My late wife did undergraduate research in photosystem II where there was quantum effects back in 2002. She did her PhD thesis on proton coupled electron transfer (PCET) in soybean lipoxogenase, then had a long career developing models for Fortran code that did quantum simulation of proteins (she was behind Tagdock in Amber MD). This is nothing new; several biological systems have quantum effects that are central to their mechanism.
Trump sucks but occasionally his hamfisted ire is aimed at reasonable targets. The H1B system has been pretty terrible for workers for a long time. Employers use H1Bs to overwork and underpay migrant workers, using the serious disruption of losing visa status as a bargaining chip, while depressing the wages of permanent residents.
I don't have much faith that Trump will actually execute this move as advertised without corruptly benefiting himself or some wealthy donor, but on its face I support it.
Woah... Dumb question, but would a wing spar be repairable or replaceable?
Coward said, because when the wing falls off at 30,000 feet, rest assured - it's okay, because Airbus has good documentation. All fixed.
No, of course a broken spar is A Very Bad Thing when it happens in midair.
Is this changing-the-timing-chains-in-an-Audi difficult, or is this replacing-your-spinal-cord-without-killing-you impossible?
Are these planes repairable? I think it's a reasonable question.
(Of course, with the Audi, if has anything more than a loose gas cap it's not economically feasible to repair, but that's what you get with European engineering.)
Tucker Carlson is that you
It's just that the entire YouTube is appallingly bad.
A lot of the audio production in individual videos is really bad. This isn't anything to do with YouTube per se, not their compression algorithms or other features. A lot of YouTubers have absolutely no concept of microphone placement, of using audio compression, of reducing background noise. All of which are things which will drastically affect audio quality and the ability of a speech-to-text model to create subtitles.
It would be nice if YouTube would normalize all the uploaded videos to one set standard. Note I'm not suggesting that they compress the videos as that might change the intended presentation of professional audio productions. I just mean peak-finding normalization which could be implemented losslessly and without breaking existing video links.
Having said that, when I look at my own channel - and I am not claiming to have great audio; I have a host which would destroy a lavalier microphone in mere seconds. YouTube's subtitling is really good. It automatically switches between English and French and Hebrew, and even with a fair bit of background noise (welding, grinding, cooking, crowd noise, music) it generally gets the text correct. So I don't know what the original complaint is, except that it's not perfect. Well, guess what, neither is human hearing. How about that famous Jimi Hendrix line, "Excuse me while I kiss this guy."
What more is there to say?
I'm doing just fine with a 128g Mac Studio M1 Ultra. Editing 4k video weekly for Airwindows. Not sure 'certain tasks' is anything BUT local AI.
Prohibition was repealed.
I don't disagree. Personally I think the Federal government got too powerful after the civil war & we really don't even have the same type of government that the founders envisioned.
I'd be somewhat in favor of an Article 5 convention so long as any changes had to be subject to a vote like the President is elected. The Electoral Collage system is absolutely brilliant & gives the individual vote maximum power because a handful of voters can change the outcome of an entire election. If people really want something they need to get out and vote. If you stay home you can't complain if the other side doesn't.
Anyway, good luck to us all.
Well you're not wrong. Most people forget the 9th & 10th amendments and what they actually say.
9. The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
- Basically saying, "just because we listed a few specific Rights here, that doesn't mean those are the only ones The People have."
10. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
- The Federal Government is not permitted to just assume new powers because we didn't specifically restrict it here. If it's not specifically listed in this document the government cannot do it.
How far afield of these rules has the Federal strayed? How much longer will The People tolerate it?
Wait, what?
The Constitution is a restriction on the powers of the Federal Government, not on Anthropic. The Federal Government does have the ability to "regulate commerce" under what is called the Commerce Clause in Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3.
I'm not sure what particular law(s) c/would apply here - if any - however I'm certain various courts might have to render a judgement.
William Shatner is a classically trained Shakespearean actor who appeared in festivals and on Broadway prior to switching from stage to television. His TOS enunciation and emphasis is due mostly to his experience with radio performances (which were over the top verbally) combined with directors on TOS constantly telling him to increase the astonishment. And in reality, wasn't anywhere near as pervasive or dramatic as the pop culture version that pokes fun at Kirk.
I'm reminded of all the BMW cars I've previously owned where it was often said "If there's no oil under it, there's no oil in it"...
Ahh, yes... German cars. If every decent car company does something with 6 parts, the Germans will find a way to make it require 27 parts. All of which are horribly expensive and require specialized tools to install. Or they'll put the timing system at the back of the engine so that a routine service item becomes an engine-out procedure. Garbage cars driven by people who don't know any better.
The space station leak reminds me of an old trick for a leaky cooling system in a car: put pepper into the radiator.
The little flecks of ground pepper get washed around the cooling system and eventually block tiny cracks in the radiator or other places. Putting a raw egg into a *cold* radiator will do the same thing; when the engine gets warm it cooks and blocks the leak. Both of these tricks have saved me on the road, they do work. But they are temporary and you need to thoroughly flush the cooling system after the repair.
I wonder if the Space Station has had the same sort of thing happen - airborne dust blocking a leak?
For 17 years before Oct 7, Gaza lived under an Israeli-imposed land, air, and sea blockade that restricted food, fuel, medicine, movement, and trade, widely described as collective punishment of 2+ million civilians.
Or, maybe because Palestinians keep on attacking Israelis (and everyone else) in the name of their Pedophile Prophet - peace be upon the illiterate 7th-century caravan robber and warlord - so Israelis rightly have no interest in incorporating them into civil society.
clean water became scarce,
...because the Palestinians were digging the water pipes out of the ground and turning them into makeshift rockets...
electricity was limited to hours a day,
...electricity and desalinated water which were both being provided by Israel because the Palestinians are more concerned with appeasing their Pedophile Prophet than with getting their shit together and building power plants and desalination plants...
making Gaza unlivable.
Gaza is unlivable because of the Gazans. Somalia is unlivable because of the Somalis. All of the Muslim world is unlivable because Islam is an evil ideology. The Jewish people (People of Judea) were established in Israel 6,000 years ago and laid the groundwork for the establishment of Western Civilization, approximately 4,500 years before a self-important warlord and pedophile declared himself to be the messenger of something called allah.
And what is allah? God is supposed to be omniscient. So He tells us to call Him yud-hey-vav-hey... but then after meeting the Pedophile Prophet, He changes His mind and wants to be called allah? An omniscient being didn't know in advance what He wants to be called and changes His mind about His own name? This is NOT the God of the Jewish and Christian people.
You're free to believe whatever you want. But when what you believe promotes death for the sake of forcing your beliefs on others, it's time for your ideology to take a long and hard look in the mirror.
This is what Israel is fighting. How to beat your wife - according to Palestinian TV.
There are two kinds of people in the world: there are those who you can negotiate with, and there are those who fly airplanes into buildings. You cannot negotiate with this. You cannot make peace with this. The only thing they understand is being completely and utterly obliterated, and then playing the victim.
I wouldn't wipe my ass with the Palestinian flag. Doing so would be disrespectful to my feces.
If a train station is a place where a train stops, what's a workstation?
