ROFL are you suggesting China? China can't even invade a small island directly off its own coast that the US wants. Which is smart, the US is the only nation which has successfully projected power across the oceans in the modern world. It's a daunting logistics problem that only the US has solved and the US was able to do it and slaughter the Chinese more than 20-1 with just 1950s technology.

"Wars of the future will, like wars of the past"

Wars of the past have not all been settled by manufacturing capacity. Wars are settled, or prevented before they start, by many things because not all wars have the same objective or logistical challenges. It is the Alps which have protected Switzerland while the rest of Europe fell. Geography plays a big role in war, including the failed British and Japanese invasions of the US.

"Manufacturing capacity... It sure as shit isn't the USA."

The only competitor on that front is China, which learned manufacturing from the US and was funded by the US. Since China went hostile we've cut off and crippled China economically; meanwhile we've been drastically ramping up domestic manufacturing pipeline back up. Currently the US is strategically positioned like no time before to simply cut off oil to China and then China will have essentially zero ability to wage war let alone fuel the supply lines for a war on the opposite side of the pacific. China certainly has no ability to get drones anywhere near the US mainland.

But China's manufacturing is at full capacity. The US demonstrated its capability to shift our entire economic and manufacturing pipeline into war mode during WW2, we aren't even remotely close to our full manufacturing capacity.

China has no capability to win a military war with the US, let alone invade the US. They've already failed in challenging the US economically. China has spent the last few decades poisoning the world [including an internal faction here in the US] against the United States with socialist propaganda and while that information war isn't settled the tide has begun shifting against them with the capitalist and patriotic right taking back power in the US and starting to take back power in the UK/Europe.

There is virtually no parallel between an invasion of Ukraine or Ukraine's response which parallels a potential invasion of the US beyond the word 'invasion.'

If anything I'd say the US thwarting a Russian invasion by proxy with a half-hearted effort in Ukraine says a great deal about how ridiculous it would be to suggest anyone is likely to be able to invade the US mainland.

I've read those books as well.

But everyone has multiple personalities, they just identify them all as part of the same whole. "But but they have the same memory!" Or do we just PERCEIVE it as the same because when I stop to remember things on two different days I can sometimes recall details/events on one day I couldn't on the other and we ALL have memories which can proven to not match what cameras record, especially over time.

The only thing connecting you in one mood from you in a different mood where you 'feel differently about things' is the completely baseless PERCEPTION that the two are the same person. Really, we don't know that we had a yesterday, only that we wake up remembering one.

And have you ever been of 'mixed minds' with two conflicting opinions on a topic? One stream of thought leans one way, another tugs back in another direction... like that little voice that keep trying to rationalize eating a dessert or keeping a 'harmless' secret from your spouse. This might seem like pointless nitpicking but if you are trying to go from a chatting and intelligent neural network to a general humanlike intelligence these distinctions matter.

I have ADHD. I call this 'autopilot' and it's essentially how I handle most of life. For example, active thought about something as silly as the state of a light in a room each time I enter/exit would be MUCH too costly. I'd forget where I was going or lose my place in whatever actual significant thing I'm working on/thinking about if I did that. I program my autopilot and reflexively turn the light on every time I enter and exit... at first I likely turn off lights on people with new behavior like this but the network is usually responsive to training/feedback over time; especially when the behavior is new.

There are quirks though. When I used to drive to work I'd sometimes find myself there if I started out going to a different destination in the same direction because I navigated with autopilot or I'd catch myself after making a wrong turn toward the more common destination. And at one point I lived with my mother-in-law in a building with a separate laundry room and anytime I went through the door while she in the laundry room I'd lock her out. She'd swear I was doing it on purpose but it was a 10yr or so old autopilot reflex I had to program as an adult when I moved from the country to the city and my New Yorker wife freaked the hell out when I didn't lock the door.

He also makes the robots, though so far he's keeping them all rather than selling them as he's indicated he intends.

But these TDS anti-musk wackjobs have completely lost the plot or given the current ownership the chinese regime is mangling the plot intentionally.

The US is basically invasion proof... unless we are so fscking stupid that we fund the building, development, and import a fscking Chinese robot army for them.

Dude everyone makes gestures that are as nazi-salutelike as that all the time, they just don't have propagandists slicing them out and feeding the suggestion that it was a nazi salute to millions of people.... something that was done by millions of bots, on X where he didn't censor it.

X is a leftwing hellscape if you are a MAGA centrist [aka a radical right wing extremist like Bill Clinton in the 90's] and a rightwing cesspool if you lean left because people engage more with ragebait. If you want raw material volume there is far more leftwing because that's what the bots all push. Nobody is getting censored on there.

