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Using this military metaphor to describe operations against America's own government is absolutely wild to me. It's legitimately shocking to me how extreme people have become over the past ten years.

The size of the federal workforce has not grown in 50 years.

These cuts will make no impact on the federal debt.

DOGE is breaking every federal records law there is with no oversight.

Elon Musk has clear, undeniable conflicts of interest at play here.

But people are celebrating because the federal government is .. slow, relies on the interpretation of complex law and procedure, and I guess is nice to women and minorities.

I use these three stations professionally and haven't had a pre-train ticket check in maybe 5 or 6 years.

You need to talk to an attorney, as this understanding is incomplete. Parties can and do sue the federal government all the time. Look at the Supreme Court decisions this week alone which include several cases against the United States.

But I also suggest physically going to your congressperson’s office (the local one in your district, not DC) and explaining the situation. Instead of calling/waiting for a response.

Good luck.

Not sure about JWST, but for Earth-observing satellite data it's common to store data in formats that support tiling and ranged reads so that clients are only loading the parts of the dataset relevant to current view.

My guess is something similar is happening here on the other side of that library.

Yes, the daytime imagery does not use the SWIR band which is why it looks totally dark. Here is an eclipse image with the SWIR band: https://i.postimg.cc/zf6yHXSy/IMG-5031.png

The ABI on GOES-16 is not exactly like a camera. Instead it collects light across different spectral bands and stores them independently. So when you see a color image from GOES, it's actually a composite of specific bands. I don't know how NESDIS (source of the imagery here) does it, but a common way to produce "true color" imagery for this class of satellites is to superimpose their red band, their blue band, and an interpolated "green" band.

The ABI also collects shortwave infrared light, which is still possible to observe at night. Since the satellite's normal use is for atmospheric weather observations, it's common to show the SWIR bands at night so that that clouds are still visible.

Here is a previous eclipse I strung together a few years ago from Himawari-8, a JAXA satellite: https://earth.apawl.com/eclipse/earthimagesequence/1280-h264...

Which mixtral are you using with ollama? I have 32GB M1 MacBook Pro and can’t seem to load it / get any time-realistic responses

They were giving them away to their DVD subscribers -- unclear how much of their catalog it actually represented.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/netflix-will-let-you...

Re: Scorpion, I’ve been persuaded by the argument put forth In Blind Man’s Bluff, that a faulty torpedo battery overheated and kicked off a sequence of events ultimately resulting in sinking and implosion.

I agree, specifically the part where they note that probability of collision was greater than 1 in 10k but that they were unable to address the situation (forcing an Earth observation satellite to maneuver).

edit: Maybe I'm being unnecessarily salty, but it's worth noting on their track record.

It's interesting to see SpaceX doing PR around this. They've quite visibly declined (possibly failed) to maneuver things in the past: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanocallaghan/2019/09/02/s...

That’s a shame. After building a few of my own computers/servers with used parts over the years, I switched to buying used NUCs for my last two projects (computer in my shed/workshop for basic CAD, and a quicksync plex transcoding box). I’ve found them more meaningfully powerful than a raspberry pi but much smaller than a large computer. I was hoping with ARM advancements that we’d see some super low power NUCs in the future.

It’s called price fixing: https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/gui...

While it might be true that 23andMe complies with court orders in specific cases, there is likely a distinction between individual subpoenas and carte blanche catalog access for law enforcement. I say this because a famous cold case in Philadelphia was recently solved with genetic geneaology and the researcher notes explicitly that law enforcement uses GEDMatch and not Ancestry or 23andMe for these cases [0]

[0] https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/joseph-zarelli-bo...

For launching payloads into LEO? Yes, see Rocket Lab. Small sat operators are using both.

That's not a great analogy. Nobody "placed" any sort of tracking on his jet. The plane publicly broadcasts its location information out in the open. Somebody just looked at the information and tweeted it.

The magic proclamation is actually going the other way. If the company is ending the employment, that is termination. The company does not get to simply say "well you've resigned."

Perhaps you're not arguing termination vs resignation but rather whether they're entitled to unemployment and wrongful termination protection? That's more open for debate, but the former employees are entitled to those considerations (which they would not be had they resigned).

Aside: there is no "technically resigned" here, if they're referring to Musk's loyalty-pledge deadline. Those employees have been terminated -- and are entitled to unemployment and wrongful termination protections.

Based on your architecture diagram it looks like you're spinning up an instance per-user? As you're probably finding now, you will hit AWS limits quickly.

You might instead want to have a smaller pool of (larger) servers that you run co-resident VMs on with https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/. That will avoid account limits and also keep your AWS costs more predictable.

The authority in the English language is Marcella Hazan. Her "Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking" is probably the most comprehensive if you check out only one.

Re: SSM parameters, my wish is for AWS to implement resource policies in the same way KMS, S3, etc have. The public use case wish is nice, but I'd like to be able to share params within my org as well.

Right now we copy params (AMI IDs) to SSM Param Store in hundreds of accounts. It would be nice to write them once and open them up via policy.

Can multiplexing be disabled via `sshd_config`?

Just wanted to give a major +1 to xarray. It is an excellent approach to labeled n-dimensional arrays, and has a good ecosystem/community in the Earth Science domains..

One nice integration with xarray is with an optimized data store like Zarr [1], TileDB [2] or Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs [3], where you can pull only the pieces of the nd-array relevant to your problem, rather than downloading a large monolithic netCDF4 file.

Another great integration in the xarray ecosystem is Dask [4], which is a very thoughtful abstraction over parallelizing computations across your nd-array.

[1] https://zarr.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

[2] https://tiledb.com/

[3] https://www.cogeo.org/

[4] https://dask.org/

You can export data via Snowball as well.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/snowball/latest/ug/create-export...

This is the intended behavior/deployment model of Algo (as a dedicated VPN server on a dedicated VM).

If you are running other co-resident services and need more lenient firewall rules / system configuration, you should consider another option.

That’s interesting, regarding Lodge, but I could replace this 6 times and still spend less than the cost of one Le Creuset. (I appreciate irony of this point in contrast with my “buy it for life” point above.)

America’s Test Kitchen is another service that’s interesting in the context of the article. They aren’t a sexy Instagram brand, but are a service that should thrive in this space. I’m wondering if they’re getting the adjacent bump from all of this.

While I don’t have Instagram or Twitter, another area you see this phenomenon is YouTube. Channels like Bon Appetit have quietly become huge.

Also, while the author is correct on the status symbol nature of these two brands, they only very quickly note that both KitchenAid and Le Creuset are historically “buy it for life” tools in a world of planned obsolescence.

That being said, I use a $40 Lodge enameled cast iron Dutch oven, and it works just as well. I’m curious about cheaper KitchenAid alternatives.

You may want to edit your original post to reflect this.

Here is the NASA Inspector General’s report on JPL cybersecurity practices from last year: https://oig.nasa.gov/docs/IG-19-022.pdf