A small wheeled bot to pull two strings of LEDs in a triangle behind the truck with the bot at the tip?

Is "around the truck" really accurate in the US or are they being intentionally misleading? Truck drivers need to put a triangle 300 bloody feet behind truck on the highway here, that's not "around".

As much as I fondly remember the PS2, it's the original PlayStation that I have the most nostalgia for. The move to disc-based storage and the massive increase in capacity that developers had access to lead to some incredible games, especially in the JRPG space.

The PS2 was a good console, but GTA was a big part of that. There were certainly plenty of other good titles, but the GTA trilogy were the killer app. A lot of people bought a PS2 to play that series. If you wanted to play them again, you can pick up those games on PC now and they're not going to take much in terms of hardware to run. The integrated graphics in newish Intel or AMD CPU should be good enough.

I picked them up on Steam a few years back and replayed them all. It was on a PC with a dedicated graphics card, but one that was midrange when I bought it over a decade ago so probably no more powerful than what CPUs have for built-in graphics today.

Even with explanations and careful thought and careful everything, there are a ton of old and new ways to get it subtly wrong, especially after a couple of edits, which they will stumble upon by accident eventually.

It's not fine, it's wrong.

That makes for a pretty philosophical argument over drinks, but no one really acts as though the universe is random. Even the fact that you felt the need to explain your point of view to us shows that you believe there is an order to the universe and want to explain it to us.

In an age of AI HR and AI performance metrics, certificate is the only thing that matters. Stack your resume with every possible certification and you are set, even if you don't know what you are doing.

No, there is Google with its snooping and data siphoning and there is Firefox on its deathbed. Websites not supporting Firefox are dooming all of us to mono culture beholden to Google where you do not own your browser and do not own your data. Such future is as detrimental to digital freedoms as say one company taking over cloud services in a monopolistic..., oh wait.

Every webmonkey is capable of only ever using SQL prepared statements (which was the fix for CVE-2025-25257 for instance) and while trying to find queries which are subject to injection has false positives and negatives, the much simpler "only use prepared statements" is not. Try to suggest that solution to the average webmonkey and they start complaining they don't need to be constrained like that, very much like C programmers in that respect.

You need to start teaching management all programmers are habitual liars and only a basebal bat to the knees and shooting a couple to set an example will get them to start doing secure by design programming.

Is anyone MAKING you work there?

Fucking walk away. Jesus, why is this hard?

Boss: "Do this thing I want"
Employee: "No"
Boss "We will fire you"
Employee "OK" ...I get it leaving a job is scary. But I'm not super-buying that as these are STARTUPS. You haven't been there 5 years or more.

No, what's happening here I suspect is that people are lured into a job that's too good to be true.
If that's the case, and you were hired under a set of understandings and they CHANGE the understandings midstream, then you have an actionable claim. Companies can't change the rules without offering fair compensation.

Exactly. AI lacks agency. Meaning, all it does is correlate inputs with outputs but it does not act unless prompted with inputs. If you prompt it to avoid shut downs, it will do that. Otherwise, it will do nothing.

I don't like that happening either. I think at least some of this was avoidable fuck-up. However, there is other aspect to this - Trump is being actively sabotaged by judicial and bureaucratic systems. Tell me, do you think a single judge from San Francisco or Portland should be able to stop, on the thinnest pretenses of legality, president Trump delivering on his electoral promises? Why do you not see THAT un-American?

I wasn't talking about Starlink. The timing with the Cambodia shutdown is not likely coincidental.

What happened in Myanmar was because the scam was dead. Either the US coordinated with Myanmar's military or China decided the game was up and it was time for clean up.

Wow, 100 years ago, Texas looked different. Amazing.

Let me guess, you know all this because Joy Reid, Chris Hayes, Rachel Maddow, and the ladies on the view said it was true?

For example, Reagan in the late 80s recorded a radio speech explaining why he was imposing high tariffs on Japan, a Canadian province took that speech, cut out the parts they didn't like, and tried to sway public and political opinion on trade discussions between Canada and the US with a $75M ad buy on US television. (Remember when Democrats were all upset about "deep fakes", "selectively-edited" and clips "taken out of context"?) President Trump called "Bullshit" on that and ended trade talks with Canada. That's a leader taking a stand and putting America first. Democrats can cry about our "bestie to the north", but that was a bullshit move, period. Imagine if Trump took a tariff speech from a Canadian leader (Pierre Trudeau?) selectively edited it, and spent $75 M on an TV ad buy to influence Canadian public and political opinions... would the left be OK with that?

You must - MUST - have a human double checking this. Dispatching any kind of response without human review invites catastrophe.