As a prophylactic?

I could be having a senior moment and replying to the wrong person 😆

At this point it seems like the Iranians are more trustworthy. They’ve warned the Americans each time what would happen if attacked and followed through.

Is the hairstyle a regulation?

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Great stuff, do the Dali Lama next

Difficult choices for Ukraine. Europe and America are broke. NATO is falling apart.

They put him in prison for being a whistleblower so he at least has some scruples.

Survival of the fattest

One thing that seemingly doesn’t rely on the internet is Iran’s masterful ability to make the American bullies look criminally stupid. It’s already hugely impressive, imagine what they could do with a bit of WiFi.

Assuming school is the correct place for children. I think a lot of the problems in a classroom are due to the way teaching is done. The expectation is that the kids will sit quietly like adults while someone drones on with material that is boring and completely irrelevant to their lives. When the kids reject this garbage they are indicted as delinquent. It could be looser so the kids can focus on their strengths and feel good about themselves. Learning has always been a source of joy for me but it rarely happened in a classroom. I’m standing with the bozo on this one, this smug teacher is probably an absolute bore. The parents sound like cunts as well.

Approximately 0.1 years out of 3 billion years, truly a crisis. Precisely what people occupied themselves with for 3 billion years before the internet existed we may never know. Some claim they spent quite considerable time as single cell organisms, then multicellular aquatic organisms, until the species reached it’s apogee, a flabby orange real estate pedo fraudster.

He’s trying to be the Ted Haggard of Ohio. Prayer meeting in 3…2…1…

These Scooby Doo reveals are getting out of hand.

OP is making the argument that AI is just latest incarnation of plagiarism and I’m glad I don’t have to mark coursework any more because it is essentially worthless at this point. Under our current paradigm the only alternative is exams. I’ve taught good engineers who score highly in tests and some that don’t, that ability doesn’t translate linearly to real situations. What we learn in a university is rapidly superceded by our work experience and getting wrapped up in exam performance is futile. I would argue that knowing how to learn, curiousity, collaboration and tenacity will serve us better in the long run. High scores are about ego, competition and domination. The reality is that teamwork and slow accrual of knowledge are far more potent in the long run than the lone star that burns brightly but briefly.

We are producing graduates who are good at solving trivial technical problems at breakneck speed. Meanwhile, back in reality, nothing of value is created quickly. Who would board a plane that had been designed like this? It would be disconcerting to hear from a doctor ‘I did your surgery as fast as possible’ when waking from a medical procedure.

Engineering and science is done slowly and meticulously because it is very difficult and takes years to become competent and decades to truly master.

Those are some good examples, more of that please. Most of the lithium powered devices I’m using currently are power tools and they are exclusively repackaged 18650 and 21700 cells. It’s really not much of a technical challenge to make these things standardised but if there is no regulatory pressure it’s easy money for the OEMs and more toxic waste for us.

We don’t know where else we should put them

I was amazed by the transformation in Amsterdam when I visited last summer. I’ve been visiting Netherlands for 40 years and always admired their cycling culture but lately they seemed to have almost eliminated cars from the city. As a result it is incredibly quiet, serene and there is no vehicle soot on the buildings, as is the case in London. I could often choose among many different modes of alternative transport in any given location.

The English solution to this problem is ever more stringent penalties on the driver (e.g. ULEZ) which may be profitable but they have been ineffective at reducing the volume of vehicular traffic, pollution, accidents, ad nauseum. We pay a huge price for car culture.

It’s a similar problem to lead acid batteries. 2V cells are arranged in a way that will deliver 12V at sufficient current for a particular application. However the solution we have landed on is completely different to li-ion because you can take any suitably sized car battery from one brand of vehicle and put it in another. The reason for that is the interface is common to virtually all cars. This technology pre-dates enshitification. There is no good reason to tie any battery to any device other than it helps the shareholders. They are busy inserting barriers to re-use and modularity everywhere in technology, particularly software.