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I seem to remember that Alpha’s were very fast for the time but their maximum optimization level waived IEEE floating point conformance. This, of course, drove us nuts trying to va…

Cooking: everything made from scratch. Dirty every pot you own. cooking: made from components, but boiling pasta, cooking meat, seasoning premade side, etc. heating: bag or can int…

Look at the disappearance of pink-collar jobs due to computerization and "do it yourself" that it enabled. There's lots of examples of whole career fields disappearing. The trick h…

Not surprising at all. There is paid for the locals when these things appear, but they don’t get anything back for that paid. Even if they’re computer literate and using ai, there’…

Don't forget power and water shortages and probably pissed off neighbours. Aside from building the facility, they won't make jobs and they probably won't pay taxes - which will res…

If you want a developer's career, make sure you study something other than CS in uni. If you have some basis in an engineering or scientific field, speciality fields can open that …

Can they point to articles that are unjustly critical of America? How about those they think appropriate? For example, is a historical article summarizing the errors and omissions …

Debugging. Lots of debugging. It will be interesting when the researchers look back in 5-10 years to determine which was easier/better - trying to understand generated code vs gene…

This can be phrased w/o gender - can equality exist with religious liberty? Some social groupings are inclusive, some are exclusive and the latter runs the risk of colliding with e…

Novo Nordisk was first to market with a pill-form for GLP-1 as I recall.

You could compare ibuprofen and naproxen. One lasts 4-ish hours while the other, having different functionality, lasts 12-ish hours.

How about this one, although it covers the context of the times…. https://www.amazon.ca/Colossus-Bletchley-Parks-Greatest-Secr...

I assume this is a PhD in CS or some computer related field. In the case of Chemistry, the PhD is the required degree to get above the technician grades (BS, MS). People with a BS …

Puerto Rico makes pharmaceuticals, so if it can be built there it can be built in Canada or wherever. No high-tech workforce in PR, and tax games can be played anywhere. And Trudea…

Some things that are shipped from the us to foreign lands could be shipped from Canada for similar costs. Food, for example, or minerals or oil. These are things shipped in bulk “e…

AI regurgitates what it's been trained on. Life science research has a change of actually learning something that has been previously unknown. Not statistically, but through increa…

Doctor Who discussed this in detail.

If that Congress thingie I read about years ago was active, they could straighten these things out. But it seems that was a mirage.

There's a whole lot of middle-level countries that can/should act like the Internet and route around damage. With motivations on both sides, trade agreements can be reached more qu…

They just declared CUSMA dead, so the negotiators should pack up and go home. Tit for tat actions can be reconsidered, digital taxes, etc. There's no point in talking to "Trump's p…

You can quibble over the specific number, but retiring without a paid for domicile is a tough road. Those with retirement on the horizon should think about where they wish to settl…

Possibly, but unless things changed recently a masters in chemistry from a us “research oriented” school is a consolation prize. I can see such departments having candidates fulfil…

Going to make grad school in research-oriented fields rather difficult, as they tend to go longer than 4 years unless everything works the first time or the department isn’t full o…

Listening to those pushing AI, why should we fund open source developers when we can reproduce their work with a few judiciously chosen LLM prompts? Perhaps the AI companies should…

This was going to be my answer - I would bet that Trump, oil companies and (soon) defence contractors would have been the profiteers. But the OP said it better.