It sure has been a long way from glider to this, behold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Thanks! "The string 31415926 occurs at position 50366472. This string occurs 3 times in the first 200M digits of Pi."

What's the first prophet's name that appears in base-10 ASCII? (Let's settle this)

I presume Pi contains little recursive Pi's of differing lengths, is the longest one in 10^12 digits about 12 digits? What digit does it start at?

I remember reading about development of one of the mars landers, and out at the design test site they had one individual who would put rocks in the worst possible test locations. It started arguments and made craft designers mad. In the end they had a more robust design because of it.

https://www.theverge.com/2013/...
"the underlying compression technology used by the machines is to blame. "The Xerox design utilizes the recognized industry standard JBIG2 compressor which creates extremely small file sizes with good image quality, but with inherent tradeoffs under low resolution and quality settings," explains principal engineer Francis Tse.

Further, he points out that Xerox already advises customers of this possibility in its software, describing results from normal compression settings as "acceptable" while warning that "text quality degradation and character substitution errors may occur." The company says upping the quality level to "higher" should guarantee the copy accuracy its customers expect."

The statements that he's been in VR "18 Years" and high resolution "solves every problem" are inconsistent. The solved problems from 18 years ago that are not resolution are tracking speed and fidelity. Some yet-to-be solved problems are real-world features like varifocal images, 180 degree FOV while maintaining full overlap and no distortion or pupil swim.

I think you meant to say "you would owe taxes on 1m," not "owe 1m in taxes." More importantly, what you you suggest a nation do about tax cheating corporations that make 1m in profit, and in order to pay no taxes on it they create a subsidiary in a tax-free jurisdiction, have the subsidiary produce a bogus product or service which they sell to the corporation for 1m, shifting all the profit to the tax-free jurisdiction with just a little paperwork?

To avoid the animal suffering in corporate industrial farming. How did editor get the idea carbon was the goal? I guess if they pull that off, low-carbon chicken opens a new market among people who care more about carbon footprint than animal suffering. Did anyone read why there's lead in the lab-chicken-meat?

There's 5 trillion in physical currency (M0), but 20 trillion in deposits (M1, M2)? Most transactions are computer/digital?
https://take-profit.org/en/sta...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Yes, but that won't fit in the 54 character limit for a slashdot headline.

Google pays $20 billion annually to Apple to not switch to DuckDuckGo, which is 100x DuckDuckGo revenue.
https://macdailynews.com/2023/...
https://www.zippia.com/duckduc...

Smartphones are a new battlefield.

Facebook reportedly shut down two AI's when they started communicating with each other in a language they made up. A fact check to the original viral story says parts of it are true (and Facebook didn't shut them down).
https://www.usatoday.com/story...
Regardless, as we build ever smarter AI's, let us remember that there are codes that are meant to look like harmless speech or images, and in a contest of intellects, the smarter can always fool the dumber. This "letting them talk" will be OK, until one day it isn't.

"The failure of the SpaceX launch yesterday can be directly linked to a personal decision that Elon Musk made 3 years ago to not install flame diverters on the Starship launchpad. He overruled his own engineers on this design flaw, and admitted publicly. It's his fault."
https://twitter.com/Tazerface1...

"Significant damage to the reinforced concrete pad structure was observed, leading some to speculate that debris may have damaged the engines shortly after ignition while the vehicle was still on the pad."
https://www.engineering.com/st...