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They were across the dish. From the report: “The Arecibo Telescope cables were suspended across the beam of “the most powerful radio transmitter on Earth””

The main paper goes into the detail on page 2. The cables were on beam path.

“The only hypothesis the committee could develop that provides a plausible but unprovable answer to all these questions and the observed socket failure pattern is that the socket zinc creep was unexpectedly accelerated in the Arecibo Telescope’s uniquely powerful electromagnetic radiation environment. The Arecibo Telescope cables were suspended across the beam of “the most powerful radio transmitter on Earth. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Failure Analysis of the Arecibo Observatory 305-Meter Telescope Collapse. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/26982.”

The US used Thorium reactors back in 1962 (Indian point 1). It wasn't retired because it didn't work. It was retired because Uranium was more efficient.

It isn't a parliament though.

Also Checkov died a few days ago: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/star-trek-ac...

Now it's just Sulu and Captain Kirk....

They don’t know that they’re not free. The good thing about a real dictatorship is that you know exactly what the rules are.

Why not just distribute the refusal vectors and do it at runtime against the stock model?

Where are the binaries for TempleOS?

Having got out of traffic tickets, it may be deliberate. If they don't respond at all within 30 days you can argue due process violation, but by slow dripping they can drag it out and not hit that timer. The 30 day period is telling.

The free market may eventually get bored...

“Of all tyran­nies, a tyranny sin­cerely ex­er­cised for the good of its vic­tims may be the most oppres­sive. It would be bet­ter to live un­der rob­ber barons than un­der om­nipo­tent moral busy­bod­ies. The rob­ber baron’s cru­elty may some­times sleep, his cu­pid­ity may at some point be sa­tiated; but those who tor­ment us for our own good will tor­ment us with­out end for they do so with the ap­proval of their own con­science.” C.S. Lewis

One persons propaganda is another persons truth. Who are you or your task force to decide? The big problem with the internet is it gives dumb people access to each other.

FAA jurisdiction over the airspace is not the same as a rule prohibiting every form of powered lift-off within it. There's a lot of grey area in FAA regs - for instance you can land a plane on your lawn in class E (if you could manage it).

He actually says in the video that it might not be legal to operate but they could still sell you one. Anything is legal off-road on your own private property.

I thought somewhere in the video they said that it is just regular compressed air that is held in a tank, and that the car itself has a compressor and regenerates the compressed air over time. Obviously to stabilize that amount of weight the gas has to be ejected at such a high rate it is practically frozen at the nozzle outlet, but it is still just regular air.

Well we could examine the history here, for instance when he bought Twitter that it would immediately collapse (now its more popular than ever and Bluesky is the one that's falling apart) and when the Cybertruck was announced there were lots of people saying it could never be made: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21602437

No way this is going to be street legal but I want one.

Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46094460 from 11 months ago.

I feel old I just open a port for https on my 24x7 raspberry pi and route anything I need through that, for home access, openHAB, etc.... haproxy can look at the beginning of the packet to see if it is ssh and forward that to a server with mutualTLS, and with ssh you can forward anything you want back. If its TLS it goes to nginx which is locked down by vouch-proxy. fail2ban runs in the background to limit abuse - you do need to set up transparent proxying to keep the real IP but it's easy to do. A benefit to this method is you can also do SNI routing and get free wifi in some places :-)

Well it is from 2016....

OpenHAB cloud is free, https://www.myopenhab.org/, but I think for most technical people, just reverse proxy what you have (HA, OH, etc...) and put something like vouch proxy or oauth2-proxy in front of the endpoint. I don't want any cloud standing in the way of my door lock opening.

I have a microsoft account but I use a local account for Windows 11. I always had MSDN and had a pro key so maybe its an enterprise thing. It is a legit copy. I don't use onedrive or 365. When I go to Accounts it has a blue button to Sign In, so maybe local accounts don't get ads.

I have Windows 11 Pro and I've never seen an ad. I don't remember turning anything off but I did upgrade from Windows 10, so maybe that had something to do with it, unless it's just that Pro doesn't contain ads. I also don't use it with a microsoft account and don't have any "services" from them, so maybe that helps.

I think somebody on the livestream said 60x capacity over Falcon.

What was interesting is how short the single engine burn was to bring it from suborbital to orbital. It was just a few seconds. I'm not even sure I saw the altitude change.

The live channel has some video of recovery of the last starship which is pretty cool - it remained floating so they crawled up and removed some of the tiles to see how they performed, and actually reinstalled a few of them for the upcoming flight. So this mission will actually see some of the tiles flying for a second time.

According to Al Gores movie (shown to US students) we were already supposed to be beyond 2C by now. When the ClimateGate "hide the decline" emails were released that also raised a few eyebrows. So saying the world is now going to 3.5C rings on deaf ears. That's not science that's just the fact of what actually happened so far.

Yeah they could have picked a better name. OpenShell/ClassicShell have been around for a long time (before them).

The "interview" format is a bit difficult to read.

Assuming they did keep it a secret, we had so many other hazards that were (and still are) in common use: lead, mercury, tobacco, chlordane, asbestos, etc... So even if true; even if you accept this as some conspiracy, it would seem to pale in comparison to the list I just gave. We seemingly survived and thrived with with substances far worse than a little plastic running around in our bloodstream, yet this remains the topic of the day and it makes me wonder how real the outrage is (proportionate to other hazards) or if this is just liberal minded "see the big companies are out to get us and this is just the current example". It would be far more persuasive imho to just argue the later point independently, because the plastic (using the term loosely) topic comes up so frequently that to some of us it is just repetitive and not really constructive.

The principal is it's OK if a democrat does it. For example: It's OK to rename something named after a Republican president who was shot (Mt Mckinley). It's not OK to rename or change something about a Democratic president who was shot (ie. The Kennedy Center).

Just to be accurate, they don't say that it's made in the USA. They only say its assembled in the USA. Perhaps in the past they made some statement that it would have been, but the current box and marketing don't.