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Exactly - all the anti-Boeing sentiment in the comments here (while deserved) should also be directing some ire at the funding and contract structures being used for these projects…

This is fascinating, thankyou!

That may be true, but having customers who want to only use products from one company doesn’t make that company a monopoly, which is the topic sitting behind this article.

Parent post said putting people into orbit . Those companies do short suborbital flights.

They didn’t say more old people were _entering_ the work force. People already in the work force are aging.

That sounds more like coil whine, which is “normal” sound (i.e. moving air) from components vibrating rapidly. That’s not what this paper covers (= more like people’s brains “imagi…

There’s also a history of using ‘X’ as the designation for eXperimental planes, e.g the X-15. I always assumed that was the inspiration for the use in tech branding like Google X -…

I always felt that the DS9 relationships between Cardassians & Bajorans was a product of the time when the show was written, and had stronger overtones of the 1990s Balkans conflic…

Yup — as someone who grew up with Wipeout and lots of d&b/electronica album art, these are giving me strong nostalgia pangs.

I assume in this case it’s “Out (of) The Box”

This reminds me of [Up-Goer Five]( https://xkcd.com/1133/ ) - similar vibe but a different constraint (most common thousand words only)

“Recognise speech” / “wreck a nice beach” can sound similar (if you allow for some imprecisions, slurring, accents, etc, like noisy real-world data has). The relevant term here is …

People who fit into spend more time looking at , fed to advertisers who can tie it to swathes of your other online activity Even if it’s _theoretically_ coarse data/bucketing, that…

> our efforts in applied ethical machine learning, as we invest to make Mozilla products more personal I can’t be alone in thinking this is pretty much the _last_ thing I want from…

I refuse to believe this one wasn’t snuck in to the outputs by a human: > Tesla Co-CEO says the autonomous vehicle ‘is for chancers’

Exactly. A paper notebook might not have those security features, but it’s also a lot harder to end up with reams of confidential info in a paper notebook in the blink of an eye, o…

That’s not the point they’re making, I think - they’re giving praise and kudos to the post above, saying they’re better than “very average” if they’ve pulled off that ascent 6 time…

Not OP, but I happened to see a good video on this recently: https://youtu.be/2SuvO4Gi7uY In short, it’s an algorithm for procedural generation of tiled content, like 2d/3d game ma…

Userbars in forum signatures.

The article doesn’t even mention UK broadcast television content – it’s more about big-shared-screens vs small-personal-screens. And the author is an American, resident in New York…

Wow, that’s a hell of a website. I love that amongst various gadgets and toys, there is not just one but _two_ Spanish holiday home rentals. (But given the amount of CCTV equipment…

> If you look at how SARS-CoV-2 initially spread in the US, the WHO was not wrong. The US banned travel from China, but continued to allow travel from Europe. The first major outbr…

His video on Sibelius is highly recommended if you want more UX laughs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKx1wnXClcI

No; that Portainer is for, in short, running `docker build` tasks remotely on a Mesos cluster. Unrelated work, same ecosystem. Both projects just named themselves based on an exten…