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Comment Re: AI 'race' (Score 1) 133

Good question. The CBO expects it to cost $800 billion, the white house says $175 billion.

Practically speaking, America already has an advanced ICBM defense system, although as currently deployed, it is aimed at stopping missiles from a rogue state (specifically North Korea).

In the end, the Golden Dome might just end up buying a bunch of ground-based THAAD interceptor missiles (which are already in production), along with some space-based detector satellites. The sooner you can stop a missile, the cheaper it is because MIRV (multiple-independent-reentry-vehicle) ICBMS are very expensive to stop once they've split, because there are a lot of them and they are moving fast (along the order of mach 25). So if you can stop them earlier in flight it's cheaper. Estimate roughly $1 billion dollars spent to stop an ICBM in the terminal phase, so stopping a full launch of nuclear missiles by Russia would cost trillions of dollars.

The controversial part of Golden Dome is putting interceptors in space, since that is weaponizing outer space. That also concerns me, but we might not actually get there. The idea of ICBM interceptors is controversial to some people, but those people don't realize it already exists, and is deployed.

Comment Re:Is SJVN getting forgetful? (Score 1) 70

Universities here are starting to tell CS and STEM students "you are on your own" when they get Macs. Because, as it turns out, a lot of stuff is more difficult on a Mac. For example, there are massive issues to get VMs runnign reliably for the students. Yes, I had one student with a Mac in my IT security class that just used GCC and GDB for the buffer overflow analysis on the Mac commandline and while the results were a bit different, they were fine and we discussed the differences. But 4 others did not manage. And that is a serious problem. Apple is doing way too much "different for the sake of being different" and that just does not cut it in quite a few scenarios.

I'm not a CS type, but I work in STEM, and having tried numerous times to bring obscure scientific stuff over from Unix or Linux and get it to build on MacOS, I absolutely agree with what you just said above. That sort of stuff is better left to experienced developers who focus on MacOS. I do use Linux, Windows and MacOS every workday, but I don't use Windows on weekends. I'd pick a Mac laptop 10 times out of 10 for general use, presuming I had access to networked Linux systems.

Comment Re: Hiring only experienced engineers (Score 1) 132

ok, it sounds like you have opinions on certain policies, although you probably don't understand them entirely and should do more research. But basically there's no problem with that. I don't expect you to be omniscient and I'm not.

The problem is when you go around hating people. Don't do that.

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