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I found "Change Order" a pleasure craft out of Alabama.

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/sd97i4/read_dinghy_n...

It'd be awesome if there was enough metadata to link across to an AIS aggregator/map like https://www.marinetraffic.com/

> Unlinking one's identity from one's actions and speech

This is an odd formulation. What is one's identity other than one's actions (physical body) and speech (mental state serialized into language)?

It is interesting that Western Sahara never developed piracy enterprises similar to Somalia. Is it some combination of:

  * stronger government control from Morocco than Somalia has had internally
  * little indigenous sea-faring populations outside of controllable cities
  * sea lanes with less hospitable currents
  * something else?

"Dean and Google senior fellow Sanjay Ghemawat are starting Discovery Loop, an independent publicity benefit corporation in which Google will be an investor and cloud provider.:

Kinsley Gaffe: A mistake whereby a politician inadvertently says something truthful which they had not meant to reveal.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Kinsley_gaffe

I found it worthwhile and interesting. I'm not in deep with proxies every day and have never had to profile performance like this. The writing was very comprehendable to me and the summing conclusions rounded things out nicely. The first conclusion was probably the most practical takeaway: Codec defaults are performance changes. Its obvious in retrospect but also easy to glaze over when reading release notes.

Normalize usage of "have been granted a limited license for" instead of "own." The word "own" implies all manner of things that don't exist for things like Xbox games, Kindle titles, etc.

> Nolan could have shot it on anything he wanted, and he chose the less convenient way, because that is his process.

Kinda. There are also interesting technical reasons. From my lay person understanding:

  1. IMAX film is physically larger and creates a higher quality image
  2. Because of the size and machine noise close up dialog is normally redubbed.
  3. Nolan (and team?) came up with a method of sealing off the cameras' noise that made them even larger, so they had a system of mirrors that allowed the actors to interact in a more natural way and allowed close in capture by IMAX with integrated sound.

The system of mirrors reminds me of Errol Morris' Interrotron which allowed him to film an interviewee's face directly from the perspective of the interviewer.

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

The upper level of YouTube creators use direct product placement in their videos. This is direct content and ad integration that could be part of the content delivered via RSS as opposed to tracking systems and generic ad placement that cannot.

The recent @patio11 Complex Systems podcast lays out how it works:

https://www.complexsystemspodcast.com/episodes/justin-kuiper...

> lose the ability to control the feel of the post.

Agreed, rss was popular with people who wanted to decrease noise.

> RSS also kills monetization, since you can't have ads

This was the killer and the dumb part, because it could, but monetization sofar means integration with all the bad parts of the Internet that desire to track people.

On the bright side it isn't growing and is down from the pandemic-era 132% of GDP. (Although maybe that was because GDP shrank rather than any change in fundamental debt.)

There is a nine box chart with x-axis of doctrine or how it is used and y-axis of structure; each axis has three values, purist, neutral and radical.

For the purist in doctrine and structure, wood is not a battery. If one is somewhere between neutral and radical, then wood is a battery that was built by its integrated disposable solar cells.

Ukraine war inspired school safety subsidiary of Mithril Defense of Austin, TX.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/jul/28/school-sho...

https://www.campusguardianangel.com/

https://www.mithrildefense.com/

1. This CEO is a Canadian.

2. We already have a gerontocracy. Tying income to vote-weight just solidifies the problem since most people earn more as their career progresses.

3. An alternative: grant voting rights to all under 18, proxied by their parent/legal guardian. This provides better alignment to the interests of the future than good fortune.

What sort of interesting actuators are used that people might not commonly think of? (I'm thinking of interesting solutions like the JWST's mirror actuators [0].)

0. https://hackaday.com/2022/02/08/working-model-reveals-amazin...

I think the reasoning is similar to why Amazon notification emails are very generic: user data is used for various purposes that a growing number of users and 3rd parties have concerns about.

In addition to on-device, Apple is making efforts to secure computations that need to occur off-device, see: https://security.apple.com/documentation/private-cloud-compu...

Failures also have lots of valuable information. There was a recent Complex Systems podcast about efforts to glean pharma trials.

https://www.complexsystemspodcast.com/episodes/ruxandra-tesl...

Its amazing to see this beast and think that all the firey stuff isn't the primary energy source (although totally necessary to pushing the mass out the back fast enough).

  The reason it’s very small is that almost all of the energy in hydrogen and oxygen is not stored in the chemical binding energy of these things going together.

  The vast majority of it is stored in just the rest mass energy of the protons and the neutrons, which chemical burning doesn’t affect at all.

https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/adam-brown-gr

[Edit note: Starship and Booster are methalox, yes. The physicist is talking generically, not about this launch specifically)

It might be helpful to describe gravitational relationships with human generational terms of parent-child, grandparent-grandchild, sibling, cousin, etc. So the Sun is the Moon's gravitational grandparent and Jupyter is its parent-sibling (Aunt/Uncle, maybe pibling upwards and nibling downwards).

My lay person understanding is that supplemental creatine screws with a common lab test to screen for kidney problems. Let your physician know if you are taking any supplements so they can interpret your lab test results appropriately or order different tests.

https://www.kidney.org/kidney-topics/creatinine

> Do you have any aircraft on mind that can unfold its wing while flying?

