As astronaut Frank Borman put it, "a superior pilot uses his superior judgement to avoid situations which would require the use of his superior piloting skill".

The programmer's version of that would be "a superior programmer uses his superior judgement to avoid creating the bugs that would require the use of his superior debugging skill".

The risk in this scenario is that after a few iterations of people applying AI-generated "black box" modifications, users start reporting that the ancient app is crashing on them now and then, and nobody has the first clue why, or how to fix it... and since the crash isn't readily reproducible, you can't even do a "git bisect" to figure out which commit introduced the regression. Now you're left with two unappetizing choices: either live with the instability forever, or roll back all of the "blind" commits to the last known-stable version and never touch the codebase again.

If you think Jesus was a moderate you are too stupid to bother with. I'll turn my other cheek your way...my ass cheek.

People not lifting a finger over something easy that results in many preventable deaths is WORSE than purposely murdering people. You have reason and motive to kill "bad" protestors. To kill innocent random people simply because you don't want to change habits or pay pennies more... that is worse despite being more soft. think about it (other people not the parent.)

I find Iranian mullahs no more weird in their evil than the christian nutjobs; not that the difference matters at all.

YUP. You've got it.

Spreading out data center demands does not reduce them just spreads them out. Maybe they have some creative accounting that makes initial construction cheaper; long term is what matters, and these large data centers get lobbying power which they abuse.

It is not cheaper centralized management or placed closer to resources. Latency doesn't matter for most needs; we're talking speed of light so distances are not a real problem or cost. Even gaming, the other players also need to be local when coming up against latency limits...which for some people is just an excuse for poor reflexes.

Rank choice voting would help more than any other single change...

Problems are far worse and nobody can fix it-- Americans blame politicians but will consistently vote to screw themselves. Americans deserve what they blame others for which is why we are doomed.

Economics: non-productive jobs like education/medicine rise in cost as productivity benefits most jobs which also reduces labor demand in those and lowers pay; plus you've got outsourcing too - say you buy American but actually you don't. Housing also is not getting productive (and when it does, tons of those jobs are gone) and lowering housing costs devalues the "investment" of the largest voting block who will not allow enough policy changes. Green costs more upfront and that is too much; it has to be better and cheaper (not green; very few will lift a finger for ethics, they will do it for their own personal gain only.) Selfishness is way too popular and marketing exploits that from every angle for generations now; best you get is lip service, bumper sticker, "A Scause for Applause", or rounding a bill up as a "donation" (which is a tax break for the business, not the customer who pays for it,) or a twisted smugness for being an anti-do-gooder (couched in tribalism which even trumps Christianity.)

Biden on abortion: ridiculous liberals can always be counted on to harm themselves and are quite similar to fanatics on the other side. 1 side has a media machine that is good at pushing such buttons and reaching people while the other side has basically nothing and whatever they have is not an organized propaganda machine designed to be an echo chamber.

A GOP operative once said Americans have a 2 year memory. I thought that was too short but I think he was probably correct.

Americans want everything yesterday no matter how unreasonable and are too stupid to realize the man who made the disaster is not who you put back because the janitor didn't clean up the disaster quick enough... and having no shame at all, bitching about the same problems he created. I remember how much they tried to hit Obama with their mess in 2012 and they gained a lot of ground from that tired old tactic.
Apparently, even they don't think people are so stupid as to come clean on the pedophilia but they probably should have in 2025 because enough people would be over it, forget, or simply be sick of the whole topic within 2 years. I already know people who tune out on Epstein and just don't care about it anymore (former Trump supporters, who will vote for his 3rd term by that time.)

FYI, most the time Clinton was on the jet was with his staff because use of the jet was a donation and not "donation" because they actually had the staff flying around Africa with it doing actual stuff. Not saying something didn't ever happen but they've got nothing and most the flights are easily accounted for. The wife was dragged in under oath over nothing and yet they won't even bring in the high end model from the hooker agency to testify (guess who that is?) or Pam Bondi (who prostituted her ethics; which is a big reason people do not think well of lawyers...but she makes lawyers look good.)

