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An eight-join query is going to be nigh on unmaintainable should the requirements change, leading to a change-break-change-break spiral as your preferred coding agent tries to fix its previous fixes.
Maybe the wise way to use AI would be to sort out the schema.
Nah, software engineers were always butterflies fluttering from one language or framework to the Next Hot Thing. Change was part of the job, if you didn't keep up you fell behind and atrophied.
Resistance to AI is, I think, more because it is seen as an existential threat, or because it's something whose ultimate long-term outcome is still undefined. It's going to be either a benefit or a hazard, and we don't yet know whether we'll need Bladerunners to rein it in.
Im not convinced that's the case, if it's a person who can normalise cheating.
They've already made the decision that benefit to themselves outweighs everything else.
Only in a Sun-synchronous orbit, at specific elevations. Most 'normal' orbits have periods of shade.
They didn't even demonstrate performance on par with their 1950s era T-38 chase plane, and now they've retired their 'demonstrator' and pivoted into data centre power turbines.
This is the problem, though. So many hobby clubs and societies have pre-existing cliques, you don't get to pick - you get selected if they deign, or excluded if not.
I've felt lonelier in many societies than on my own, if that makes sense.
So the Strait has no clear legal status.
In theory since Iran didn't ratify UNCLOS they can only claim 3nm of territorial water, but they claim 12nm anyhow.
The USA insists on the right of transit passage, but itself isn't even a signatory to UNCLOS so that's hypocritical and has no basis.
It's a mess that nobody wants to touch, so it's pretty much up for grabs by the most militant player.
At present it's like railroad building across the Wild West; get some notional national 'permission' and then chuck them up there into a globally-shared space. That's not sustainable as the important orbits become crowded.
"Estimated cost per 1000 invocations"
It's $4, the reviews are good, just buy it.
80% of posts in my FB feed are groups or people to which I've subscribed or followed.
10% are interesting things it suggests outside that core, which I then follow.
10% are suggestions that I don't find interesting and which I mark as such.
They're now on a T480, released 2018.
"War" is the application of violence for political ends. "Defense" is only a subset of that.
How does it manage that, when it it only knows as much as is written in text books?
I don't really know what alternative there is to eBay as an 'everything shop'. I can get specific screws there, or diff fluid, or a customised motorhome name sticker, or an old baseball cap for an airshow I attended in 2008.
And if I bought the wrong diff fluid I can sell it.
The main value over Amazon, though, is that the search works.
I hear this a lot, particularly from Millenials, and it's entirely incorrect.
There are vast amounts of information still only available in books, or on the shelves of archives.
Sure, the Internet might provide 99% of pop-culture information, but don't mistake that for 99% of knowledge.
Sure, he'll get it done twice as fast and you might notice some tricks as you look over his shoulder. But when you need a second door hung, you'll either have to start learning from scratch or call him again.
The advantage of Mars is that it is ( hypothetically ) acceptably compatible with persistent surface-based habitation. Not an easy life, certainly not compared to Earth, but more sustainable than balloons floating in sulphuric clouds.
Venus doesn't offer an 'alternative cradle' option unless we invent anti-gravity. Until then the emphasis will be on finding a way to improve human civilisation's resilience.
Mr Musk's move to the USA was funded by his father, and his first company was started with a loan from his father. The advantages of the family running an undocumented emerald mine in Zambia.
Not 'inherited wealth' I concede, but still not something available to Average Joe.
AI is ruining everything.
https://www.forcesnews.com/news/warning-mod-staff-amid-fears...
"Warning stickers banning military workers from discussing sensitive information have been placed inside the Ministry of Defence's electric cars, as fears grow that China could be listening."
Frankly so long as my browser, VPN and mail app are updated I'm happy.
If you have measurable amplifications, use them. "This outcome was 40% more frequent". Otherwise keep subjective emotion out of documents, unless you're writing a novel.
> God forbid you organize an essay that's in any way non-linear...
Essays should be brutally logical and sequential. If the text is becoming cluttered with data, break it out into a table. I read a document for information, not for some movie-director suspenseful build-up and revelation.
There's a good rule where I work that any document that requires someone to make a decision must fit on two or fewer pages. Anything longer is TLDR. Tables and charts are prized for their information density, novelesque writing is not.
Vast amounts of hardware and many American lives were lost trying to recover downed pilots, even when it was known it was a body retrieval operation.
For one famous example, the rescue of BAT21 Bravo resulted in the loss of five aircraft, the deaths of eleven and two taken as POWs.
It is a point of principle that the USAF does not apply a 'cost effectiveness' test to aircrew recovery.