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Comment Re:Cyber warfare (Score 1) 237

I've seen a few Ukrainian FPV drones that can explode on command, presumably Russia has those too, but most of them probably still use the wire that completes a circuit when it's bent mechanism that isn't even connected to the flight hardware, so I doubt they could make them explode outright.
In comparison to Iran that used 3rd party software on 3rd party hardware that they would have had no reason or knowledge to inspect too deeply, a drone manufacturer is probably actively developing the firmware and someone would have noticed a commit that added a killswitch.

Comment Re:First thing you ordered? (Score 1) 45

1999, some books:

2001 A Space Odyssey
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Good Omens
It
Doom: Knee-Deep in the Dead
Neuromancer
Space Opera
Starcraft Campaign Editor : Prima's Official Strategy Guide
The Lord of the Rings
Y2K : It's Already Too Late

Comment There's a name for that? (Score 1) 191

I assumed that's just called 'typing on a keyboard'.
When you hone a skill to a good level of proficiency you usually develop muscle memory that offloads the conscious effort from your brain, like knowing where to place your fingers on a violin, balance on a bicycle without training wheels, determine the doneness of your steak without a thermometer.
From my experience it just something that develops on its own, you don't have to 'learn' anything. With that said, I've worked with a guy who would did typing speed challenges on his downtime, seemed pretty silly to me because I never felt typing speed was ever a significant bottleneck.

Comment Nice. (Score 1) 34

I just decided to transition to an all-SSD NAS due to a bunch of considerations like portability, low power consumption, low noise, fast access speed, etc.
I just received my Terramaster F8 SSD a couple of days ago, and it's essentially an Intel-based computer with 8 M.2 slots in the size of a paperback book.
My understanding is some SATA 8TB SSDs were around $350 a couple of years ago, so hopefully prices will drop near those levels so I can grab a couple in the near future.

Comment Soft Vendor Lock-In (Score 3, Insightful) 73

I use my home computer to occasionally play games but also for professional applications for 3D, video, and the like.
Most of that software is written to take advantage of CUDA, so while GPUs from AMD might have advantages like sharing system RAM with the CPU, or Intel's new GPUs might be competitively priced, I guess I'll have to stick with Nvidia for the foreseeable future.

Comment Personal Perspective (Score 2) 175

Personally, I would have loved to have learned Python first. As far as I'm concerned, get me up and running as fast as possible, being able to do something useful and I'd be excited to expand on that on my own.

Back in high school the first language we learned was Pascal.
As soon as we learned basic loops and text printing I started figuring out how to add color to the text and making UIs for programs that solved problems outside of the class.

We only learned Assembly after we already knew how to implement elements of a CPU using logical gates, so the low level programming stuff made sense in the context of how it translated directly to the flow of bits.

And finally we were taught Delphi / VB6 so we could build a Windows GUI for our graduation projects.

So my perspective is, it's more important to have the immediate reward of being able to do something useful to motivate learning than strictly adhering to a bottom-up / top-down approach.

Comment Re:Not the election results, US citizens betting (Score 1) 134

I recently visited my broker's (IB) site and they're promoting a new service "Trade Your Predictions on Political, Economic, and Climate Events".
Sounds exactly like what Polymarket is doing, I wonder what the difference is, other than potentially the crypto.

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