I haven't been addicted to Minecraft / building serious redstone stuff since high school. Now I just play a few times a month with some friends when the craving randomly comes back to just build and explore.
Looking at the redstone landscape now it has completely changed and it's unrecognizable to me - I wonder if that's how I'll feel as I slowly become a senior software engineer, years pass by and I look at stacks I haven't touched professionally in years and wonder in awe just how rapidly things change in tech and what new things people are creating with it.
It was successful clearly, not disagreeing with that. So were Hiroshima and Nagasaki. My point was more that this is a truly significant line that has been crossed for the first time by a major military at this scale. People comparing this to isolated assassinations with booby trapped phones, or to wiretapping and other surveillance, are massively downplaying this.
Then those aren't people Jimmy wants to hire for his company. There are hundreds of millions of teenagers on this planet that want to stake everything they own to make a YouTube channel and reap the rewards - ownership of their work, being their own boss, potentially lucrative amounts of money, microcelebrity if not greater levels of fame, etc. Some will do it, and some won't. Jimmy is very clearly talking to those people.
I know because I was one of them, making my first few hundred dollars ever from adsense at the age of 14 (till I was demonetized a year later and my channel got taken down for copyright, but hey, you learn). I've since grown a bit a taken that energy and it's helped guide me as I learn to make my own startup right now - it's the same adrenaline rush and pursuit of the American dream.
It's interesting to me that you did this with YouTube, as I did the same when I was 16 (almost 20 years ago now) but with AdSense. I earned about $70 (mostly off my buddies anime site) which I never collected. Seven years later Google sends the money to my state's unclaimed fund. Even more years later I finally collect that $70 check.
Yep, I get it. This is all true. What I'm saying is that, in my opinion, it's also bad and those people (and perhaps you) ought to choose a better path. I recognize that many of them won't. There are lots of things I think people (including myself!) ought not do, which we still do anyway.
This is cool but I'd like to see some focus for civil engineers doing land development. 98% of them use autocad, and are stuck with it, but also they only really use no more than 100 different commands - it's just the scale of everything that's difficult and really matters.
Feel free to get in touch with me at chad@constructural.ai -- I'm a civil engineer turned software engineer myself, focusing specifically on this space.
Yep, the archives are there, its just a matter of going through the processes and finding them. The archives are HUGE though, so don't expect things to happen quickly.
I have a silly standup joke along these lines, about how I'd Google things crazy things like "circus lawyer" or "giraffe mitigation tactics" to throw the algorithm off every now and then.
My friend is a thriller writer and is convinced he’s on some FBI list. He’s googling stuff such as “how to dissolve a body with quicklime” and all sorts of other fun stuff while researching for his books.
The quicklime method shouldn't be particularly fast, at least that's what my chemical intuition says (CaOH2 is barely soluble in water). What a bad name!
In the most general context it means "with the characteristics of the living" (as seen through a middle ages lens).
In the context of "quicklime" the quick refers to the heat of the reaction when making lime for slaking on walls, etc.
"Quick" historicaly has been applied to plants and animals (alive), rivers and streams (moving), coals, fires, quicklime (burning, heat producing, glowing), to speeches and pamphlets (Lively, full of vigour or sharp argument), to tastes, to smells, and more.
The full blown Oxford English Dictionary entry for quick is a lengthy one, multiple cases and variations over a page and more.
