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The removal of FM radio from cell phones was a big mistake. It should never have allowed. Radio is very useful in emergencies.

Lately I have been getting back in to internet radio, mostly via Elisa in KDE. Here is my favorite internet stream: https://hawaiireggaenetwork.com/

This highlights to me the compounding of knowledge networked AI experts working with human experts will bring.

"But I wonder if someday there will be a representation that is more easily interpretable like language but is able to capture high dimensional complex functions in a standard and concise way"

Perhaps we can train AI experts to show us what parameters they found most useful in contrast to what human experts used. That could be a start at filling in the human knowledge gaps.

This seems to be a negative form of American exceptionalism. If Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China and Vietnam can do it, what is it about the USA that makes you think the USA cannot do it. At the very least we could bring experts from other countries in to demonstrate, teach, etc.

Manufacturing in the USA is slowly improving.

"The Manufacturing PMI® registered 52.7 percent in March, a 0.3-percentage point increase compared to the reading of 52.4 percent in February. The overall economy continued in expansion for the 17th month in a row."

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/manufacturing-pmi-a...

I agree and lets not label something as dangerous or expensive if it can be made to be affordable and safe. "As of 2026, 59 nuclear power plants are operational in mainland China, second globally to the United States, which has 94." "There are over 28 further plants under construction with a total power of 32.3 GW, ranked first for the 18th consecutive year"

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

The time to negotiate that would have been before this announcement. Carney has doomed Canada's auto industry because he is negotiating with his emotions.

yes, go ahead and have ads but any income over server fees can be shared with open source projects.

it is. There are many websites and applications that I use, like wikipedia and linux / kde that could help if they picked an application like Mastodon and promoted it on their site. I only use social media about once a month so I am far from expert but an ad supported open source facebook clone that stayed non profit by sending its profits to other open source sites would be ideal.

I was just today looking to see who owns Flex and Air. There is Apache Flex but it does not look like it is widely used. And it looks like Air was sold to Harman an audio electronics subsidiary of Samsung.

It would be cool if there was a browser that had a full set of components that would allow fast construction of internal dashboards, CRUD apps, etc. via new html tags. if not that then maybe a custom browser with flex enabled for internal use only. The security and performance would have to be improved but seems like a really fast way to prototype and build internal only sites.

wow, thanks Matt. You and Lincoln Stein (Bioperl founder if I remember correctly) got me started with my first website.

This recent research from China suggest another possibility..that it acts as an ACE2 blocker.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.22.164665v1....

The late Dr. Gerald M. Edelman (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) had a fascinating theory he called "Neural Darwinism" that relied upon "reentrant mapping" he insisted was not feedback. He had a lab that formulated his ideas into software and a robot called Darwin 4. Does anyone here know what happened to that software? Is it described in detail anywhere? The following is an unflattering but useful discussion of Edelman's robot https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/my-testy-en...

#!/usr/local/bin/jq -rf

tostream | select(length > 1) | ( .[0] | map( if type == "number" then "[" + tostring + "]" else "." + . end ) | join("") ) + " = " + (.[1] | @json)

This is why I rarely post on the internet. So easy to misunderstand tone. I seems as if you are mis-understanding my original post. I was only hoping for the best for Harlanji based upon my personal experience. BTW, I was delivering furniture that first year.

Yes, I did this for about three months when I first moved to California. I was flat broke and it gave me a chance to stay dry and save up money.

I was just at the Mountain View Walmart last night and I noticed a lot of campers in the parking lot. Maybe that could be an option for you?

This made me curious how long a photon lives.

"according to the photons frame of reference, Heeck found that its lifetime would be a rather short three years; however, from our frame of reference, light would live about one billion billion (10^18) years"

https://futurism.com/science-explained-long-can-photons-live...

I have to mention Dmitry Soshnikov's "JavaScript. The Core" webpage. The concepts explained in version one published in 2010 helped me land several contracts. Now I see he has "JavaScript. The Core: 2nd Edition". Thank you Dmitry!

http://dmitrysoshnikov.com/ecmascript/javascript-the-core-2n...

According to this website [1] jQuery is still used by over 70% of websites. I have built production sites in extjs, Dojo, Angular, React etc. but nothing beats the fun of throwing up a quick website in jQuery and Bootstrap. Its even more fun with es6 now! I am looking forward to where jQuery and other DOM manipulation libraries go in the future. [1] https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/js-jquery/all/all