There was a podcast from NYT about Ukraine using autonomous drones that target and kill without human intervention like a year ago. Itâ(TM)s already being done.

There's already a shuttle in Houston, it's in the parking lot at NASA sitting on top of a 747.

Infinite monkeys is much larger than 200k monkeys. Seems like infinite monkeys would produce the full works of Shakespeare on the first try.

> The tool we made to feed new data into the system is all Excel based.

Dataloader for Salesforce by chance?

The correct answer is always vi. Always.

ftfs "There's just such a capitalist-centric mindset on there that is so annoying"

that's pretty funny, complaining about a capitalist mindset on a business related website. That shows some serious tunnel vision, i wouldn't expect P/L statements to review from a farming commune in the woods. How could you not expect a capitalist mindset on a website specifically setup for corp professionals?

You can do that with the standard Routines functionality. It listens for a command then you specify the response. That's how i get alexa to answer questions like "what color underwear are you wearing today?"

My kids are about to enter HS and have an interest in software engineering like their old man. I tell them to couple software engineering with something else, one of my kids wants to go into biology and the other astronomy. I tell them learn software dev in addition to another valuable skill because then you can apply your programming skills and differentiate yourself from the competition. I feel like only knowing development is worth less and less every year. Learning development coupled with a specialty where you can apply your development skills is where it's at IMO.

As for AI, it's definitely another tool to have in your toolset but it's not a complete replacement for software engineering knowledge and skills. I use genAI regularly to produce code but it's like having a very eager, confident, but sometimes wrong jr dev working with you. You still need to check their work and hand fit where required.

I was in Europe for a month a couple years ago (including Paris for a week) I didnâ(TM)t see a single suv. I saw literally one pickup out near Normandy. Are they defining an suv as a 4 door hatchback? That was the biggest car I saw in Paris.

if temps are rising then every year should be a new record

does it matter? if it works and works well enough then it works. Do you really need to understand it? I don't fully understand how my car works but i can drive it just fine.

there is zero downward pressure on the price of college. There's no risk to lenders, they can lend as much as the want and the return is guaranteed by the federal government. That means colleges can charge any amount and customers will always pay.

end the federal guarantee so the market dictates the risk lenders are willing to take on and price their loans accordingly. Then education prices have no option but to come down because otherwise, colleges will have priced themselves out of the market.

and the best part? It doesn't even matter. In 5 years these people are going to be up to their eyeballs in cc debt, getting money for free doesn't make you any more competent. No more student loan debt just means more space on the credit card... for now.

hah financial competence never goes unpunished. If you know how to manage your money then you're either a scumbag worthy of only the guillotine or someone's ATM card.

I live in Dallas, if I could get to Houston in an hour for $25 Iâ(TM)d ride it. That would be pretty neat actually.