But he lives rent free in their heads.

Yes, I know a few Dems that expressed concern about people like Bill Clinton, but everyone I know and I know a lot of people want all of the pedophiles identified and punished if possible (might be statute of limitations involved)

I'm not a Dem, but I can't come up with a good political reason to not punish people that screw underage people. I can come up with a lot of ethical and moral reasons that they should be pointed out and punished.

One thing I do know is that the Dems would never bring out Weekend at Bernie's Mitch McConnell.

So some say. Unless he declares martial law and the military enforces it (and don't be too sure they will), his power is going to be rather constrained. At that point, it might be a race between him emulating Mitch McConnell and impeachment. His health both mental and physical, is deteriorating, and at an accelerating pace.

I ended up with a bad taste about tape backup after several failed restores from the institute's IT department I need up setting up my own servers with redundant backup. Maybe they had a bad implementation on their part. I dunno, but I didn't trust it.

This! Early on in the cloud era, I tried to point out that the claims of perfect security was utter bullshit. That you might have some pretend unbreakable encryption, but if your data is lost through bad actors or calamitous loss, you still don't have it, and that means no real security.

In discussions with a provider, I asked about this hardware security. Eventually he said I should have a local backup of everything as well. Which kinda defeats the entire concept of storing possibly critical data on someone else's computer.

The only purpose of the cloud is getting rid of employees, and most importantly, the CYA of having someone to blame when the inevitable happens.

I look at all that as giving the rugrats exposure, not as some career. If a kid is interested, they can continue down that path. But no one should think that AI in 6 or 7 years is going to be anything like the unsustainable LLM paradigm proposed today.

Good point on the math on paper, I still see it.

Different technology altogether. So not really relevant. And you should see how plumbing tech has changed, if you are trying to defend the good ol days.

When I saw the reference to the ill fated learn to code "movement", I had to chuckle a little. Technology moves on. The coders trained under that system are easily replaceable by AI coding, they were nothing special other than a very few who went on to become experts - those few would probably have anyhow.

But what it also brought to mind was a historical aspect. Having been around a while, I saw the resistance to solid state technology in full force as I was going through school. Yet we're talking about the late 60's early 70's. Considering that the first all transistor computer was put together in 1952, well before I was born, that's some serious time lag. There were tube radios being made well into the 70's. You can still listen to some Amateur radio operators yakking, claiming that their tube radios are better than my state of the art SDR radio.

I actually did some RTL design before TTL took over, I programmed on punchcards for IBM360's, did wire wrapping for digital boards. All skills, all pretty useless now. The main difference between then and now is the rate and speed of change. a related example is the 80's Personal computer that was obsolete a week after you bought it.

There are other areas of technology that have had similar histories. But my point in all of this is that if a person is interested in a technological career, they really need to be an agile, lifelong learner. And that is what needs to be taught in school, not "Learn to code, and you'll have a lifelong career!" Same with whatever AI merde is being taught.

Today's version of AI is not going to be

Will the old trick of outlining your license plate with a bunch of high power IR LEDs obscure your plate from the camera, while still allowing human eyes to read them....?

Translation: The idiot employee in Sector G-7 will never push the big, red button that disables the cooling pumps to the nuclear reactor.

D'oh....

Whether you're 20, 30, 40, or 50, you're gonna be fucked by AI in some way in the next decade. It doesn't matter if you're old or not.

How?

Can you give some realistic, meaningful ways the average person like myself will be fucked by AI?

When I say "sweater" I mean a pullover....down here mostly just simple cotton sweaters, not terribly heavy....

They just turn off your water heater.

What good does turning the gas off to the water heater do....?

If you can cope at 12C in a T-shirt ... up to you, I wear a real jacket and a scarf.

Ugh...had to get on ChatGPT and find out what the fuck 12C was in F.

Ok, so about 54F...roughly. That's cool...I guess depends a bit on how high your humidity is. In the New Orleans area, it can be 54F and very humid...if the wind is coming in off the lake it can be quite chilly....but if lower humidity, more into winter months,...that's not too cold...I'd be wearing a sweater or a jacket....not both.

Last week it was high-90's and low 100's along the central coast (Santa Cruz & Monterey). It cooled down at night, but I also don't have A/C because I almost never need it, maybe for 3-5 days every 3-4 years it would be appreciated.

You can't get a couple window units to have AC when you need it?

You can put them up and take them down pretty readily......better than baking/roasting on those days when you really don't need to.