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You can go back to requiring home assignments be written by hand. It won't completely fix the AI issue, because you can still ask ChatGPT and then rewrite it, but it helps because it's very tedious and time consuming, so the benefit is much lower.

If that is not enough, we may have to stop grading take-home papers. Which is a good idea anyway.

Ah yes, it was too crowded so nobody went there anymore.

First you would need to define a measure of inferiority.

I'm pretty sure we have measured some very spicific things, and found that different races on average have some genetic advantages and disadvantages. Is saying that Asians are disadvantaged in milk drinking competitions making society worse? Also, because humans are diverse, differences between individuals within any racial group can be far greater than differences between races.

And if you compare men and women, the differences are much much bigger, and the comparisons much more frequent - you can barely turn on the TV or open up any social media without seeing them.

So, ultimately - so what?

"X can seem sensible and logical if you ignore sense and logic and believe your emotions instead".

Yes, that's true for everything, and it is exactly what believing your emotions over facts means.

Well, I still believe it's going to be good eventually. Like KSP1, for example, or No Man's Sky. There certainly have both the resources and a guaranteed player base to make that happen.

That said, I cannot be sure of that, so I will not buy it until it is actually good.

As always, it's a tradeoff. Sometimes it's a problem, sometimes the same thing is a critical feature.

Which is why it's so important that you have multiple choices. If you need the latest packages, use Arch. If you need stability over multiple years, use Debian.

over 10 years on a single install, upgrading from one release to the next\

I mean, that's about one release upgrade

All green bets like diesel, biomass, natural gas

That's a huge clue right there. Germany bet on the most conservative solutions (keeping their diesel cars and house heating systems) and guess what, they don't work. Burning food for energy was never going to be good idea, and biodiesel was never going be clean enough for cars, but they went for it anyway because they didn't dare touch the auto companies.

We prevented it from escaping back into space. The sun didn't do anything different, we did.

It isn't so much about competitiveness or pettiness, but rather about individualism. Americans for some reason always like to think that everything was invented by a single super-genious individual working alone in a cave with a box of scraps. That's how it's always presented in the media - superheroes (alone or in a very small group), lone scientists, billionaires who single-handedly created their wealth from scratch, etc.

It kinda makes more sense for OpenTTD. The game is famous for creating huge complicated networks for moving cargo and passengers, it is natural that the devs gravitate towards huge complicated computer networks too.

achieving freedom takes a LONG time. It requires a lot of work, strategy, and discipline.

Ah, yes. Only work will set you free. What a reasonable statement.

Bitcoin would solve this, if it was actually used (or fit to be used) as intended - people keeping their own wallets and making on-chain transaction.

However, because it is so poorly designed, almost nobody does that, and instead store their crypto in exchanges. Which have all the downsides of banks (they can hold your money hostage) but none of the upsides (security and regulation).

Not when compared to a literal metal wire.

This is exactly what gets me every time some German "institute" publishes a study how electric cars pollute more than gas cars. They count everything that goes into producing electricity, but never what goes into extracting, refining and transporting gasoline.

Above average in diagnosed and treated mental illness. You know, the kind that is way less violent than the other kind.

If you're on AWS or GCP or Azure, and they terminate your account, and you use only the "standard" services (raw instances, k8s, database, redis, queues, email, etc.) it's generally relatively easy to migrate to one of the other two.

Fly is different enough that moving to or from it takes much more time and effort.

What to use instead?

The opening is already completely missing the point. In Bob's book, the comment is highlighted because the paragraph is talking about the comment. Drawing a red circle around something you want to point out doesn't mean that that thing always needs a red circle around it.

Compare it to what we have invested in killing each other, and despair.

In what cases would I have to worry about that?

I really don't understand all these complaints about how Kubernetes is so complex, how it's an investment etc. I am a single developer that uses Kubernetes for two separate projects, and in both cases it has been a breeze. Each service gets a YAML file (with the Deployment and Service together), then add an Ingress and a ConfigMap. That's all. It's good practice so still have a managed DB, so the choice of Kubernetes vs something running on EC2 doesn't change anything here.

Setting up a managed kubernetes cluster for a single containerized application is currently no more complicated than setting up AWS Lambda.

What you get out of it for free is amazing though. The main one for me is simplicity - each deployment is a single command, which can be (but doesn't have to be) triggered by CI. I can compare this to the previous situation of running "docker-compose up" on multiple hosts. Then, if what you're just deploying is broken, Kubernetes will tell you and will not route traffic to the new pods. Nothing else comes close to this. Zero-downtime deployments is a nice bonus. Simple scaling, just add or remove a node, and you're set.

Oh, and finally, you can take your setup to a different provider, and only need some tweaks on the Ingress.

Why not build the web component in Django, and the rest in your language of choice?

Stress is more about the feeling of control rather than actual control. And you absolutely feel more in control in close combat than when you're targeted by artillery.

For a relatable example, compare driving a car to riding in a rollercoaster. Driving is more dangerous and you're not really in control of other drivers who can hit you, but you feel in control because you hold the wheel.

The simple answer is that the cool system has a very uniform temperature (because it's been at that temperature for a long time), while the hot system that's cooling down is doing so with large spatial variations of temperature. In other words, all the water in the initially cool system is at 10°C, but the initially hot system has pockets of 5°C and pockets of 15°C.

It doesn't have to "learn" anything in order for there to be a substantial difference.

It's almost certain the secret mission was to capture a satellite in a single orbit, that's the only reason for the wings to be so big, in addition to the cargo space. If you're in space for a long time, you can time your deorbit so that you're landing close to KSC, but in a single orbit Earth's rotation gets you about 20 degrees away, so you need good gliding and steering to get back. Scott Manley has a good video about this.

No, those do not see any benefit from me visiting the site beyond what the government is paying them for. Analytics does, they get my data.

It's actually quite simple. The government can buy things services from specific providers, but it cannot force you to buy services from specific providers. In other words, it can buy BMWs for government use, but it cannot say "you have to buy a BMW to enter the municipal office".

The same applies to websites. If a government website uses Google analytics, it is essentially requiring you to do business with a specific company (in this case Google) in order to use a government service.

Simple answer: because you know enough about science to recognize how bad the news articles are.

If you knew a lot about ice cream, you would be asking why ice cream news suck. All news suck.

I call dibs on dikshnr.io