SlopppyEngineer

https://youtu.be/-5wpm-gesOY

Sounds like a good time to rewatch the Tom Scott video about timezones and the descent into madness again

It's a bit of a shock after years of hearing that this thing will happen in the future, to realize that the future has arrived and it's within our lifetime. Kinda how you look back and suddenly realize that your favorite movie is now closer to world war 2 than it is to present time, but it still feels like last year.

Engineers: we can't make transistors smaller because they wouldn't work because of those quantum effects

Different engineers: but what if we use quantum effects as the basis to make smaller transistors work

A consequence of Ceaușescu's natalist policy is that large numbers of children ended up living in orphanages, because their parents could not cope with looking after them. The vast majority of children who lived in the state-run orphanages were not actually orphans, like the name implies, but simply children whose parents could not afford or did not want to look after them.

So it often comes back to the economics of the situation. Kids used to make money, helping on the farm and stuff. Now kids cost a lot of money and paying women a substantial amount (and not the pizza party amounts) to have children is deemed economically nonviable.

The weather services did see this coming and were giving red alerts. Local governments were like "nah, it'll be fine." It's straight out the movies with the classic "we don't want to cause any panic in case the scientists are wrong." It's especially damning after the exact same ignoring red alerts already happened in Germany and Belgium.

At this stage, it's ignoring reality. Yeah, preparing and being ready for this kind of catastrophes is expensive but rebuilding everything isn't cheaper. It's why experts already said that in the end it's cheaper to prevent climate change than dealing with the consequences.

Those that keep shooting dogs whenever they go?

UK, where Stonehenge is located, switched a week ago. USA switches first Sunday of november. Europe switches last Sunday of October. There's typically one week of confusing meeting hours in between. Some regions in the world don't switch at all or still on other times. It's a bit of a mess.

Ok, so use a combo shot with a maser. If the light beam doesn fry the outside, the microwave beam will fry the inside.

Technically a checkers program is also AI if you check the dictionary definition. Many will say it's not "real AI" as it doesn't have general intelligence but it's still AI. Snake oil salesmen love that.

I tried something like that position when I was younger and much more flexible but after developing calluses in weird places stopped doing that.

Unpopular opinion: too big budget gives a bad movie. Lower budgets forces people to be more creative and keeps the suits away that would otherwise make it a designs by committee.

An order of magnitude better would give trust. Slightly better doesn´t convince people.