"I was born here." -- Henry Cho (who was raised in the US South by Korean parents), on why he became a comedian rather than a doctor or lawyer or whatnot.

Eh, and I suppose you think most of those 36% will get real engineering jobs when they graduate?

Because that is really, really not the direction things seem to be going in China at the moment. Most of them are going to be lucky to get a 996 job on a factory floor.

More to the point, cargo-ship fires are an inherently self-limiting phenomenon, because the economic costs involved (and the manner in which those costs are born) generally motivates people to work to avoid them. I'm not saying they don't have any environmental impact at all, but it's always going to be a relatively limited impact, compared to the amount of economic activity.

Do container ships full of EVs have on average a larger impact per-vehicle than ones full of ICEs and the associated tankers full of petroleum? I honestly have no idea, but I'm certain it doesn't matter, because the cargo-ship fires are not the bulk of the impact that cars and such have on the environment in any case. The construction of the *roads* that the cars drive on, has a larger impact on the environment, than cargo ship fires from transporting the vehicles overseas, and the construction of the roads is a small fraction of the total impact the vehicles have.

When you get older and wiser you see the benefit of putting a unsolvable problem away for a while. I've also worked out things while hiking, exercise seems to help.

'What is my future' is a much more complex question and is made up of numerous (hundreds and thousands) of smaller decisions. That 2x multiplier goes geometric.

Something is lost with convenience, its not sentimental.

I've started using AI at my job and it actually can be pretty helpful but it is easy to see how a junior programmer will code themselves into a corner or get stuck on unsolvable problems. I don't think senior engineers are going to be replaced by AI.

Building a Linux distribution requires a fair amount of infrastructure, and that's something that's pretty different from distro to distro (and not all make all the necessary tooling public). Changing to a different base distro would most likely require a significant rework, and may be more than someone, especially someone who has mastered the intricacies of one distro's tooling, wants to do.

No, what I *want* is pre-chatGPT Google. It was at least two orders of magnitude better than any search engine that exists today.

Well, what I *really* want is LCARS, but that's a pipe dream.

It's easier than that. Only the ones that just get larger are dangerous.

You have to register as a company before you are allowed to offer taxi services. It's illegal for individuals to provide taxi services. This is to protect customers from malicious taxi services which are unregulated, unsafe, extremely expensive, etc.

Hi. I think you are confused.

Air India crashes/fatalities:
* Air India Flight 101 CONTROLLED FLIGHT INTO TERRAIN -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
* Air India Flight 855 PILOT ERROR -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

What does the word perfect mean to you? Those are crashes. People died.

We can even add:
* Air India Flight 182 BOMBING -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Though that's also on the staff at the airport doing security screenings.

This is not the same. Using a musical tool like a Piano will reinforce and strengthen your brain connections vs not having any instrument.

Eh, I still consider Vista to be the second-best Microsoft OS, just behind Seven. Not sure what is in third place, maybe Win2K? Or XP, but only if it has the service packs because it was lousy without them.

I want the sound the 20MB hard drive on my old ITT XTRA (an 8086 PC clone) made when the system booted up and started to load DOS.