Yeah.

They completely ignore panserpmia.

They just quote Isaac Asimov's writing from almost half a century ago (Europa). Ignores Enceladus, Titan, Venus, Mars; all of which have *BIOSIGNATURES* of a probability curve not too dissimilar to Europa.

They are likely a dilettante. Those folks do not do "prior art" research because they believe in the Auteur Myth.

  "An auteur is a filmmaker whose personal style and thematic focus are so distinctive that they are considered the 'author' of their films, a concept known as the auteur myth."

Real science isn't that. Real science is a rational discipline. The null hypothesis -- know what that means. Prior art -- know what that means. Mental biases -- know those, too; you'll see what you want to see, hear what you want to hear. Science is the discipline of mind that ensures you're not just spewing random nonsense. You verify what you think; that's the discipline.

As Isaac Newton said ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ), "nani gigantum humeris insidentes."

Ignore them.

Everything seems obvious once it is explained.

Why do 12-14 steps of algebra, when calculus works in 2?

Obvious. People should know calculus.

Yet they don't.

Define Green's Theorem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... -- is obvious.

Everything is obvious *IN HINDSIGHT*.

IIRC from the book, it was originally a harmless strain from earth and mutated from exposure to solar radiation.

I've seen various things people have played around with, trying to cram some additional useful bits into a transceiver (like micro Linux systems). They're bulky, use way more power, and thus more heat. I don't believe that anybody is sneaking anything extra into actual regularly-used transceivers; there's barely enough space and power budget to do the primary job of the transceiver.

Specifically, in Manhattan. So AG James isn't playing favorites based on Kalshi's location.

How is a couple years of apprenticeship where you are paid any worse than 4 years of college plus debt?

Maybe a second responsible party should examine everything before something is published? This is how it works in many places.

I don't understand your problem with the way apprenticeship is done. It's always been like this! Even in IT.

Before leaving, buy a cheap phone and load onto it:

• Photos of your passport's identity page
• Photos of your tickets
• A copy of any hotel reservations, etc.
• Credit card numbers and international phone numbers for your card company's service desk. NB: 1800 may not work internationally.
• A limited selection of other phone numbers you may need to call.
• A fairly new social media account connected to with friends and family.

While travelling, if the phone is ever out of your sight, assume it has had spyware installed.

On returning home, save your holiday photos and ditch this phone

These are the same lazy dolts that call them selves "Software Engineer" yet don't know shit on how software actual works beyond an ID, don't understand software developer ethics, and think the can be sloppy because "computers have a lot of RAM" completely blind to the idea there janky ass software isn't the only thing running on a computer.

Modern IDEs have lead to this industry being full undisciplined half wits.

I literally do. Stop being bad at your job.

"I know it is counter to modern coding practices"
it is not. It's literally best practice. Coders not doing this are bad at their job, and should be fired.

Yup, it comes from not understanding how funding and military procurement works. If you go 1$ over your allotment it causes a lot of headaches....

Yes, for good reasons, China is moving away from dependency on Western tech, but I noticed that they really ramped up the low end RISC-V switch after the June/July 2025 changes to ARM licencing. China already had high performance Xiangshan RISC-V and LoongArch proprietary CPUs.

My immediate thought on reading this was it sounds like a distorted reflection of Phillip K. Dick's The Zap Gun 1967, written 1964.

Plot (Excerpt from Wikipedia):
"The novel is set in 2004, two years after the governments of the world's two major power blocs secretly end their arms race. To the public, Wes-bloc and Peep-East remain engaged in a continuing Cold War. Under the Plowshare Protocols, both sides announce increasingly powerful weapons while privately ensuring that the designs are not developed for military use. Instead, engineers convert, or "plowshare", them into consumer products, toys, household devices, and other novelties. Only officials within the two governments know that the apparent military competition is largely fictitious."