The latter because as soon as it’s know Putin isn’t there a power vacuum is evident and a broader struggle for power ensues. Then whoever wins has to establish legitimacy.

Whereas a few people in agreement about how to direct a widely-recognized figurehead can hang on to power indefinitely and without contention (the latter being potentially costly along many dimensions).

Or even have a small model check the output of the larger one.

Doesn’t work with APIs, but then the person/entity integrating the API should have that responsibility.

There’s a dark money campaign somewhere paying people to frame as a threat just about anything you can think of that happens to collide with the interests of some well funded commercial, political, or geopolitical group or other.

GameStop. Uh huh.

There’s an “in the news” entry on their site from this January (and a skim of the article does find them mentioned), so signs point to yes.

It’s not just about time to increase production. A lot of crops that grow at lower latitudes won’t have enough time to mature in the short summers of higher latitudes and may suffer from weaker sunlight due to the lower angle resulting in more intervening atmosphere. We might eventually be able to breed or genetically modify crops to be hardier — but the former takes time and the latter requires sufficient remaining civilization and security to support the labs.

Birds also tend to be reactive to forward facing pairs of eyes (because raptors, especially owls), so that would make sense.

Beyond that, women are on average more likely to wear clothing or hair that flaps around. Or heels that make loud noises when they walk.

“Biggest” in the sense of most populous, not “best at”!

This article is literally just someone else’s blog repackaged.

Tech for its own sake is dull and pointless. Always has been. So are trends. In anything. Buy things that solve real problems you have; save money on the rest.

On the SWE side, if you don’t want to get out of software entirely find something to work on that isn’t just about tech. Find an aspect of the world that’s meaningful to you — maybe that’s biotech, maybe it’s plumbing — and build software that supports it.