If it's in the data and you can detect it, then it can be removed from the data. These days, you can't even use large, damaging watermarks because an AI tool can easily remove them.

It seems like a lot of work given how quickly this particular arms race progresses.

I haven't tried it yet, but WFH isn't really WFH, it's WFAnywhere.

There's no reason I couldn't travel, working during the day and seeing sights in the evening. The only issue would be ensuring adequate Internet bandwidth at whatever hotel I stayed at each night.

I'd want to stay close to my own time zone, but that still leaves a lot of continent I could be touring.

I understand why, but really for an alpha the request should be "no reviews at all, the game isn't ready yet".

Getting high salaries off the books is good, getting good talent off the roster is bad. Sending that talent to your competition is worse.

Unless the company was diving into the red, it would appear back-to-office mandates were a bad idea regardless of the motivation.

And all us here unedumacated morans here on Slashdot predicted that such policies would result in the most valuable employees leaving... Because they were the ones most able to. Not seeing that is a significant failure of management.

I've yet to see a decent sized team that didn't need a project manager. Rarely full-time, but they still need them. There's a skill set there that isn't particularly common. And no, learning how to use a project management package doesn't make you a decent project manger.

And AI is nowhere near being able to independently assess a project's requirements and resources and keep everything on track.

Humans will remain needed for a while yet.

If it can't occupy box seats at the local sports arena, if it can't use an expensive golf membership, and if it can't work half-days so it can then 'work' 3/4 days in the nearest upscale bar... how's AI ever going to replace UPPER management?

For all the heat middle management takes, they do serve a valuable function - they're facilitators, wheel-greasers, and organizers for the workers. Not that you don't frequently see them manage to bump themselves up a level and insulate themselves from actually having to do something by installing a layer of project managers below them.

I've been a white collar worker for a quarter century. Meeting throughout that time have almost universally been a waste of time - a manager or senior team member presenting something that could have been a memo, or maybe a bunch of people discussing something that's really already been decided but few have figured that part out yet.

The most valuable meetings I've had are the unscheduled hallway meetings as you pass someone and realize you need something from them. And that's just bad communication since you should already have received the answer to your question... You're really cornering people so they can't procrastinate.

I have a small number of people I need to talk to for my job, and they're rarely in the office. Computers are awesome - I can reach them so long as they're not stuck in a physical meeting.

Which is kind of silly - I've worked with GPS-based systems before, and even built one from the ground up (software component only). The first thing I learned is to never trust a single data point, and to do rationality checks even across multiple points. It doesn't take much interference to make GPS tracks look very odd.

If you have an expected path and inertial systems for rationality checks, it isn't that difficult to correct for random errors... Maybe not to 1" accuracy, but it should be good enough you'd risk planting instead of leaving your tractors idle.

In fact, if I'd been working on a farming system I'd have been doing more than basic checks because there's always a risk of somebody thinking it would be funny (or profitable) for them to mess with your guidance system deliberately.

One point for you. That's probably exactly what they're doing.

I have a lot of trouble believing that claimed increase in active uses is real. The quality has dropped. They had that API drama. They went iron fisted on their olunteer mods.

I doubt random people found articles about those things in the last year and thought. "Hey, I want to sign up for that!".

We can now do a atmospheric spectroscopic analysis of a hot rocky world 51 ly away. As telescopes and data analysis improves we're going to eventually find smaller worlds, further from their stars. Maybe eventually we'll find one with an odd oxygen imbalance and temperatures suitable for liquid water on its surface.

That'll be an amazing day.

Did nobody ever make a device to emulate a floppy drive but actually use something else for storage (like a ridiculously small portion of a USB flash drive)?

We do need to test the tech, but we shouldn't be implementing it at scale yet.

We release carbon to extract stored chemical energy. That energy must be returned to sequester carbon. For either direction, some energy is 'lost', not used for the purpose we intend it for.

The math is irrefutable - it would reduce atmospheric carbon more if this green energy was used to power whatever we want to power than to let those uses burn fossil fuels while this machine tries to clean up after them.

We're still releasing more CO2 every year despite increasing our green energy production. That must stop, and reverse. When essentially all our energy production is 'green' and there's some left over, THAT is when it is time for sequestration to start.

Levitating a rotating structure is not an insurmountable engineering challenge. Levitating such a structure with shifting loads within it is a different beast.

Still, if you could manage it, I'd say make it huge. The bigger it is, the slower you need to rotate it for a given g at the radius. The slower you need to rotate it, the easier it is to get in and out from the hub. Slow enough, and maybe you don't even need any fancy interface at the exit, just deal with the fact that the entry door moves and you can't take all day.

And also do this underground for radiation shielding.

According to Google, the largest known lunar lava tube is 360m in diameter. Put your centrifuge in there and you could get 0.5g at 1.24 RPM. That seems like something where you could get in and out of an airlock door at the hub without an epic leap and great timing.

>Nuclear - this is what we need, it doesn't emit CO2 and it works around the clock and provides massive amounts of energy and it doesn't degrade the way solar does and it can be easily controlled

Nuclear power isn't great for variable output, though it's awesome for base load. It can be the majority of your solution, but it can't be your sole solution. You have to worry about providing power to the reactor for cooling for weeks after a shutdown, so as we've seen in Ukraine... anywhere you have a neighbour who might invade it's risky to have a nuclear power plant.

Also, you have to worry about the waste for longer than modern society has already existed. I consider that a serious issue all on its own.