Between AP and dual credit, my kid should graduate HS with somewhere around 30 hours of college credit.

I made it to College half a semester off from being a Junior. You can get a ton of college credit before college; and then I quit before I flunked out because I never learned study skills.

Bachelors level education by age 20 is a reasonable goal by age 2, and masters by 22.

You can straight up attend community college while in high school. That's what I did, tons of fun. Then I failed a couple of online classes because I wasn't really taking them seriously.

Then I took in person classes at 18/19, fixed my GPA and generally did well. The only classes I really struggled with was Japanese and later French.

With Japanese I pissed my Korean girlfriend off, and had to drop it. French I took for a pass/no pass and absolutely failed.

You absolutely can get a BA by 20, but I'd be more interested in WHY you'd want to speed run academia. Sounds really stressful...

> You absolutely can get a BA by 20, but I'd be more interested in WHY you'd want to speed run academia. Sounds really stressful...

Even if you have all the money in the world, US high school standards are very low. With some affinity for reading and access to the internet, one can be learning at a far quicker rate, even without sacrificing social life outside of school.

Many kids in the US already do this via Advanced Placement testing, but some states also allow high school students to take college courses.

> WHY you'd want to speed run academia

1. You want or need to be making money instead of spending it.

Eg, no family wealth involved; you’re paying for everything yourself

2. You don’t enjoy the high pressure (ish), test-driven environment and want to be doing more meaningful work.

Etc. The number of people who don’t want to spend money and time in college might surprise you. I even know some very academically successful ones with this attitude.

I was promised hologram cubes!

> Old tools with brushed motors arc during normal operation!

I have all of my grandfathers old Craftsman steel-shell electric power tools with brushed motors. I put a new cord on one of the hand drills a few years ago (the old cloth covered cords are terrifying) and tried using it for a project. That thing throws sparks like a Zippo.

They're fun to use in dim lighting like under a cabinet. You get your own little light show!

The entire point of the article is about underprovisioned infrastructure.

Commercial RE too. When you say supply is constrained, they don’t mean there’s no RE available, they mean RE isn’t available at a lower price. Most cities in the US right now have a huge commercial RE vacancy rate, yet if you try to lease it, you’re not getting rates that a free market low demand situation is going to get you.

Yes it is. There's no zoning law that says "You can only build houses here, no apartment, unless you build commercial real estate"

Commercial real estate is generally illegal anywhere dense housing is also illegal.

I've got ten bucks that says you've shopped for groceries at "Jewels"

> haul them to school 300 meters away

?

(Clearly not North America)

Speak for your rural or suburban self. I’m in North America, kids school is 420m from home.

Speak for your dense population area self. 418m gets me to the end of my rural driveway. Kids school is 8.3 miles (13.4km).

Well, not everyone on the internet is you and not everyone lives in a village.

to go even further, most people don't live in a village. Population of NYC is 8.3 million, population of Wyoming is 581k.

Yes ?

Isn’t it obvious? 300 m is like five minutes of walking..?

Yes. What is your question?

Maybe just how young kids are we talking about here? As 300m is clearly a walkable distance.

Look I dunno why people do the thing. Maybe one of the kids is going to pre-school. Maybe they go to the shop on the way back. I have no idea why honestly.

I can vouch for this first hand. Music has absolutely zero meaning in my 16 year olds life. They don't listen to music - new or old. They don't know who current artists are, and they certainly don't have an opinion about who is their favorite.

Thankfully, they are also just as disinterested in social media.

My first experience with 3D was with AutoCAD 10 or 11 when they had "2 1/2"D. I've used ProE, Catia, Unigraphics, SolidEdge, Solidworks, Inventor, etc.

The workflows in FreeCAD are completely irregular and alien compared to those others. It's incredibly frustrating to use and I have had zero luck becoming fluent in it.

Surprisingly few companies (or people) care about paying for good security.

The problem with paying for good security is that it's very difficult for non-security experts to evaluate the genuinely effective ways to do that.

Is buying antivirus "paying for good security"? Hiring the first security firm that showed up in a Google search?

If you advertise for a security person to join your company, how do you effectively interview candidates?

No F500 tier executive is doing that.

They paid Accenture and Gartner to tell them what to do.

Ditto for having them set up a security organization -- get Accenture to sit a temporary CISO, hire some people, and then fuck off. Hopefully the replacements work!

Mom and Pop shops might use Google, but in 2024 they're usually using whatever the local, oversubscribed MSP is selling.

and the problem there (as I see it) is that they don't care about security, they care about passing their audit.

"Passing our audit" has been presented with measurable consequences (cannot sell to customers) and finite, well-defined actions (this is what the audit list looks like).

What I'd like (the goal of the follow up article, coming soon) is to present the value of security in a way that makes the justification of the effort viable and palatable.

Would argue the opposite. Many people pay cloud providers because of the built in security and auditing. See AWS gov cloud for an entire sector.

People do care about security. They will strengthen their roofs as hurricanes blow up worse. They buy big and tough cars to better survive auto-accidents. They will accompany their kids home from school and install burglar alarms. Plenty of Americans are even happy carrying a firearm around just in case...

What people do not give a shit about is digital security. Because nothing about computers or the Internet "is real". And it's getting less real by the day. That's the fascinating psychological talking point.

This is just a specific case of the general problem of long-term, cultivated, or difficult-to-measure goods. Who gets more recognition or reward, the guy who hardened his software over time to prevent the bug, or the guy who swoops in to fix the bug? The guy who tested his code to prevent bugs, or the 10x rOcKsTaR who shat out a mess of an app that appears to do what it should, but leaves everyone else cleaning up the disaster later?

Our culture in particular excels at implementing this bias.

Security is hard, and determining what is worth paying for when it comes to security is arguably even harder - there seem to be a higher than typical amount of snake oil salesmen and grifters in the industry.