As far as personal email servers; Colin Powell actually TOLD Hillary to use a personal email server like he did when she came into the job. I think I remember hearing him say as much. I remember the multiple news stories about the state dept getting hacked - their email servers were a joke. Unlike Powell, Hillary used the old whitehouse email server as her personal one which was considered secure when it was the whitehouse server (but new.) I assume they probably updated it and didn't just keep it exactly the same after Bush threw it away. Furthermore, I assume since they kept using the frequently hacked state dept email in addition to the personal email during Powell to Hillary, they were fully aware how bad it was and put actually important stuff to paper or phone. I would expect both of them to be smart enough to purposely leverage the fact certain countries were likely listening to their advantage! Powell was even trained on such tactics and likely told Hillary if she wasn't able to imagine that on her own.
Too much is made of the personal email thing and how they purposely violated policies. Remember, Powell was willing to do a hoax to start a war. As far as her missing emails... they didn't find anything despite massive effort and when they said 30k of emails I still laugh. I get more in my spam folder every year (which gets deleted and does provide a good excuse to cover things up... not that you would be wise to put something criminal into an email archive when all servers are being attacked by foreign governments constantly and political attacks with court orders-- you want to trust your IT guy to find 100% of your criminal emails and delete them? oh, and forensic recovery of HFS+ back then is pretty bad as really tiny files went directly into the FS database directly which was frequently overwritten; the auto defragger could randomly trash the unallocated space too. If I remember correctly, the email server used discrete file storage for emails... I had the same server she used and I did mac forensic work around that time period.) I'm not saying this is proof but it's not likely anything serious existed and the man who lead the investigation in the house admitted it was just pure political hoax (and justified it as typical non-criminal political fraud everybody does.)

Democracy is for retards.

Government did this. All of this. Government regulated so much that only a rare few can afford to compete.

This is late stage statism. Retard voters are to blame.

Like you.

Those guys can't even vet their own social media posts, and those are ~100 characters of ASCII text. The chances of them being able to meaningfully review a multi-gigabyte binary file are exactly zero.

... other, more obscure platforms are also supported, but if you want to run NetHack on them, you'll have to compile it yourself from source. Kind of a baller move if you ask me :)

Trump's actions are 100% Trump's responsibility ("the buck stops here" is still part of the Presidential employment contract, even if Trump doesn't think so).

OTOH, it wouldn't surprise me one bit if Netanyahu played hardball to "encourage" Trump to help. It's one of the downsides of having a "colorful" sex life in your youth and then gaining political power later on -- too many people have solid evidence of your transgressions, and now motivation to use them to influence your decision-making.

So when Netanyahu phones Trump up and says "join my war, or else I'll release these Epstein videos of you having group sex with underage girls", does Trump do the principled thing and refuse? Or does he take the coward's way out, and allow Israel to dictate US policy in exchange for temporarily saving his own political skin? I think we know the answer to that.

Is every country rational enough to never actually use them, and also technically and organizationally competent to keep them out of the hands of private groups (e.g. Al-Qaeda) who would steal them and use them for them own purposes?

If not, then the MAD doctrine won't work there. It's either principled leadership by the major powers, or nothing.

Well, now we need to have a 50-post discussion on whether "goblins" and "gremlins" are really the same thing, or if they are in fact two distinct species. All the D&D training I received in my youth can finally be brought to bear on a real-world problem!

Any US state could be a separate country. Most just would be shit holes without a few states subsidizing their existence; likely end up invaded by somebody else since they couldn't fund much self defense.

0) MANY parents view school as free daycare already. "raise my kids for me! but don't teach them anything i don't like!"
1) more school time doesn't automatically produce better results. BETTER time does.
2) educators are underpaid but NOT cheap. daycare is much cheaper.
3) study hall monitors are much cheaper... practice/study time can be enforced. A robot could do this.
4) most learning issues are emotional and political issues; you'd do more having some therapists rotating over the children during daycare time. Except the bad parents would freak out! The really anti therapy people have major stuff to hide! think about it. then think about the ones you know and look into it.
5) kids these days need zero-phone social time; this is important
6) Nixon began the war on education, the GOP continued it under Reagan.
7) No-Child-Left-Behind is designed to ruin public schools. that is the real purpose I actually had one of the people tell me this (sadly not recorded, not that it would matter if it did get out.)
8) LOOK at the better counties. many are better than the USA. learn from them. Ironically, apply the education science the USA paid for but never uses (the better countries do use it.) Oh, how about funding research again? (Dept. Education. yes, they did that. Created to help poor rural schools that suck so bad the inbred teachers couldn't read. If Trump grew up in rural Georgia, his 3rd wife would have been his daughter!)
9) remove Trump. He says openly, "Smart people hate me" and "I love the uneducated" and so on all for what should be obvious reasons.
10) fund schools by income taxes. property taxes are foolish. having poor neighborhoods screw over their children simply by where they are born creates more long term problems. If anything, those areas need more funding to balance out the bad neighboorhood. It takes a village... (except we can't say that because it's African and Hillary repeated it.)