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.

I too used to regularly contribute to Wikipedia; however, the Deletionists eventually wore me down.

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.

See "Are carrots becoming less nutritious?": https://www.bbc.co.uk/programm...

...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.

So our military just publicized such that any US opponents know a substantial # of US soliders will either officially or unofficially be out, and we'll be shorthanded, for a 4 day window. Yeah, that won't cause any problems for US.

But digital games are cheaper.

Such a huge part of the appeal of digital games has been that older games go on sale for dirt cheap. Everyone wins across the board here - older games sell a lot more copies than they used to because digital prices can go lower than physical can while still turning a profit.

Price increases on games rarely go over well, and game prices creep up much slower than most other products doing. Most games struggle to make a profit as is, so we're not going to see a drop in base prices, but it probably delays further price increases a bit.

We've already seen pretty direct evidence of physical impacting prices with Nintendo's Switch 2 releases. The A tier games went up in price across the board this gen, but the B tier games only went up for physical copies.

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.

This is a false argument, because the mainstream oses (Windows, MacOS, IOS) break their interface every major release. Go from Win10 to Win11 and you have to learn a new interface and retrain yourself. The latest iPhone switches where search is, requiring you to rewire muscle memory. Let's not even go into how new versions of Outlook, Word, and so on break their prior interface.

We need to stop accepting the myth that Windows or Mac are stable and consistent. The shift from Win10 -> Linux Mint is about the same as going Win10 -> Win11, except one of them doesn't say 'Microsoft'.