The problem, arguably, is that we don't have reputable trade schools that would actually teach what the students need. But if that changes, I think some CS departments will be in for a rude awakening.

And yet, farmers are a vocal and critical political bloc in every other EU country, too.

Farming is just important. Not as much because it employs a large portion of the population, but because it keeps a large portion of the population alive. It is the original industry that's "too big to fail" - if you let it, you get famine.

In that respect, the attack and defense sides are not hugely different. The main difference is that many attackers are shielded from the consequences of their mistakes, whereas corporate defenders mostly aren't. But you also have the advantage of playing on your home turf, while the attackers are comparatively in the dark. If you squander that... yeah, things get rough.

There's no conceivable reason to cut something this simple on a large-format CNC mill. It's literally just a couple of straight cuts. It's not going to be faster (not with standard endmills), not going to be easier, and it's not going to be cheaper unless you're making them by the thousands.

You can likely buy S4S lumber for less than an oversized sheet of furniture-grade 1" plywood.

The modern-day aesthetic of diamonds is just that they are expensive. They're not distinguished by utility, quality, or appearance from cheaper products. The ultimate status symbol, but also obviously a bit of an issue...

The NK thing is a fundamentally different scenario: you have people you're not allowed to hire lying to you and stealing identities to get hired. That's an obvious problem in itself, and the fact that it's orchestrated by the NK government to benefit the regime is only making it worse.

There are other parties that probably do the same, but NK is the industry leader, so to speak.

The vast majority of hobby astrophotography is done pretty much as the webpage describes it, with a single camera. You can even buy high-end Canon cameras with IR filters factory-removed specifically for astrophotography. It's big enough of a market that the camera manufacturer accommodates it.

Some deep-space astronomy pictures are in completely made-up color, often because they're taken at wavelengths different than visible light and then color-mapped to look pretty.

But the point here is even if you're taking images with a regular camera pointed at the sky, it's pretty much impossible to match "reality".

A ready-made unit in "woodworking" size will likely set you back $2-$4k.

I am very skeptical you can have that level of registration with mouse-style sensors that can only measure relative motion. I might be wrong, but it seems unlikely.

On the flip side, it's just much, much slower than a stationary setup. You can't really push it quickly while retaining enough control to stay in the narrow range it can compensate for. Further, because it's less rigid, high feed rates produce nasty finish.

In the early to middle 20th century, you probably didn't have that. Most people lived in rural areas and you needed to move to get that job at Acme Steel Co.

https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/b7f6c2eb760a2da367dd51...

If you expose it, someone will probably sooner or later use it, but probably not in any sane / portable code. On the face of it, it doesn't seem like a consequential change, but maybe they're mopping up after some vulnerability in that one weird package that did touch this.

I think it's a good reality check for the claims of impending AGI. The models still depend heavily on being able to transform other people's work.

There is an alternative interpretation - "the LLM put it so much better than I ever could, so I copied and pasted that" - but precisely because of the ambiguity, you don't want to be sneaky about it. If you want me to have a look at what the LLM said, make it clear.

A meta-consideration here is that there is just an asymmetry of effort when I'm trying to formulate arguments "manually" and you're using an LLM to debate them. On some level, it might be fair game. On another, it's pretty short-sighted: the end game is that we both use LLMs that endlessly debate each other while drifting off into the absurd.