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I think you're making my point for me. 30000 year stewardship? 20 years ago it was only a 10000 year stewardship. Either way, it doesn't make much sense.

For one thing, radioactivity is related to half-life. Basically the more radioactive something is, the shorter the half-life and therefore the less time you have to deal with it. When something has a long half-life, that is almost by definition less radioactive. And it's not so hard. Water blocks most of the worst radiation anyway.

More importantly, 10,000 or 30,000 years or whatever is just a really, really long time. Storing and "stewarding" the waste is already a sufficiently solved problem. All of the material your family would use in your entire life would fit in a shoebox, and can be stored in a few gallons of water safely. Borrowing hypothetical problems from that far into the future is an example of exactly what I'm talking about: an effectively un-addressable concern that serves only as a placeholder for "I don't want to. Use less energy."

The reason that solar and wind haven't fallen victim to this is that they don't scale well enough, and would force us to reduce consumption. If they were on track to increase our overall energy production and use, they would lose support.
Avalonia.

The UI isn't native, is a Skia canvass with drawn controls. But it'll work on basically every OS and it's pretty good.

Also, you're not writing JavaScript, so that's a win any day in my book.
This is very technically correct but also misleading.

In the last test flight, Starship reached a velocity of 7.3km/s. Orbital velocity is 7.8km/s.

Why didn't they make it to 7.8km/s? Because they choose not to. Starship had the fuel, control and capability to burn a few more seconds for another 500m/s.

It also (barely) survived re-entry and achieved a fully controlled, powered, soft splashdown.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Riggio
You could just allow discussion without worrying too much which version.
Unfortunately, Metformin gives me a brain fog that isn’t acceptable while having an engineering role. Maybe it has an interaction with Vortioxetine, I don’t know.
Ops person here, I'm confused what meaningful question this paper is supposed to answer?

Windows is suboptimal for running Linux containers? Sure, Docker on Windows is meant as development tool. If you have Windows Server but need to run Linux containers in production, you should run Hyper-V, install Linux and run container inside that VM.

MacOS has some funkiness for running containers as well that makes me think that's its disk operations are not truly backed. Also, Docker Desktop is again for Development, not actually running it in production since that would be really expensive server.

This entire paper could be a blog article. Did someone need to publish for some reason and threw this out there? What knowledge is being gained here? I WANT TO KNOW.
Should the richest 1% – who gained $42T/decade – be taxed more?
Exactly -- or with a piece of their real estate! Just take a chainsaw, cut a bedroom and bathroom out, and the government gets that piece.
That's pretty disgusting...
So, I've amended the article some since posting it because the main objection I got from a few GA enthusiasts was this idea of the GP as being used to compose operators. Which I had barely noticed the importance of because it's so hard to identify in the texts! Although once they mentioned it I began to appreciate that, when the GP works and is useful, this is why. So I changed things to address that point more directly... but I didn't really find the energy to do a perfect job of it (like researching all the examples I would need to make the point more clearly), and it's a bit muddy at the moment. Like at the spot you pointed out. I need to figure out a clearer way to say this stuff...

What I am getting at is that if you go read, say, the Doran/Lasenby book, they start out talking about multivectors for areas and volumes and etc---and they do all this with the GP. Which makes no sense! Ever calculation they do leaves you think "huh?" The GP makes no sense at all if you're talking about units of length, area, volume, etc. Its transformation laws, its composition laws... you end up having to undo it all afterwards with a bunch of janky other operations.

But if you talk about the GP for composing reflections to make rotations, it's fine, that makes sense. I just really want this distinction to be made more clearly. I'm only interested in the GP when it corresponds to an explicit geometric operation. Nobody makes this distinction as clear as I want; I hope to eventually find a really sound version of the argument and then write it out as another article.

Roughly speaking it's equivalent to conflating the sense of a complex number as a vector with a complex number as an operator on vectors. Yes, they're isomorphic, but given a vector in R^2 there's no intrinsic sense in which you should be able to interpret it as also being the operation of multiplying by r e^(iθ) on other vectors. Pretending like they're the same thing is just bewildering: that identification between vectors and operations should be something you have to explicitly construct. For starters, if you change bases for (x,y) the vector should rotate but the rotation operation shouldn't change. That sort of thing. GA is making this same confusion but on a larger scale.
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Something like the Defense Production Act alone technically gives the government the authority to control civilian production in virtually any way if it meets a standard based on criticality to national defense (not hard to imagine the argument for boeing).

