Already behind the times on that: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/firefighting-drones-head-to-aspen-can-they-suppress-a-blaze-before-humans-arrive/

Clearly it’s just a big-ass gun that shoots 5000 caliber rounds. So it’s protected by the 2nd Amendment.

World War Z, the book, proved this wrong.

Clearly this CEO only wants to deal with “yes” men etc. If you don’t agree with him then he’ll find somebody else who will.

A really good niche is international contracts. You have to have a good handle on the laws of multiple countries, and deal with the constantly changing Venn diagram between them.

The BBB is the pre-internet version of Yelp…

“That’s a really nice business you have there. It’d be a pity if you started getting a lot of negative reviews. Why not pay us to ensure that doesn’t happen?”

Yeah but was it all documented by twenty-seven 8x10 color glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one?

Better hope they don’t sue you for copyright infringement.

/s

I have a few decades programming experience, as a professional software engineer, an open source developer, and a DevOps engineer. There is no way in hell I would do a code review where 15k lines were added and a similar amount of lines removed without having a long discussion with the person who made those changes. I’d want to ask a lot of detailed questions about the changes, questions that an LLM isn’t likely to answer, and most definitely not questions I’d be inclined to try to type into an LLM to try to get an answer.

Over the years I’ve dealt with all manner of bugs, from overflows & underflows, to bad assumptions about logic flow, and much much more. The whole purpose of pointed questioning of the author is to be comfortable with decisions made in the code and to minimize the chances of all sorts of potential bugs.

Aside from his regular-ish parody tours, we’ve also seen him do an acoustical tour of only his own music without any parodies, costumes, etc. We also saw him tour with a 30+ piece orchestra. Two words: “OBOE SOLO!”

My wife & I have seen Weird Al 4 times now and will be seeing him again this summer. While he mostly does a big show of his parodies with costumes & props we’ve also see him do a low-key acoustical tour where he only played his original music and none of the parodies. We also saw him tour with a full 30-piece orchestra, which was really fun as well.

I like the idea of referring to LLMs as “spicy autocomplete”.

Space cash

Thanks for the heads-up!

Thanks. We just decided to sign up for this self-driving 8 day tour.

Banff, Jasper, and all the Canadian Rockies in between. Especially if you like hiking in out-of-the-way locations.

Also New Zealand’s South Island.

Will be visiting Iceland next month. Can’t wait to see things like this IRL.

It was a happy coincidence. They didn’t need twins in the original Terminator, but in T2 the second terminator could change appearances. Linda’s sister was used when the terminator appeared as Sarah Connor.