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  @gimulnautti American wargame in the 1930s concluded a fleet could be sunk in port by an air attack. Japanese wargame before Midway concluded Japan loses if the USA fleet is already near Midway. There are plenty of cases where a wargame predicted an upcoming disaster in detail and they did it anyway.

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  @Swede1952 Squid Game for varmints. Move and you're dead. Get in your holes, rodents.

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  @mcnees Those are happy dogs. I want to see them floating around in the ISS.

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  @knowprose @fatherlinux Young devs already don't understand architecture. I see it all the time. LIKE statements in SQL that work fine until you use them in production. Dev can't configure an ssh tunnel even if you send the command line, because they don't understand TCP/IP. Can't run a process outside of whatever framework they were trained in. Developers need the experience of setting up a computing environment from scratch, and beating their head against the wall getting it t...

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  @n1xnx @crazyeddie @GossiTheDog You could change one digit to route a "local" check clear across the country, and then it would be mailed back, taking over a week for the check to bounce. Funds were available in three days. The best automations are not based on cloning the old process, but rather a rethink of the entire problem. Ex: container shipping. They did not invent a robot longshoreman, but instead reconsidered the problem of moving stuff. Or you automate only the easy part: A...