I am fluent in Spanish having been born and raised in Sunset Park, Brooklyn in the mid-60s through the mid-80s, which had a large Puerto Rican and Dominican population. Being half-Irish and half-Ukrainian, I spent some time at the Irish Arts Center in NYC learning Irish in the 90s. Given there were about 200k speakers of Irish worldwide back then, and now only 68k I believe, it was more of a curiosity for me then. I spent 7 years in SE Asia, and I learned Indonesian (intermediate still), but my Indonesian wife learned English faster than I picked up Indonesian, and I gave in to speaking English. I lived in East Java for a year, and I love Javanese, which Bahasa Indonesian draws much of its influence from among the 500 to 800+ languages spoken over the 17,000 islands of the archipelago. I am currently learning Arabic, after spending 8 months there over the past 24 months. I like the script and some of the language such as the root-based, three-letter mainly, structure. Spanish has been by far the most useful to me still living in New York State, but I am trying again to push my Indonesian for the sake of my children and to better communicate with my in-laws who know Indonesian, but are more at home with Javanese. I have played with learning Koine Greek over Homeric Greek to be able to read Marcus Aurelius or other contemporaries. I wish I could be fluent in at least three more languages other than my native English and Spanish. Harold Bloom's the "Loom of Language" sent me down the rabbit hole when I was in High School. People complain about having to have learned either Latin or Ancient Greek back in the day in High School, but now literacy in math and languages, seems to be tenuous at best. What happened? I grew up poor and with strife in my neighborhood, but the curriculum seemed so much more demanding. I don't know why; it's not my field of study or interest, but I am curious.
It is the maneuverability that makes them hard to actually hit, since it is not a simple parabolic or dumb ballistic missile trajectory, even if the ICBM or SRBM is going Mach 5, or hypersonic. That's why they usually don't include ICBMs and SRBMs in the 'hypersonic' category. A military arsenal needs to be diverse and hypersonic missiles have their uses for sure.
I meant to convey that the headline, "SpaceX launches military satellites tuned to track hypersonic missiles" makes it sound like we will have military satellites in position to counter Russian/Chinese/?'s hypersonic missiles, but this is in the deployment, pre-testing phase, so I am intimating it may seem to relieve the scare that has been in the media about hypersonic missiles, but it is 'false reassurance' because it is not a proven system. The headline would better read: "SpaceX launches military satellites tuned to track hypersonic missiles for testing", or something to that effect. Hypersonic missiles fly low and fast and are highly maneuverable, and given one hasn't been verified as shot down to date (I wouldn't include Ukraine's press release of shooting down 6 Russian Kinzhal missiles), should lend some skepticism about how effective we would be in countering them. Even Israel's Iron Dome lets missiles through and those are old tech. I agree with your last line, although tracking is one thing. Predicting trajectory is another, and hypersonics are maneuverable enough to thwart predictive trajectory intercepts.
I grew up in Sunset Park, Brooklyn in the mid-'60s to the '80s, lived in Manhattan from the mid-'80s to late '90s. My neighborhood was predominantly Puerto Rican and Dominican, so it was full of the sounds of bongo drums and the early hip-hop scene. I skated at Roxy and later in the 90s at the Central Park Skating circle. Central Park Skaters have some die-hards still there, but it sort of was gentrified too in a way. Terms like "yuppy" and "dink" were used in a derogatory manner. I have always thought that class has been the true divider and not race having grown up a white minority in a predominantly Latino neighborhood. My group of friends were a motley crew of good kids and gutter snipes. I came away speaking fluent Spanish and the ability to salsa, so I never saw growing up in poverty as such a bad thing personally. I didn't have the internet or more than 13 channels to tell me otherwise. We didn't get a phone until I was like 11 and a color TV until then too.
Shout out to Danceteria and CBGBs!
Memories of the Tom Tom Club's hit, "Genius of Love". Mariah Carey used it in her "Fantasy" song in 1995.
Well, I guess it's some sort of public gesture of false reassurance, since all I have been hearing about these past two years is Russia's hypersonic missiles with plasma shields that cannot be shot down, and China's hypersonic arsenal. I am old enough to remember how Ronald Reagan was roasted about the SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative, or "Star Wars") program aimed to develop space-based systems to protect the United States from nuclear missile attacks. Hey, it mentioned lasers and particle beams, so as a Trekkie I was all ears. It would be interesting to see the fits and starts of that program over the past 40 years. It was renamed the MDA (Missile Defense Agency).
