In my county (midwest America) communication between lawyers and courts is still entirely by fax. I don’t know if that’s the case of other counties in my state, but it wouldn’t surprise me at all.

Developers. Yes, AI can sling a lot of code, but it can’t make business decisions and it can’t please a difficult customer.

And execs wonder why we torrent.

How is hurting a feral cat a criteria for what he is allowed to do? A coyote would certainly have no compunction, why should he?

Hypersonic deterrence have never been proven to work.

That’s a false equivalence, a hyperbolic statement, not worth consideration.

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Windows is just another ad platform, now.

No. Raised in the faith but never truly believed.

It’s logically dishonest to say “There are no gods.” How do you prove there isn’t something? Maybe you just can’t see it right now. Agnostic atheist is the only logical position one could take.

Best piece of advice I can give about learning anything (that doesn’t involve risk of injury): don’t try to learn everything there is to learn. Decide what you want to do and learn what you need to do that. Tell me something you’d be interested in doing…

Arduino and hobby electronics. It started out as a continuous loop pad dye machine to save me having to dye fabric by hand, strictly mechanical, but then I wanted to automate adding the chemicals at the right times. Then it was keeping the dye liquor a consistent temperature. Then it was draining the trough automatically. Then I figured out I could design my own PCBs and have them fabricated. It just keeps going…

My degree is in technical theater. I love sets and lighting design, but costuming is where I landed thanks to the local Renaissance festival.

This would require a…uh…you should pardon the expression…re-tooling…to really make it work.

The suicidal overtone is a huge turnoff for me.