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It's a reference to the Beatles song Revolution Number 9 which includes a lot of clips like that. It does get old pretty quickly here.

Josh Wardle sold Wordle to the New York Times for at least a million. https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/31/22911274/wordle-new-york-...

See the board here on Lichess https://lichess.org/study/facg4YUQ/jnXlZXWo

FYI 2600 and 2.6k use the same number of characters.

And Elon says they have run out of training data ...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/09/elon-musk...

It doesn't seem it is showing the tilt for Earth correct. When I zoom in for around now, the North Pole is in full sun rather than mid Winter. (I'm in Australia so I don't know if it is somehow using my local timezone wrongly)

Actually I have heard the exact opposite of what you are stating is true. Both Google and Apple fight very hard to avoid handing data to authorities. They don't want to be seen as some sort of easy conduit to government surveillance or shill. How does that benefit their reputation? I know of one case where Google spent millions on lawyers fighting government wanting access to an activist's email. Their FAQ here makes their policy pretty clear. https://support.google.com/transparencyreport/answer/9713961...

I wonder how noisy it is - it would have been good to include in the specs.

/ All 75 light switches in our new house run Tasmota

75! Can't you just employ a butler? ;-)

It reminds of the art of M.C.Escher in the sense that it is driven by a mathematical mindset, yet goes beyond mindless repetition. This artist and M.C. Escher would have loved having access to computer drawing program I think.

I have a 135 minute train ride to my office which I probably undertake once every week or two. Thankfully I can be seated for it and usually have enough room to either work with my laptop or just have a snooze or chillout to some media. While driving might get me their (on a good day) in 30 minutes less time, the train trip is definitely more relaxing and a better investment of my time.

The fact that they know about the incursions means that they had least have some defence capability against them.

LEO means less RF power and lower latency.

Yes, pretty amazing. While I did have a couple of free tourist maps, I planned and executed a 1700km road trip to New Zealand basically using Google Maps on my laptop and then simply navigated on my phone. It seems incredible that you could entrust everyday's travel plans using this and it just worked. Sure you had to make sure you had downloaded maps (or at least cached) ahead of time for spotty networks. Only 25 years or so ago you absolutely had to have paper maps (and know how to read them) to embark on such a venture

I think they have a "build it and they will come" attitude. While their own Mars goals will need 100s if not 1000s of launches they also see new customers that would want launch and even recover much larger payloads than what are feasible today

But they haven't reused one yet AFAIK. They have reused an engine.

The 2nd tower at Starbase is much more modular than the first and is being built at quite a rapid rate.

There is a wonderful plant bank here in Sydney, Australia. Lots of thick mud walls and other sophistications to outlast weather and similar incidents. https://www.botanicgardens.org.au/our-science/science-facili...

I would imagine that if you just had a switch connected to nowhere, in the morning you would remember what you Morse coded in any case just because it has raised your alertness

I have been there many times. While the network guy can solve some of the latency in things like TCP handshakes and use compression and caching with magic black boxes you can't fix the actual application query and acknowledgement requirements that might be there.

Many years ago I was called into troubleshoot the rollout of a new web based customer management application that was replacing a terminal green screen one. I was flummoxed finding all the developers had only ever tested their app running from workstations on 100Mbps switches where the target offices for this application were connected by 128kbps ISDN lines. I was able demonstrate how each 12kB of their application was going to take 1 second. (It was amazing to see their HTML still full of comments, long variable names, etc). I don't even think they had discovered gzip compression. This was after many millions of dollars had already been spent on the development project.

And even a "super-super hero" in 1926! http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article21042874

Apparently Charles Lindburgh was known in the USA as a "super-hero". http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article95784232

And here is one in the plural from 1928 referring to our Anzac (veteran's) day march. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article115521528

A quick search on the Australian National Library archive finds an article titled "A British Super Hero" in a 1918 newspaper. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/129947369

Lab diamonds are a testament to the principle that what nature can do, man is capable of doing better.

A lot of unfounded hubris there. Come back when you have perfected a man-made forest with all its diversity of plants and animals.

Works on my android fine.

This test gets you sort hues along a gradient. https://www.xrite.com/hue-test

It's also interesting that in the nautical world it is more universal. Boats everywhere keep to the right passing each other on the port side (the left)

Maybe there is a language issue here. In Australia, a full on election is also called a poll. The government electoral commission does the polling, the voters do the voting.

I think you getting confused with opinion polling.

I think you'll find that they have more thrusters on the spacecraft that they actually need - they can control attitude even if they lose one or more thrusters. So the possibility of the failure of them is already in the design.