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I wonder if that is what itunes match protects against? I've paid for that service for a long time, but at this point not certain it has any value.

S&P Global link: https://www.spglobal.com/ratings/en/regulatory/article/-/vie...

yeah i was interested as well. -$2.5B from $11B last year. However the analysts see it recovering quickly. If you put all the Trainium(N) chip investments aside as being all AI risk, they still have some good pipeline with the satellite internet stuff (Delta, JetBlue, Vodaphone).

I assumed it was accompanied by an oral presentation or another report. I didn't look around enough to see if there is a transcript or anything though.

Also how I lose most Sid Meir Civilization[1] games.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization_(series)

My family and I recently completed this Costco 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle made by Dowdle Folk Art(1). And I have to say, I had a very similar feeling to what the author of this piece is describing. Lots of different people, all walks of life, and no words requiring a dictionary! (looking at you, "Contrapuntal")

(1)https://boardwalkpuzzles.com/products/costco-treasure-hunt-1...

User: predict the 10 most populous cities in north america in 100 years.

talkie-1930 :The ten most populous cities in North America in 100 years hence will probably be--New York, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Baltimore, Boston, Cincinnati, Chicago, New Orleans, St. Louis, and San Francisco.

I really resonate with this. I remember watching Comic Relief with Whoopie Goldberg as a kid, the whole show focused on homelessness in America, andshe said somthing like "why are we spending billions launching shuttles when people are sleeping on the streets?" That hit me hard. Especially because I was also the kid who was obsessed with space. It felt like a contradiction I couldn't square - I wasn't homeless, I think my school had books, but who remembers...

What shifted my thinking over tim was the actual numbers. NASA's entire budget during the shuttle era was roughly 1% of federal spending [1]. We chose to de-institutionalize heathcare which really impacted homelessness. We didn't have to, but it was choice. And we could of done both. The failure was our leaders choosing not to, and that choice had nothing to do with NASA.

And the shuttle era, for all its problems, gave us Hubble. That single telescope showed us the universe is 13.8 billion years old, that expansion is accelerating, that nearly every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center. The shuttle crews serviced it five times to keep it running. I think it's hard to overstate what that one instrument did for our understanding of the universe.

I don't think the instinct you had as a kid was wrong at all! - And thanks for helping me re-activate some neurons- Whoopi made a real impession on me came from a real place. But I think we're lucky enough to live in a world where people fight to fix things on the ground and also point telescopes at the sky.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA

Why not go with V'ger? Seems like a missed opportunity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Trek_characters_(...

Depending on the gas station... I've been to at least a dozen in Texas where the clerk scanned the back of my DL for proof of age. I'm assuming that something is getting stored somewhere..

IRWN — Immersion, Rinse, Warm, Notify

I did a similar one for predicting "The Onion" headlines: https://sethjano.github.io/fun-scripts/

I think that a show like Westworld is a great example of the realities of the streaming era. If HBO kept streaming it on HBO Max it probably costs them $2-4 million in residual liabilities. HBO removed dozens of scripted shows during that phase, and had a mandate to cut around $3B in post merger costs.

After Year 1, WGA/SAG residual formulas decrease: Year 2: ~80% of Year 1 Year 3: ~55% Year 4+: sometimes stabilize at a “floor” rate

So what did they do? They ran it for a few years, ran the numbers, realized that Westworld was no longer profitable on the platform. (Profitable would have to mean draws enough new subscribers to the platform). AND THEN - Warner Bros. Discovery made new deals with other platforms with ads. I think you can still find Westworld on Tubi and other ad-supported platforms that actually pay Warner licensing fees.

often around here in texas, when the gas is turned off due to an issue, the gas company disables the meter, or even removes or bypasses it. And I live in gas land, where we have natural gas piped in to the kitchen, bathrooms, laundry, outside for grills, as well as the furnace. We've seen it a lot, if you call the gas company about smelling gas, they come and remove your gas meter until you hire a plumber to go find the leak.

as someone who's gone down the rabbit hole of dishwasher home repair, I've created more problems than I've solved. I agree that maintenance is important, but when you get into replacing the seals and gaskets that can result in water flooding into your kitchen, i decided recently to draw a line. I'm now the proud owner of some fancy leak detection / moisture detection IOS products as a result. (and yes I'm aware there are better, low tech solutions like the "frog" on the market, but I chose to torture myself instead)

Thanks for the tip. I added this to my audio book queue.

