Closer to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy tradition. All they need are the words "Don't Panic" on the front cover.

If it doesn't, it has no real value.

Almost nothing on Wikipedia is true, but all of it is "verifiable" in that there's at least one published source making the claim. Even if 99.9% of all other sources say the opposite.

(The Haka is not, for example, a war chant. Which is attested to, but because it's claimed to be online, it is "verifiable".)

The number of errors is huge, the number of "official editors" who know anything about the subject is extremely small, and this has always been the case. This is why nobody reputable cites Wikipedia. Wikipedia is where you go to find out what is potentially interesting, but you ALWAYS obtain the facts from elsewhere, if you've any sense.

The whole internet is basically rage-bait trigger-porn (be it the xxx kind or not) but yah. 'Normal' human engagement is long gone, replaced with edgy garbage "does this micro bikini make me look fat" with boobs bigger than her head practically falling out.

But the curated feed is a joke. It just gets you to tell reddit (or any site) more about your interests _for free_ all so they can serve better ads and engagement content spam.

Your best engineers will be AuDHD, and AuDHD folk don't do well in these sorts of synthetic tests.

I can code in 20+ languages for over 12 different OS', write code that's good enough for CERN to run for particle accelerator data collection for a decade, have accelerated systems by an order of magnitude by understanding the poem space better than their previous engineers, but I am abysmal at exam style settings.

The software industry is riddled with SEs who write abysmal code but can pass a coding test easily. They're the folk that you have always needed to reject but didn't because they ticked a box.

The DOD/DOW have been working on this for a while. They discovered, early on, that the device had a propensity to cause permanent nerve damage.

It's very unlikely the US have fixed that, as they'd largely sidelined the work as a failure. However, at 36%, Trump needs something he can call a win, no matter what the long-term consequences.

...Modern ejector seats cause spinal injuries from which full recovery is "unusual". Smashing the spines of pilots might not be the most effective way to boost morale.

$22,000 per hour. The F35 will be nearer $42,000 per hour. These are under-estimates, as they do not include price hikes, crashes that close businesses, crashing into businesses, crashing into heavily-populated sports centres, etc.

That's ridiculous and if you can't think of any then it's you who has a problem.

C'mon now. 5 years ago you couldn't launch something without blockchain.

Now you can't launch something without "AI".

It doesn't matter what people actually want or how useful (or not) AI will be in any specific application. I just want music to play and my movies to have surround sound. It's at the point where running wires back to an old-school amp is easier.

Heck, I still have my old MP3 collection that would easily fit on a few-years-old phone/tablet I could use to play them...with the benefit of no subscription.

It's really as simple as this: a private company should not be able to circumvent our 4th amendment rights.

Even if their collection of the data is legal on the face of it, their use and sale of that data to law enforcement should explicitly not be. LE using a private company to end-run the 4th amendment needs to be struct down by SCOTUS in no uncertain terms. Every single search done by LE should have a signed warrant - no exceptions.

Looking more broadly, congress needs to get it's shit together and pass laws restricting this kind of mass surveillance in general.

The 'problem' is there's plenty of uses to justify this "we caught the car thief" but the potential for abuse is FAR too great. The utter invasion of privacy is beyond reason. Better a criminal go free than an innocent man be jailed.

Whether we like it or not, whether we use Windows or not, Microsoft is going to insist on adding the tax whether the PC comes shipped with Windows or not. This is illegal bundling, Microsoft has essentially ignored prior rulings, and it's pretty much a certainty the courts will be fine with this.

"How did you get hired?"
"I was top at Fortnite. You?"
"Combat flight sims."

"Damn, two Boeings just crashed over an oil refinery on city limits and took out half the city."
"Did you remember to save your position beforehand?"
"Yeah."
"The reload and continue from there. No-one will notice."

I love computer games. I have XPlane 12 and many scenery packs. I rank well on Elite:Dangerous. From the sounds of it, the FAA would see me as over-qualified. In reality? There's no way in hell I'd be taking those kinds of risks with real lives. There's a huge difference between having good reflexes and a good eye, versus having the complex 4D spacetime relationship mental models needed for robust air traffic control.