He eventually got it down to under 5 days!

I know a guy who got Linux running on a diode.

True, but that’s how any legal system protects anything.

causing outrage and science projects

It’s from the 1950s or 60s. Maybe it was British made, or could be whoever wrote the ad copy used the British convention of “an” before words starting with “h”.

Call it taking a sabbatical to have a kid. They can’t demand proof of the kid.

You’d be surprised what symbolic AI can do with messy data - in medical diagnosis, for example - but LLMs suck at it.

Haven’t read that book, but I’ve been very successful with the opposite approach. A favorable article about a company’s stock in popular mainstream media (not business publications) can push the stock up briefly over the next couple weeks based on false hopes of the clueless general public. Get in immediately, get out within a couple days if nothing happens, and within 2 weeks if it does. My other rule is only do this with options, not actual stocks. And yes, I too would call this gambling - but investing is never not gambling. It’s just more or less so depending on how you do it.

Haven’t you seen late-night infomercials? You can buy real estate with no money down!!!

Just because I see so many comments saying don’t get married, I’ll put in that I’ve been happily married 37 years, no regrets. Pick the right person.

Jeeps - there’s an old movie about a small town infested with C.H.U.D.-like critters underground. As the plot crawls along, multiple characters keep saying bad things about their Jeeps, like “Could you drive? My Jeep is still in the shop.” By the end it’s pretty obvious somebody didn’t like Jeeps. Then during the credits the director drives up in a Jeep, gets out and says, “They say every story has a moral, and I guess the moral of this one is, Don’t Buy a Jeep.” Then he tries and tries to start it and finally gives up. I probably saw this back in the 80s on Showtime, and I’ve been searching for it ever since we got the Internet lol.

Credit card companies hate him!

You’re in the 1% or 2% of the population who actually learn from mistakes. Unloved by the business world for not being a profit faucet.

I agree, an accident isn’t a “decision”.

That’s pretty shocking - it sounds like the actual problem was being $255 short the and just never catching up.

Sounds like the guy had already defended himself solidly. I wonder if the union dude really made a difference or if the dragon was already dead.

Early in my software dev career I had a contract job at a young company called Microsoft. Without going into boring details, what I saw in terms of miscommunication, wasteful practices, and odd behaviors by overstressed managers led me to see it as a typical startup that was outgrowing its ability to run itself. At that time they were handing out full-time employment like candy - most of the programmers in my hallway got converted - but I left, because I didn’t think the company would go anywhere. This was two or three years before the stock went nuts and programmers there became millionaires in their twenties.

Yes, software doesn’t actually “know” anything or “think”. Those are terms used loosely by devs, not meant to be literal.

It’s actually called Symbolic AI, which codifies clearly defined rules and behaviors - think decision trees and flowcharts. I doubt machine learning will be used in this case, since the rules and reasoning used by air traffic controllers have evolved over almost a century and are well understood. Machine learning is more for situations where the software has to discover the best way to operate because the rules aren’t well established.