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Maybe the lack of nuance is due to learning, through decades of experience, that the assumption “it won’t be done right” can be baked in.

It really depends what your goals/targets are. You can still do a lot with narrowband filters that make light pollution a minimal concern. One of my favorite images was taken from …

Did the Navy really have a choice at the time, though? Politically, I mean. Yes, the Navy can select a higher bid as long as there is justification, and here the justification is l…

> I'm against different criteria for people based on race. Take away affirmative action and any explicit race-based admissions and hiring programs and we’re still left with differe…

IMO, even more important than funding is that NASA rockets are now designed by Congressional committee. It’s hard to innovate when you’re pressured into reusing Shuttle components …

The Navy already does forecasting for the DoD. They have their own computing facility (called Fleet Numerical) in California and run their own models.

> They still ask for a tip. Finally, something to do with all the old sticks of RAM I have.

Time to start keeping track of how many times attorneys from ‘DEI schools’ win on the other side of the courtroom.

Oh, come on now, this one’s easy. They can just activate Textualist-mode and say that that if the founders wanted this clause to apply to tariffs then they should have explicitly u…

So many of the further-left’s answers follow the progression of the “step 3: ???” meme. I guess these days we might call it “concepts of a plan”. Even when the goals sound great, t…

Read it again. 40% of the 10% flagged by Cruz. So just 4% of all NSF grants were related to DEI…in some way that isn’t even apparent without actually reading the proposals.

It’s all fun and games until the seat in your car—or spaceship—says, “Moisturize me!”

There have been plenty of government commissions in the past. None of them functioned anything like DOGE, not even the ones instituted by the current President during his first ter…

What should Tim Cook call himself if, say, a little DOGE-ie gets into the Passport or IRS or SEC systems and actually changes all Tim Cook references to Tim Apple?

I’m a huge fan of Asimov. Years ago I bought a back issue of the Newsweek that this was originally published in, framed it, and still have it hanging in my office: https://aphelis.…

Trump has said he won’t make the same mistake of having people like Kelly or Milley or Wray around. Commander in Chief is an official duty of the President. With the Supreme Court …

We had a similar situation in our family and we tried teaching mindful screen habits. We still lost because we couldn’t do anything about the school screen (chromebook). If we took…

> Also worth pointing out that NIST doesn't set policy… Which has a side effect of NIST not even following its own guidance!

Are you under the mistaken impression that hurricanes are spread evenly across the season? I don’t understand how you can speak in the past tense when the season isn’t over for ano…

> but shareholders (who should put pressure on executives and the board to act with prudence to avoid these kinds of disasters) are adequately punished. So if I own some Vanguard m…

The killer app for me is unchaining myself from a desk. I just can’t work effectively on a laptop screen, so while I’d love to go work while sitting at the beach or in a park or wh…

This is why I have such high hopes for AR for work. I can keep my job but still return to the hunter-gatherer lifestyle of my distant ancestors…only I would be hunting bugs and gat…

To expand on this, Webb uses the Deep Space Network (DSN) to communicate with us. It can’t stream data back 24/7. There are generally three contacts per day each lasting a few hour…

I don’t understand either. I have an iPhone. My wife has a Samsung. According to certain pockets of the internet it’s a miracle we made it past our first date and now it’s only a m…

> Don’t the many zero setback cities invalidate your setback argument? They’re not drowning in stormwater - clearly it can be managed in a number of ways. This means nothing withou…