The whole Cold War was about the Soviets/Russians being able to just completely change your precious country into radioactive glass with people living in the Stone Age. Ok, glass age.

“Take over” is. It the point. “Eliminate rivals” is the point. And I can ensure you the Russians have threatened, have tried and and will again. The US, believe it or not, is not a hermetically sealed block. It depends on external inputs and very definitely depends on other countries to buy your exports. And the Russians are most assuredly threaten your customers. They threatened to nuke the Chinese outright in the late 60s.

And then there is the election interference and Russian money in politics. The Russian mob bailed Trump out after he bankrupted a casino. Twice. Buying politicians is not the same as boots in the ground, no. But it most assuredly comes asymptotically close to “take over”

They also distract your attention and resources. The whole mess in the Middle East was made much much worse when the Soviets invaded Irans weak neighbor, Afghanistan, in 1979. The plan was to exploit the Iranian revolution and move their forces closer to the oil fields. Before that the US was not all that interested in the Persian Gulf. After that they had the entire 5th fleet based there. That war ultimately ended in 9/11 because the US was sort of forced to give money to the Jihadis to fight the Russians.

TypeScript has a very very advanced type system that pushes the boundaries far beyond the old-same 80s-90 Java/C++ Object stuff.

Red. Frakking. Mine?

Sitting your moms basement looking at ASCII Art Porn and whining that the boobs are not open-source, written with Vi by other nerds does not qualify you as a UI engineer. And yet... these people wrote RedMine claiming that it is good because "ITS FREE!!!". Do you know what else is free? Syphilis. I don't want that either.

Seriously, Redmine is the ultimate expression of the concept of "Hack Job by Linux Nerds who think UI Design is for La-Di-Da College Types"

Redmine sucks donkeyballs.

It gets worse. The real lesson from AI?

Your job is so mindless and dumb that you can be replaced by a stupid statistical algorithm.

I hope Bubba takes their lunch money for ransom and give them lots of slippery soap

... and I can assure you he is not mentally all there. They guy is pretty nuts to be honest.

Sometimes I wonder why they even speak English to each other. Not efficient.

This. Hint for them: probabilistic Monte Carlo algorithms are not AI and they have been around forever.

In fact, the Metropolis algorithm was develops by Nicolas Metropolis in the 50s to model neutron flux in thermonuclear explosions. It is now widely used to model photon flux in you favorite movie CGI so in a way nuclear weapons and you beloved Netflix shows have AI inside of them if you go by that lame definition

Beekeeper, a SQL tool has a AI plugin where you can go “write this obscure SQL for me” which is reaaaalllly handy

You just described my job right there

Not good enough. The bunker needs to be buried 2km deep on a remote island in the antarctic and "surveillance" means a battallion of marines, paid 10x their salary in gold backed by an aircraft carrier task force. Maybe, maybe then it will be safe. No guarantees.

You meant Soviet RussAI

Speaking as an old graybeard UI guy.... we have just come up with more and more complex solutions to the same old internet "one weird trick" of putting your information on someone else's computer.

Yeah, I remember "Server Side Rendering"... we called Java Servlets or JSPs or PHP or ASP. There were clear divisions of labors and boundaries were respected.

Even when we had to go to make everything feel like an app, at least RESTful stuff still had those boundaries.

Now that everyone needs the same code running front and back, and JS (I'm not a hater of JS by any means but still) stuff like this is bound to have happened.

It is recommended to run ECC RAM with any large fileserver or NA for this exact reason. ZFS explicitly recommends it.

Well, I used to be a big Ruby guy and now I am a big TypeScript guy

That said, Ruby has its uses, I use it as a general scripting language to test things all the time. ruby syntax and metaprogramming is genius grade stuff

My last job was a mid sized company that used Ruby for everything and it was a bad idea. There are lots "Ruby on Rails Boot Camp" types around, they employed them, as opposed to retaining their experts, and now the company has had row after row of lay-offs. The problem is that ruby is good boot camp language for beginners who can't handle anything fancy and they are cheap, so management thinks it is a good idea. Cheap is always good. Lots of cheap glued together with non-coder Physics-grad managers who think SCRUM is a religion is... not.