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Ah yes, any funding source invalidates all the arguments.... Does this article seem like an AI boosting article? Perhaps exactly the opposite? I dislike this article intensely, and…

I honestly find it extremely comforting. Having something so much bigger than oneself in the world is calming. All my worries, all my loves, everything that goes well, everything t…

If you're talking about the purple blotches, that's a map of the regions of the sky that have been targeted for observation. It's not the actual SMBH density.

As others say, this is probably mostly artifacts from the survey design (e.g. eROSITA data rights), but the Galactic plane definitely limits things too. This video of the DESI gala…

The number of massive maps of the universe in recent years are absoultely fascinating, and have reignited my childhood interest in astronomy and cosmology. These maps consist of a …

And the rest of the world has it's thumb on what's actually important: it doesn't really matter what conservatives believe, or liberals believe, or leftists believe, or even what t…

Looking beyond the monthly numbers, it came out today that the prior "good" numbers in the US were a mirage, and actually very very low. So if you think looking at monthly numbers …

One of the saddest parts of the current era is the wedge that has been driven in the US/Canada relationship. Canada is in the process of removing as many dependencies on the US as …

When you conflate "armed soldiers steal the grain you grew and the food you have" with "not assigned resources" you are creating a horrifying and dehumanizing reframing that makes …

Can you explain this to me? I think it's far more 2000s, when we were having debates about whether software engineers were actually engineers, with professional responsibility, or …

If you can get a group of other parents to also pirate... Not really in the cards, though I can appreciate your dedication to pirate advocacy.

The point of the account was multiplayer, unfortunately. Wanted a locked down account to play the game with a closed group of friends. Ended up on Minecraft Education on the comput…

I was able to take a 25 year break from Microsoft, from 2000 to 2025. Yet I was drawn back in because my son wanted to play Minecraft. This was the worst account process of any sys…

If an engineer executes on bad intent and design goals and builds a bad bridge, that's also a bad engineer. Engineers are not serfs, they have enough income and agency to be respon…

This is my experience with all Microsoft software. The worst thought out, buggy, untested pile of crap. There's something seriously wrong in Redmond. At least with linux, you can s…

Vaclav Smil has been so wrong on energy, that I'm a bit surprised to see his name mentioned at all. The idea of "primary energy" versus electricity is an important concept, but com…

Well, there will at least be historians in other countries covering the downfall in detail, if there is indeed a bigger downfall than has already happened. Democracies are pretty g…

Manufacturing dominance was for WW2, but post WW2 it's really high tech and Silicon Valley that gave us dominance. Silicon Valley was built on defense contracts for control systems…

To play devil's advocate: there are also some limited opportunities to retrofit large reservoirs with some amount of back-pump, when there's a sufficient reservoir at the bottom si…

I could see that, if people actually wanted to work in those jobs in large numbers. Yet, poll after poll shows that people don't want to work in the jobs, they just want heavy indu…

I think the challenges for heavy industry aren't as much the cost of energy, as it is the capital cost, and a workforce that has lots of options for higher paying jobs. Heavy indus…

Doubtful, the tradeoff is solar cost versus storage cost. Pumped hydro and gravity are waaaaaaaay too expensive compared to excess solar panels. Pumped hydro takes massive construc…

Also true for California for quite some time. https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/california-solar-... What's going to happen in the future is that May will be a month of ex…