Comment Re:DOGE quality (Score 1) 11
If only this administration hired on merit.
And didn't doge - I mean, dodge - accountability and responsibility.
Comment Re:Was there a shortage? (Score 1) 52
I don't understand how decreasing import to the USA has increased buying in Europe. Was there a shortage and more was going to the US? Did they reduce prices in Europe? The article says "redirected a tsunami of cheap stuff into Europe", so I don't quite understand how the tariff in the US has increased buying in Europe.
Exactly. TFS and TFA state the following:
[TFS] The shift has been swift: exports of low-value Chinese packages to the U.S. have dropped more than 40% since May
Which is misleading as products aren't being pushed on Europe, or previously the U.S., people are buying/importing the stuff.
Comment I'll tell you what will cost Microsoft billions (Score 2, Insightful) 22
Fed up customers fleeing in droves.
Nobody likes Microsoft. Nobody has ever really liked Microsoft. But everybody puts up with Microsoft's low quality products and abuse because Microsoft is a monopoly that's hard to escape - particularly in corporate settings, and for gaming.
But they've really cranked up the abuse to 11 recently, with Windows becoming a terrible advertisement platform, requiring new hardware when people's old machines were still serviceable, the constant privacy invasion, relentless push for online accounts, for their cloud offerings, and now their godforsaken AI shit that literally nobody likes nor want. Not to mention upcoming price hikes for the privilege of getting all that enshittification thrown at your face...
Microsoft has gone too far for a lot of people, and people react by going to Apple or Linux. And quite frankly, personally, I desperately want Microsoft to continue shooting themselves in both feet like they're doing so they make themselves irrelevant as quickly and as thoroughly as possible, and we're finally, at long last, rid of them at last. 50 years we've been waiting! That's like half a century dude...
Submission + - Humans Made a Space Barrier Around Earth that Is Saving Us...Whoops! (popularmechanics.com)
joshuark writes: The mysterious zone of anthropogenic space weather is caused by specific kinds of radio waves that we’ve been blasting into the atmosphere for decades, but experts say the expanding band actually helps protect humankind from dangerous space radiation. NASA first observed this belt in 2012. The agency sends probes to explore different parts of our solar system, including the Van Allen Belts: a huge, torus-shaped area of radiation that surrounds Earth. The donut shape follows the equator, leaving the North and South Poles free.
The Van Allen Belts are related to and affected by the magnetosphere induced by the nonstop bombardment of the sun’s radiation. They affect benign-seeming magnetic effects like the Northern Lights, as well as more destructive ones like magnetic storms. People planning spaceflight through areas affected by the Van Allen Belts, for example, must develop radiation shielding to protect crew as well as equipment—and most spacecraft launch from as near to the equator as possible, right in the Van Allen zone.
So, what’s our new protective barrier? The same probes that launched in 2012 to help us understand the Belts better in the first place detected this phenomenon, and in 2017, the probes gave us the first evidence of the radio-wave barrier emanating from Earth.
Why is this? Well, the very low frequency (VLF) waves are exactly right to cancel out and repel the radiative advances of the Van Allen Belts as a matter of total coincidence. In fact, NASA initially considered this a true coincidence, saying that a radio wave area happened to match exactly with the edge of the Van Allen Belts.
Isn’t it interesting that VLF blankets the Earth without interfering with literally any other radio signal, for example, or the many other kinds of waves that flow around us all the time, but makes it into space far enough to push away harmful radiation?
This means that, for example, space programs could develop VLF technology to punch holes for spacecraft to travel through. As always, truth is stranger than fiction.
Maybe we won't have to worry about the Van Allen belt combusting and cooking all life on Earth as was suggested in the movie "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"...phew!
The Van Allen Belts are related to and affected by the magnetosphere induced by the nonstop bombardment of the sun’s radiation. They affect benign-seeming magnetic effects like the Northern Lights, as well as more destructive ones like magnetic storms. People planning spaceflight through areas affected by the Van Allen Belts, for example, must develop radiation shielding to protect crew as well as equipment—and most spacecraft launch from as near to the equator as possible, right in the Van Allen zone.
So, what’s our new protective barrier? The same probes that launched in 2012 to help us understand the Belts better in the first place detected this phenomenon, and in 2017, the probes gave us the first evidence of the radio-wave barrier emanating from Earth.
Why is this? Well, the very low frequency (VLF) waves are exactly right to cancel out and repel the radiative advances of the Van Allen Belts as a matter of total coincidence. In fact, NASA initially considered this a true coincidence, saying that a radio wave area happened to match exactly with the edge of the Van Allen Belts.
Isn’t it interesting that VLF blankets the Earth without interfering with literally any other radio signal, for example, or the many other kinds of waves that flow around us all the time, but makes it into space far enough to push away harmful radiation?
This means that, for example, space programs could develop VLF technology to punch holes for spacecraft to travel through. As always, truth is stranger than fiction.
Maybe we won't have to worry about the Van Allen belt combusting and cooking all life on Earth as was suggested in the movie "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"...phew!
Submission + - James Webb Space Telescope confirms 1st 'runaway' supermassive black hole (space.com) 1
schwit1 writes: Astronomers have made a truly mind-boggling discovery using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): a runaway black hole 10 million times larger than the sun, rocketing through space at a staggering 2.2 million miles per hour (1,000 kilometers per second).
That not only makes this the first confirmed runaway supermassive black hole, but this object is also one of the fastest-moving bodies ever detected, rocketing through its home, a pair of galaxies named the "Cosmic Owl," at 3,000 times the speed of sound at sea level here on Earth. If that isn't astounding enough, the black hole is pushing forward a literal galaxy-sized "bow-shock" of matter in front of it, while simultaneously dragging a 200,000 light-year-long tail behind it, within which gas is accumulating and triggering star formation.
