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My lay person understanding is that supplemental creatine screws with a common lab test to screen for kidney problems. Let your physician know if you are taking any supplements so they can interpret your lab test results appropriately or order different tests.
Do you have any aircraft on mind that can unfold its wing while flying?
XB-70 Valkyrie
Yeah, this is the first place my mind went with it. Aside from gate size category, folding wings could tighten up an overall airport like an aircraft carrier. Return to human-scale non-suburban airports (rip Mueller, Meigs et al).
The second place was the XB-70:
The XB-70 was designed to use compression lift, a phenomenon also referred to
as Mach wave riding, which was demonstrated with the help of wind-tunnel
tests. It was shown to provide an increase in total lift at supersonic speeds
as wingtips folded downward, and would capture the shock waves generated by
the aircraft. Wing lift could therefore significantly increase by up to 30%
without any drag penalty.
As well as find has an -exec param to perform things one at a time or all with the same command by using a slash semicolon or a plus sign respectively:
#order files from different levels in a file hierarchy by size:
find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -exec ls -hlrS {} +
#output metadata for each file sequentially
find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -exec file {} \;find print0 with xargs 0 is such an awesome combination. One day I'll remember to use it instead of piping into while read ln; do ...
Out of the gate, Canada and the US share 1 as country code and includes entities that aren't countries like Globalstar (Mobile Satellite Service):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_telephone_country_code...
Her family had been in Egypt for 250 years, that's a long time for genetic admixture. Otoh, Continuing the tradition established by previous Egyptian dynasties, the Ptolemies engaged in inbreeding including sibling marriage, with many of the pharaohs being married to their siblings and often co-ruling with them.
Ptolemy I Soter (305–282 BC)
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Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator (51–30 BC)
Edit to append a topical story:
Birmingham native and civil rights activist Angela Davis, known as a part of the Black Power movement of the early 1970s, was shocked to learn that she is descended from a passenger on the Mayflower, one of the first settlers in America.
https://www.al.com/life/2023/02/civil-rights-activist-angela...
This is something I wasn't aware of that is fascinating. The ph balance of the rebar's environment determines the progression of oxidation. There was a guy in the 1920's who observed this and had the idea to put cement in paint; it was so successful he renamed the company to cement spelled backwards.
Inside the concrete, Ca(OH)₂, which is generated by the hydration of cement,
creates a strongly alkaline environment, with a pH value of more than 12.7.
In this environment, a passivation film forms on the surface of the rebar to
prevent corrosion. However, the pH of the concrete decreases as micro-cracks
develops and chloride from the outside infiltrates the rebar. Eventually, as
the environment inside the concrete becomes neutralized, the corrosion of the
rebar accelerates, which reduces the overall durability and stability of the
reinforced concrete structure.
A sighting of preserved steel reinforcing bars sticking out of old concrete
rubble piqued the curiosity of our company founder, Albert C. Bean, Sr. After
investigating this finding, his company, Armor Oil & Chemical Company, began
producing a patented cement-filled coating formulation that, in its updated
form, still protects structures from corrosion today.
installed under some works dept land/pole/utility access permits
Another option might be right of way or easement permitting, similar to how utility poles and such are regulated as private property with an allowance to be in a public space. If the provider got a permit to use the right of way separate from the contract, then the provider would retain the same right to be there as any other infrastructure.
So these are only being used on active calls.
I see your distinction better now. The Reynolds essay speaks a little more to the issue at hand. Essentially the technology allows for scope creep. Previously the limiting factor for physical police surveillance was officer FTEs, which creates a lower bound for the conditions that predicate an "active call." When this constraint is lifted, then Prosecutors could easily fall prey to the temptation of “picking the man, and then searching the law books . . . to pin some offense on him.”
'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy
In this short essay, written for a symposium in the San Diego Law Review, Professor Daniel Solove examines the nothing to hide argument. When asked about government surveillance and data mining, many people respond by declaring: "I've got nothing to hide." According to the nothing to hide argument, there is no threat to privacy unless the government uncovers unlawful activity, in which case a person has no legitimate justification to claim that it remain private. The nothing to hide argument and its variants are quite prevalent, and thus are worth addressing. In this essay, Solove critiques the nothing to hide argument and exposes its faulty underpinnings.
https://scholarship.law.gwu.edu/faculty_publications/158/
See also "Ham Sandwich Nation: Due Process When Everything is a Crime"
The result of overcriminalization is that prosecutors no longer need to wait for obvious signs of a crime. Instead of finding Professor Plum dead in the conservatory and launching an investigation, authorities can instead start an investigation of Colonel Mustard as soon as someone has suggested he is a shady character.
https://columbialawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Rey...
Here is a RadioLab podcast [0] about the system from company Persistent Surveillance Systems [1].
An interesting dimension to systems similar to the US military's Gorgon Stare [2] program is that they are generalized rather than specific, unlike a quad following a specific person(s).
0. https://radiolab.org/podcast/eye-sky
2. https://longreads.com/2019/06/21/nothing-kept-me-up-at-night...
Is that a limitation of the antenna? I though QuadRF uses SDR so can see many frequencies, not just the wifi things like ESPARGOS [0]
From documentation, QuadRF: Operating frequency range of 4.9 - 6.0 GHz (C-Band).
Maintenance isn't cost-free. As an example, the operating system and other software dependencies of the game depends will eventually be depreciated and not supported.
If a security vulnerability is discovered in software still available from company servers but the teams that built it have moved on, what is the company's liability for recomposing teams in order to make a fix that does not negatively affect other aspects of the software?
