Do bridge builders have multiple layers of bosses and clients with conflicting agendas insisting that the bridge design get changed every few days? But those changes have to get integrated into the part of the bridge already built? And they can't start over when the design requirements become incompatible with the original build objectives around which part of the bridge has already been constructed? Are bridge builders mandated to finish building after their budget has been cut part way through construction? Are bridge builders forbidden from saying no when asked to do things that make the final product dangerous or unreliable?

All too many people compare software design to physical engineering as if they are somehow even remotely similar.

I find Java MUCH easier to debug than either Rust or C#. Java has outstanding development tools, while C# has Visual Studio, which is decidedly NOT an outstanding development tool (it's barely a development tool at all, in my opinion). But I'm also highly proficient with Java, while I'm barely literate with either C# or Rust.

That aside, most languages are far easier to debug than COBOL. But again, I'm barely literate in COBOL. I see a pattern.

I agree. We don't have to worry about the development of super computer-intelligence, as nature already prevents that. We don't have it now, and we will never have it. It's just not possible.

What we have to worry about is the same thing we've always had to worry about: advances in tools being abused for private enrichment and public harm. Considering the shitty record of global governments to prevent those things up to this point, we have good reason to worry about how any new technically will be wielded against us.

It's also efficient to stuff 6 people into a 900 sq ft apartment. Neither that nor UBI will lead to anything good.

That's the least of what is possible.

And yes, using a bunch of distributed, worldwide time servers will detect manipulation. But what if your government to too paranoid to use someone else's time servers for the national authority timer servers? Dictatorships tend to be paranoid.

Pediatricians are not trained to heal. They are trained to dispense completely unnecessary pharmaceuticals to children.

If you can control an organization's time servers, you can wreak havoc within the organization.

If you haven't done so already, create an account on all three credit reporting agencies and lock your credit reports. It will prevent people from opening most (all?) lines of credit in your name since they all query the reporting agencies before approving a credit application.

I hope I have misinterpreted the Supreme Court/U.S. Taliban, but didn't they already say the Texas law was constitutional? I hope I'm wrong, because these age verification laws are blatantly unconstitutional.

I totally agree.

I totally agree again.

He knew. He just didn't care, as judges have stupidly been VERY light-handed about attorney AI fraud. If judges did the correct thing, and heavily sanctioned attorneys who openly defraud courts via LLM's, then the problem would resolve itself rather quickly.

That's all they have? Even as far as circumstantial evidence goes, that is incredibly weak. Even the GPS location data is very weak. My wife and I used to have tracking software on our phones, and it would frequently show us MILES away from our actual locations.

The rest is nothing more than guilt by association. I sure hope they have more than that before going to trial, especially if the man is actually guilty.

I'm sure there are lots of people in the Pallisades area that are unhappy and vent on the Internet. This is incredibly shoddy investigative work.

The company I work for dumped RedHat at the RHEL 5 release, because we system admins saw the writing on the wall with the introduction of Entitlements/licenses. We've been all Debian (and will stay all Debian for the foreseeable future), and it's been glorious.

Giving Deloitte money should be a fireable offense. In fact, it should be automatic. No performance review, and no explanations:

1) Did you authorized an expenditure on Deloitte?
2) Yes.
3) Your personal property will be boxed up and made available for pickup at the Customer Service desk. Now GET OUT!

I like using the term, "Augmented Idiocy" to describe this phase of CEO stupidity.

If customer requirements are that the rug be feces-free, and your automatic rug cleaner dumps more shit on the rug than it clean up, then yes.

However, Microsoft and Windows still exist, so point taken.