This. A bad customer made a desperate situation worse because of their inexperience, neglect, shady motives, or a combination of the three.

And for a rush job, don't be afraid to demand half the payment up front, or some other good-faith gesture on the client's part.

I just chased a few interesting rabbit holes because of the links to other articles in this article. Thank you for that. ;-)

Then explain the Apollo program, and the actual printed literature that came out of the program that summarized how they were successful.

If you're looking for programs where mistakes were not made, Apollo is not the program to choose. I highly recommend visiting Kennedy Space Center some time where they go in-depth on how close it came to never happening after Apollo I. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1

That being said, I'm a big proponent of "you can't make ICBM's carrying humans 100% safe", but you sure can try your best.

Apollo killed three astronauts. NASA learned some lessons from that and the rest of the program was safer, although still extremely risky.

Why don't they refer to the 3rd 'episode' as Vietnam - since the timeline lines up pretty nicely with that downward slope (and it's more than just the 70's as is highlighted in the article)?

If seeing this graph has taught me anything it's that war is hell on many levels - including economically.

This article also doesn't seem to account for the median price of a single family home.

And your retort (and this report) are doom and gloom. Humans are remarkably good at adapting and have adapted through far worse conditions than economic systems. The negative net is easy and very popular today but positivity is just as possible. It’s all about how you read data and there’s a lot of room for interpretation. If you’ve fallen for the doom that’s on you but calling something with so much historical precedence as hope for humanity ‘an easily dismissed hot take’ doesn’t make you look very bright.

>And your retort (and this report) are doom and gloom. Dinosaurs are remarkably good at adapting and have adapted through far worse conditions than _______, hell, they were around 99 million years longer than humans.

Species go extinct all the time, most species go though all kinds of things before then, so there is nearly zero correlation between surviving something bad in the past and surviving something else bad in the future.

Modern humanity is not anti-fragile any longer like we were in the past.

The articles argument is fine, but it takes as an axiom that AI is better right now at much cognitive work. I haven't found that to be true in the tasks I've looked at.

It's certainly cheaper and faster, so there's potential for it to unlock more demand but I'm sceptical that current models will replace a large fraction of knowledge work.

An expired cert is a smell. It shows somebody isn't paying attention.

And a short expiration time absolutely increases security by reducing attack surface.

Or that someone asked to renewed it, one of their four bosses didn't sign off the apropriate form, the only person to take that form to whoever does the certs is on a vacation, person issuing certs needs all four of his bosses to sign it off, and one of those bosses has been DOGE-ed and not yet replaced.

expired letsencrypt cert on a raspberrypi at home smells of not paying attention... with governments, there are many, many points of failure.

The whole point of these shorter certificate durations is to force companies to put in automation that doesn't require 14 layers of paperwork. Some companies will be stubborn, and will thus be locked in an eternal cycle of renew->get paperwork started for renew. Most will adapt.

It's the government... they have 30 different services just in that department, made by 30 different companies with 30 different support companies, two of those don't exist anymore, 3 have been bought by cisco, two by google, 2 services are behind some old palo alto web proxy that's centrally managed by some other department, one service is written in cobol, one requires the cert to be on a usb flash drive and another on a memory stick.

It's cheaper to pay someone just to take care of the certs (unless their bosses and procurement and accounting messes up) than to fix all that.

I've seen government stuff, i wouldn't touch it with a 5m pole.

I don't see how any of that is the CA's problem. As far as I'm concerned, the CA's and browser vendors are entirely in the right to go "Here's the new rules. Adapt. Or don't, we don't care."

Well, they didn't, and you have to click through "i understand" (or whatever) to see the contents from servers with expired certs. Usually you need files from them and not vice-versa, sp as far as they're concerned, it's your problem now.

I guess it depends on the country. Where I live they’d be on the hook in somehow safely providing me with the files if they were involved in me fulfilling some kind of legal obligation to them, and I’d be off the hook if they refused.

Humbly, I disagree with you. What better use of our tax dollars than to automate away as many problems as we can?

Compared to the manual processes these scripts replaced, I'd put more trust in the automations.

And the original article shows you how that is going

Correlation is not causation.

There is no clear link to the iPhone causing lower teller employment.

This article does have a glaring omission: The 2008 financial crisis effects on the banking industry in general. When there are fewer local banks there are naturally fewer tellers employed. Bank failures peaked in 2010 in the aftershocks of the crises, which lines up nicely with the articles timeline.

yeah weird. Same goes for the "ATMs increased demand for tellers" strange idea suggested earlier in the article, which was automatically disproven right there by actually attributing the growth in tellers to deregulation. Which one is it?

Dude. Backup that database.

I understand your criticism and it is fair, but this represents and improvement over the current state which is effectively no enforcement.

They're speed cameras, not red light cameras, and the revenues go towards street improvements to reduce speeding. So you could speed as much as you can afford, but eventually you'll have bought enough traffic calming infrastructure it'll be prohibitively difficult to keep getting tickets.

"They're speed cameras, not red light cameras..."

Thank you for this clarification and the additional detail you provide!

It sounds like the money collected by fines has to go to more traffic calming infrastructure - which is a pretty big deal.

Constitutional protections aren't trumped by mere issues of governmental convenience.

What's the alternative? No rules at all? Immediate death penalty for anyone who runs a red in front of a cop? Seizing and auctioning off the car? Deporting the offender to Texas? Something else? Revoke their license?

Wow dude. Calm down.

"What's the alternative?". Maybe a more thoughtful law.

Perhaps a scaled fine system? (The second fine costs 2x the first fine, the third fine costs 3x the first fine, etc)

Maybe after 10 fines you get a point on your license?

Maybe the state has to prove it was you driving so they setup more (but discreet) cameras at intersections?

I say we set the delay to red and green to be 0 state wide and use the cameras to fine people who don't start moving within a short amount of time after they get green.

Betcha red light running drops like a rock after that.