Prof. David Kipping had a recent video on his Cool Worlds youtube channel about "TARS". Which would be capable of launching tiny sensor probes out into space by accelerating them on a spinning foil.

I would expect the AI to say "fix the core routing network" based on the last problem I had. It turns out the ISP's config is broken for IPv6 BGP via two different backends on their system to the same router on my end. I kept getting the BGP packets on the wrong interface so one link would never come up. I have no idea how that would happen but it did. Oddly the v4 BGP works quite well.

Base load coal power in China is about $25/MWh. Solar panels by the container ship load cost less than $0.20 a watt at the factory. Most of that cost is the energy to make them. A good guess for daily average solar production is 4 hrs a day at 100% power for total power produced over the 20 year expected life of the panel.

No way! HOLY SHIT!! Wow!

When are advertisers going to learn that too many ads run people away from their product. That has been a great deal of technical market research that proves that. The bottom line after increases in ad spend also proves it. I guess the people buying ads haven't collectively figured out that the only people who are falling for the ad agency's BS is the ad buyers, not the end customers. There is plenty of data showing only 2 commercials in a typical sitcom work which is the 1st one past the end and the one before it starts. The rest of the commercials in a sitcom decrease brand value.

The Aussie ABC has a show called Gruen which is about ads and covers the technical and psychological details behind advertising while making fun of bad ads. The show was named after the well studied psychological technique of confusing customers with shop layout.

Reddit is upset that Anthropic is taking a dubious approach to Redditâ(TM)s usersâ(TM) consent - when thatâ(TM)s Redditâ(TM)s job.

A site thatâ(TM)s switched its terms to grant itself the right to sell its usersâ(TM) content, blocked accounts for trying to delete their content⦠is upset that someone else is acting similarly dubiously.

By all means, Reddit, call it for what it is: You have something you think is valuable, others think is valuable, and you want to force them to pay you for it, not take it for free.

But donâ(TM)t pretend itâ(TM)s about user consent. Youâ(TM)re in NO way doing this to protect your users from exploitation, you just want to be sure youâ(TM)re the ones profiting from it.

You'll be too intellectually lazy to learn either one of those things so it seems a moot point.

Have you seen the British comedy show The League of Gentlemen? There's an episode with a sketch (also in their live show) about "death by Mau Mau." Except in that joke its about shoving fruit up your butt.

I like the 34 time convicted felon angle a lot. Not because I'm particularly pro Trump or anti Trump. I just like that depending on which judge is doing the talking he's either a 34 time convicted felon or a man who had 34 convictions thrown out on appeal. So is he or isn't he? With the mix of judges in this country and their various loyalties the world may never know.

Retina damage isn't the only eye damage that can be caused by IR lasers. The iris, lenses, muscles and nerves that control them can also be damaged resulting in blindness or serious loss of vision.

If this system can damage a camera, it should not be on the road.

Using cars?

Sun tried that 25 years ago and even today it is hard to find correct examples of how to create the configuration to make it useful. There were a lot of good things in Trusted Solaris that never got used even in most places that decided they needed the "Trusted" version.

No one at Disney was put off at the thought after watching the animatronic Eagans in Severence?

It is hard to tell if the sun is upside down but the moon sure is.

What happens in countries that have all their internet links cut at the same time?

I'm still looking for one real world example where a short cert expiry time solved a problem.