riskable

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[–] riskable@programming.dev 40 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Missing:

  • A game console
  • All the maps in the world + compass
  • Gigantic notepad
  • Calendar
  • Entire stack of catalogs
  • Newspapers
  • Thermostat
  • A whole fucking supercomputer
  • An entire building-sized stack of photo albums
  • Flashlight
  • An sycophant assistant who makes shit up just to keep you happy.
[–] riskable@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

I can understand the appeal of the Ten Commandments to conservatives. Each commandment has its own prescribed punishment and for Texans, especially, I'm sure they all sound fantastic:

  1. Death.
  2. Death.
  3. Death.
  4. Death.
  5. Death.
  6. Death.
  7. Death.
  8. Death.
  9. Death.
  10. Feces on their faces.
[–] riskable@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

Actually I believe the correct term is, "fascism"

[–] riskable@programming.dev 43 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Correction: Education is not OK.

AI is just giving poor kids the same opportunities rich kids have had for decades. Opportunities for cheating the system that was made specifically not to give students the best education possible but instead to bring them up to speed on the bare minimum required to become factory workers.

Except we don't have very many factories any more. And we don't have jobs for all these graduates that pay a living wage.

The banks are going to have to get involved soon. They're going to have to figure out a way to load up working-age people with long term debt without college being involved.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 53 points 3 months ago (1 children)

To summarize: Requiring installation by electricians means that people will still DIY... They just won't bother to get a permit/get it inspected.

Whereas allowing DIY encourages permits and inspection.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Giving pigs scaffolding and baths‽ Those swine!

[–] riskable@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

Socialism to the rescue!

[–] riskable@programming.dev 9 points 3 months ago

Just hoof it down to your nearest library and ask the librarian. They know how to horse around 🐴👍

[–] riskable@programming.dev 68 points 3 months ago

Ah yes. I'm actually impressed that they were able to determine that he was "Verified BS" so quickly.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

If they're bringing on "IT leadership" people then the only place where they're going to be bossing people around is cubicles, conference rooms, and operations centers.

They may get people killed but it will be because they underestimated the damages caused by their hackers. In fact, I highly suspect that there will be a huge "collateral damage" incident from US/Israel hackers using an undisclosed vulnerability to break into something that "the bad guys" then use to break into some important systems all over the world.

Imagine a major industrial control vulnerability that gets turned into a worm by Iran that then causes massive explosions and chemical fires all over the world. Even in countries that have nothing to do with their current conflict.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

The "front line" in that war is an operations center somewhere in the US where they control spy satellites and tell our allies, submarines, & other remote equipment what to do.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's super interesting, right? Are there any other armies around the world that have lowered their minimum health/boot camp requirements in order to recruit more people like drone pilots, software developers, and various other engineers?

Seems like a good idea to me. Ever since WW2 technology has been the most important factor in warfare. So much so that it now doesn't matter if you have a single soldier ready to deploy if you have nuclear ICBMs (not that it's a good thing we have those).

The difference today is that what you need are lots of people to "man" data/operations centers and just a few ready to deploy for actual combat. Also, a lot of people involved in manufacturing and with skills like CNC machining and 3D printing.

None of those skill sets are conducive to "being in shape". Rather than focus on troops being "ready for anything" it makes more sense to have them housed right next to the systems they work with so they can roll out of the bunk and into the operations center like a fireman rather than out of a barracks and on to a troop transport.

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