Either way, oh my, ONE PLATFORM which doesn't censor in line with your politics. The HORROR! Is it really so god awful that your censorship regime has a leak so people can get a bit of real news? If someone, somewhere knows that the reflecting pool wasn't an ego project but a known problem since inception and that Obama spent twice as much and failed to fix it while the Biden admin also gathered estimates to spend 5x as much... or sees coverage after you guys stopped because the fix worked and that stopped being the optic you wanted reported?

You literally have no basis for any claim you've made here. You just assume that a party which has generally been honest and forthright is lying in every claim made with absolutely zero philosophical charity or attempt to verify what they've said.

It's amazing how much hate people still have over a guy ending mass censorship of opinions they don't like on one social media platform. I'm surprised we've only heard about you psychos attacking Tesla staff and dealerships and not your attempts to murder him like you've done with others who attempt peaceful and open dialog.

I still don't have the slightest clue why you imagine trillionaire Elon Musk or dodge workers pulling half a mil a year are more likely to rip you off using your tax data than random IRS employees making $60k/yr because they couldn't get hired doing the same jobs in the private sector for $85k+/yr. Unless you are genuinely shady, illegal, milking those government tits or something in which case I do get it and hope you get what is coming to you.

You should not have, because the researcher who claimed you should retracted his own claim in 1989. This story is the latest release of a rough example working better than smooth.

I have to disagree. While I agree the understanding of roughness impact has evolved over time; The summary clearly indicates Ichiro Tani introduced this idea in 1940 and retracted it based on further analysis of data [from 10 years prior to his claim] in 1989. The rest is just examples of people hunting down the best inverse examples of what he'd previously claimed... with this being the latest 2026 release directly descended from his own work.

It's actually impressive flex to claim an idea you pushed that misled people for 40yrs before you retracted it [and arguably beyond that] is a fundamental principal of aerodynamic engineering which you then 'overturned' with your continued research into how wrong you were.

1940 - Ichiro Tani argues surface roughness prevents laminar flow.
1989 - Tani reviewed data from the 1930's and found "roughness may not necessarily only promote turbulent transistion.
1990s - Yasuaki Kohama of Tohoku University experimentally demonstrated fibrous rough surfaces, which have fine fibrous irregularities on their surface, have the effect of delaying transition under certain conditions.
2026 - Same team announces this.

From TFS "This technology is fundamentally different from the "rivulet (shark skin) process," which is known as a typical aerodynamic drag reduction technology. The rivulet process mimics the fine longitudinal grooves in shark skin, and by carving grooves approximately 0.1 mm wide along the direction of airflow, it aligns the vortices that occur near the wall surface of turbulent airflow areas. DMR, on the other hand, delays the switch from laminar to turbulent flow by means of random and minute irregularities. The flow zones it affects and the mechanisms it employs are based on completely different concepts."

You used the phrase 'junk emails' but it is clear from context and the rest of your remarks that you were not talking about SPAM but rather legitimate emails that you just considered useless junk.

Look at this statement, it would be nonsensical to claim this is referring to ACTUAL junk aka spam email: Pruning spam.

"Don't use the legal excuse, that a lawyer might ask for an email some day, that's BS and you know it! Don't use the "I might have to reference email X later on", excuse, you'll know if it's important enough to keep."

"I will never keep an email where someone is alerting me they'll email me later, I'll just wait for that later email. I will never keep an email where someone is asking me to upload stuff to their site, once I upload whatever, they confirm, I delete the email. There's no the value to the email once the upload is done"

Right, emails you subjectively consider useless, but many people are required to keep ALL communications. They are not allowed to decide which are useful and useless. More importantly, you are describing a time consuming process where you spend significant time and worse, mental load, backtracking to determine old LEGITIMATE email is no longer useful. We just calculated a cost under 25 cents a year to simply archive all your email forever. That means if you make $15/hr flipping burgers and spend ONE MINUTE A YEAR managing email you've already exhausted the cost to simply keep all of it.

A lot of developers took a long time fighting your argument, only they were fighting for microoptimizations in code but the math kept crushing them. It's simply far more effective to save the time you'd spend choosing instructions that are slightly faster and instead use that time finding a high level design that is more efficient or timing execution to find the choke points. Email management is only useful to the extent it aids you in finding emails you need.

For YOU. https://slashdot.org/comments....

I answered the legal/compliance point seperately.

"I'll assume a 50 GB email load, if 10 million people have that much email that's 50 x 10 000 000 or 500 000 000 GB of email, which is also 500 PB, a 1/2 EB of email, that is most likely almost worthless. Where do you store 1/2 a EB? Why store 1/2 a EB of effective digital toilet paper? That's just email, now think about photos, videos, and cloud drive usage, if you start cleaning it up, and you're honest, most of that is junk."

