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Decompiling binary blobs is a strong suit for LLM AI, right? Maybe progress on this will be faster than I expect? Does the FSF spend money on non-free AI services? That is, do they have ethical issues with that? Or do they only use AGPL licensed services (or similar)?

Roundtrip Interstellar Travel Using Laser-Pushed Lightsails

https://ia800108.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/24...

If you only care about the two surfaces matching each other, you don't even have to worry about your indicator. Just grind them against each other, or use some lapping compound to speed up the process. If you want to get the surfaces truly flat, then you use three surfaces that you successively grind against each other.

https://www.ericweinhoffer.com/blog/the-whitworth-three-plat...

>We have centimeter (10 mm) then decimeter (100mm)

Does anyone actually use those? I think I would throw up a little in my mouth if I saw either of those on a mechanical drawing.

They plow the mountain passes in the winter time in at least Montana and Idaho. I'd be very surprised if they don't in Colorado or Utah.

Couldn't you make most of these arguments about the early days of most medical interventions? You don't need an x-ray to determine that patient A has a broken arm; it hurts when you twist it in this manner. Anyway, this seems like a way for rich people to subsidize up and coming technology for the rest of us. Maybe in ten years it will be meh and we can ignore it. Or maybe it will become cheap enough that everyone gets it with a yearly checkup. And maybe in 20 years some Star-Trek like body scanner will be in almost every gym in the country. And the hypochondriacs can get a scan every day.

>but still not quite enough to go one way on my most frequent "long drive"

...without a charging stop.

The current Chevrolet Silverado EV has a 200 kWh battery option. Even with towing reducing the range to say 200 miles, you could do a lot of pickupy things with that.

Or you own more than vehicle. Plenty of families own multiple vehicles, and they don't all need to have tons of range.

>charge it every single day.

That's pretty much standard operating procedure for any EV. That's one of the perks of owning an EV. Plug it in when you get home from work, and have a full "tank" every morning. Plus you get the cabin preheating using the wall electricity.

That's pretty much the plot for one of the latter Terminator movies, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_3:_Rise_of_the_Mach...

Aren't there plenty of countries which aren't exactly super-stable anyway? Might not take much to have select countries pushed over the edge. Especially if you have territorial disputes with neighboring countries looking to take advantage. For the U.S., what if Social Security payments suddenly stopped for 6 months? What if the U.S. lost records of Treasury Bills, and they couldn't be redeemed for a while? What if electricity went out for 30% of the population for three months? I would think it pretty cold comfort that the government didn't topple, because the next election results were a mix of democrats and republicans.

Hopefully they'll be coming soonish. Seems like we are getting back on track with the popularization of drones.

https://alef.aero/

Raise your hand if you still have a UV eraser at the bottom of a cabinet somewhere.

Think of GrapheneOS as being a set of patches on top of the Android Open Source Project that Google releases:

https://source.android.com/

They've ported the patches to work on top of the latest release.

From the eighth sentence:

"The U.K. plans to follow the same model for a social media ban as Australia, which last year became the first country to bar under-16s from holding social media accounts."

...what counts as "using"? Is viewing a YouTube video considered "using"?

For the "Our World In Data", it looks like the charts all end at 1972-1974?

Anyone have the stats on the distribution of children per woman? And does it vary by country? For instance, in a country with a TFR of 1.0 (say South Korea), is that generally each woman has one child? Or is it the case that about half the women have 2 children, and about half has no children? Seems like that could have societal implications if your society was essentially raised as only-children, vs having siblings growing up. Maybe someone has studied this in relation to China's One-Child policy? Also it seems like if you had the case where half of the women were having two children, you'd be on a glide path to something sustainable long term.

Well my Hercules graphics card was only monochrome, but it was relatively high resolution.

Banned from creating accounts? Or banned from viewing altogether?

>Esther Ghey, whose 16-year-old daughter Brianna was killed in 2023 by two teenagers who had accessed harmful content online, said the ban would "potentially save so many children's lives,"

The lack of specifics here presumably implies that most reasonable people would disagree with this conclusion? (Betteridge's law)

What is the liability situation if you have an issue and cause damages to someone else's stuff in space? Are there treaties covering this? Is space pretty much considered international waters?

Let's check:

https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/www-cse-public/ugrad/curr...

Off-topic, but does the Hurd help with the situation with ZFS compared to Linux? My understanding is that the ZFS code is licensed under the CDDL, which is incompatible with the GPL, so it can't be used in the Linux kernel. But if Hurd file system drivers are separate userspace programs, there might not be a conflict, since there is no "linking" or close-coupling with GPL code?

For resource constrained systems, don't overlook busybox vi.

https://k.japko.eu/busybox-vi-tutorial.html

The original poster wasn't very tactful. But let's see if we can turn some lemons into lemonade. I do think there are a plethora of popular / best-selling "business" genre books that do have the vibe that the OP was hinting at. Reading the book description for "Incorruptible" at Amazon doesn't make me think that this book stands out from that crowd. How could the blurb be rewritten to emphasize that this book is truly different? Just including the sentence "This isn't another book of relavent-sounding platitudes" might help. Are there any falsifiable core principles in the book? If so, could you list those in the blurb? The blurb itself sounds kind of AI-ish:

"Incorruptible argues that this failure is not primarily ethical. It is structural."

...and with at least five em-dashes. Let's assume its not AI, but even then the blurb is very business-esque generic:

"Drawing on two decades"

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22drawing+on+two+decades%22

"a clear-eyed diagnosis and a practical blueprint for change"

...all sounds cliche. Your comments here on HN make it much more likely for me to read the book than the blurb ever would. But I'm not a best-selling author and maybe this is the sort of blurb that sells books to certain readers? Maybe authors don't have much of a say in how the blurb is worded?

I mean even assuming that this was strictly a 2-layer board, you can still route traces underneath parts like ICs, connectors, etc.. I could believe it was a simple board (for a phonograph and all), but I'd be interested in seeing how well it actually matched. Did he get a new board fabbed and it just worked?

Seems like this would be a good place to link to that.

Anyone have a good source to read up on the current state of the art for daytime celestial navigation? Maybe there isn't too much in the public domain, because things like GPS work so well. But I'd guess that since you can't easily artificially jam celestial navigation there would be military research on this. But I suppose clouds also limit the practicality as well.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-see-stars-...

GNU/Hurd needs a microkernel