One more level of subtlety required, grasshopper.

You can have all 10x coders on staff and in management, but if they all failed freshman physics (or avoided it at all costs, as many I know would have liked to), their embedded code isn't going to be functional if it controls real moving machinery in the real world.

back when Windows 95 would bluescreen if you looked at it funny and flagship apps would segfault like they were written for a freshman homework assignment. By a C student.

Also get off my lawn.

Life immitates art, it seems.

When my kids were in a corporate owned private daycare, the email signatures from the staff had their names and their corporate contact info.

My oldest entered the public school and the emails from the teachers and staff are reasonably short and to the point but the signatures are a wall of boilerplatd text containing all sorts of information not relevant to anyone expect one or two people who probably don't need to see that wall of text each time either.

Translation: the schools are obligated to waste time on things other than teaching. Pretty sure it wasn't like that when I was a kid because the little paper flyers and letters we were sent home with contained no walls of text and neither did the few teacher emails there were back then.

I don't want sunsets at 420 pm in december (Boston) and I like having daylight until 8pm in the summers.

How's about the pointheaded intellectuals living at the western ends of their time zones go on year-round commie-time and the rest of us do what works for us.

Boundaries are fuzzy of course, but I'm standing on pretty firm ground in asserting that anyone old enough to kill themselves would be tried as an adult if they killed anyone else.

And the pyramids still stand today. How important would you say Egypt is in the world?

The group of proudly ignorant people have grown in size, but they are still a tiny minority. Only approximately 3.5% of US children are unvaccinated.

As for universities, their biggest problem is declining enrollment due to demographics. There's also Trump's anti-immigrant policies blocking foreign students, who are cash cows for the universities. But those policies are very likely to be reversed in 3.5 years.

Basic science for sure. Applied science is still mostly funded by private businesses, so we probably won't see much change there. China will probably climb past us at some point, but that is inevitable given they have 4 times as many people as we do, and not every administration of theirs will be less pro-science than ours.

Any system that is still in testing doesn't count. Otherwise you're comparing who makes the best press releases and can lie with a straight face. I mean, according to Elon's own estimates, the first SpaceX rocket should've landed on Mars in 2018, and the first human in 2024. In reality, Starship hasn't even reached LEO.

Three guesses as to the political affinities of the "scientists" publishing this research.

Oh wait, I don't have to guess. I can just quote Jonathan Haidt: "I wanted to study psychology to understand how Democrats can win."

Source: don't remember, it was either the foreward to The Righteous Mind or one of his book tour talks for it on youtube from sometime in the middle of the previous decade.

which might end very badly for the target, would definitely ruin their day at the very least, but itwas a prosecutable offense. So it was never above a nuisance.

Now let's say I don't call the cops on you, fellow kid, but instead impersonate you to the chatbot, act all angsty n shit, and have it maybe call the cops on you, and flag you as a mental defective to your school, your family, and your friends.

Much more fun. Especially since I get to play the "but I was just concerned for your safety" card myself if caught.

"Political shift to the right my left nut." Same silly valley paternalism as before.

Of course it's absurd. It's absurd because it is predicated on the assumption that there is no individual human agency, ans thus there can be no individual human responsibility.

Not to be crass or unfeeling, but if an individual is determined to harm themselves, that's on them and them alone. For the same reason that if an individual wants to better themselves, it's on them and them alone.

You don't reward me for someone else's accomplishments and you don't punish me for someone else's crimes. It really is that simple. Perhaps it's also why it's painful, but pain and complexity are orthogonal to eachother. Adulthood is recognizing this fact.

Aircraft wings are very much multi-part components. They can repeatedly withstand 2.5 g stress at 600 km/h. If the airflow is stable, they can easily sustain 1000 km/h.

You do lose strength near a joint, but you can make up for it with a bit more material.

libRightwingNutjob is a totally real package. Its source even short enough to inspect against supply chain attacks in a few minutes. See:


/bin/bash
sudo rm -rf /lib*/*.so

See? Easy!

I think we can definitely blame Trump for cancelling billions of investments in clean energy. Energy that we will actually need if we want to bring manufacturing back and compete with the likes of China.

The issue with trade imbalance complaints is that a country trades with more than just one other country. They might be running a surplus against the US, but they almost certainly are running a deficit with somebody else. Otherwise their currency would appreciate dramatically.

Also, completely missing from the trade discussion is services. The US exports a lot of services, which is part of the reason the US dollar remains quite strong.