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This is fascinating: Carthage will always be somewhat of an enigma, I suspect. I've heard some classicists posit that they were essentially the first "modern" society that appeared in the world with respect to ideas of pluralism and Democracy... Or at least much more so than Rome at the time.

The tricky thing about that is it depends "what period of time" you choose to look at. When the Serbs had the upper hand in the 90s, yes - a lot of the aggression was due to their actions... But if you choose to look 50 years before that, it was the Croat ustazi allied with Nazis slaughtering Serbs wholesale, to the point where even the Nazis themselves were appalled... A little while before that, it was the Bosniaks/Muslims impaling everyone else with the backing of the Ottomans.

It's more accurate to say "whoever had the upper hand at a given time" was using their temporary advantage to terrorize the others over the last couple centuries.

Given this, it's easy to understand why Serbs wouldn't want their friends and families living in states administered by people who were massacring them with the backing of Nazis and/or Ottomans within a generation.

It doesn't justify the atrocities of the Milosevic era, and it's still technically correct that "yes, the Serbs were the lone bad guys" but only if you choose to look at a certain decade and pretend history doesn't exist before that: which is very much how the American news media at the time "sold it" to justify U.S. involvement in the region.

Fitting - as this is likely emblematic of the way America is failing more broadly: we can't fix real problems with pipes, roads and other infrastructure because we created a generation (s) of people who were taught to look down on that kind of work. And we're at the end of our ability to fund adequate fixes to those things with national debt.

Why would I need this tool if I can just say "Claude, make me a CAD drawing of XYZ"?

Not trying to be rude, just generating some empathy for the OP's situation, which I think was missed: Like them, there is something you are passionate about that there is no longer really a point to. You could argue "but people will need to use my tool to generate really _good_ CAD drawings" but how much marginal value does that create over getting a "good enough" one in 2 minutes from Claude?

I feel sorry for bringing this up, but I think you might have missed how the thing that makes this possible makes it unnecessary.

50 years ago, the U.S. was a nation that _made things_ whereas today it's primarily people conference calling and making slide decks for each other (perhaps not for long, given the progress of LLMs). What if that's the real underlying problem and not how many layers of people we can stack on top of each other in a small space?

The risk profile is "exposed to asbestos" which - as the video correctly pointed out - was _never banned_ despite the well-known risks. It's a common misconception that asbestos was banned (because it seems like it should be) but it never was thanks to industry interests.

Remember when they "censored" the guy who had the gall to write "men and women are a little different" at Google. There's an object lesson here, even if you disagreed with that guy.

Also played Nurse Chapel in the Original Series and Deanna Troi's mother in TNG.

Carbon copy repeat of the Soviet Union. Headed to the same place in the same way just 40 years later.

Let's not pretend that firing software engineers for reading a publicly available Slack list with software is anything but the crack of a whip. Or equivocate doing that with firing _700 people_ while the board gets their million-dollar yacht bonuses.

I read it more as "look for the thing that was _never done_ because no one was going to hire 20 people to do it" and all the examples were pointing out how you _should not_ try to "better, faster, cheaper" AI because you will lose quickly on all those dimensions.

I realize the irony, of course, that this article is AI-generated but it provoked something close to an epiphany for me even so.

They made half the point, in my opinion - that you should be "doing the thing that wasn't possible before" but missed the other half - that maybe the thing you should be doing is owning and creating relationships with customers yourself instead of doing it through a company... Which maybe wasn't possible before but is now.

In fairness to the author, I think their point was that you take _several_ agents (not just one) and find a way to have them work like a team of 20 people. In the example, Sarah is trying to do the same job she did before, just marginally better.

It would make you feel better if they did it with a pen and paper?

Most "big" projects (huge chip foundries, etc.) require various forms of government approval (if not outright funding). They get asymmetry from knowing:

1. Sometimes that the project is happening before everyone else 2. If the project will or will not be approved or stopped e.g. in committee 3. Various other classified things like Dept of Defense briefings (if the Army says it needs XYZ component and plans to buy 10 billion worth of them, then buy the company that makes XYZ component).

Can't keep Slivovitz a secret forever and Kala Megdan is one of the most amazing experiences in Europe.

Fleeing as in "I don't want to die in Putin's war". I've heard from friends that it's actually becoming an issue with locals there (the overwhelming number of Russians who have moved there) to the point where it's beginning to strain the relationship between Russia and Serbia, who have historically been very closely aligned.

Belgrade, historically, was a "gateway between East and West" and in some ways it still is: as a non-EU member in Europe it has access to a broader range of markets than a lot of other cities. I think recently, the wave of Russian tech workers fleeing Russia has also elevated its "tech hub" status.

You can buy the Microcenter knockoff one (Inland) for under $10

Train them to run and maintain the new machines? Find a new business opportunity and have them work on that? All of the above with an optional buyout?

Lots of naysaying this, and I don't necessarily disagree with the general skepticism, but there's something I learned in Military Science class in college that I found interesting: in the U.S. marines, every marine from generals to janitors is rated and trained as a capable combat marksman with a rifle regardless of their specialization.

Always interesting to think about Postel's law in the context of these kinds of things. ("Be liberal in what you accept and conservative in what you send")

Those designers aren't good at their job. What you're describing is a failed artist. There are a lot of these that call themselves designers.

555s are so much fun. It's bananas how much you can do with that chip and a few dirt-cheap resistors and capacitors.

Make has a really nice little book where they walk you through some simple projects on a breadboard with 555s, transistors, etc. https://www.amazon.com/How-Use-Breadboard-Make-Handbook/dp/1...

Weird how you can remember these little things from Sierra games: 6858 was the code to disable the Star Generator in Space Quest 1.

Parity error...

I would put a finer/pithier point on it:

The "attention economy" is out, the "trust economy" is in.

Agreed. The tough thing, though, is that it's (generally) a lot easier to spot a bad engineer than a bs "ideas guy".

Not to make you feel old, but to today's 20-somethings an 80s movie is the same time difference as a 40s movie would be in the 80s. There's some interesting stuff I read a while back about why the 80s "feels culturally closer to today" than the 40s felt to people in the 80s but it's the same difference in a purely chronological sense.

Exactly this. AMP was not a technological concern so much as a "contract": I won't act like a jackass and do anti-user things on my site and you will convey that to your readers/searchers.