When I was in school, a local company donated some core memory units to us. A couple were kept for display, but we got to dissect some others. It was pretty darn fascinating.

This nation is literally founded on breaking treaties: We broke (again, literally) every single treaty we ever signed with a group of natives, no matter the size.

No one should be even slightly surprised when we break one.

Iran gives warnings before targeting data centers.

The US blows up schools without warning.

"Are we the baddies?"

Yup

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.

AI automates 20 or 30% of all jobs. This causes a feedback loop. There isn't enough consumer spending and enough tax base anymore to maintain civilization. Police and fire can no longer be funded and things basically collapse. The ultra wealthy take their ball and go home which is to say they take all the money and all the civilizations and they use ai-powered drones to bomb the shit out of anyone who shows up looking for scraps.

Eventually a demagogue comes along and organizes the masses into an army. We have a massive war that makes world War II look like a slap fight.

Sooner or later a bunch of religious lunatics get their hands on nuclear launch codes. The missiles on to maintained but they can be launched and it doesn't matter where they hit there are so many that they can completely fuck up the environment making it uninhabitable for the human race. You could basically set them off in silo and it would still Doom us all they are so powerful and so numerous. We have of course while things were collapsing somehow come up with the money to build more nuclear weapons.

Anyway those firecrackers go off and a bunch of religious lunatics celebrate the Apocalypse because they misread a holy book and we all die. In 300 million years raccoons evolved and take over and do the whole thing again

Space was supposed to be the one place humanity didn't fight in for lots of reasons.

It's not even hallucinations it's pump and dump it's all just a scam to loot our 401ks.

Go to YouTube and look up Patrick Boyle and SpaceX. The entire thing is a scam. There is no path to profitability except through taking your retirement savings. The whole system is designed to force you to invest in a company that cannot possibly be profitable enough to pay back the investors except for the people at the very top who have been structured to make sure they get out with lots of your money.

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

China is a major developer of AI, so that's obviously a very stupid take. They would have to bomb themselves first.