Probably an automated algorithm as they said back in the Dorsey days even when he refused to confirm why it didn't auto-populate a user's search box with Republicans as much as Democrats during his 2018 testimony. I didn't know squat about Navalny except for a blurb about him on some news show a while back. It didn't discuss his far-right extremist affiliations then, which he supposedly gave up many years ago, or his xenophobia with immigration views.
>>Again: the problem is with people whose jobs could allow them to work from home, who want to work from home, but who are not permitted to work from home.
Then find an owner/employer who gives you what you want. However an owner/employer has the right to want their work force in the office. I guess the staff that want WFH are not a large enough body to have employers accommodate them or warrant a union. AI and an increasing skilled temp worker pool probably dilute it even further. From someone who has had both manual labor and tech jobs, I am hoping the manufacturing sector revitalizes in the US. We need real things being made and the people with the skills to make them, repair airplanes and the other stuff we depend uoon, buy or make, and a more balanced work force.
I think a lot of those people think that you also get away with a lot without supervision because the average worker will tend to comfortable effort if they think they are not being audited somehow. For me, I could keep productive, but work crept all across the day and sort of put a buzz kill on WFH even when I lived in exotic locations in SE Asia (before the digital nomad thing). I have a lot of manual labor and knowledge skills, so I pretty much work where and when I want. Sometimes I do manual labor overseas in a job that lets me do both. I would never be able to make six figures and do 40 to 50% of my job manually here in the US. The respect for manual labor, the closing of trade schools, and the false ruler of the college degree have led to the decline of such hybrid position possibilities. Construction is still a field where you can wield a computer and have boots-on-the-ground experience. It's also easy to see productivity, something real, tangible as the product, which for me, as an effort of my mind and body (Mens et menus, MIT's slogan) feels more fulfilling than when I was purely doing computer work. I am at the stage of thinking on really working for myself - not for others - by subsistence living with my family. Growing up in Brooklyn, I used to dream about a large piece of land in Wyoming or Montana. By the 80s, the Japanese were buying lots of property in Montana.
I was born and raised in Brooklyn, so that wasn't my situation. I was a welder for a company in NYC making animated displays in the mid-90s. I took the subway. I would read, think about work, observe people, etc. No phones and internet then, so sometimes talking to fellow passengers.
Sure living in an agricultural community. Land, house, and a shop is great. I had my own shop 11 miles from home that was about a 20 min drive to sort my head about the work for the day and miscellaneous thoughts - me time - not driving like a zombie.
I would wager a lot of unnecessary Zoom meetings with far too many people on the call to be actually productive filled a lot of WFH hours along with refrigerator, TV, web surfing, and family breaks equals the deficit of commuting and walking to your desk. I use my commute to prepare for the day, not just drive or take a train, and I try and avoid Zoom while driving especially if I'm on my motorcycle! Make a F2F office meeting a Zoom meeting in person and have it record it the way you like it.
It's a class thing too. I grew up poor, but had the good fortune of getting a computer back in 1978. I have had a mix of manual labor and office jobs over the years, and obviously you can't WFH if your job is diving and fixing underwater hydraulics and electrical systems or machining parts for a space mission. I've done both. I think getting out of the house to a place of mutual effort will always be required and has societal benefits and individual benefits to those who would typically shy away from face-to-face interactions. I guess if your work product is moving electrons and information you can work where you want. I worked in the middle of nowhere a few times for years. I guess that's why I need to have physical work along with my mental work. Being on a phone or laptop in a jungle or beach paradise takes away from my presence there. At least that's my opinion.
Urbit now has a lower entry barrier with comets than when it first came out I believe. I am going to look into Ur. I remember reading Nock/Hoon snippets when it was relatively new, but I was lost in the whole Urbit thing at the time. Ur looks interesting as a PL, however, I am currently dating Uiua after my break up with APL/BQN. J is still a side hustle.
I have 2 Macs, PCs, and Linux. I need a cross-platform editor, for which I use emacs or VS Code right now. Will Zed eventually go cross-platform before 2025?
I have an Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 16, and I love it. I use it for personal work in graphics, 3D CAD, animation (Blender), and music, and for work. the dual screen (smaller touch panel below) has really changed the way I work. The battery life is a lot better than I thought given I was planning on using it plugged in all the time. I have had this in Saudi with me for 8 months in the last 2 years, heat and all, and all over, for office work, field work, airports, etc. and not a glitch yet. Dedicated graphics card, 32mb of memory, and a great keyboard (I usually use a Kinesis Advantage 2) for a notebook (reminiscent of my Lenovo T430u keyboard from 2012). It took a while to get used to the touchpad to the right, but it works. I find myself trying to do the opposite when I switch notebooks now - touching the right side of center touchpads and vice versa. I am looking for the best MR headset to come out that I can work with some sort of chorded keyboard or other less bulky input device and still see my surroundings without going blind.
