Then why the fuck should I hand you over a paycheck when you can't do anything I can't get that very same AI tool to do myself?
Hey everyone, remember back before I was born when they said CNCs would eliminate the need for skilled machinists?
And now fifty years later there's a shortage of skilled machinists?
Perhaps there's some wisdom to be gained from that history. If only I could find an AI that would tell me what it is...
Idunno dude. In an industry where an extrovert is a man who looks at your shoes instead of his own, "nothing special" isn't that out of the ordinary.
In fact, that's my go-to answer for most idle smalltalk at the office.
"Got any plans for the weekend?"
"Nothing special."
-or alternatively-
"Well, on Saturday I'm taking Kid 1 to Activity 1, trying to keep Kid 2 off the screens, cooking for the week the same fucking set of dishes I cook every week. Cutting the grass. Patching up a crack in my drywall. Continuing to poke away at some bullshit side projects I've been poking away at for the last few months. Maybe trolling on the slashdot forums..."
Seems like the first option gets both me and my interlocutor back to work faster and with fewer dangling threads.
To be fair, you could have asked me about my favorite restaurant in Boston for the past twenty years and you'd have had no idea what I was talking about because it's always been a series of no-name Mom-and-Pop neighborhood pizza shops out in the burbs.
And Halloween wasn't really a thing until I had kids of my own.
Perhaps there was another tell here they aren't putting above the fold.
The soviets funded the greenies during the cold war. Now it's the chinese footing the bill.
Cui bono?
Yes but the FAA is a federal agency. The regulations it follows for procurement are a superset of the ones written in blood and the ones written in ink that apply to the entire federal apparatus, everything from staplers at the Penragon to pushbrooms for janitors at the Smithsonian.
It would not at all surprise me if the latter were the bigger obstacle here.
Apparently this doesn't apply to slashdot moderators....
Lol, like even 1% of today's tech users could tell you their Mac address.
I guess you missed the part where it said "capital or infamous crime".
A guy breaks into your house, you don't have to ask a judge if you have permission to throw him out on his ass. Exactly the same situation with illegals - they're not even technically being punished, just returned.
If we wanted to kill them, then yes, we should ask a judge first.
Increasingly, it seems to be just that.
Our current system allows criminal fraud by corporate actors. A class action suit will cost less than the profit made from intentional fraud and Courts love to claim that a corporate shield protects these actions.
Perhaps it shouldn't.
Until it does don't trust any corporate promises without preagreed consequences.
Cities and states run deficits every time their balance their budgets with a federal grant or reimbursement.
Down south (rwnjland if the propaganda is to believed) is where they have less restrictive environmental laws at the state and local level *and* where they actually build and upgrade their roads.
Up here in Massachusetts (where the state and local taxes are sky-high and we are presently looking at a roughly billion dollar surplus on a 50bn budget) it's pulling teeth to get a town to install a traffic light at a busy intersection that wasn't so busy eighty years ago when it was first built but now...is.
No it's that at some point in the 70s the environmentalists got it into their heads that building infrastructure made the earth go ouchie ouchie and we should stop.
Oftentimes you'll find half-built highways that were originally planned to be part of a whole road network and the 70s is usually the time the plans were abandoned.
No they probably had IT personnel. More like they didn't have enough paperpushers on hand to guarantee a suitable level of compliance to whatever bullshit FAR and anything else FAA requires.
Might be a technical issue, in the strictest sense that no commercial source exists for a drop-in fiber to copper signal transceiver, but that's not really a problem either.
About ten years ago I ran into a related problem needing to turn lvds or rs422 or i don't even remember what into fiber. The one commercial supplier I found for a drop-in part didn't actually work over the full temperature range and I ended up building a fiber-optic to copper transeivers out of parts I found on digikey.
But that would perhaps be a level of cognition that exceeds the allowances of process at the federel government.
Do I get a slap on the wrist for playing with matches?
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