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In a case of the worst person you know makes a great point, Jordan Peterson was remarking a few years back about how Youtube and MOOC's were really the new universities of the modern age. If you want knowledge it's there for the taking.

The legacy institutions really are just a stamp / sorting hat for young people these days.

For the money people spend these days on education, you'd think there'd be grounds for refunds based on false advertising of the product.

The Road by Cormac McCarthy is like that. It's best read in the pit of a cold winter.

Yes, but you can suppress a trench with mortars and do a combined arms attack against it. As for Tanks, there's other munitions better suited, the only reason the UAF aren't use them is scarcity.

Mortars have a 30m kill radius and you can hang rounds very quickly. There are guidable versions (expensive) but the regular rounds a cheap as chips (in military terms)

Flak cannons are also really cheap to produce and use. But downing a modern fast jet with one is still hard to do. Especially when they can fire over the horizon.

The war in Ukraine looks like it does because Ukraine has had to fight with constant equipment shortages. It's not really the future of warfare that modern militaries are prepping for.

Think about mortars more. If you can be close enough for a drone 1-2km, then mortars should be what you're thinking about.

Mix a targeting drone with a vehicle mounted mortar team and they can have faster rounds on target and get of the X quicker than drone teams. And nets don't stop mortars.

200M will by a lot of that and can be fielded in a very flexible way.

Counterpoint, the US has better other systems. Such as the 1st,2nd,3rd largest air forces in the world.

Lots of Ukrainian commanders would happily trade FPV drones with grenades attached for mortar teams with lots of ammo and effective aircover.

Modern militaries need drones, but the swarms that everyone gushes over aren't that effective when a 1000 pound gorilla like the US Army turns up to play.

CSCI 2170: User Experience of Command Line Tools.

This should exist and the class should study openssl.

I feel like every cloud build meeting should have a moment where everyone has to defend the question "Wait! could this be a regular database with a regular app on a server with a regular cache?"

It would be great if they had a version of this where you had to progress through sampling soil, union negotiations, working with city planners, and then the actual digging with all the delays of machinery, strikes, planning issues, NIMBY's and such.

A great name for this game would be Hell.

Wait, are people not reading the AI code they use?

Adelaide, Sydney and New Zealand. https://www.submarinecablemap.com/submarine-cable/bass-strai...

So the real risk with that data center is the fact that Tasmania is a culdesac on the internet. We have three fiber cables coming to the island, all from Victoria (directly to the north). The whole state has lost internet before due to someone in Victoria digging a trench through the cable (yes a silly mistake but we're all humans).

It's not a bad idea to put data centers here, but we really need a few more links out to the world from here.

It's impatience and tiredness.

Taking an idea, and converting it into code is a lot of work. Taking that same idea and then taking the code and turning the both into words that can communicate the original idea is just another complex task. I'd wager that the dopamine hit of getting stuff working has worn off and most people are writing doco when they're exhausted from their recent work.

If only our current leaders could have the vision to build robust infrastructure

This also applies to testing. So much legacy code out there that's untested.

TBH, this phone looks crap. I'm sure SJ would have hated the form factor.

No, s3 objects should always be private and then have a cloudfront proxy in front of them at the least. You should always have people hitting a cache for things like images.

You can build fixed power reactors where they don't go critical if cooling is lost. It's just the cost more and they have a capped output. Pebble bed reactors are like this.

CRUD work, Boilerplate config for network stuff, converting lots of oracle stored procedures. It's saving me days.

Enjoy having brown outs to keep data centers running guys.

Maybe. But zyn is a thing breathing new life into tobacco companies

It's not about control. It's about money.

The AGI doomerism was a marketing strategy. Now everyone gets what AI is and we're just watching a new iteration on search, ai's read all the docs.

I usually ride faster than the motors limit, so it's really just acting like a push, and most of the battery is spent dragging me up a really big hill i live on. Everywhere I ride down in town is pretty much flat.

i get about 90km of range from a 500Wt Bosch battery. Thats running at full power the whole time.

To a degree yes, however I have an ebike and the bosch battery with a it has a 500W battery which is about equiv (if my math is right) to a 28 Ah ryobi drill battery. Those don't exist btw, but if i wanted one and bought 7 4Ah batteries to get the same effect they would cost more than the single ebike battery.

As a single item they are pretty well priced for the power they offer.

This is why the systems like what Australia has, with mandatory superannuation (401k accounts but better) is great. It makes the company pay the retirement plan amount for each worker, each pay. Then if the worker quits, they take their benefit with them. It's a 4 Trillion dollar industry in our country.

If we look back at all types of mechanization, all that happens is we keep our jobs, they get more complex and the jobs get harder and more technical. in 2-10 years if my job as a software engineer is speedily porting and upgrading banking code with AI assitants then cool. But I don't think we're going to see a crash. Human development doesn't stop. We're going to keep making new stuff and that takes people.

In the macro sense, jobs are jobs, we're just going to see labor move to different places. And AI will hit a limit for usefulness. We're still early in this adventure. guard rails are coming, but we're going to see some big crashes yet.