bluGill

don't blame capitalism. People are that shortsighted about everything. In your own niche you are not but I don't have to know anything about you to state with 100% confidence that you have already been shortsited about something in your life.

On the other hand you can't do everything correctly - you don't have enough time. You have to make hard choices about where you place the redundancey. Aften people focus an the last crisis and so they over invest in fire protection in the next house after a house burns - but the odds of a house fire are still low and they are likely putting less into the real next problem - whatever it will be.

Russia already can't make tanks fast enough and so has been forced to not use them. They are running short on men willing to fight, but not yet enough to be a big proplem. artillary is likely running short but I have not seen updates on their ability to make more.

Claude is very good when driven by someone who knows how to do the job and demands perfection. However if you give it a prompt and take the first result it is normally junk, make it iterate and things get better.

Suspenders are great for tool belts - the waist is not near as good as the shoulders at carrying weight. The head is even better but that is for much larger loads and probably doesn't apply to what you are doing.

There is a station I used to listen to 8 years ago when I saw heavy traffic (to decide if I need an alternate route) - this is in a tiny city which rarely has traffic issues. everyonce in a while I hear it in a store a something and I still know the song that will be next.

Rotating passwords are less secure pecause people chorse a short password and then append an incrimenting number. Thus if it leaks for any reason the attacker knows them all.

If you only force rotation after a known breach (that you admit to) people choose a new - good - pasword. Make sure the source of the breach is fixed though or people will give up when it happens too often

i set things up so I'm close to net zero, owe the state a tiny amount, tiny refund from the feis. There is no hurry, but I want them done late March just in case there is something weird I need to figure out (which has happened a couple times over the decades I've been eoing them.)

As a parent, most of the worry is just unreasonable fear. If you want kids have them. Sure they are expensive, but they will take so much time you won't be able to do a lot of the other things you were spending money on before. I find it well worth the costs (this is of course a matter of opinion)

The printing press is a very new invention in our universe. Before then books were for the rich. Often too history is written by the victors and so it missing a lot of important details that might or might not matter.

Come to think of it intelligent life such as could write books seems to be new. (but we have no ability to detect life elsewhere if it exists so who knows)

In the 1970s some car makers advertised that there would be no damage to the bumper/car at all at 5mph.

At what speed? At 5mph - walking speeds - I'll take the 1970s car with the 5mph bumper any day. However at more realistic speeds the 1970s car will still need expensive repairs - it will be a lot cheaper repairs than a modern car, but it still will need significant work. Meanwhile the modern car means I'm much less likely to need major repairs which often cannot be done at any price.

I have long said software needs to have a lifetime warranty for security. You don't need to add new features but if someone is still running windows 95 it needs all security holes fixed.