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I find it annoying that gmail has simply decided that my unlocked phone is more secure than my computer.

All I get is this: "Today's run is over."

At high-end private universities, "The published cost of attendance is a fiction almost no one pays."

Yet, most upper-middle-income students are considered "full-pay."

Therefore, most upper-middle-income students now attend public universities.

Or at least that is the conclusion I drew from the two statements I quoted.

"The published cost of attendance is a fiction almost no one pays."

"Net effect: a $175k household with a house and a 401(k) is judged "full pay," pays near-sticker from already-taxed income, and receives essentially nothing."

I never know how to resolve these two statements. In our case, my daughter happened to choose a good public university. Maybe that is what they mean.

Link to paper:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-026-01820-z

It appears that if you go through the link in this Guardian article, you will get free access to the full paper:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/04/new-orleans-...

I seriously thought "AI washing" was going to be scrubbing all references to AI in public-facing documents.

Probably because energy is cheap and abundant.

Zero.

I thought they had an issue with stuff growing on the cooling grates. Life likes to find warm water.

It really depends on how you write the headline. "US electricity demand surges in 2025 while new utility-scale solar installations decrease from 2024" is equally accurate. It's unclear what the future holds if the trend remains down or flat.

It may be a commodity, but there is no established commodity market for RAM in the US, as there is for energy and agricultural products. The laws relate to the manipulation of a commodity market. Commodity markets are usually established where the products are produced, not where they are consumed.

I bought a brand-new book in the 1980s with unopened pages. It was a special order from Schoenhof's Foreign Books in Cambridge. Descartes' Meditations in the original Latin, published in France.

https://archive.ph/GLiI5

There were glass spheres outside the main pressure vessel containing electronics and filled with mineral oil that were damaged during the implosion, but the electronics survived mostly intact. This probably would have been a good option for a "black box" recorder. Scott Manley discusses the spheres in his video.

A vet once told me that male orange cats can become food-obsessed, and my entire experience with cats agrees with that. One orange male that needs to be food restricted, while every other cat I know doesn't.

OpenAI was created as a public charity, not just a non-profit.

Check out the $13 hot dog.

I have an idea. If you have a question, just ask a question. Otherwise we have to guess at what your question is.

The NYT had already sourced that she was leaving prior to the Grok incident, so they knew it was not the primary reason. Apparently, she has been planning on leaving since the takeover by xAI.

She was CEO of X which was sold to xAI. I'm not sure she had any control over Grok.

Projects with storage can also take advantage of lower grid connection power limits because they are not forced to dump maximum power at peak supply times of the day.

He's using the tax credits to undersell projects with storage that would have been more positive for the grid. Solar without storage in Texas is coal to Newcastle. Subsidizing bare-bones solar is not good for the grid.

Oh come on.

He was doing it for the tax credits. Without the tax credits, this project wouldn't have come close to making sense.

The taxes were for capital gains on his crypto assets, which is not an investment but pure speculation. The tax dodge was to find an actual investment with tax credits that would cover the capital gains on his speculation.

Must be a Chrome developer. His blog is frustratingly hard to read on Firefox. I felt like I was going blind in real time.

My memory is that two-stage rockets had a few more points of failure but were harder to retrieve, so not really worth the effort. The Estes engines solved most of the technical challenges, but I lived in an area with lots of trees and no huge expanses of open space.

What kind of a blanket are you using and how thick is it? Seems like that would be the determining factor for size and cost.

This story connects the speaker to the stories above: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/a-million...

Schizophrenia develops in the twenties. Whatever his problem is, I don't think that is it.

People develop schizophrenia in their early twenties. Once it develops, you have it for life. The evidence is that cannabis use at an early age makes people who are susceptible to schizophrenia unable to control it and it fucks up the rest of their life. Some people smoke a ton of pot and never develop schizophrenia. Some people who are susceptible to schizophrenia and wait until their late 20's to smoke pot or use it minimally before then are able to avoid schizophrenia.

This is a perfectly valid reason to avoid heavy cannabis use before the age of 25.