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AC came to predominate precisely because it is easier to work with at an infrastructure level. Stepping voltages with transformers is simple and easy.

If you're AC all the way, there's never a need to rectify your generator, either.

Can be quite a bit -- the low bidder gets the job and gets paid. The higher bidder doesn't get paid and gets to continue looking for work.

Can this be used to mount Drive under linux?

Cornell University's fight-song is about failing out of school, or perhaps being expelled.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_My_Regards_to_Davy

If you want to "stick" to spacetime, there must be a reference frame that is somehow different from all the others. There is presently no experimental evidence for any such frame, despite a century or two of searches by very clever people.

Too many.

As an experimentalist who worked in the field for a long time, my answer to the title is: The Equivalence Principle.

Because gravitational charge and inertial mass are seemingly inseparable from one another, gravity is special. It is the concept that makes General Relativity possible and the empirical fact that makes gravitational experiments difficult and unlike any other.

Attorney-time isn't just for drafting simple documents. It is also for knowing which documents to send and when.

Why did the safe fail to protect the paper -- too hot, too long?

I'm a little sad that the mission-planning team didn't include a "Look out below!" warning on the other side of the plaque.

Dropping a half-ton, two-foot-diameter, sphere of brass out of orbit is something of a health hazard to whatever life forms might have to catch it. If Miley Cyrus needs a follow-up hit, "Wrecking Ball" and "LAGEOS" have the same number of syllables.

GOCE is a wonderful (and beautiful) experiment. Its scientific contributions are particularly wonderful.

When I think of pretty gravity experiments, there are many, as the form must follow the function and gravity is geometry.

I'm particularly partial to the laser-ranging satellites:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAGEOS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LARES_(satellite)

LARES is particularly cool, as it is (and may forever be) the densest object of its mass in the solar system. As so many gravity experiments go, systematic uncertainties are more-important than raw signal, though, so LARES 2 is composed of nickel instead of tungsten. It'll still be quite a day when LARES 1 re-enters; it'd be quite a sight to see.

We have a battery-recycling bowl at home as well as drawers holding old phones.

My guess is that batteries are more-often recycled than phones/laptops, even just on data-privacy issues alone.

I think Twitter's popularity and endurance suggests that there is interest in that global groupchat.

What's unclear to me is whether or not there is enough money in it to make it worth maintaining/moderating.

40 minutes is a very long time, especially in the rare-isotope world.

A sticker or a "skin" might solve the first concern?

As stated here, too: https://twitter.com/janiskirsteins/status/164464092400422093...

If your executor sends GitHub a death-certificate, that problem is completely resolved.

At ~$150k per willfully-infringed work, infringement at scale gets expensive real quick.

Do you feel lucky? What if a specific version of Stable Diffusion is found to be infringing and there's a way to back-attribute an image to it?

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/504

It seems that the more useful way to use AI would be TDD, where you write the tests and perhaps a simple implementation, and AI makes the implementation good/fast and points out inconsistency in the tests.

The AI process isn't going away, but suits like these will preserve the opportunity for artists and coders alike to get paid for their work or choose the terms under which it is shared.

Without enforcing copyright rules on AI, it may mean the end of copyright entirely.

I share a lot of images under CC-BY-SA-NC and share code under the GPL. If someone can train a model off my work and disregard the terms under which I have shared it, copyright is my only enforcement mechanism.

If low-end rents double, building housing looks a lot more attractive.

As near as I can tell, Mastodon doesn't really have #2 in the list above. Last I heard, the social architecture was hostile to comprehensive indexing of the entire fediverse for search.

That's probably one of the biggest reasons that I have remained on Twitter even after setting up a Mastodon persona.

Just adding to the chorus that job-loss is a "qualifying life-event" that bypasses the annual cycles.

There's a further subtlety -- the US would like to retain the capability to do this work without funding the entirety of the work itself. A lot of the expertise and infrastructure is unique and world-class.

In my view, the entire field is on pause awaiting the development of truly transformative accelerator technology, then it's off to the races again.

"In that sense, this new knowledge has all to do with honor and country but it has nothing to do directly with defending our country except to help make it worth defending." -- Wilson.

If Meta has registered the work with the copyright office, the statutory damages in this case, should llama-dl lose, might be quite large.

Check in with an attorney before launching a battle with an opponent who has unlimited resources. There are likely to be many similar test cases in the coming year, perhaps more-readily fought.

Readability is one of the key goals of open-source software.

That said, the inclusion of GPL-licensed code in training sets may yet force the release of those models under the GPL.

Encyclopedias and journalism are copyrightable even when they include articles about copyrighted works (books, films, etc.).

It is my understanding that there are radiation detectors at the entrances to recycling furnaces (as well as elsewhere in the US transportation-chain) for just this purpose.

As someone tasked with unwinding a grandparent's ultimately-less-than-economical dream, please check in with your descendants before binding them into a sticky situation.

One of the greatest gifts you can give your heirs is freedom. (and an organized will/estate)

Are your descendants interested in a syrup-kingdom?