Using that power requires political support from the legislature and courts, I don't think we're there today, but if for example a critical fighter jet (or some other high visibility project) went south, boeing has been shitting the bed hard enough to support federal intervention.
The price of non-conformity is higher -- e.g. they might ask you to explain why you didn't agree with the rest.
I'd like to expand on this and clarify for anyone reading this that it's not just using the same type of engines as the shuttle. They are literally the same reusable RS-25 engines taken off the shuttles over a decade ago and used for one final expendable launch. Likewise the SRB segments are reused from shuttle launches, but reconfigured and expended for one more launch on SLS. The $32 Billion spent so far on SLS have been to rearrange pieces from the shuttle parts bin.

There are further contracts to make new RS-25 engines and SRBs optimized for expendability once they run out of old shuttle equipment.
> Empty aisles, i.e. a true shortage, only happens due to an artificially low price

That's not true due to Always Late Inventory(tm). See: Covid and toilet paper in the US.

Because inventory is optimized to almost nothing, a demand shock can strip the shelves (the last remaining point of inventory) before pricing can adjust. Super-optimization means that supply has very little ability to increase and it would take many months to backfill the drained edge inventory. Prices shoot up, but don't actually make a dent as there is enough inelastic demand to always drain the incremental inventory resupply.

Add in the fact that a harvest is a specific point in time while consumption is continuous and it's really easy to wind up in a shortage situation that takes a remarkably long time to correct.
Seems so https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet
Link to the OIG report https://oig.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/ig-24-015.pd... for SLS Block 1B

> According to DCMA officials, this is a high number of CARs [Corrective
Action Requests] for a space flight system at this stage in development and reflects a recurring and degraded state of product quality control.

> Quality control issues at Michoud are largely due to the lack of a sufficient number of trained and experienced aerospace workers at Boeing

If this was to be a "jobs" program more than anything, I guess that makes sense. They just added more "jobs" but never actually bothered to train anyone. Doesn't Boeing worry how this looks on them? I would be terribly embarrassed if I was anywhere adjacent to that team's leadership.

Searching for "Principles" brigs us to this page https://www.boeing.com/sustainability/values

First item "Start with engineering excellence. A strong engineering foundation enables us to build and maintain our products with safety, quality and integrity in the factory and in service. Our customers expect it. That’s why we will always take the time to get the engineering right".

Well, they failed their very first principle, didn't they. At least don't put it right at the top, hide it down at the bottom to at least avoid being accused of hypocrisy.
They should just remove the need for the auth server entirely. Whether or not it benefits very many people is beside the point; it's the principle. Allowing their users to continue to use the product that they have fully paid for is morally (and potentially legally) the right thing to do.
A collection of resources about small language models
It seems like small multimodal LLMs have a killer use case to be bundled with browsers for accessibility. Eventually:

* if an image doesn’t have alt text

* you need to be read the page

* you need to be described what’s happening in a video

A model built into the OS or browser seems like a no-brainer.
It's a pretty cool finding, but a shallow article and arguably clickbait.

> ... it’s very possible there’s more governing army ant behavior than two simple rules.

Then don't say otherwise in the title!
Tattoo ink sold on Amazon has high levels of weird and rare bacteria
What's hilarious is that my business account has been suspended by Facebook's automated fraud detection no less than 4 times in the past 5 months. Every time, they send a standard automated message saying some term was violated from a list of rules that's unavailable, and then ask me to upload a "selfie" to verify my business account. A selfie, to verify... my business account where I only add or post things to do with my business. All in the name of their "crusade" to block bots and AI, which of course isn't working, but somehow people who aren't doing anything suspicious keep tripping their automated alarms.

For a company with so much money and so much sophisticated technology, it never ceases to amaze me how broken their systems are. As a software engineer it doesn't surprise me though. You start to realize that it's people and organizational problems all the way down more so than the technology.
Temu parent company lost more than $50B in market value
I'm not and never have been NSA, but I nonetheless have a sordid past with what is arguably a related line of work. This is how I manage my passwords.

In environments where regular rotations are required, I print off a new "biscuit" via `(date ; pwgen $PWGEN_FLAGS) | lpr`. I then append to the candidate password something of a personal identifier that only I know.
Also this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Quebec_(1775)
> 3. Creativity flows to the most basic constraint. The most basic constraint is political will to fund, so top level attention goes to managing/manipulating up.

