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And imagine how badly most encyclopedias would reflect on languages and cultures other than the one that made them.

Well, you can focus on rule-based/expert system style AI, a la WolframAlpha. Actually build algorithms to answer questions that are based on scientific fact and theory, rather than an approximated consensus of many sources of dubious origin.

Looking at Blackmagic's pro-level cameras, they support external USB storage and dual SD Cards and dual CFast cards.

So there's certainly no requirement to use external USB storage.

But, they also say:

When shooting is complete you can simply move the external disk to your computer and start editing from the same disk, eliminating file copying!

Rather unfortunate advice.

Nickel Zinc rechargeable, peak 1.8V with 1.6V nominal.

Or newish LiIon cells that operate right at 1.5V.

It's not even generally true for appointed federal judges. There are no formal job requirements to become a federal judge.

Sure... but for every 1 of those examples, there are 100 or 1000 variants that showed astonishing properties in the laboratory that were never manufactured at scale due to cost or other undesirable material characteristics.

Lead apatite may turn out to be an important step, or maybe not. When Paul Chu made the first big breakthrough with yttrium/barium superconductors at liquid nitrogen temps, everybody thought that workable room temperature superconductors were right around the corner. That was almost 40 years ago. As of right now, we don't know whether "room temperature superconductivity at scale" is 1 year or 1 century away. It's closer, probably? That's about all we can guess.

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Dumb question, but have you explored recumbent bikes, trikes, electric bikes, motorcycles?

If you enjoy the great outdoors, and the bicycle was a mechanism to get out there, there are many options for continued enjoyment.

There are about a zillion ways it could prove to be impractical. Apatite is a crystal, and presumably this lead apatite is also a crystal. We also don't know if it can be deposited in a useful thickness; the samples tested so far were created by gas deposition on glass. Can it be built up to a useful thickness, and maintain its superconducting properties? All unknown.

But, real progress always comes in small steps. It's exceedingly rare for any discovery to result in a useful product immediately.

And sometimes superconducting materials are wholly impractical -- making it superconductive could make it incredibly brittle, etc. Supposedly this new material is an "apatite", which is a geological term for a kind of crystal. Who knows what properties it has, yet? Supposedly these samples were made and tested by depositing them on to a glass surface.

So would this mean that cpus would not generate heat?

Not quite. Charges undergoing acceleration and state transitions still generate EM radiation, and still lose energy. In a semiconductor, charges start moving, stop moving, and change direction all the time. So that form of energy loss & heat generation will continue.

In addition, the semiconductor itself is still a semiconductor, not a superconductor. To take advantage of the ability of a semiconductor to hold charges in specific states, there will be some heat losses.

But, a practical superconductor could be used to form all the interconnects in a PC board or the surface of a silicon chip device, providing an efficiency improvement.

Uhhh

I've seen the Andromeda Strain and this does not end well!

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Fair point, I was taking that at face value merely because that was the argument that was made. I don't know if that's true or not.

Engineers like to say that business people should get out of the way and let the engineers to their job, but ask yourself how many engineers choose to supervise other human beings. Somebody has to do the hard job of dealing with employee psychology all day long. It's a messy, "up to your armpits in other people's lives all day long" kind of job.

You need people who are actually GOOD at that, with all the emotional intelligence it implies, if you want a workplace that doesn't completely suck.

So realistically, if you make some AI-generated content, I steal it, what do you do? How do you stop me from using your content?

Whose content is it? What human person holds the copyright?

So I've been in IT management since the 00s, first running a help desk, then moving on to projects, then senior technology leadership incl. running onshore and offshore dev teams. Right now I'm in a sr. dev/service architect sort of role that includes oversight of deliverables from developers.

And it's a tough question. The problem is, you will hear valid points from every extreme. Some will say, get the business people out of the way, let the engineers run the show and solve the problems. And they're not wrong. You will hear some people say, money rules the castle, any behavior that is not aligned toward revenue is a waste of time. And they're not really wrong either. And others will say, the management hierarchy is paramount; do what your immediate supervisor says, and trust the process. Others will say, do what's right regardless of what management thinks, and you'll get ahead. And none of these people are wrong either.

What I've learned through working on both the technical and business sides of the house is that while technical skills comprise assembling technical assets and resources to solve an engineering problem, business skills comprise assembling financial assets and human resources to solve a business problem -- assets and resources that INCLUDE engineering effort. And for the most part, business people do not, and cannot, understand everything engineers do, any more than they can understand everything HR does or everything facilities does or everything sales does. Business people are like the generals pointing to a map; they don't know (or need to know) how the guns and tanks and helicopters actually work. They do need to decide which hill to take, which bridge to destroy, etc.

But damn it, they better listen to the people who DO know how things work.

So, inasmuch as I can answer your question at all, I would answer it this way: developers will be empowered when everybody learns to stay in their lanes... most of the time. Business people should treat development a little bit like a black box: make sure the right requirements go in the Input side, and make sure the right deliverables come out the Output side, and get involved in the innards only when there is a problem with the outputs.

Conversely, developers can -- and should -- analyze requirements critically, develop an understanding of WHY the requirements are what they are, and generally be consulted stakeholders in the requirements gathering process. But ultimately they should not be deciding what to build, because they just aren't going to have the 360-degree picture to understand how the business is going to make money from that output. Those inputs have to come from business-oriented people who are actually charging money to do things (or otherwise know what the customer wants).

That's probably why modern development methodologies like Agile are so tightly focused on pairing the developers with business people who can provide rapid input and evaluate prototypes on short timelines. Keep the inputs and outputs in digestible chunks, but keep the business thinking on the customer side and the engineering thinking on the development side.

It's a month after the incident and the mother participated in the interview, so I'm guessing she pulled through.

But, jeez. Did they even attempt to signal her to pull over? Really wondering what the dashcam is gonna show.