Iâ(TM)ve been working with Cursor for the last six months now and paying for it. Itâ(TM)s certainly not going to replace a coder anytime soon, generating code from the chat prompt is marvelously boilerplate. Has it been a time saver? Absolutely yes!

What I love most about Cursor is writing a comment on what the code should do next and the AI provides a suggestion. I find that these suggestions are really helpful for articulating the solution. Sometimes it just spits out a complete solution, obviously a problem others have already encountered.

When coding in a new context, exploring new algorithms, Cursor can get annoying, suggestions are less helpful, mostly repetitive and can break the thread of my thoughts. In those scenarios I disable the AI. Afterwards, I let the AI review my code and it has been surprisingly good in catching corner cases and incomplete conditionals.

My personal opinion is favorable, my work is greatly helped coding with Cursor, in Python3 and C++.

This is as dark a pattern as they come... Meta is becoming a true 'Hotel California'

Can you clarify your remark, are we talking detectors as in a site or detectors as in beams?These three sites each have two beams, so with good enough time keeping between them only two sites would be needed for determining direction.

In addition, I had the pleasure of talking with the project lead on the Einstein telescope (next gen gravitational wave detector), who mentioned that the nature of gravitational waves is such that the equilateral triangle design of the Einstein telescope can pinpoint the source.

Rail and Air do not compete on even terms, airlines still benefit from tax-breaks that are unavailable to road and rail. As soon as we fix the difference in tax pressures, airlines will be in a world of hurtâ¦

So what are you proposing? You have shared what you are against, so what are you for? What outcome do you seek?

Iâ(TM)ll be waiting with baited breath on Amnesty Internationalâ(TM)s opinion if this is or is not a war crime.

Does using a nuclear reactor as shield differ from using humans? The downstream effects seem terrible in both casesâ¦

Hyperspecific tasks hint at how they prepare the quantum computer for the calculation. Pristine environment hints at all the effort they are making to keep the quantum computer stable enough to complete that task.

How long will it take before we have enough error correction stability that we can load a task on demand into a quantum computer and get a result before that error correction is overwhelmed? It already takes time today to load a stating state into a computer for most calculations, how is a quantum computer different?

CERN is not a neutrino discovery tool, never was, never will be. The instruments needed for neutrino detection are a completely different design.

Please provide references for your other statements, otherwise I fear they are just opinion...

I use ZFS for my user and data directories. Striped, two-way mirror each for the home (7.25T) and data (3.62T) volumes. These are backed-up continuously via Crashplan/Code42 with a small business plan. As a secondary measure I have a backup-server sitting in the garage to which I send a monthly snapshot. The backup-server retains all monthly snapshot, while my primary machine releases them.

With Crashplan I can go back several months and years, depending on the latest change of layout. It is there primarily for peace of mind on the big disasters, and cheaper than S3 for my data volume.

My backup server has triple mirrored stripes to store all the snapshots from all my machines (11T) and my first ZFS snapshot is from 2009.
All my other machines run rsync continuously against a raspberryPi with a JBOD (3.6T) in my utility closet. The raspberryPi syncs with the ZFS data volume once every 24 hours.

Restoring a file is a chore, but not impossible. I did stop with minute and hourly based snapshots. ZFS provides protection against bitrot and other nastiness, I have just recently has a disk die on me, which I easily replaced.

Thanks,

to clarify, the battery drawdown happens only during Teams-calls.

As I said, Teams is the only application I have on my MacBook Pro that shows this behavior. None of it with Zoom, WebEx, Skype for Business, Discord, or Slack... or any other app I need for work (Office 365, IDE)....

Microsoft Teams is the only application I have ever had that draws down the battery of my MacBook Pro while connected to the charger, with the fans spinning in overdrive...

Unconnected to the charger I have about an hour of battery-life on Teams on my 2018 MacBook Pro 13". On Zoom I lose 40% of battery per hour...

... so what happened here?

Did Google lose sight of this once vaunted credo?

Seems like the almighty buck is winning again, instead of doing good in the eyes of the users by adhering to more stringent (and welcome) protections for the privacy.

Corporates do as corporate does I guess..

You need math to calculate the position and track of a satellite relative to your location.
Solar wind can heat the upper atmosphere increasing the drag on satellites hence making them decay more. Satellites need to actively manage their positions to deal with this (and other) effects.

Lightning flashes generally are not recorded by light telescopes because the domes are closed, they do interfere with radio astronomy.

Most observatories (radio and visual) are in population sparse areas and/or high/dry mountains.

No liquid nitrogen telescope was ever ruined by a satellite, tons of images were....

And you can't ignore data for half a second when you are exposing a sensor for 800... the image is tainted. Stacking will help but S/N becomes worse.

No real astronomer would be anti-satellite, as long as the numbers are within reason.

Since you are asking, I have a MsC in Astronomy, worked with Westerbork and VLA data, sat on a mountain in Chili for three weeks peering at the skies. Currently own three telescopes (14", 3" and 2"), many digital cameras and 2 CCDs.

And I am completely against these huge constellations being put into orbit without any consideration for the impact on science. At least they should take measures to minimize reflection and interference. I don't have many recent pictures of the night sky that are without satellite trails.