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Probably have it do 10 trivial for AI but hard for people tasks within a small time frame.

I collect IBM ads from the Space Race era, some of them are really cool. https://images.computerhistory.org/revonline/images/50000430...

https://www.ibm.com/history/apollo

https://www.ibm.com/history/mercury

The part people are missing here is that if the trading firms are all doing something, that in itself influences the market.

If they are all giving the LLMs money to invest and the AIs generally buy the same group of stocks, those stocks will go up. As more people attempt the strategy it infuses fresh capital and more importantly signaling to the trading firms there are inflows to these stocks. I think its probably a reflexive loop at this point.

I always thought it would be interesting in backend systems to catch a certain exceptions and auto-generate a link to a shell. Given the proper authentication is implemented would this be a good tool to achieve that "remote debug" shell?

Now that we have real time brain scanning techniques I bet there is something way more accurate than a polygraph out there now.

This problem statement was actually where the idea for Proof of Work (aka mining) in bitcoin came from. It evolved out of the idea of requiring a computational proof of work for sending an email via cypherpunk remailers as a way of fighting spam. The idea being only a legitimate or determined sender would put in the "proof of work" to use the remailer.

I wonder how it would look if open source projects required $5 to submit a PR or ticket and then paid out a bounty to the successful or at least reasonable PRs. Essentially a "paid proof of legitimacy".

If you could, theoretically, make a LLM that could actually excel at poker would that mean that it is good at lying to people?

For anybody near DFW the Apollo 7 Command Module is on display at the Frontiers of Flight museum at Dallas Love Field. Its pretty amazing to see it in person and think about the engineering involved. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_7#/media/File:Apollo_7_...

Sorry I meant the systems we built not the interview itself.

It's been 10 years since I did an interview and I think I would rather retire and grow rare lizards than jump through the interview hoops at a new company. I am 90% sure I couldn't pass the interview for my current position but I'm the one who designed the whole thing. -staff level backend engineer

Is there a way to actually "own" your domain instead of paying registration fees every year?

+1 for Voron project. I recommend first time builders to get a reputable Voron kit, you will save a lot of time creating wiring harnesses and such.

Is it actually even illegal to crash a plane on purpose? Plane companies do this all the time for testing purposes, albeit in a controlled manner.

GIT is actually a great protocol for keeping distributed copies of code. You can pretty easily with bash cycle through a list of backup urls for a git repo, looking for updates.

All of this just because people didn't want to figure out IPv6!

I always assumed these helium miners were doing some weird radio data collection, IP obfuscation, or something. There has to be some incentive behind getting people to set up these radios everywhere.

How hard would it be to make an EV garbage truck that turns some of the garbage into electricity?

Not your keys, not your coin. Best practice is to try to minimize the amount of time you leave Bitcoin on an exchange. Don't ever loan it out! What could they possibly be doing with it that is a safe investment?

where is all the lithium and rare earth minerals going to come from to electrify all the cargo ships?

If you can write down 12 or 24 words on a piece of paper thats all you need for a backup. Hardware wallets make this easier but I agree it needs to be simplified for the masses.

Bitcoiners have been saying this whole time not to keep your crypto with a 3rd party and this is exactly why. Satoshis original message about Bitcoin mentions explicitly you don't need any trusted third party. A whole lot of people think they can make money outsmarting the original concepts of Bitcoin and they get scammed in new ways each cycle.

https://nakamotoinstitute.org/trusted-third-parties/

GPT driven AI code writing.

Probably a good time to mention the original mission statement of Bitcoin was to custody your own money without counterparty risk. Time and time again we have seen altcoin ponzis and exchanges collapse under the weight of their fractional reserve. What is still working? Bitcoin.

Greed in this space causes people to act with a more short term view for quick profits while ignoring fundamentals. Over and over again.

Raw food stock might be harvested but without fuel to move it around how would it be processed and distributed?

It would be interesting to save every single thing you ever see online to a local cache and index it using machine learning so you can search by topic. This is the kind of storage I imagine you could use for something like that.

My subjective opinion is that if you hire experts, not just programmers but experts at aviation programming, then possibly someone would have noticed a gap in the logic of the requirements and systems engineering. Who knows for sure? But I know plenty of contractors who write good code but oftentimes it's the architect level expert that knows what's beyond the code.

Especially when the code is directly responsible for a physical system.

Over 90% of the projects at work I would categorize as "very successful and high business impact" I did on my own and just showed management once I had a minimum proof of concept. This is over my whole career and not specific to an employer. I have thought about this a lot as it relates to prioritization of work.

Is there any other system that works as well but is self hosted? I have tried 3 other brands of security cameras and none are as reliable and easy to use.

Is there any Android alternative that works with Android Auto? One of the primary uses of my phone is plugging into my car to play music and navigate.

In the US we have more or less replaced wild buffalo with cows.