This is the part that drives me crazy about the "anti" side of onshoring/reshoring. "Oh, it'll be an automated factory that only has a dozen jobs at most, that's stupid." Maybe so, but at some point you have to realize that "but then we have the factory, not some at least nominally hostile government 10,000 miles away" has value on its own. Hell, if nothing else, the massive disruptions of supply chains during Covid should have taught people that.

For short routes (something like Nashville to Atlanta) you'd win on time but almost certainly lose on cost.

For long routes, for example New York to Los Angeles, you'll lose on both cost and time. I also suspect that, say, New York to London might have some additional challenges for a self driving car... how do you suppose a Tesla Model 3 handles in 40' seas in the North Atlantic?

And bank.

He's obviously talking about the Fourth Geneva Convention given the date, and your response has nothing at all to do with the refutation of "nuclear weapons being criminally illegal [in 1945]."

And, since you're trotting out Nuremberg, here is what General Telford Taylor, Chief Counsel for War Crimes at the Nuremberg Trials, had to say about strategic bombing:

I hate to break this to you, but "your friend" is looking at things through a post war lens. Here's the contemporary opinion from General Telford Taylor, Chief Counsel for War Crimes at the Nuremberg Trials:

Err... if there are no winners, who's writing those history books?

Asking for a friend.

If it makes you feel any better, whether you're on Windows or Linux, you need to be looking for an alternative to Publisher... it's been deprecated and has an EOL about a year out. You can, of course, continue to run it, but I can't imagine running any MS software that doesn't get security updates anymore, especially one that's an Office component.

There are at least half a dozen different games called "football," none of which are the One True Football(TM). Soccer is a shortening of Association Football (itself named to differentiate it from Rugby Football which was codified earlier), and was, in fact, used as slang shortly after the codification of Assocation Football around 150 years ago.

You can identify the condescending assholes that already know that because they use terms like "handegg" to feign ignorance of this when they demand you stop using a word that's been in use for a century and a half in favor of their preferred terminology.

The internet is more than just the web, and this is just a bizarre proposal. If you think bandwidth caps are bad, just wait until you can get charged per-connection fees.

I would classify neither HPE or Juniper's networking gear as "expensive buggy crap." Both of them produce fantastic equipment and have for decades.

Agreed completely.

Still with you.

Err... what? There's no "for free" involved, that's where the whole "earn income to support your life" bit comes in.

By all means, don't make your job your life--there are certainly better things out there. But being asked by your employer to give a fuck and put some effort in is certainly not a bridge too far.

My wife and I figured that out during covid. We were both "essential" employees and by the time we took care of work and our two children, we had no time for anything else. Our dogs were living shitty lives and it killed us to do it but we rehomed them. I was upset about it but after it was done, I was even more upset that we hadn't done it sooner... because we let them live those shitty lives while we kept on keeping on trying to figure things out.

This is just plain incorrect.

The freaking summary points out that "Tech giants Microsoft, Google, and Amazon plan to spend $80 billion, $85 billion, and $100 billion respectively this year on AI infrastructure." That's a quarter trillion dollars worth of infrastructure (that has not a thing to do with bitcoin or EVs) which is going to require a shit ton of power.

On a more personal and anecdotal note, I work for a company that serves the power industry and one of our customers (a gas turbine manufacturer) will be increasing their capacity by more than 3x over the next five years--this is not speculative, they have already taken the orders, their capacity is booked through the end of the decade, and the reason is the datacenter boom. Most of our other customers are dealing with similar growth and their stated reasoning is the same.

Almost certainly.

This is far less likely, and in fact whoever they interconnect with probably ends up paying higher rates than they do today.

They won't hold or harass you. They'll simply say "Entry denied. Your flight home is at 2:00. Have a nice day." and your expensive vacation or business trip is now ended. Congratulations on the self-own.