OneEyedRobot

Don't hold me to it, but I seem to remember seeing a study showing that prehistoric California had roughly 10x the current burn acreage.

I keep waiting for the insurance war that will break out due to 'managed retreat' by the Coastal Commission.

As someone else said, it's easy to have either extremely high insurance rates or unavailable insurance if you live in the wrong area on someone's map. The result was FAIR plans with add-ons from insurance companies.

Lost Coast?

Probably 'stuck underwater' is the key phrase here.

I'm attracted to the idea of battery submarines mostly because you'd be latching onto a huge (and growing) commercial development world. Much less need for highly specialized tech.

Thinking it through, assuming that propulsion is the gating factor for submarine adoption (maybe it isn't), what happens when pretty much any nation can afford a silent undersea navy?

The next thing I'll hear about is recharging station surface ships.

>I think apart from the layman's resistance to the idea of nonhumans being creative,

What I think is funny is the resistance to the idea that a lot of what people do isn't all that special.

It all makes me think of the evolution of supermarket cashiers. It used to be a fairly skilled profession, now people are just used because of their abilities in object manipulation.

>who's clamoring for that?

One use I can see is assist software for someone churning out commercial music. Maybe a standalone music generator (composition plus synth) would be useful for content generators avoiding copyright.

As both copyright violation policing gets easier and heavier and programatically generated music becomes easier I have to wonder how those two things will collide.

By 'token' do you mean a note, a chord, general structure (verse, bridge, etc.), a well known phrase?

Music is so full of cliche I don't doubt that someone will write software (probably already has) to assist a composer, generate drum parts or harmony, etc.

I like the idea of a Rhythm changes generator. With enough monkeys the Flintstone Theme eventually pops out.

Am I crazy or is that AIP stuff not all that much better than batteries?

This https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/future-submarine-coming-up...

gives me 4.5 MJ/L density for fuel

This, just chosen randomly https://www.cei.washington.edu/education/science-of-solar/ba...

Gives me 670 Wh/L as an upper value...and a MJ 277 WH...so 2.4 MJ/L

Unless I'm utterly wrong, I'd just wait for batteries to get better. New Musk investment, 'The Unterseebat Company'

It seems to me that something that's a couple of lightyears out can't have any sort of stable orbit. I suppose that an Oort cloud essentially merges with an adjacent star's so there's no hard definition.

>how does one/how do we end up feeling like this?

Maybe it's just that he notices, as any introspective person might, that you just start doing the same damn thing over and over after 20/30/40 years in harness.

He probably should take up the piano.

So what in the heck does the CPU interconnect look like?

question:

How far out can a planet be if it has a roughly circular orbit? At some point outwards neighboring heavy things will make it unstable.

>So you're going to implement algorithms then?

Jeesh, that's easy.

You encrypt the algorithms too.

>Because the US thankfully left behind the era of blatant cronyism

Bwahahahahahaha. There really is no way to respond to that statement.

>you’re the type of person that will do things to completion, even if you don’t enjoy it or find it interesting.

More specifically, you're the type of person who'll do things to completion if you are forced to. Not so different from a company employee I guess.

>If you are an autodidact, then the entire point of college would be the degree because otherwise you can teach yourself the same information and save a bunch of money, right?

Hah. Good point.

I can't say that I took a single course that I couldn't have picked up simply by reading a book or two and applying a bit of self-discipline.

Professional credentials aside, I think that the modern university is relatively valueless aside from the few cases that require expensive facilities.