Well then you should explain how it doesn't make sense. Focusing on how he didn't mention the case where both countries have nuclear weapons is not convincing.

No need for any pills. Such tech exists for centuries and is colloquially known as "reading books". It requires some lighting though

Death / km driven is only a good metric if you think driving more is inherently good.

(Traffic deaths / km driven) was NaN for most of human history. It's a dumb metric with dumb units.

There should be a well-defined unitless quantity that's real-valued across human history, say normalizing by population size and total human travel. I am not claiming that fixes the NaN, just that the NaN is a smell.

Another smell is that everyone being horribly maimed but never killed would not be a victory for safety though the above metric says it'd be great.

Well it's also a good metric if you are trying to make an argument that the US has unsafe infrastructure compared to other countries like the article does.

> As a staff engineer, it upsets me if my Review to Code ratio goes above 1.

How does this work? Do you allow merging without reviews? Or are other engineers reviewing code way more than you?

Sorry I wrote that in haste. I meant it in terms of time spent. In absolute number of PRs, you’d probably be reviewing more PRs than you create.

I was about to say, I’m not even at the staff level, and I already review significantly more PRs than I myself push.

But in terms of time spent, thankfully still spend more time writing.

What sites are full of AI music? Spotify? Bandcamp?

Yup, both, and YouTube (for mixes) as well.

Spotify does have a lot of AI generated music, yes. What is the purpose of your comment? Do you believe there is some filtering mechanism that is going to keep AI slop off of these platforms? Is that what we've seen happening with writing and art?

Sounds like the useful thing to do now is to come up with a way to automate laundry and dishes. Are you doing that?

I work on semiconductor devices for edge AI, so… mostly yes?

Yeah, structural changes don't happen slowly and by the rules. What people don't like is what they think the new system is going to look like. But we don't know what that is going to be because Trump seems to be better at destroying than at building. It will depend on his successor(s) being good at building institutions. Or it may fail and the old system regenerates.

This seems accurate to me. They are destroying many US institutions, and what replaces them may be better or may be worse. I am not sure anyone can tell right now.

This wouldn't be happening if everyone was happy with the status quo, if the US was in a golden era, but it wasn't. Many things clearly weren't working. Sometimes it's easier to tear something down and rebuild it than fix it (not always, but sometimes).

I'm not convinced things were as bad as people claim. The right wing has been conducting a concerted propaganda war for the last 20 years to make people scared.

That situation will happen no matter how they do the release. There just has to be an easy way to tell if you have the change or not.