It's pretty interesting how today's cars come with features like remote braking and monitoring cameras, all designed to make driving less demanding for us. So as these researchers work to make vehicles less distracting, these cool features somehow end up making us even more distracted. It's an ironic cycle that leaves you more distracted, and maybe more unsafe.

I'm impressed with the desktop SDK demo video hosted by Nick. Very clever. I noticed he's using Emacs, and that got me thinking that maybe I could make a little capture template that invokes your service to transcript directly from org mode. :) - Adding this to the wood pile.

Thanks - that helped it click a bit more. If the relative ordering is correct it doesn't matter they look so compressed.

I was reading somewhere that the BERT and USE style were "big-symantic space" designed to 0.0-1.0 so that things unrelated would be close to 0.0, and are classifiers.

But now, like the OpenAI embedding you're talking about the embedding are constrained, trained for retrieval in mind. The pairs are ordered closer, easier to search.

Really good analogy: Bay Networks, Lucent, Nortel, and Cisco got beat up or destroyed on the equipment side. And then the long haul fiber companies never got ROI (but paved the way for broadband).

Do scientists think fast radio bursts come from neutron stars or magnetars? And with new tools like CHIME and VLBI, can we figure out if some of these bursts actually repeat?

I'm still fascinated at the prospect of these "star quakes" or magnetic flares that emerge from these stars. I guess these fields would weaken over time, but does it really maintain it's mass, just lose rotation speed or something?

It feels to me like the tyranny of small differences. The fact that the various watchdogs amplified such specific issues greatly overshadowed their support of the mission. From what I've read, the FDA is a backwater from a funding perspective, and yet a punching bag from a regulatory point-of-view.

  *He and his colleagues had also been engaged in a decades-long debate with a sprawling community of watchdogs — mostly doctors, lawyers and scientists from outside the agency — who were often broadly supportive of the agency’s mission but who fought with officials like Califf, sometimes bitterly, over the specifics: How should the F.D.A. be financed? What kind of evidence should new drugs and medical devices require? How should regulators weigh the concerns of industry against the needs of doctors, patients and consumers?*

I ask Alexa to play Spanish guitar music at our family dinner table in an effort to attenuate both the kids "smacking" and my partners reactions to the "smacking". In my testing, it's resulted in less net "smacking" occurrences. So you could be on to something.

This reminds me a lot of the 3Com "Audrey" [0]. And of course HP now owns that as well. I have some bittersweet memories of hacking on that thing after the services were terminated. Maybe this could follow that afterlife legacy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3Com_Audrey

The piece mentions a 2018 survey [0] that revealed that 12% of Wikipedians (editors) have a doctorate degree. Have the demographics changed since then? I'm curious how the pandemic lock-down may have effected usage and editing.

Many doctorate holders contribute rich, well-researched content. However, if these editors predominantly come from similar demographic or cultural backgrounds, it may unintentionally lead to a less representative body of knowledge. I'm sure this kind of diversity is a common discussion and can be controversial to some folks.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20190724142049/https:/meta.wikim...

The GSA facilitates the adoption of cloud services like the Cloud Information Technology (IT) Program and FedRAMP. So there are some areas where I'd say the GSA is key. Firing 60 early career staffers in technology as the article mentions doesn't seem too impactful to the mission. But selling off real estate and consolidating the staff could have a bigger impact as career staff ponder the "fork-in-the-road".

This one could be like Tunguska, an air bust maybe around 10km high. Would that cause a large tsunami?

I used genAI to help me understand the Palermo scale number seeming low.

The 2032 asteroid does warrant tracking, but the Palermo Scale remains below a critical level because:

The impact probability (1.2%) is not high enough to trigger a stronger alarm. The background frequency of 8 Mt impacts is relatively high, making this event less statistically exceptional. The event is still 8 years away, so uncertainties in orbital prediction remain.

I think that CNCF has better handle on abandonware, plus really good observably. https://devstats.cncf.io/

My elderly mother uses it for iMessage, facebook, surfing the web, some sports apps, and lots of crossword and puzzle apps.