Can you or somebody elaborate on this? Is there an idea or a terminology or something I can read more about this? I'm very interested in the idea that you can pay attention to where the "smart kids" are going, to help identify where the most basic constraint is. I'm also interested in what the word "basic" means here. I'm familiar with the theory of constraints and the idea of bottlenecks. But that doesn't seem like what this is getting after. Thanks!
great explanation. thank you!
Because the mission profile has been intentionally sub orbital to avoid any possibility of uncontrolled reentry. There would be minimal change in the burn for the last 2 flights to place it in orbit.
At a certain point could they grow more food, or have little drone subs bring more food? Maybe hid an underwater food storage container. around the oceans they could dock with to get more food
You're correct, most companies don't make their own anti-cheat. We have categorized the different anti-cheats and have ways around them where needed. But whether or not the game devs or some 3rd party makes the anti-cheats it still leads to the same problems, I'm blocked from fixing their games on our hardware. I can't/won't share to many details about or internal process.
You're ignoring the fact that modern technological society unlocked hundreds of lives that wouldn't otherwise have existed. Turning our backs on the industrial revolution would, in effect, "kill" these people by preventing their chance at life.

> We should be working to create a world where every child has access to the resources they need to thrive, not justifying the deaths of children as a necessary cost of progress.

> It's not a zero-sum game where we have to choose between economic growth and the well-being of the most vulnerable members of society.

The deaths of the two children aren't "justified" and neither is the "death" of the hundreds who didn't get to live in the first place. We have to minimize deaths and maximize life.

You're right that it's not a zero-sum game. The best thing for everybody is maximum growth. In the year 1800 there was approximately zero concern for the welfare of the poor, and yet the breakneck growth in that century gave the poor vastly higher wages and made left-wing, pro-worker ideas like workplace safety and the weekend practical for the first time.

Sacrificing growth for a softer approach to life gives you neither.

The best way to ensure every kid has the resources they need is to first become a rich society. The second step is to ensure your society stays rich by focusing on getting richer. When you're tapping an exponentially growing system to feed the poor, your first priority is to keep that system growing as fast as possible, not to throw a wrench into it.
Very interesting! Needs the ability to scale the image at the same time.
or maybe don't use chat apps at all if you care about privacy. not a hard concept
Could an API contract be the mechanism to steer ecosystem participation?
Why would I want to hire all the engineers? Surely at least some share the blame. I don't really agree with you in general, but if I were starting a new company I'd probably be pretty selective about hiring Boeing engineers if I really thought it were a pervasive company culture problem.
A how-to guide for paying open source maintainers
Signal does have photo sharing, in HD quality too.
The only people wanting anyone to use MAUI are the MAUI team and even then only half heartedly.

Microsoft Build this year only discussed WinUI and WPF even.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dotnet/comments/1cy2u6l/microsoft_h...
Why?

Modern games all have 10GiB+ updated constantly that you're not disassembling.

What's the difference?
An API for polling data would be cool, one can dream
Why would lowering to 16 from 18 make a difference? Plenty of data out there shows that age demographic is the least likely to show up on election day and vote.
Time to first token is as important to know for many use cases, rarely are people reporting it
Slightly unrelated, but there's a whole industry on ADA compliance and randomly trying to sue people over it in the digital space (for website specifically.) Which seems like an issue that could -largely- be solved by the browsers themselves (animation pauses, contrast, font sizes, readable font switching, etc.) There's no telling how much companies spend on services like Accessible or Userway, etc. There's also a new industry on cookie & privacy compliance because of this too. I get privacy and ADA compliance, but some of this is just clearly written by the people making the tools. It's regulatory capture to the fullest extent. I found this out recently with a client wanting to pay through the nose to essentially have a whole separate company paid monthly to make sure the privacy policy and cookie policies meet various state laws. It's a bit ridiculous.
Except crew dragon is half the price and has flown repeatedly.

SpaceX absolutely has had lots of test failures - they've probably blown up more rockets then many recent players - but their cadence is super quick, and their cost per item far far lower and they seem to be able to fix stuff.
> Well, they failed their very first principle, didn't they.

Because the 0th principle is "Maximize short-term profits; disregard all other directives."
The one thing that shocked me after moving to the States was how no one washed their hands before meals. It's just not a thing.
Exploring GPU-to-GPU Communication: Insights into Supercomputer Interconnects
> Most people aren't actually interested in knowing what's going on.

I don't necessarily think this is the case, at least the US. It's time consuming and expensive to get testing done without an actual diagnosis, even with healthcare. Taking the time off or spending the money on allergy testing just isn't going to take command of the budget over necessities or more serious healthcare needs.

