The biggest abuse in the number of students versus the number of jobs in the profession are in journalism. There are more journalism students than there are jobs in the entire industry.

Music unfortunately has similar problems even with something that has more value. In far too many cases, graduates from college music programs can't work in the field because their teachers are the ones with seats in the local orchestra. They're literally having to directly compete with their instructors.

It would not entirely block students from underperforming K-12 schools, because college admissions officials do not solely look at the performance of schools. They also look at things like raw GPA, class rank, classes that are acknowledged as being more challenging, and on other aspects of scholarship like applications essays and standardized tests.

Certainly there would be fewer students from underperforming schools, because there would generally be fewer strong candidates from underperforming schools, through the sheer nature of the statistics of what led to those schools being labeled as underperforming to begin with.

Thing is though, that's why the higher ed system is tiered. No one looks on Truckee Meadows Community College as being at the same level as UCLA, and no one looks at UCLA as being on par with Yale. There are or at least should be options for many talented high school graduates who are looking for college. Not everyone gets to go to MIT. Not everyone even gets to go to the University of Arizona. Some end up at Chattahoochee Technical College. And that's okay. They might well be able to transfer if they excel in their new environment after high school. If not, they might well have to go through the programs that they can perform at.

What we do need is better assessment for certification of programs, and weeding-out of faux-colleges that themselves just exist to profit off of student loans for 'students' that will never graduate, particularly private for-profit colleges. They need to be held to minimum graduation rates based on original enrollment, and if that means compelling them to find fraudulent enrollments that likewise are attempting to game the educational financing system, then they need to step up.

That would be predicated on allowing actual permanent resettlement with a path to citizenship and birthright citizenship for one's offspring.

I could well see researchers that aren't in a having/raising family stage of life being interested in living and working in Japan for some number of years as an interesting and finite life stage, but I don't see those looking to permanently settle somewhere or to raise a family somewhere necessarily being up for it.

To address that, Japan needs to do more than simply provide some short-term incentives for researchers, but that would also mean a fundamental shift in the thinking of the population as far as what it means to be Japanese, what it means to be a citizen, etc. They do not appear to be willing to do this.

Please don't misunderstand me either, I'm not commenting either way on what other specific countries/cultures do or don't do.

So the system responded that it was an already claimed serial number and not an invalid serial number? Who the fuck would do that?

Let's say someone put in a claim.

Well what is to stop them from trying consecutive serial numbers to see if they can get even more?

Each cloud service should have a couple of days per year on which they shut down for 24 hours so everyone can practice their contingency plans.

Yes great to mention the linking aspect, that was key to the whole thing being really useful.

Without news sites to scrape, there will be no feeding the AI. With one key exception. When a site is driven by political agenda instead of advertisement revenue.

You have it partially right here.

But the one divergence from the pattern you didn't list is, that because most AI. (and Google's AI specifically) is very left leaning, it will feed you only left leaning news... so the sites that will remain, and keep earring revenue are more right leaning sites since people would have to go to them directly anyway to seek out news Google will never give them.

Of course that merely delays the full effect of what you lay out, when most for-profit left wing news sites fold the AI starved for information will in the end actually make use of right leaning sites as well.

What it does mean is that left wing news sites that remain in the next year or so will only be hyper-partisan info funded by some external source.

Apologies... when they said they planned on the "biggest, baddest CPU," I naturally assumed they were talking about x86 desktop and server processors, not lean, sensible, small-scale processors like ARM, MIPS, and RISC-V.

What did HyperCard even do?

It's kind of hard to explain, and honestly my memory of what you could do with Hypercard and how you actually did it is very fuzzy as it was so long ago.

But basically it was a visual programming languages, where the visual bits you drug around were then also backed by actual code that would do things. You would create a variety of cards, and in those cards could store data, move on to other cards, and so forth.

Some people used it to create games, but used it to create an inventory tracking system for a store, and probably some other stuff I have forgotten about.

In the end, it was a way to make programming a lot more approachable to people at a time when programming was VERY low level for the most part!

A key part of it was once you made a stack of cards it was very easy to share with other people as a kind of application (but one you could modify in any way you liked).

You might get a better feel reading this Tribute To Hypercard.

Everyone always talks about Woz but it sure seems like Atkinson deserves nearly as much praise.

Sad to see one of the great ones go, but accomplished so much for so many and that is better than a lot of people manage.

"Proving a suspected murderer guilty by establishing an ironclad alibi for everyone else on the planet"

I'll see your Sherlock Holmes fallacy and raise you a Reverse Burden of Proof fallacy.

There has always been a better way, but stubborn fascination with x86 has held the chip industry back for decades. It is definitely time to move on and I'm glad someone has taken it up.

Nobody is really in favour of limited government because when push comes to shove those who profess being in favour of limited government remain so only until they get into power.

If what you say is true it means lots, not none, are in favor of limited government because they do not seek power over others and thus wish for possible power over them to be minimized...

Basically the age-old axiom, most people just want to be left the hell alone.

Being for limited government, I am also against the 10 year moratorium on AI regulation (and giant bills generally).

But also that is because what are regulations going to do? They can't stop you from accessing a web site in another country running some hyper advanced AI model, or downloading AI malware that can jack your system.

All regulations can possibly do is retard (in the classic sense of the word) tools in the states or countries of whatever places are stupid enough to even try to regulate AI. It's going to hurt enough companies that try to follow the law that it's a bad idea and would provide no benefit you are seeking through the regulation.

In fact if you really believe AI can even be dangerous at all then the only possible thing you can do is to advocate for as much AI as possible to counter the "bad" AI.

I guess I'm confused, how is a technology with a decades-long service life and is basically a capital investment subject to the same sort of label of 'bubble' compared to the explosive growth of something using a commodity model with obsolescence measured in years?

In 2020 I had to occasion to have some OS1 singlemode fiber installed back in 1994 terminated into splice cases and put into use. That fiber sat for basically a quarter century and was then usable when I needed it.

Where I work now I no longer have primary responsibility to deal with cabling infrastructure, but we still light up metro-crossing fiber between locations that could well have sat dormant for decades. Costs to install pathways right now are RIDICULOUS, like upwards of $1000/linear foot for underground conduit work. Stuff installed for a tenth or less that price 20 years ago is paying for itself now even accounting for inflation if I'm not having to spend $50k to go fifty feet between buildings. And unlike point-to-point wireless shots there's no recurring licensing fees to the FCC, there's no service-subscription costs to the wireless equipment manufacturer, and there's basically no lifecycle costs to regularly replace the connection.

If there was any sort of fiber bubble, it was that those looking to profit off of it weren't thinking like a utility, where the ROI takes awhile to see, but the investment in the installation lasts for decades, not months or years. It's only a bubble if you're not a long-term thinker.