Yes, and those orbitals are defined by the electrostatic potential energy of the nucleus. And they're not really orbitals, they are complex wavefunctions. In a magnetic bottle, the potential is defined by the shape of the electric and magnetic fields. In 1D, a bit like a guitar string, where the wavefunction must go to zero at the trap's boundaries, but the string can vibrate in harmonics of the fundamental frequency and still satisfy the boundary conditions.

I don't know about the others, but Uber and Lyft are an absolute win for travelers due to universality. Before them, if you're in a foreign city and need to schedule a taxi, hopefully you're in a nice enough hotel that the receptionist will do it for you. Otherwise you could google around, find some listings with little more than a phone number, find that half of them don't actually serve your area (assuming you even know what neighborhood you're in), have no idea if they'll actually stick to the reservation and frequently won't have anyone manning the phone at 3 AM, and on and on. Sure there were plenty of perfectly decent taxi companies, but discoverability if you aren't a local was impossible. It's probably one of the few cases where a printed yellow pages actually worked better than the internet.

Now? Any city in the US and most of the world, one app is all you need. Any price difference is almost immaterial to that convenience. AirBNB doesn't have that, because there are dozens of hotel listing aggregators. They have to compete on either price, which they can't do, or providing some service or experience that hotels don't.

It's not about cleaning before another guest shows up, it's to prevent dirty dishes sitting in the sink growing mold for a few days before they can get cleaned. And most places I've stayed want you to strip the beds you've used mostly as a way to indicate which bedding needs cleaning.

Sure, you're supposed to be renting a private home, just like Uber was supposed to be ridesharing with someone who was already going that way anyway. In reality Uber is a taxi company, and the vast majority of airbnbs are dedicated rental properties, most handled by a company that does rental management and not the owner.

We don't have the technology to shoot anything into the sun.

Meta needs the government to pass a Westfall Act, then it can do whatever crimes it wants (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSaleh_v._Bush)

If you buy a movie or (old) game on physical media, you only "own" it as long as that media lasts. So what about downloads? When I buy a game on steam or PSN, I can re-download it as many times as I want. That's one of the benefits I get in exchange for sacrificing my right to resell. There's no way they can make a law that would compel digital storefronts to keep downloads available indefinitely, that has a real cost. But with current storage costs, it would cost me about 5X as much as my gaming rig to keep a copy of every game I "own" on-hand, and I'm not an edge case.

Since I regularly play NMS without any network connection enabled, you must not know what you're talking about.

It was probably the other O'Neil, with one L. He has no sense of humour at all.

I could understand bots and mailing lists. The thing I never understood with LinkedIn was how many real people (usually recruitment agents) had apparently spent the time to read my profile and send me a personalised message, yet still thought I'd be interested in a job paying half the market rate for someone with my skills and experience.

I don't know what you mean. Look at the improvement in hiring when you can advertise an open position on LinkedIn and get maybe 100x as many applicants as before! OK, probably 99% of them will be completely unqualified for the role and barely capable of pushing the instant application button, but how is that a problem, really? Surely hiring managers can easily filter them out and no qualified applicant will ever get lost in the noise?

It's like a video I saw on YouTube the other week. Someone was talking all about "skills" for their AI agents and how they'd automated so much of their workflow using them. They started the video by kicking off four different tasks for separate agents to show how productive it was to have all this stuff happening in parallel and how it was so quick and easy to organise.

One of the tasks involved producing an infographic about a certain topic, and the AI duly produced one based on a one-liner prompt, taking only a few seconds of the presenter's time and with no further input from them about the content. The infographic had exactly the level of quality you'd expect from this: a load of boxes and arrows (with some of those arrows starting or finishing floating in space without connecting anything) and some words (a few of which might have been related to the topic mentioned in the prompt).

That infographic was the only substantial output from the whole exercise. It was the worst kind of AI slop imaginable, generated with literally no thought or oversight from the presenter beyond a couple of words about the topic as part of that one-liner prompt. This was probably about the average level of the LinkedIn posts I used to see before I left as well. As you said, I'm not sure you can be a "thought leader" without doing any thinking.

I stopped using LinkedIn when they seemingly decided my account wasn't about me (despite having obvious and publicly verifiable details right there in the description) and wanted me to verify my ID using one of the US-based services with a questionable reputation to get my access back. That's not going to happen, so I just don't use the site any longer.

As far as I can tell, that has made zero difference to my career, and it's one fewer drain on my time. The only thing I have missed is seeing the occasional good news story where a past colleague has been promoted or the like, but I'm not giving up my government-issued credentials to the US-based data harvesting industry for that.

Yes. The question whether people are allowed to use AI for every aspect of kernel development is different to the question of transparently declaring use of outside material (the model). I understand the reasoning for deciding on the former, but not for the latter. Now we will no way to tell.

The comparison to compilers, checkers and editors is not a good one for copyright and intellectual attribution.

> Tesla has yet to disclose key specifications, including range...

310-320 miles as per https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Finsideevs.com%2Fnews%2F812...

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A well thought out strategy it seems to me: More and more they cannot compete with cheaper Chinese electric cars of equal or better quality for the common consumer, in part because of salaries. So they have to go for some higher price regime, and consequently deliver something attractive for that price. The luxury car segment is already taken, so they went for something with a cool-factor - that the Tesla cars had from the beginning, and they chose a direction that only works with their synergies with SpaceX, so no other company can have delivered this.