If that’s your idea of protection - how many kids do you have?

KFC’s secret recipe…

Do they get the whole secret, or just a piece?

Do they get the secret (or their piece of it) “in the clear” or is it encrypted? Do they even know who holds the encryption key(s)?

A lot comes down to technique:

When “protecting a secret” do the people doing the protecting actually know the secret? Do they even know they’re doing secret protection? Secret protection works best when the secret is known by nobody.

These 9 women, are they just getting pregnant, or are they plotting a kidnapping?

The retail investor market is full of ASSumptions.

I bet you can find them for cheap soon.

It’s not the per-share, it’s the market cap.

What do AI companies need? A place to house their datacenters. What does this failing shoe company likely have? Empty warehouses, and I bet they’re located close to good power infrastructure with proper zoning to get datacenters installed before the locals can change the zoning to keep them out.

I wouldn’t mind living in your fantasy world, I do what I can to make it closer to reality, but of late that fantasy is slipping farther away not getting nearer. Yes, I can buy an EV today - no, I can’t really call it an economical replacement for a dead dino burner, not even at $5 per gallon - for our driving patterns.

So, the next town over is ~40 miles, keep 20 miles of range for running about town during the trip / reserve. We stretch our legs when we get there, and while 4 charge points are avaialble in that town, how reliably can we access them if we go on a crowded day? How much of our day do we want to spend worrying about getting a charge?

Meanwhile, dead dinosaurs can get our full sized pickup truck there and back 4 times between fill ups.

In some hypothetical future where charge stations are as plentiful as petrol stations, sure, 100 miles of range isn’t bad. In today’s world, by the time you’re down to 40 miles of range remaining, it’s time to find a charge point ASAP or risk needing a tow.

I don’t know why I have any confidence in “my fellow countrymen.” I went to a public high school for 4 years, I “met the masses” there, and 90% of them were idiots, 60% of them were mean spirited, racist, bigoted idiots. And now they vote.

Before 2024, I honestly thought “there’s no way they’d ever put that clown back in.” And here we are, orange face paint and all.

~100 mile range would he plenty for the vast majority of people for the vast majority of days.

Depends on where you live, what you do… while it’s true that a back and forth to work and the market car is fine with 100 miles of range, that’s a lot of garage space to take up for a car that can’t get you to the next town and back on a weekend.

the batteries problem.

It’s different use cases - you can’t handle an EV battery that only lets you accelerate 0-60 in 89 seconds, but that same EV battery can power the street lamp and similar loads for weeks between charges without trouble.

When this is all over, the world will need to throw a thank-you party for the US electing Trump and waking up the voters of the world, shaking them out of their complacency to clean up their own houses.

Got his own Pope installed and alienated him too.

I’ll swag that the simulation process is complex, fraught with various pitfalls and idiosyncracies that require specialized training / experience to get it setup and running properly, even in ‘rough’ mode. I’ll further swag that the reason it used to take 2 weeks was because there were about 50 engineering hours required to get it ready to do the number crunching - and those engineering hours can now be handled by the “creative writing machine” which has been trained in the various things it needs to know to match the expected patterns.

Recent, ongoing observations of the past 12 years…

Our department is too small to really need an architect, plus there’s a lot of egos running around who want to be an architect, I’m fine with the title Software Engineer.

Life is not safe. It’s pretty relatively safe, as compared to living under a lean-to in the woods with bears and disease carrying insects and such, and even that’s safer than people make it out to be. However, there are “dangerous things” out there, both in the woods and in the streets and in the organized crime / government. Are you more likely to die of a car crash, or a malicious action of some organized group, or a car crash arranged by some organized group? It’s really hard to be sure, but if the available information is anything close to accurate, you’re better off worrying about a car crash than a meteorite strike, or shark bite, or bad people targeting you.

If Germany had maintained (not expanded) their nuclear power generation capabilities, they could be burning zero coal right now.