That not only makes this the first confirmed runaway supermassive black hole, but this object is also one of the fastest-moving bodies ever detected, rocketing through its home, a pair of galaxies named the "Cosmic Owl," at 3,000 times the speed of sound at sea level here on Earth. If that isn't astounding enough, the black hole is pushing forward a literal galaxy-sized "bow-shock" of matter in front of it, while simultaneously dragging a 200,000 light-year-long tail behind it, within which gas is accumulating and triggering star formation.
Comment The WSJ outsmarted two AI vending machines ... (Score 1) 84
No wonder they haven't cave to Trump's lawsuits about their Epstein articles.
Submission + - Swearing Actually Seems to Make Humans Physically Stronger (sciencealert.com)
alternative_right writes: Eighty-eight participants, aged 18 to 65, all in good enough shape to exert themselves physically, were recruited at a university campus to participate in the first experiment.
They each selected a pair of words based on the following prompts: a swear word you might utter after bumping your head, and a neutral word you might use to describe a table.
Then, they undertook a chair push-up, which involves sitting in a chair and, holding each side of the seat, using your arms to lift your entire body weight (bottom off the chair, feet off the floor). ...Both experiments suggested that swearing offers an advantage in physical performance, with participants achieving longer chair push-up hold times as they repeated their foul-mouthed mantras.
They each selected a pair of words based on the following prompts: a swear word you might utter after bumping your head, and a neutral word you might use to describe a table.
Then, they undertook a chair push-up, which involves sitting in a chair and, holding each side of the seat, using your arms to lift your entire body weight (bottom off the chair, feet off the floor).
Comment Re:Not enough (Score 1) 111
The EU-laws are bad - immoral. You can't motivate a law with its own existence. C.f. laws against homosexual acts and sodomy. You are philosophically shallow.
Submission + - Man tailgates his way onto a flight at London Heathrow (telegraph.co.uk)
Bruce66423 writes: 'A man boarded a flight at Heathrow without a ticket, boarding pass or passport.
'The unnamed individual walked onto the 7.20am British Airways (BA) flight to Oslo, Norway, on Saturday after tailgating other passengers through security and evading checks at the departure gate.
'An aviation expert described the incident as a “significant lapse in security”, as a witness reported that cabin crew only detected the interloper because the flight was full and he kept sitting in passengers’ assigned seats.
'Police arrested the unnamed man, airport sources said, adding that he had passed through “full security screening” before reaching the gate.'
Given that he did go through the security check, this is merely embarrassing.
Compare and contrast
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fuk-...
'The unnamed individual walked onto the 7.20am British Airways (BA) flight to Oslo, Norway, on Saturday after tailgating other passengers through security and evading checks at the departure gate.
'An aviation expert described the incident as a “significant lapse in security”, as a witness reported that cabin crew only detected the interloper because the flight was full and he kept sitting in passengers’ assigned seats.
'Police arrested the unnamed man, airport sources said, adding that he had passed through “full security screening” before reaching the gate.'
Given that he did go through the security check, this is merely embarrassing.
Compare and contrast
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fuk-...
Comment Re:Should read... (Score 4, Insightful) 83
Show I don't watch will abandon Broadcast TV for streaming platform I don't use. I think it's safe to say that people over a certain age are never going to be watching the Oscars again because they won't know how to.
More to the point, if one is interested in who/what won what award - for some reason - it's easier to simply wait until the next day and read an article about it online somewhere. Same goes for any performances that may be entertaining. Why waste X hours watching either linear or streaming, especially if it contains commercials/ads. Personally, while I can see a point for the actual awards - it's nice to be recognized by your peers for your efforts - I can't really see a point to a (live) show about them. Same goes for all the other award shows.
Comment Re: Rust is NOT memory safe (Score 1) 151
You never see this kind of hardline, ultra-orthodox alignment with other languages, at this scale.
Tell Python programmers that white-space block delineation is dumb and braces are better.
Comment Re:Nope (Score 2) 151
The applicable bit here is that the rust compiler enforces memory ownership rules that ought to prevent multiple threads from modifying the same memory address. By using an "unsafe" block of code, you've told the compiler to turn those rules off.
At which point, you're (basically) using C - again. Not saying that there's no benefit to Rust and its safe(er) sections, but being a good Rust programmer doesn't make you a good C programmer, which (I'm guessing) is what you need more of for the unsafe sections. Rewriting things in Rust for the sake of it probably hinges on the ratio or safe to unsafe code, where those are and how they're maintained.
Comment re-write (Score 2) 151
CVE
Rewrites always carry the risk of new problems as well as old problems in new ways.
Just curious; was there a reason this coded needed to be rewritten or was it a failure to apply "if it's not broke, don't fix it?"
Comment Re:Banana Republic shit (Score 1) 107
Or Michelle Obama tried to get kids to eat healthier and exercise more - and got roasted by some on The Right. (but they're cool with RFK, Jr and all of MAHA)
Comment Re:Independent from whom? (Score 3, Insightful) 107
So "independent" agency really does mean the president can't use the agency to extort companies into punishing his "enemies"? Good to know... now how do we enforce that distinction?
Republicans will fight for it - when a Democrat is in office. Note that I'm not declaring that Democrats are definitely better, but more that Republicans aren't thinking the statement below through. Congressional Republicans are okay abdicating their authority and responsibility now, under Trump, but probably not so much when they're no longer in power, especially if (when) they lose the House and Senate in 2026 and the White House in 2028.
The extraordinary statement speaks to a broader trend of regulatory agencies losing power to the executive branch during the Trump era.
Republicans aren't thinking ahead and may just have to suffer through learning what things like the following mean: "reap what you've sown", "good for the goose, good for the gander", "what goes around, comes around", etc...
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