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Thanks for this perspective. I keep forgetting that culture is everything about how these social mechanisms exist and operate.

Which makes the destruction of roads all the more amusing: I don't think it accomplished anything. Nobody wants to invade The Hermit Kingdom. Ever. Doing so would be a net loss. Korea can just get the job done by remote like it's a game of Starcraft.

I've also heard it as "no plan survives contact with the enemy."

Russian troops are all dependent on commands from an officer!

To me, that sounds like they never updated command and communication strategies from, oh... the 18th century? This works great where you have regimented battalions with muskets and bayonets, all lined up on a single battlefield with clear lines of sight. But introduce so much as an opposing guerilla unit or machine guns (let alone tanks, air support, and artillery you can't even see) and it all goes to hell in a hand-basket.

Especially these days. Current-gen x86 architecture has all kinds of insane optimizations and special instruction sets that the Pentium I never had (e.g. SSE). You really do need a higher-level compiler at your back to make the most of it these days. And even then, there are cases where you have to resort to inline ASM or processor-specific intrinsics to optimize to the level that Roller Coaster Tycoon is/was. (original system specs)

As a (perhaps unintentional) slip, "an insensitive" works rather well here. Gatekeeping your field in a forum of open(ish)¹ information exchange is just categorically "not nice".

Personally, I would have opted for a portmanteau like "incentsitive".

¹ - Paywalls notwithstanding.

As true now as ever.

The only good bug is a dead bug.

At the same time, this kind of confusion is essential to TST tactics. If everyone knew and understood that they are a morally upstanding institution, they'd lose a lot of their scare-tactic leverage when asking to join in on bringing "religion" into public institutions. Bad optics are the whole game here.

It's one thing that these chucklefucks show up. Knuckle-draging jerks like this are always going be lurking somewhere, but what people in charge do about it is far more important, IMO. The lack of response from GOP leadership is the part that really gets me riled up; by saying and doing nothing they're saying everything very loudly.

Meanwhile, we've had things like this where the (Texas GOP) party leadership was split on a vote to not associate with these assholes:

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/02/texas-gop-antisemitism-resolution/

What I dislike about this is that what was on the table were "holocaust deniers" and "Nazis." So even with the most minimal definition of "people problematic to our brand" they couldn't kick them out.

I dunno. If you DGAF about long-term outcomes for anyone, including the job itself, and have zero moral fiber, it's probably a pretty plush gig. That said, I'd be worried about that paycheck bouncing now and again.

Too bad.

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Hello there!

In the meantime, keep buying cybertrucks.

I agree with your professor. It's one of these things that people have a hard time understanding. A lot of folks can easily imagine the end-state, but have no clue what has to be solved to arrive there. A lot of folks think that projects in electronics, software engineering, computing, etc. are just a linear march from beginning to end; failure is a human or resource problem. In reality, there are problems out there that get exponentially harder to pull off with linear inputs, which is much harder to imagine let alone a great way to scare off investors.

In this case, the framing of the problem is all wrong. We're not trying to solve "a car that drives itself" (e.g. autopilot). Instead we are "simulating human sensory organs and cognition in order to pilot a vehicle without catastrophe or injury." The latter is much harder to solve, but IMO, is a much more realistic portrayal of the job.

There's just so much in IT that fits this format.

• Every Terraform project
• Using Nix tooling inside of Ubuntu
• WSL
• Proton/WINE
• Containers on ECS, EKS, or whatever container runtime you hate this week.
• Every custom C++ program that uses glibc, SDL, openssl, or whatever lib that has it's act together.
• Python using numpy
• Remediating a security hole in a legacy enterprise program

Ah, but that's how I run my table. The jank is a feature, not a flaw.

Story takes place in a whole-ass galaxy. Everyone winds up back on Tatooine for some stupid reason; the planet with barely one ecosystem, practically zero vegetation, no economy that matters, yet populated with two (?) cities. Other planets also have exactly one ecosystem, culture, and one optional urban center¹. There's also only 12 or so planets that matter, yet half of everyone you meet are from all the other ones. You may not like what you see, but this is peak sci-fi writing performance, right here. /s

This story could take place in a diverse corner of a single Earth-like planet and it wouldn't be all that different.

¹ - Meanwhile planet Coruscant is an urban center where the ecosystem can best be described as "traffic" and the culture is "city folk that inexplicably eat at 1950's-style diners".

For me it's the damn scale under the bag, and how long the kiosk takes to register the weight of the last scanned item. Then the system "unlocks" and lets me scan another item. This system slows me down to the speed of the worst clerk in the store.

Maybe? I think that's open to interpretation. IMO, only the devs at Bethesda can make that call.

Me? I'm not going to hold onto the opinion that it's game-breaking so strongly. After all, if you're having fun, what's the problem?

Well, it's a shitpost so: Hacks and exploits. But since it's Skyrim, probably just exploits.