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Receives aircraft ADS-B position/identification signal via a cheap RTL-SDR dongle and uses the data to project a real-time image of aircraft flying directly overhead. https://github.com/cpaczek/skylight

Worldwide smartphone shipments are expected to decline 14% ... the steepest annual contraction in smartphone history. Manufacturers focusing on selling fewer higher-end products, driven by elevated prices for RAM and transportation/fuel.

From the article: "If I ask you to think through a problem you don’t think in symbols, numbers, or any other representation. You think in words, and therefore your ability to think relies on your ability to deploy words. "

Author hasn't done his homework. The belief thoughts = words has been well-debunked. The first hit from a lazy Google search is a Scientific American article all about it, helpfully titled 'You Don't Need Words to Think".

https://archive.ph/KjJ1R

Or, if you like scientific papers better, see "Language and thought are not the same thing: evidence from neuroimaging and neurological patients"

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4874898/

Author analyzes the different ways Ezra Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates approach the current political moment. He argues that Klein risks compromising his own morals by trying to solve too much at once while Coates' values-first approach takes smaller "bites" but better safeguards personal integrity.

Fast food restaurant fare in Scotland. May include kebab meat, chicken tikka, samosas, chow mein noodles, pakora, naan, and other fast foods and sauces such as curry sauce. Sometimes a salad item. Invariably, chips or fried rice. Not clear whether a munchy box is intended to be consumed as a meal for one but there has been concern of the health implications if it is consumed as such. A less traditional munchie box may also include a pizza, chicken nuggets, garlic bread, mozzarella sticks and coleslaw.

I can relate.

Be aware that well-meaning people will read your post, not realize your situation is outside of their own experience, reinterpret your problem into something that makes sense to them, and then give you useless advice based on their reinterpretation.

I've meditated on and off for years and, although it's pleasant, it sidesteps the real problem without actually addressing it. My conscious mind can be clear but a feeling of subconscious pressure remains, as though I'm in a shelter but I'm still aware of a storm outside that never stops trying to blow open the windows and doors. Have I just not meditated enough? Maybe, but that's unfalsifiable.

The best solution I've found isn't emptying the mind, it's occupying it with pleasing, intentionally-chosen, low-stakes mental puzzles or creative exercises.

This approach doesn't solve the root problem either, just avoids it, but it helps.

A new rationale for objecting to AI. Sadly, chock-full of nonsequiturs.

Ed Zitron draws conclusions from Microsoft's downscale of future data centers. Ed interprets this as MS losing faith in the future of AI but it could be a turn away from brute-force model size expansion and toward DeepSeek-style efficiency improvements.

I've been waiting for "Lottery Ticket Hypothesis" breakthroughs and I hope this is the beginning.

- Employees' WFH environments are even more productive now than the makeshift home offices of 2020. - Managers don't impose RTO because they believe it will improve company performance, it's for the feeling of control and ease of scapegoating. - Profits and stock market valuations do not significantly improve after RTO.

Spreadsheet by user SerMumble on the MiniPCs subreddit, attempting to list all Mini PCs available on the market.

tl;dr Everyone else isn't as extroverted as I am. There must be something wrong with them.

Is this the same commission that previously warned America “might struggle to win, or perhaps lose, a war against China or Russia? Would that be the same Russia that can't win a war of its own choosing against Ukraine, an immediately-adjacent former satellite with a GDP the size of Nebraska's?

And their carefully-considered recommendation is to raise taxes and cut nonmilitary spending to massively increase US armor and airpower in Europe? The same kind of weaponry getting obliterated by teenagers flying $1000 Chinese-made drones with grenades duct-taped to them?

Instead, how about: - A top-to-bottom audit and "rightsizing" of military procurement and operational spending. - Vulnerability assessment of legacy weapon paradigms in the age of drones. - Extension of service life of existing systems.

Defense industry shills gonna shill but The Economist should be embarrassed at credulously retweeting this claptrap.

People who seek out martial arts tend to be at least somewhat interested in their fighting value, even if it's only for reasons of image, and the same goes for teachers.

If you're really just after physical fitness and self-discipline, a martial art may not be the best solution. Maybe yoga, acrobatics, or some forms of dance training. If you really want a martial art but aren't interested in combat, consider Tai Chi. The techniques do have combat applications but very few instructors teach it that way. The emphasis is usually on fitness, balance, bodily harmony, and a calm mind.

I'm no expert but I did four years of (very) traditional Okinawan karate and three more of a full-contact non-traditional "mixed" style called Jeet Kune Do, plus limited practice in other styles via seminars and training exchanges with different schools.

Schools teaching classic Asian arts like Karate, Kung Fu, Tae Kwon Do, etc tend to incorporate Asian culture and teaching methods as part of the package. A lot of people in that world are drawn to it because of that Asian-ness. If you're after discipline, regimentation, attention to exact form, and immersion in Asian history, that's where you'll find it. Emphasis on fighting effectiveness varies widely, as does the mood of various schools. One school may seem like it's full of bullies and another teaching exactly the same style will feel welcoming and supportive.

But don't count out the more combat-oriented arts. Krav Maga, for example, was originally developed as a hand-to-hand fighting system for the Israeli army and still keeps that spirit in mind, but there's a heavy emphasis on teaching and students' personal development. There definitely is contact but they're careful not to throw you into situations you're not ready for. You may find that becoming gradually acclimated to that physical rough-and-tumble in a safe enviroment (apart from the fighting per se) can transform your sense of self-confidence.

All martial arts training, including familiar western forms like boxing and wrestling, build self-discipline and personal development. It may be more tangible and visible in the Asian arts because of how they're taught (standing in lines, standardized exercises, ritualized greetings, etc) but it's there, just not as performative.

As others have said, the experience can vary hugely from one school and one instructor to the next. My advice would be to look at a number of styles and see if one of them resonates with you in a non-intellectual, intuitive way. One approach is to find seminars or exhibitions where practitioners of multiple styles do demonstrations and short instructional sessions. Trust your feelings more than your head. Wear comfortable gym clothes you can move and sweat in and go see what it's like.

Another retread of the misconceived "AI as collage machine" idea behind some the early lawsuits, i.e. training data goes in and something intelligible comes out, therefore the output is "made of" the input. Non sequitur.

The author glosses over the actual point of contention, saying "through some mechanical trickery it will blend then together with some randomness to create something that is a new song".

'Blending together' is not what's happening. The "mechanical trickery" is the transformative part.