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Commanding legions of AI bots to attack problems. The the skills and best practices of using AI as copilot are different than being a Roman emperor managing a civilization and conquest over your enemies.
For small stuff? Maybe. If it can give some insight into total cost of owner ship. on things like cars. Used vs new. The ai could compare price charts, depreciation, etc to rank some good value buys. But that can be calculated with traditional non-ai logic, just needs data.
Starlink also has huge military use in modern war. Also the ability to rapidly replace satellites faster than the country you're at war with will be a game changer. fast, cheap, low orbit satellite deployment will determine which AI robot army dominates.
After the dump it may be a good time to buy. No doubt conquering space is the next big human endeavour. It's science fiction today but the human race will need to live on spaceships in the future to avoid extinction. As the sun swells to a red giant and engulfs the Earth.
Software start ups are all about that 0 cost replication of software. One webserver spawns millions of threads for free. Start ups crack under the pressure of real world costs. Like sure anyone can make a website where users send tweets to each other. But if you have to spend billions of dollars constructing stadiums so Swifties can have an ex-ticket master experience... That's a hard sell to the software guys.
Once inertia is created it's easier to keep the ball rolling. You have so much context loaded in your brain you don't want to stop as you know how slow it is to reload into cache.
I'm not a fan of pair programming, especially for things requiring deep thinking. But it does seem to jump start momentum in a painless way.
Don't forgot to have a Zen like coffee break and walk. We are not robots. Squeeze too hard, for too long and no more juice comes out.
A true unicorn of a game. Got the 4 CD pack and ringed instruction manual at Staples in the late 1990's. I think it was $4. Quality across the board. The cd case had incredible fantasy artwork. The thick manual with color commentary from wizards. And the game itself was deep. Unmatched for the 90's.
I don't think of it as a game anymore. It's a masterpiece of art. Nothing will ever be quite like it again. Not nostalgia, just the fact of the matter.
Fallout 1,2 also. Not quite on BG2s level but I still play them. I got both 1,2 as a $10 pack in the late 90s or early 2000's. deep F'ing value.
You can make a great ethical decision. Supply a poor country with free food indefinitely. The effect is destroyed farms and starvation the moment a minor conflict disrupts the aid distribution. The road to hell is paved with ethical decisions.
Second, the oil market would disagree that blockading a choke point is not effective. The threat of Iranian missiles has reduced the volume of oil on the market. It's a measurable reduction.
And no China does not have pin point accurate missiles. The missed hits on Diego base with Chinese missiles demonstrate that. The nice thing about Iran is they use Chinese tech, and Chinese contractors. It's a good trial run to asses Chinese offensive and defensive abilities. So far they have proven ineffective against western militaries.
Even Chinese deep bunker defense is proving ineffective. Iranian officials are now taking their chances sleeping in tents as the deep bunkers are death traps.
Blockades go both ways. China is energy dependant so very vulnerable to blockade response by the US and Japan. A few choke points make it easy, the ocean is not open ended.
cleans, press, squat, rows, farmers carry. It may not be the best tool for all things, but it gives you a bit of everything. Strength. Power/explosiveness with cleans. Endurance, heart pumps.
Merry nondenominational culturally neutral winter season everyone!
You could remove generics and speed up the compiler a ton. Then people will be asking if lack of generics was a language design mistake.