I do consider myself lucky that I didn't get into an accident, actually. Yes, I hear what you're saying about RIGHT of way, in theory. But that definitely wasn't how things played out in practice. Many times it's a game of chicken to find out who the most aggressive driver is. Think of it this way - why then are there 4-way stops in the US? Removing them would would be a massive savings for traffic congestion if they truly weren't necessary.

I remember watching huge travel buses making a blind turn (no stopping) around a corner on a road that would be considered way too narrow in the US. They have to honk (and other vehicles have to listen for the honk) otherwise they risk a head-on collision. Even when things are fine and people do what they are supposed to do, there's many instances where someone has to be the one to back up and let the other vehicle go first. I also had the fun of driving a car rental in Rome where most intersections don't have a stop sign or any formal method to establish right-of-way. You just "figure it out". Now imagine all that with with some AI hallucinations in the mix. No thanks.

This is the problem behind the problem. Who actually cares about "academic culture" outside of academia? The function of a grade should be a way to measure how good someone is at a job using the skills and knowledge pertaining to the coursework. That's it. It shouldn't be about maintaining some ivory tower status quo. Until they correct this thinking, they're not ready to correctly address grade inflation.

...is that when people say this, the subtext usually is, "...but if we ever throw up our dog-food, we expect someone else to go grab the mop". AWS customers have long been on the brunt end of this for AWS services that rely on other AWS services. Did service X fail because service Y that it uses suffered a rate-limit or some other outage? "Sorry customer, to hear about YOUR problem. Here's some suggestions to fix YOUR problem." Blah blah blah... Now AWS has done it to themselves. There needs to be paradigm shift to "own my failures, don't pass the buck" from a service perspective. Things need to work on days when it's pouring rain just like on days when the sun is shining. Having a brittle supply chain like this shouldn't be acceptable. Each service has to have a back-up plan whenever possible. It will lead to more robust architecture design patterns when creating such services, even if it makes things harder for AWS.

Finally made the switch a few weeks ago. Other than League of Legends not working, I couldn't be happier.

2nd for Ventoy. Rufus kept bricking my USB drives.

..."Aww Snap, It's gone!"

Have to be careful here though. People often criticize speed traps setups as being more fundraising events than making the roads safer. If the carrot gets too big, there could be unintended consequences.

Calculus doesn't intersect CS too much. Better to have linear algebra and discrete math.

...and yes, space is hard. It's a slogan that's used at work (even if not everyone at the company always believes it). A big problem that I've seen over the years is not acknowledging how specialized some technical roles are in actuality to get things right. In these roles you have to be able to program and also know the science behind what you're trying to program. A software developer, even a great one, won't cut it if they don't know (or can't quickly self-teach) graduate-level GIS /photogrammetry/astrophysics/geodesy (depending on the application). Another problem is that because there such few people that can fill these roles, a lot of things like Agile methodologies is mostly wasted overhead. Who cares about the groups' "fist of five"? The only option that matters is that one person sitting over there, because they are the only one that have the expertise on even have a opinion worth listening to. Finally, managing aerospace is hard too. Every some number of years we will get new upper management from other well-known high-tech companies that swoop on in with big promises, become shocked at how tech debt some of the scientific code bases are in production, go all-in to finally "fix it", get slapped hard by reality, and leave the company with their tail between their legs. So yeah, space is hard.

Oh good grief, Instead, take a bigger look at what's happening in higher education in general right now. How about lowering TUITION, THAT's the real bubble that's bursting. Occam's razor.

... the vast majority of code used when creating new things come from libraries that someone else already wrote. There's nothing scary about that (unless there's bugs, but I digress). AI might help me be more efficient at delivering results, but I'm not sensing AI is getting anywhere close to replacing me.

You beat me to it. There's plenty of precedent now that the EU doesn't mess around with consumer protection, and the enforcement thereof.

Context for "eye for an eye" in the Old Testament: Justice should not be based on revenge or excessive malice. In other words, the punishment should fit the crime (and not more than that), which was contrary to much of surrounding culture then. But those words get twisted to mean that taking revenge is ok, and Jesus effectively denounces this interpretation in Matthew 5:38.

...invest in more redundancy to the global internet backbone to make sabotaging things like this less appealing.