This isn't surprising given how different businesses may value a payment against an ongoing obligation to customers. @patio11 had a good podcast about this "Cash received is not revenue earned" last April.
What the GoDaddy CEO said in many interviews and investor presentations is:
"Look, since we're not going out of business, and since the cost of serving
domain names is essentially the same whether we're serving a million of them
versus a hundred million of them, you should really treat this as a
cash-and-carry business. So all of the money that comes in this year is our
revenue, regardless of this massive balance sheet item that says deferred
revenue." What sophisticated investors looking at GoDaddy said was, "Well,
no. You do have to still keep running the business. And so from my
perspective, it looks like GoDaddy is incredibly levered. You've got so much
debt on the books. The debt isn't to a bank or to a private credit fund–it's
just to your customers. But oh goodness, is there a lot of debt. And since
that debt must get satisfied before US equity holders get the residual value
of the company, we are not willing to extend equity investment at the
valuation you think you're worth."
Using the infinitive rather than gerund form of a verb to reference a an instance is a common pattern. "I went for a walk," instead of "I was walking."
I think it is interesting to attempt understanding people's choices to shorten "spend" rather than "spending," or to use something longer like "methodology" rather than "method" when they describe the method not a study of methods.
That makes more sense. How could a library or a bookshop in a location legally offer books that are banned in that location?
Isn’t that already the case, yet some amount of store theft still occurs?
It could be there is a base rate of people who don’t know yet and thus a natural rate would be higher if remote locking wasn’t a thing.
I think that "en-GB" is not sufficiently descriptive. There are 160 dialects of English [0]. Within the island of Great Britain there are three historic countries with distinctive usages of language: England, Wales, and Scotland. There might be more mutual unintelligibility within GB than across North America.
0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dialects_of_English
German portmanteau word "Zensurheberrecht" ("Zensur": censorship; "Urheberrecht": the related concept to copyright in German law)
The recent podcast about Machiavelli by Dwarkesh had an interesting part about how the Catholic Inquisition, printmakers and authors collaborated in censorship to establish an early version of copyright. Link to the specific section:
This brings to mind the wonderful Econtalk episode about Bruno Leoni [0]. The beginning of the podcast describes his untimely passing, which almost seems a Cohen brothers movie plot.
So, we pore over Supreme Court cases on the First Amendment, for example, to
try to interpret what tests we will use to determine whether something is
going to be unconstitutional law. Leoni didn't want that. He argued that--and
again, he was proud of the Roman law contribution. He said that the Roman
jurist was a sort of scientist: that the object of his research was a
solution to cases that citizens submitted to him for study. So, an
industrialist or a scientist might look to a physicist to engineer a
technical problem. So, private Roman law was something to be described or
discovered, not something to be enacted. So, over time, these principles
emerge.
As I understand it, the dynamics are similar to generic drugs where there is a large capital hurdle to new production facilities and a likelihood that prices will soon drop to a point that a new facility will lose money.
https://www.asianometry.com/p/the-semiconductor-bust-still-c...
My response was to your thesis: "whenever I see announcements about OCR it feels like this should be a solved problem if it’s been accomplished at the scale of USPS for many years." I think the USPS has "solved" much of the problem by getting the most prolific generators of mail to conform with more basic tech than OCR, the bar code.
Much commercial mail (including first class non-junk mail) is physically presorted and bundled as it is dropped with USPS and has a bar code that states the routing needed. Stuff that has had OCR performed by computer or human gets a little sticker near the bottom with the barcode.
The barcode is applied by the sender; the Postal Service required use of the Intelligent Mail barcode to qualify for automation prices beginning January 28, 2013. Use of the barcode provides increased overall efficiency, including improved deliverability, and new services.
How is my French descent real life human name at all relevant?
Yeah, I've gotten it from people with minds like your's for a long time, continually since grade school. Your comment illuminates more about you and your fellow noticers than me.
From what I recall (the article is register-walled now), the document had twitter handles and public statements. Did the article specify they gathered nonpublic information?
Ok, name the ethic or ethics being violated by the behavior described in the article.
Do you think they keep dossiers on everyone who complains about concession prices?
That would be not unexpected. How else would an organization be able to tell the difference between someone who makes frequent and spurious complaints from a genuine feedback? [0]
0. https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/01/th...
I'm excited that EVs get to avoid CAFE standards, so we get to have small vehicles again.
I don't see evidence for EVs stimulating small vehicle production (but it would be awesome if it were the case). The one smaller vehicle bright spot is perhaps Tesla's Cybercab, which is compared to the Honda Civic, which itself has grown very large over the years. In order to get to that size the passenger mass capacity of the Cybercab is roughly 2/3 of the Civic. [0]
The USPS Remote Encoding Center in Salt Lake City examined 841,260,847 images of poorly written addresses in fiscal year 2025. [0]
Unfortunately the page does not have a base rate--the total number of mail pieces that were not prepared for automated processing. Total first class mail, which includes a lot of bills prepared for automation was 25.7 billion [1]. If 10% of that are non-automated, then .8 / 2.57 = .31 or a third of mail not prepared for automation is handled by "employees look at the image and type in address information"
0. https://facts.usps.com/remote-encoding-center-rec-decipherin...
1. https://about.usps.com/what/financials/10k-reports/fy2025.pd...
As pointed in another post by John Gruber, Apple kept selling the trash can Mac Pro for a very high price for years without any updates. So it can certainly afford to bear this pain for a couple of more months and bundle all the price hikes together.
It seems unlikely that Apple created a rainy day fund from offering an legacy product at niche prices almost a decade ago. Equally unlikely that Apple will continue to sell at a loss today out of a traditional disregard for decreasing component costs.