XB-70 Valkyrie

Yeah, this is the first place my mind went with it. Aside from gate size category, folding wings could tighten up an overall airport like an aircraft carrier. Return to human-scale non-suburban airports (rip Mueller, Meigs et al).

The second place was the XB-70:

  The XB-70 was designed to use compression lift, a phenomenon also referred to 
  as Mach wave riding, which was demonstrated with the help of wind-tunnel 
  tests. It was shown to provide an increase in total lift at supersonic speeds 
  as wingtips folded downward, and would capture the shock waves generated by 
  the aircraft. Wing lift could therefore significantly increase by up to 30% 
  without any drag penalty.

https://commons.erau.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1343&co...

As well as find has an -exec param to perform things one at a time or all with the same command by using a slash semicolon or a plus sign respectively:

  #order files from different levels in a file hierarchy by size:
  find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -exec ls -hlrS {} +

  #output metadata for each file sequentially
  find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -exec file {} \;

find print0 with xargs 0 is such an awesome combination. One day I'll remember to use it instead of piping into while read ln; do ...

Out of the gate, Canada and the US share 1 as country code and includes entities that aren't countries like Globalstar (Mobile Satellite Service):

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

Her family had been in Egypt for 250 years, that's a long time for genetic admixture. Otoh, Continuing the tradition established by previous Egyptian dynasties, the Ptolemies engaged in inbreeding including sibling marriage, with many of the pharaohs being married to their siblings and often co-ruling with them.

  Ptolemy I Soter (305–282 BC)
  [... 20 people ...]
  Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator (51–30 BC)

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

Edit to append a topical story:

Birmingham native and civil rights activist Angela Davis, known as a part of the Black Power movement of the early 1970s, was shocked to learn that she is descended from a passenger on the Mayflower, one of the first settlers in America.

https://www.al.com/life/2023/02/civil-rights-activist-angela...

This is something I wasn't aware of that is fascinating. The ph balance of the rebar's environment determines the progression of oxidation. There was a guy in the 1920's who observed this and had the idea to put cement in paint; it was so successful he renamed the company to cement spelled backwards.

  Inside the concrete, Ca(OH)₂, which is generated by the hydration of cement, 
  creates a strongly alkaline environment, with a pH value of more than 12.7. 
  In this environment, a passivation film forms on the surface of the rebar to 
  prevent corrosion. However, the pH of the concrete decreases as micro-cracks 
  develops and chloride from the outside infiltrates the rebar. Eventually, as 
  the environment inside the concrete becomes neutralized, the corrosion of the 
  rebar accelerates, which reduces the overall durability and stability of the 
  reinforced concrete structure.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095006182...

  A sighting of preserved steel reinforcing bars sticking out of old concrete 
  rubble piqued the curiosity of our company founder, Albert C. Bean, Sr. After 
  investigating this finding, his company, Armor Oil & Chemical Company, began 
  producing a patented cement-filled coating formulation that, in its updated 
  form, still protects structures from corrosion today.

https://tnemec.com/about/

> installed under some works dept land/pole/utility access permits

Another option might be right of way or easement permitting, similar to how utility poles and such are regulated as private property with an allowance to be in a public space. If the provider got a permit to use the right of way separate from the contract, then the provider would retain the same right to be there as any other infrastructure.

> So these are only being used on active calls.

I see your distinction better now. The Reynolds essay speaks a little more to the issue at hand. Essentially the technology allows for scope creep. Previously the limiting factor for physical police surveillance was officer FTEs, which creates a lower bound for the conditions that predicate an "active call." When this constraint is lifted, then Prosecutors could easily fall prey to the temptation of “picking the man, and then searching the law books . . . to pin some offense on him.”

'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy

In this short essay, written for a symposium in the San Diego Law Review, Professor Daniel Solove examines the nothing to hide argument. When asked about government surveillance and data mining, many people respond by declaring: "I've got nothing to hide." According to the nothing to hide argument, there is no threat to privacy unless the government uncovers unlawful activity, in which case a person has no legitimate justification to claim that it remain private. The nothing to hide argument and its variants are quite prevalent, and thus are worth addressing. In this essay, Solove critiques the nothing to hide argument and exposes its faulty underpinnings.

https://scholarship.law.gwu.edu/faculty_publications/158/

See also "Ham Sandwich Nation: Due Process When Everything is a Crime"

The result of overcriminalization is that prosecutors no longer need to wait for obvious signs of a crime. Instead of finding Professor Plum dead in the conservatory and launching an investigation, authorities can instead start an investigation of Colonel Mustard as soon as someone has suggested he is a shady character.

https://columbialawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Rey...

Here is a RadioLab podcast [0] about the system from company Persistent Surveillance Systems [1].

An interesting dimension to systems similar to the US military's Gorgon Stare [2] program is that they are generalized rather than specific, unlike a quad following a specific person(s).

0. https://radiolab.org/podcast/eye-sky

1. https://www.pss-1.com/

2. https://longreads.com/2019/06/21/nothing-kept-me-up-at-night...