Really? You don't know any Naval Academy graduates then.

Ukraine thought Russia was just posturing and look where it got them.

That's not true. Ukraine was well prepared, they had spent since 2014 on this because they knew the day would come. That's the only reason the country still exists.

Yeah, tbh I was in the camp of 'nothing ever happens' too and I was shocked when they actually invaded.

I'm pretty sure Ukraine were taking the Russian preparations as what they were. And they had plans to counter them. Proven by the fact that Putin's 3 days war has now surpassed the Russian involvement in WWII.

I would say that you also don't know the false positive rate. The only person who truly knows is the one who wrote/generated the text. And they have every incentive to say it's not AI-generated, whether or not it truly is.

Personally, when I see the number of accusations thrown around, I very much suspect that the false positive rate is pretty high.

According to the interview, this was a pulsed microwave weapon, not acoustic.

I am curious whether wearing a tin foil hat would prevent this attack.

no, tin foil hat would not prevent such attack. and shielding has to be grounded too

This is the best argument against early egg retrieval. If it were just a matter of money, the argument holds. However, the treatment involves pumping you with hormones that make you feel like crap the week before and after. Almost daily bloody draws are involved.

Then you add potential complications from anesthesia and the egg retrieval itself, and you have a net negative expected value.

The first time my wife underwent egg retrieval, the surgeon accidentally pierced her ovary. She has had pain on that ovary since.

Transitioning to an interim CEO is never a good look. Should have waited until conclusion of the executive search.

I think your second point is interesting, and it has actually already happened a couple of times.

It used to be a lot easier to find devs that knew assembly and could navigate call stacks through memory by hand because a lot of folks had to learn that to get their job done. Now higher level languages have mostly eliminated that level of operation.

The same applies to infosec roles. It is 10x harder for junior infosec folks than 20 years ago because there are a bunch of skills you need in infosec that today's mainline dev experience doesn't need, but were more common a while ago.

Case in point, I remember working with a partner company's junior engineer on some integration. They needed some hard-coded constant changed and time was of the essence. I told them to change a couple bytes in the elf binary directly. They looked at me like I was a wizard. I thought it was a fairly pedestrian skill having grown up reversing computer game save files.

Hex editors are a black box to most 99% devs these days. I noticed their use falling off once code-signing came into use.

Google, Meta, Deepseek, Alibaba, and Mistral all offer models you can run yourself. The market can decide whether privacy should be the highest priority.

Talk about timely. I was just experimenting with a data provider's new MCP server, and I was able to use up my entire Claude Max token limit in under a minute.