Security consulting in Abu Dhabi.

Trust me, you don't want to work there. Not for any money.

So what may be my issues?

Pretty much this.

The internet has been turned into a cesspool of rubbish. If anything, something that "changes the internet as we know it" can't really make it much worse anymore.

Or rather, if it does, maybe even the muggles finally realize it.

Google has access to one of the biggest data pools, if they're not the biggest aggregators of data altogether. They also have a bunch of incredibly talented statisticians and pattern recognition systems in place.

If there is a way to detect AI generated bullshit, they have the means to do it.

And another set of professions, this time astroturfers and SEO bullshitters, losing their job to AI.

This time around, though, it's hard to feel sorry.

Ha, actually laughing out loud at that.

If I ever need an example of dramatic irony, I'll have to remember this one.

Lol, that joke hit too close to home for a couple of mods.

They're all LED displays. The nano ones are just smaller, which is what you need to make smaller displays while keeping the resolution the same.

Those video walls you see in stadiums and Times Square and everywhere else today are LED displays, except they use non-micro (i.e. bigger) LEDs so they're big and/or low resolution. I have a couple of the panels, they're squares with 30 cm sides and 64 x 64 LEDs. A few TV manufacturers made high res video walls with the smallest LEDs they could make, which at the time came out to 150" 4K displays. It looks like they've whittled that down to 75" or so now.

Quantum dots are hunks of semiconductor pretty much like all other LEDs except they're so small their size influences the colour they emit. You don't have to change the materials to tune the bandgap, you just change their size. So if you want to make LEDs really small you're eventually going to end up with quantum dots. To be fair, the dots are about 5 nm across, so they are nano. You'd never make single dot pixels for a TV though.

Slashdot seems to be on a tear making up headlines lately. This one is at least similar to the actual article title.

"No One Buys Books Anymore" implies this is a new situation. The article is "No One Buys Books" which I suppose might seem true to a blog author who gives it away for free: "Is anyone else alarmed that the top tier is book sales of 75,000 units and up? One post on Substack could get more views than that.." right down to the excessive ellipses.

Either way, if your career is over by the time you turn 35, you have to make sure you made enough money by that time to exist on it for the rest of your life.

This is a myth possibly originating with The Martian, where the main character goes to great lengths to bury his RTG. That was silly, he should have used the thing as a foot warmer in the hab, and to charge his iPod.

They're potentially dangerous if you crack them open and munch on the plutonium inside, but they're generally also designed to survive reentry intact so good luck with that.

https://atomicinsights.com/mar...

Don't worry, they've decided they need to get back to the moon right now because the Chinese are interested. There was a documentary on Netflix about it.

Mars' atmosphere is too thin for realistic passenger flight, it's just thick enough to be a PITA for both landing and taking off, any colony on Mars would have to be pretty self-sufficient right away since resupply is once every couple years, it's too far away and too big to supply anything useful to Earth, and is there actually a practical difference between 1/6 and 1/3 G?

Meanwhile the moon is close, made out of resources that would be useful for a space-based industry, and much easier to come and go from. Also, there's no thought it might have once had life, which means there's no real argument for mining the crap out of it. On the other hand, there's no thought it might have once had life.

Care to point to a sensible use of them? I can't think of any that isn't about creating an indentured service situation for your employee.

Aka "you work for me or you won't work for anyone".

Also illegal in Europe.

Can you see why I laugh in the face of the US embassy employers whenever I renew my visitation visa when they tell me I can't work in the US? Who in his sane mind would want to work there when you have a cushy job in the EU?