They should not have been allowed to build there in the first place.. and sadly will probably be allowed to again.

The problem isn't home owners building in places that might flood, it is developers building in places that stop floods in the first place.

Something the extra frustrates me... a while back I decided to go take a programming class in a language/domain I had not used before, and the very first part went over how to use AI to 'help you learn'...

At my company, I've noticed the people really excited about introducing AI came from other fields, while the senior engineers who actually do the work (even ones who worked with the new tools to evaluate them) are a lot less excited about removing these roles. An extra annoying bit is that management now seems to expect entry level people to just skip all that learning and jump right to mid career work.

I've noticed a rather strong thread of disrespect in the 'AI" culture with any profession other than their own.. it is, after all, one of the core appeals of machine learning. Anyway, the thing I am wondering here is if the people pushing to replace creative entry level positions with AI never actually filled those roles themselves, don't understand them, and thus could not even evaluate if the output is correct. I have a much harder time picturing people who actually worked their way up the ranks by doing and understanding the grunt work thinking it is a good idea.

But MBAs, tech bros, and 'owners'? yeah.. that I can see.

Ah, but specifically when someone _browner_ than you takes your job. jobs shift around all the time, but there is special resentment when god's chosen skin colour is replaced by immigrants.

Guess it depends on what one considers 'reasonably priced'. There is a LOT in between the crazy Sony stuff and the 30$ cheapies. For 100-200 bucks you can get stuff that more than good enough for portable use.

And those differences also span against time. Linux is great if you are always using the latest packages or compiling your own, but can be a real nightmare to support across a decade or two. OSS tends to constantly chase 'relevance', always in flux, poor backward compatibility, with the idea that users (and dependent packages) should update constantly too. For all their faults, the Microsoft and Apple OS teams put real time and energy into making their new OS work with old software.

Trump is known to really hate wind power, he thinks it ruins the view of beachside property.

Ellision and crowd probably do not care about Trump,.. but they DO want to be able to shape the next generation of consumers to fit in to their world and culture war.

Ah Utah.. the state you incorporate in when you want the business friendliness of Delaware, but know you are going to be doing something shady and need a more crime friendly place to set up.

I am not so sure the military feels all that constrained on such things. They already have the ability to ignore IP and contract laws, handing anything to anyone they like. They have a long history of taking products from one contractor and handing it over to another, or just taking things in house.

Yeah, that idea only really works in a vacuum or toy systems. It breaks down pretty quickly once you include anything beyond the pure model. Now, it is a factor, the behavior is still there, but it is quickly drowned out by others.

Not saying that it can't happen, but it increases the cost and limits growth. You do get a few special cases, but if you look at population heatmaps, they drop off rapidly once you cross that line unless there is some reason for a dense population center to be somewhere.

A key word there is 'drive', and what 'best' really entails. If a place does not have easy access to major waterways for shipping, its ability to grow is going to be pretty limited. If you look at a map of the US, where the population is and is not, it mostly comes down to 'can barges get there'.

Eh, one of the big open secrets in the field is AI researchers (as opposed to tech bros) tend to be pretty open about how AI should never be used for anything where getting an answer right is important. The hussle crowd loves selling them as solutions to science, engineering, and medicine, but meaningless slop is all it is really good for and the only place where people are willing to actually pay (since those tend to be use cases that make money while having no legal liability)