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> from autogenlib.antigravity As a joke, that doesn't feel quite so far-fetched these days. ( https://xkcd.com/353/ )

Never really understood why people like Tom Clancy, it's not as if it's enjoyable to read about a bunch of mililtary hardware. At least with Dan Brown you've got a load of interest…

Maybe you've answered your own question. Directed-energy weapson exist - but the agencies that would have developed this particular capability have said that it isn't possible or d…

Countries with functional and affordable healthcare didn't there with startups and less regulation.

Yup - in NZ the infrastrucutre and the provider were separated as part of the nation-wide fibre-to-the-door rollout. I switched provider the other week, after the old one discontin…

A very similar thing happened here in New Zealand where we tracked right with fairly dire and predictable consequences, from a left-wing government that was shouldering the blame f…

> We're forking Flutter. This is why. Cripes I wish people would explain who "we" is. "Flutter Foundation"? Which is "Flock" but not "Flutter"?

To get an inert object through the atmostphere and do real damage it has to be very large. That's a very inefficient way to use mass that you've boosted to orbit, even if it's rela…

My favourite is PAHU! https://pahu.maori.nz/ - a lorem ipsum generator in te reo Māori.

Seems a stretch to call it open source.

Messenger Kids was a pragmatic effort by Meta to improve safety on the Messenger platform. It works well, and it looks to me like Instagram Teen accounts is a similar effort. You c…

My younger ones use Messenger Kids and it gives me some confidence that Meta has thought about the problem and have solutions that actually work for all parties.

Python developers agree. See PEP 668 – Marking Python base environments as “externally managed” – https://peps.python.org/pep-0668/

ICE31 in the air right now https://www.flightradar24.com/ICE31/36b2c5d5

> one big disadvantage of using point clouds for perception is that they are not colored That depends entirely on the capture device.

Yes well, inflation (actually: devaluation) isn't in the [immediate] interests of the currency holder . Terrible if you just want to speculate, which is 99% of the crypto market. I…

They aren't "hype" technologies - but it does seem badly framed. If it were to say "the team uses version control, CI frameworks, agile tracking tools then they might be agile" it …

That is one of the possibilities that are highlighted in the abstract, Amoung other theories, including that lonely individuals seek friendship within conspiracy communities. Human…

In the wise words of Patsy, "it's only a model". The real world is resistent to clean abstractions and abstractions are distressingly subject to change. What made your row unique t…

The simplicity of interstellar travel really depends on how you define it. Constructing a ship of sufficient redundancy / self-repair capability that can carry embryonic life to an…

Inefficiency in public infrastructure works might be a cost of a much higher degree of personal and political freedoms. Apparent efficiencies in public infrastructure works might b…

There's a whole wiki page for this! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_transports_of_heads_of_sta... Here in New Zealand there is a military transport option but it's always breakin…

Not just the new ones - it's a very scandinavian lutheran trend. Tapiloa Church for e.g. https://www.google.com/maps/@60.1783778,24.8091179,3a,75y,15... However there's also the ch…

Notable that this was python behaviour until Py3.

Reminds me of an excellent conference talk I went to once - landslip modellers in BC, Canada spend a lot of time trying to prevent slips from damanging the railways that wind throu…