Ars Technica is just a summarizer like Slashdot.

What has happened, slashdot readers? So lazy - back in my day, you whippersnappers - we'd see a link to a scientific journal PDF and *click* the thing so we could learn stuff.

Instead the first two comments are just "how does it work"

https://www.cell.com/iscience/...

Muons don't arrive all the time (unlike GPS signals) so you have to kind of get lucky that you detect enough in the right spots, but if you do, with some math and knowledge of how the particles work, you can locate the receiver apparently.

Cool trick

Can it be jammed ? Hmmm

Well aren't you a bucket o'sunshine Miles O'Toole!

Quite the substantive argument you've provided to rebut my statement, full of the proof required to believe the article vs classifying it as propaganda

So, someone registers an account on some platform Hersh is not on, under Hersh's name.

Someone publishes this obvious russian disinformation

And, everyone eats it up. Look! Hersh said something!

Prove Hersh actually owns the account used to publish the thing, and/or prove the thing, then we're talking.

Oh wait, we're already talking because disinformation like this is perfectly suited to the information economy. Blah blah here we all go in an endless and informaiton-free news cycle

Right, got that. It's running inside the Hyper-V hypervisor, that leads to all the things I discussed above
I'm not able to get nested-virt going inside all of the guest OSes that I need to run, while Hyper-V is my on-the-metal hypervisor
Looking for solutions to that

So, I briefly attempted to use windows on the metal and WSL / Hyper-V etc to stack VMs on for "real work"

I need to run Windows, Linux and macOS VMs for mobile development environments

My pain point was that nested VMs inside all expect to run nested items (like Docker) using HAXM or QEMU etc, which did not seem possible as soon as you even attempt WSL.

As a concrete example, let's say you need to spin up a macOS VM (which is typically done with e.g. OSX-KVM) and that's QEMU so now that's working with Docker and Android Emulators nested nicely in it, but your WSL is broken because Hyper-V is a different hypervisor and you can only have one at a time.

If I do Linux on the metal I am generally able to have all my VMs agree on the hypervisor (KVM) with nesting working, but for entertainment purposes (windows gaming) you're stuck hacking through the thicket of setting up a windows VM with GPU passthrough etc.

If there's a point to this I guess it's that I wish there was One True Hypervisor so different requirement tensions could be satisfied with different decisions but compatibility wasn't an issue.

Would be interested to hear if I'm missing something here with regard to getting all 3 major OSs (windows, linux, macOS) all running in VMs on windows host OS with nested virtualization working well in all guest VMs

Nice work picking one example where the regulators messed up and extrapolating that to cover all cases!

For a second act, please give me an example of a physics solution where you start by assuming all matter is condensed to a single point

I dunno, in the general sense that a government is tasked with protecting life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, I see it as a core goal and easily worth of the expenditure for the whole "life" thing vs ...I dunno the death involved with the current military budget. Would be quite happy with a re-allocation there.

No sarcasm at all. You seem to be afflicted by that "it looks hard, we shouldn't try" disease, what a shame.

It appears there is an agency (from TFA) starting to do it.

I imagine once real safety standards are applied the number of accidents goes down rapidly (probably a log curve) such that you're defeatist "oh my god there's so many" pearl-clutching is addressed

Thinking...comparison of effect of Boeing's regulatory capture and eventually their final catastrophic safety culture failure, which does exist sure, with tally of road collisions in...say the last hour.

Imma take safety culture every time.

I'm a sometimes vulnerable road user (motorcycles, scooters, bicycles), but I also drive cars plenty so everyone calm down.

I think it's clear that driving is disproportionately dangerous though, and most collisions are preventable and caused by us lame meat sacks doing one or more stupid things in combination.

Imagine if that sort of behavior was tolerated in air safety!

Now imagine the opposite: if air safety standards (all mishaps reported, investigated, root-cause-analyzed, remediated) were applied to auto safety!

I could go out on public roads on two wheels without fearing for my life. Buses full of passengers wouldn't crash killing all passengers.

Bring on rigorous reporting and let's up our game here, it is about time.

Typing this comment from a "works out of the box" installation of linux from an Aorus 15G YC (the one with an RTX3080 setup for 105W max draw)

Thing screams, and doesn't get that hot - definitely not throttling.

2 SSD slots even, and the GPU is on it's own IOMMU so PCI passthrough for KVM gaming should work

https://www.gigabyte.com/WebPa...

Soldered ram, who would do such a thing?

Ah great, slashdot can't post the 'micro' symbol.

So, it's 6 microWatts, not 6W, that would be fantastic. 6 microwatts is...interesting?

"around 6 W with 75 dBm EIRP) can be harvested at 180 m."

https://www.nature.com/article...

C'mon /. ya'll nerds or what? Everyone's all "their stealing power" and though I'm +1 on jokes about Cartman's alien experiences no one posted the power data.

What can you do with 6 W - that's the question and the real nerd fun.

Go

I'm sorry, you stated something involving dates and times. I expected something more concrete, since time is observable

"Flutter has kind of been around for a while". Is there some verifiable fact in there? I don't see one

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... approximately 3 years, but less than 2 as "stable"

Vs approximately 5 years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... - though of course it's always both used in production and still 0.x.

If you assume it takes maybe 6 months to build an app worth anything, then you could say Flutter has about 1.5years of worthwhile existence and react-native has 4.5 years

I would expect "traction" (some undefined term from your comment? Let's say "visibly released apps") to then lag terribly and not be a great metric

Yet

I believe what you are seeing is the very leading edge of a big wave for anyone doing cross-platform mobile development

As mentioned before I bet *against* it at first, and still have no investment (in the form of my time, developing anything Flutter related), but I see what's happening at the toolsmith and library maintainer level and we're the leading edge. It's happening.

Come back in 2 years and say I'm wrong, fine by me :-)