Of course most of it is junk but you missed the point. Yes, I said 120 50GB email accounts and you sound like someone stuck dealing with people and their oversized outlook PSTs that crash and clobber their systems to me so I'm sure we can agree that in reality, you'll have some double that and most far smaller. So lets say that is 200 users covered by a $200 drive for 5 years. That is $0.20/user/year... hell lets pad it and call it a quarter a year for the benefit of never deleting an email you need later. At that price it's going to be the right call for 200 people or 10 million people. And that's talking about RAW storage... email is text, not only is text highly compressible but emails are highly redundant text... you only need to store unique blocks on disk if you do it right and the rest will just have references pointing to the same location. Just thinking about emails sent to 20 co-workers and their giant reply chains... how much less that becomes becomes because you only store the novel content once and store pointers for all the repetition across all those mailboxes.

"That's just email, now think about photos, videos"

Personal Photos and videos take up far more space than emails. Emails especially are redundant as well. 1/2 EB of email doesn't require anywhere remotely close to 1/2EB of disk to store.

"There is no legal requirement to keep old junk emails."

See the problem with talking out your ass is that you are often wrong. There may be no legal requirement for YOU to retain emails/communications. That doesn't make it some universal truth.

Sure — there are quite a few. Common examples:
Financial services

SEC Rule 17a-4 — broker-dealers must retain electronic communications (email, IM, chat) for 3 years, first 2 in easily accessible storage, in WORM (write-once-read-many) format
FINRA Rule 4511 — similar 3-6 year retention for member firms
Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) — public companies retain audit-related communications for 7 years
Dodd-Frank — swap dealers retain communications for 5 years
Investment Advisers Act — registered advisers retain records for 5 years

Healthcare

HIPAA — covered entities retain communications containing PHI for 6 years (longer in some states; CA requires 7, some require until patient age 21+)
CMS / Medicare — claims-related communications retained 7-10 years
FDA 21 CFR Part 11 — pharma/medical device communications related to clinical trials and manufacturing retained for the life of the product plus a period after

Legal / litigation

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure — once litigation is "reasonably anticipated," all potentially relevant communications must be preserved indefinitely (litigation hold), overriding normal retention schedules
Attorney-client communications — typically retained 7-10 years post-matter under state bar rules

Tax

IRS — communications supporting tax positions retained 7 years (3-year audit window + extensions); employment tax records 4 years; some indefinitely if fraud alleged
State tax authorities — vary, often 4-7 years

Employment / HR

EEOC — personnel-related communications retained 1-3 years (longer if charge filed)
FLSA — payroll-related communications retained 3 years
ADEA — 3 years for hires, 1 year for other personnel actions
OSHA — workplace safety communications retained 5 years (30 years for certain medical/exposure records)
ERISA — benefits plan communications retained 6 years

Government contracting

FAR (Federal Acquisition Regulation) — contractor communications retained 3-4 years post-contract
DFARS / DoD contracts — often longer, 6+ years
Davis-Bacon Act — prevailing wage communications 3 years

Energy / utilities

FERC — communications related to wholesale energy transactions retained 5 years
NERC — grid reliability communications retained 3-6 years

Telecommunications

FCC — carrier communications retained 2-5 years depending on category
CALEA — certain surveillance-related records 6+ months minimum

International / cross-border

GDPR (EU) — retention varies by purpose, but documented retention schedules required for all personal data communications
MiFID II (EU financial) — communications retained 5-7 years
UK FCA — similar 5-year retention for regulated firms

Industry-specific

Insurance — state insurance commissioners typically require 5-10 years
Education (FERPA) — student-related communications retained per institutional policy, often 5+ years
Nuclear (NRC) — communications retained for facility lifetime in some cases

Public sector

Federal Records Act — government agency emails are federal records, retention per NARA schedules (varies from a few years to permanent for historical records)
State sunshine/open records laws — public employee communications often retained 3-7 years and subject to disclosure

The retention periods aren't arbitrary — they're tied to statutes of limitations, audit windows, and the practical needs of regulators to investigate after the fact. Most large companies actually retain longer than required as a hedge against litigation discovery, and many implement formal retention/destruction policies specifically so they have a defensible reason for deleting older material when it's no longer required.

"Businesses, it is worse. One lost email can mean a lost sale, or a customer unable to contact you and then resorting to legal means [1]."

This is very real and it almost seemed to happen overnight. Once upon a time as a freelance service tech I had dozens of small business clients who hosted their own email and it just doesn't make sense for a say a cabinet maker with 20 ppl on staff to pay for a T1 when they could have some multiple of the bandwidth and the same uptime from the same provider for a tenth of the price... but every so often they'd get a blacklisted IP or they might even really get some kind of bug and get blacklisted and the time it took to get off those lists grew and grew until eventually you basically couldn't get off the lists.

Luckily those large providers and spam battling champions saved the internet from the evils of people self-hosting email and spam exists no more....