You're right about the rest of it though, but IMO the systemic issues with money in politics prevents anything from being done about it at the moment, and I don't know what it would take to push the working class into a general strike or revolt.
The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art
Men drop out of college; women most affected
It seems, then, that Venturi and Scott turned out to be like the torpedo fish. That the columns should confuse and disorient the visitor as if entering a crypt.
> Canadians think they're American

As a Canadian who is in the process of immigrating to the US, I feel that most Canadians think they are more similar to European than American. I'm basing this from having interacted with many Canadians during grad school in the US whom it would greatly trouble them if someone thought they were American. Perhaps it is a generational thing because I think my parents would probably say American if forced to choose but would say they are Canadians. Perhaps it is an international student perspective. I think most Canadians who think they are American just immigrate.
I don't see where this is mentioned. I would think they would use a hydraulic cylinder and a heat exchanger to separate the primary loop from the secondary loop.
See here for our TTFT metric benchmarks: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/llama-3-1-instruct-70b/...
Microsoft Offloads the Mono Project to Wine
Didn't Doug Ford get elected repeatedly?
Cis women who rape women and cis men who rape men have always gone to prisons aligned with their gender identity. The issue with the normalization of rape in prison is unrelated, and should be solved without throwing trans people under the bus
Yeah but Netflix won't serve you 4k on a PC unless you use Edge (not even chrome iirc) or their windows app. Screenshot those and you'll get black rectangles.
> one of the most difficult problems facing Western/global civilization is the construction of a belief system that understands this flaw of nihilism and presents a strong argument for the alternative, factoring in scientific knowledge

Do you have any suggestions for this future belief system?
Probably an accelerometer.
At least it's relatively culturally neutral in Cambridge, UK. Putting up a Confederate flag in Cambridge, MA feels like it would be risking property damage the next time the Progressive student mob gets a bee in their bonnet.
Yes.

https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/
What Is a Password Hash?
This is just using a different definition of "nuclear waste". What most people mean by this (and are concerned by) is something that is radiologically dangerous and has to be stored for thousands of years, but no such thing exists. There are things that are radiologically dangerous, but they have short half lives and are commercially valuable. Then there are things that "last for thousands of years" (e.g. Pu-239), but Pu-239 is only mildly radioactive and has commercial and government uses as fissile material. In fact, building new reactors is the best way we know of to get rid of it.

What you're referring to ("low-level waste") is this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste#Low-level_wa...

> Low-level wastes include paper, rags, tools, clothing, filters, and other materials which contain small amounts of mostly short-lived radioactivity. Materials that originate from any region of an Active Area are commonly designated as LLW as a precautionary measure even if there is only a remote possibility of being contaminated with radioactive materials. Such LLW typically exhibits no higher radioactivity than one would expect from the same material disposed of in a non-active area, such as a normal office block.

This isn't really "nuclear waste", it's ordinary rubbish that was near radioactive material so people are paranoid about it out of an abundance of caution. And any radioisotopes that are present in it will follow the same rule -- anything with high radioactivity decays quickly. It's no great mystery how to deal with that sort of thing; you store it for a short number of years to let anything with a short half life decay and then you treat it as any other trash.
I couldn't agree more, and would even say more that Windows is just such a mess. Often even new windows programs look like they are from the days of Windows 98.
2021. See also
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In the early internet years, your ip address was your identifier. It would have been absurd for your ip address to ever change. That changed quickly.

In the early internet years, fixed ports were the service locator. Yet this has not evolved.

As another commentor said, you can now only run one instance of a service per IP, which is aburdly wasteful of the possible ~65k inbound ports. TLS and SNI have come up with workarounds, but the root problem is still, port numbers should be available for anything, and we should have a system for service location. DNS is certainly an option, but there are other practical ways to do it.
Just a little teeny tiny bit of morbid curiosity, Blitzortung can also serve as a civilian early detection system for nuclear detonations in the rare, unusual, pesky occurrences of nuclear armageddons ;), a nuclear bomb detonation would show up in the signal with a much higher magnitude than a lightning strike and therefore could be easily detected as well, right?

If so, then it would be useful if Blitzortung could classify unusually high magnitude events and send out a special kind of notification. you would see the notification before you hear anything in the news (that is if you're still alive to see the notification and check Blitzortung).
Analyzing the Use of Time Signatures from Radiohead's Pyramid Song [video]
The video talks about the time signature being 4/4, and why it sounds unsettling through the use of odd chord changes, and swung tempo.
just because it doesn't guarantee expertise doesn't mean it's not still the only way there
And in some places, even traffic is too much (possibly prompted by "but covid" at some point and working out just fine for some.) https://old.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/11nbnxw/san_f...

There was / is also the effective strike against DAs and courts.
Ask HN: Do You Want Superhuman but for All Your Files?
Productivity, speed, keyboard shortcuts, quick access for files across Google Drive, Dropbox, macOS, and iPhone, managed from a single desktop app.