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Is there a future for passenger air travel?
https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/ reports the area rates a 2 "average dark sky" on the Bortle scale, just short of an "excellent" score of 1. It's location halfway between Santa Rosa and Las Vegas, New Mexico is as far from populated areas as you might think.
Right up until you cut that fiber cable or gas line.
It also made it way orders of magnitude more expensive.
Revolutionary concept: have the second stage take off and fly up to meet the first stage, already in flight.
Respect alone is not always enough, though.
We call human die-offs "war", "genocide", "drug epidemics", "pandemics".
There was a spike in 2021, of course, but the world death rate has been edging up slightly every year since then.
Consider the following scenario. You're a beginner or with very little experience go on a popular programming forum to ask a question, in the typical way someone with little experience asks, what do you get? An answer? No, you get bad manners, insults, "you don't know how to ask questions", "RTFM". At best you'll get some people challenging you to clarify and refine your question, which you can't do because you don't know the technology well enough.
Annoyed, you go find a popular programming chatbot, and ask the question. The chatbot will give you answer, no matter how poorly worded or nonsensical your question, and it will do it cheerfully and confidently. It may even tell you how great your question or idea is. Granted, the answer will be worthless, both because the question was poorly worded and because the chatbot is simply spewing statistically probable text, but you won't know. You're a beginner, without experience to know correct from bullshit. You try to use the answer the chatbot gave you, and when it doesn't work, you go back to the chatbot. It will continue to cheerfully answer your questions as long as you have tokens to spend. The chatbot will never give up on trying to help you, it will never be rude, it won't complain.
And people wonder why chatbots are so popular.
This happened in rapid succession in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. First rodents and small scavengers multiplied rapidly, but then the easy food ran out and their predators showed up, and the cycle repeated. The zone is now roughly at equilibrium, we think, but it's isolated and surrounded by human activity so it's hard to be sure.
The Kaibab Plateau deer disaster from 1906 to 1939 also demonstrated boom and bust cycles.
Agent Smith: I'd like to share a revelation during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet.
Two questions:
What are the downsides of this design compared to the traditional way?
Doesn't deallocation only happen once, when the work is completed, and is it worth optimizing?
Everyone here is taking my comment as saying the blog post was written by AI, and that’s wrong. The author says he uses AI to write commit messages and code comments. Those are what I’m saying are not worth my time or effort to read.
If you can't be bothered to write it, why should I bother reading it?
It's worth noting that historically, Israel and Judah are iron age settlements. This makes references to the authors of the tanakh "bronze age sheepherders" wildly inaccurate at best and mostly offensively reductionist.
The second bullet point on the abusive aspects of phones address specifically your argument:
"They tell us the onus is on us to manage their behavior. It’s our job to tiptoe around them and limit their harms. Spending too much time on a literally-designed-to-be-behaviorally-addictive phone? They send company-approved messages about our online time, but ban from their stores the apps that would really cut our use. We just need to use willpower. We just need to be good enough to deserve them."
The abuser's refrain of "it's your fault, look what you made me do" is well-known.
They are throwing tokens at codebases and finding mostly vulnerabilities in cases that have not been worth the limited time and effort of the chronically underfunded and understaffed professional groups. There’d be a lot more value in the companies giving the money they spend on their synthetic text extruders to the organizations doing quality security research work.
made from raw milk?
I do not. I live in fly-over country. I still see it happening.
Sounds about the same idea as taking a low-res picture of a document and saving it as a low-quality jpeg in folder full of low quality jpegs and then expecting those images to be useful.
That you know of.
Exactly. The data center gets it's own power, isolated from the flaky grid, and never has to deal with statewide crises.
They will also want reliable power
Given the state of the power grid in Texas, this could be the most important consideration. Why? Texas is not connected to the national power grid, and only electricity from plants operating in Texas is available. The last winter and summer, demands on the grid have severely stressed, as reported in many places. In 2021 there as a state-wide crisis and almost a complete failure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.” - Anatole France
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." - Frank Wilhoit
but that could be fixed by isolating the device from the environment, the ultrasound would not be heard, unless you're a bat.
Nor quicker to bring online.
I wear headphones because of all the people around me not using headphones while they listen to podcasts, talk on the phone, watch yootoob, and so on.
I'm imagining the nuclear reactor version of the reflecting pool.
Conversely, I’ve heard British people pronounce “HMS” with the H, i.e. “haytch em ess”. Sounds very odd to my American ears.
From the article: ”Loszak rejects the claim that nuclear’s new entrants threaten safety, arguing that excessive regulation has held back a technology”. I think I hear the ghost of Stockton Rush, who said the Passenger Vessel Safety Act of 1993 "needlessly prioritized passenger safety over commercial innovation" and, “I think I can do this just as safely by breaking the rules“.
We all know how that rule-breaker turned out.
RIP Rust