams.

The equivalent of all those LLM-spam "books" you see on Amazon.

They are product pumped out with no regard to quality control, dependent on potential consumers mistakenly thinking there's something like fact checking or editing going on because of the name on the tin.

Worse, this is all "hello world" style LLM programming - give it your cute little prompt ("That's where the real engineering goes!"), throw it a couple links to RAG in, and slap an ad on it. There's nothing here a vaguely competent teenager can't build for themself or the robot can't build for them.

That itself is a nested scam - pretending that any of this crap is difficult, that you need your betters at WaPo to write it for you.

And that's just the tool itself - the next problem is Bezos made it clear that anyone with integrity should hit the road, and those folks did. So all the source material may as well be robot poop already, quality-wise.

Comment Re:TL;DR: Gotta keep the bubble going (Score 4, Insightful) 126

Thats not really how that clause works.

The interstate commerce supremacy thing has always been interpreted to refer to either specifically interfering with interstate transactions where doing so gives one company an advantage over another. Ie "You can only buy from a local farmer now".

I cant imagine any combination of facts that would make the interstate commerce clause apply that wouldnt interfere with almost all state commercial and environmental legislation.

And anyway, Presidents cant make laws.

Comment Re:Okay. (Score 2) 126

With one important difference, this reminds me of the 1974 Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act, which established a national speed limit of 55 MPH. States had to either adopt a state speed limit of 55 MPH, or else lose out on funding, i.e. get punished.

Of course, that was a law enacted by Congress, not an Executive order. I guess, traditionally, they say that for first quarter millennium of America, Congress held the purse strings because some inky piece of paper said they were supposed to, as if Congress could ever handle that much responsibility! Can you imagine?! Anyway, we've decided Fuck That Tradition, let's try something new and put a thieving tool in charge of the purse.

Comment Re:Demographic stats would be nice (Score 2) 16

Yeah... like dudes, go look up "Heroku 12 factor" and memorize it and live it. Its a *really useful* guide to building scalable app without having to degenerate into hellish lambda messes or whatever.

And one central key to it is;- Dont put config in the container! Inject it on deploy!

We knew this at least a decade ago, at least.

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