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BTW, a highly disturbed sleep like he is describing is a common sign of burnout/depression/anxiety disorder. Do not ignore it! There are drugs and therapy, it is worth it. It is double worth it if you have the money to stay unemployed or have other ways of getting some extended rest, at least 3 months. BTW, there is even some chemical signalling pathway explanation for that connection. Or maybe it is hypothesized? IDK, it's above my knowledge level. But the correlation surely is real and strong.

Is this neural-network generated?

The bio makes me think that it is, in fact, written by a machine:

Perhaps you'll think my comments are unthinkable. My only response to that is that they were legibly written, not by a machine, but by a writer with a soul.

Where is that market meltdown? The FTSE 100 is down a whopping 1% today, and down 3% over the last 5 days. Looks absolutely normal to me.

Oh I'm sure it's cleared enough around the various pipes and cables that lie on the bottom. But it's still a far cry from the entire bottom of the sea being safe.

The Baltic Sea is very very shallow, with average depth of just 55 meters. It's not particularly difficult to do, sadly :(

"Fun" fact, mostly unrelated: the Baltic sea floor is full of unexploded munitions from WW2, and some (still?) contained chemical weapons.

Imagine if it was arabic (to keep the LNG prices up, which everyone in Europe is now buying from the middle east like crazy). That would surely stir some things up.

It was in "maintenance", as claimed by the Russian end operators. Germany has successfully pressured Canada to send a replacement turbine to Russia (violating sanctions), after which the Russians said that the turbine isn't any good, it's missing some documents and they will not take and install it. Then Scholz decided to take a photo shoot in front of the massive turbine, looking all sad. The Paper Chancellor in full glory :D

What does a sound card actually do, besides ADC and DAC?

And the future of the planned 6-th generation unmanned combat aircraft ...

Fair point. I guess the difference is the lack of strategic alliances throughout the history with anyone in the area. There were tactical alliances, even with Iran somewhat recently (Operation Opera), but nothing long lasting and "solid". In other words, the environment has always been pretty hostile.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Israel

The most fascinating fact about the state of Israel is that it is in an on-again-off-again state of war for something like the last 4000 years. I cannot fathom how is it possible for neither sides to win, especially the broadly speaking Arab side. Now with the nuclear arsenal and the very competent military they'll most likely survive at least till the first nuclear war, whenever that happens.

Extracting deeply useful information

This right there is the difficult part - what do you mean exactly? I cannot come up with anything better than search, as in like Google search. And they did it for books already, it's seriously good.

Meh. Energy cost has been plummeting ever since the steam engine came about. I cannot stress this enough, it has plummeted several orders of magnitude (versus for example gold). I prefer to use my ruler to stretch out the line on a log plot, naively. The only serious roadblock we've seen is CO2 emissions, but there's still probably a few decades before a serious crisis emerges.

There has been a lot of progress in cameras for smartphones, for very good reasons. And I mean a lot, see the physical design of a modern smartphone lens for example. I would guess that laptop cameras got hit with extra protection because they're "too close" to what's considered core intellectual property for a camera-maker. But it's just a guess really.

Luckily, the Dotbot clearly identifies itself in the User-Agent header, and they have a working support email, so after a five month communication in a ticket I discovered the reason.

I laughed at the "five month", then realized it is actually impressive that OP got any response at all. What a time to be alive.

Also, why not just ban the offender?

Defeatist attitude is completely expected if you're burned out/depressed. My suggestion is to treat the latter (lots of good advice in the thread) to get rid of the former, not the other way around. The other way around simply doesn't work.

Find a US based ETF with the asset and use the SEC :)

(Matt Levine wrote many times about how securities laws can become somewhat global somewhat arbitrarily)

With the successes of F-22/F-35, PAC/Patriot and HIMARS/M270 (each is an obvious top of the shelf product in its category) - is Lockheed now going after Boeing's professional flight simulator supremacy?

I am trying to learn about radio (and the electric and magnetic fields in general), and I'm following the Great Scott Gadgets' "Software Defined Radio with HackRF" video series. I'm also thinking about getting an amateur radio license. What else could you recommend?

I wonder if this could have a military purpose as well, as in whether this could be used in a combat area. Any of the other types of electrical power generation systems are very "centralized", as in there is only a few points where just a few hundred kg of hexagon delivered by a precision missile that slips past air defense would easily terminate the power production.

On the other hand, a mesh of solar panels deployed over a larger body of water is a pretty difficult target to destroy. Imagine that it is floating over a 1km by 1km (or even 1 mile by 1 mile) area - what are you going to use against it? Unguided artillery? Would take a huge amount of shells, even though they're cheap it's probably infeasible. The same with unguided air-dropped bombs. Guided munition? Even worse than the unguided stuff, no high value targets to hit. The only way to defeat such a meshed power plant would be a small nuclear bomb.

(the above assumes that there's no single energy collection point, of course, otherwise that place would be targetted)

The other upside is that there is no need to supply oil, which is currently the preferred way of delivering energy to the combat area. The downside is the time it would take to deploy such a mesh, a diesel generator works pretty much instantly.

Yeah, but that's the minority on a global scale.

Most of the code ran in large datacenters isn't classic HPC. It's cloud workloads serving live traffic or running database backends or some analytical pipelines/queries running over the stored data.

Deep ML is about the only thing that's both large and "classic parallelizable HPC".

Isn't the problem that the fuse for a fusion bomb is a fission bomb, and a fission bomb very violently disperses lots of radioactive material? What am I not getting?

"I told you so", perhaps wrapped in a corpspeak package if the recipient is resonant to those frequencies, adds a lot of value in terms of me not having to handle the fallout. Yes, I know some people want to do an awesome job, be noticed or whatever, but the easier solution (and fairer) is to let the fire burn under whoever caused it. OTOH if you find yourself in a situation when you have to clean up mess that was caused by indifference to your own concerns then it simply means you've lost politically, sadly.

1. Quietly buy all the $10k - $50k range stuff

2. Spin up another NFT hysteria

3. You know what happens here

Not Financial Advice ™

Not sure if a P/E of 18.38 is so so attractive, it looks neither cheap nor expensive for something that will at best keep up with the (nominal) GDP growth.

Why is it so cheap though in terms of absolute value, is the percentage of revenues claimed by this asset very low? The offer lacks detail. Where's an appropriate SEC form when you need one :)

What if it was caused by both?

I'm in your shoes, and pondering this very question.

Exactly.

The southern front isn't going well for Ukraine at all, and I do not see what could change the outcome there, short of NATO forces joining the fight. If the southern front is done the invasion could resume on the other fronts, as well as continue in the south. Not hearing enough about this reminds me of the overly cheerful propaganda, the same sort as mentioned in these headlines.