They don't because the birth rate tanked, and besides China is going to claim the new land as originally part of the Seventh Kingdom and invade it after Taiwan.
That would be ridiculous. Vox is Latin for "voice" and has been used widely for a lot more than your reference. I am fluent in Spanish and lived there in the late 80s, but I have been out of touch, so this is the first I've heard of it. People use the word 'trump' all the time. Context and intelligence are needed in discourse.
No, "Lair of the White Worm" here, but a 30cm worm would instill terror in me (unless Amanda Donohoe and Catherine Oxenberg were with me! Sorry, Sammi Davis...).
I know it's a motorcycle and a non-plug-in hybrid, but I think Kawasaki's offering of a 450cc ICE with a "strong" EV hybrid hits the sweet spot for me. You get 1000cc performance with the EV assist off the line, and 250cc gas mileage when just cruising.[1]
The longer wheelbase is going to make it less of a bike for the twisties than the dragstrip, but you can't have it all!
I am halfway done reading, "GPS and GNSS for Land Surveyors Fidth Edition", which I bought to better understand the survey issues we were having with surveys and data on a project I was on in Saudi Arabia for 6 months last year and 2 months this year. I was a physics major and I have to say surveying is a lot more complicated than I had ever imagined. Realizing that relative height data from one point to the next is straightforward, but that a simple elevation reading is based on MSL and what area in the world you're in for your reference are just a few of the variables that go into the craft of surveying. I really went down the rabbit hole, but I've learned so much and I am now hooked on taking it much further.
In my high school in 1980, we took a 2-hour survey/questionnaire filling in circles with a #2 pencil, and we we waited 3 to 4 weeks to get the results of what career we were suited for, and mine was cartographer! I imagine there were humans and machines doing the analysis back then, but maybe I should have followed that path!
But then you cut off the career path of an FDA lackey in becoming a big pharma exec after they've served big pharma so well. Curious if they went after supplements that don't step on big pharma products, but are actually harmful to the public they supposedly serve.
Reminds me of the X-Ray glasses and aphrodisiac ads from old magazines and comics when I was a kid.
Cosmetics get away with anti-aging and beautification claims, but I believe they are not regulated by the FDA for thise claims, because a lot if it is hogwash.
What about coal mining in Australia? Should they ban it too? It produces 80% of their electricity, and a low death rate from direct mining incidents, but a 26% increase in mortality compared to the general population most likely due to respiratory and stress-related issues.[0,1]
CWP (Coal Miner's Pneumoconiosis) is the long-term risk vs. the mining accidents, and it involves silicosis too. The US and Australia have lowered these statistics vs. China which is increasing.
Many people mix household cleaners that each contain ammonia and chlorine and create poisonous gases, but usually the concentration of the cleaners is sufficiently low enough to be more of a long-term health hazard, however, industrial cleaners can cause death, though rare, as in this case:
The solution is to boost safety practices, heavily fine the offenders, and educate the workers, not ban a product that in its final form is not just a "fashion finish", but a safe, practical, easy-to-clean surface with good durability and dimensionally stable over time.
<<Starlink (and Musk in general) have been over-promising and under-delivering for years now.
It's not even 2024, and the targets are for 2025.
How long has T-Mobile been ramping up their program to achieve this 1.4M vs. 1.1M, and how much does the government subsidy ACP cover for this 1.4M in order to have those customers under T-Mobile? And it seems they are being fined $200M for not complying with the subsidy's rules [1].
I don't know, but it sounds like the Odyssey. Both were relatively close in time - 1972...sorry, about your uncle. Sounds like he was on the early adopter curve like my Dad. We were dirt poor, and yet my Dad somehow pulled this off (probably hit the triple at Aqueduct!).
Well, when the collapse happens and you have no batteries, satellites, etc., you can use the stars[1] to tell time and reset your mechanical watch to within a reasonable estimate given the circumstances. I own a relatively cheap mechancal watch I adjust every week. I bought a Garmin vs. an Apple/Samsung watch too. My Garmin battery lasts about 20 to 24 days depending on how I use the watch vs. 24 to 48 hours. It does more than I need, but has come in handy in my line of work.