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Comment I shouldda bought Raytheon stock earlier (Score 1) 67

US will need to put military-related satellites into a variety of different orbits to reduce the chance of mass debri sabotage. This includes plenty of spares and the ability to shift orbits if stalker satellites spoil a given orbit.

In short, there are counter measures, but they are not cheap.

Comment Taylor Swift (Score 2) 165

Taylor Swift will fly her jet to the nearest microphone to denounce this study.

Maybe she should instead invest some of her billions into methanol catalysts. There's good work going on there.

Short-haul might be completely doable with a combo of battery, methanol, and glide-heavy flightpaths.

That needs new engineering but Madonna is still being a skank at 85 so there's time.

Comment Re:Who writes nonsense like this? (Score 0) 30

Normal non-autistic people write like this.

> Since when does a processor architecture support a specific programming language?

It is trival to conclude for most readers that what they're talking about is the community supporting the RISC-V architecture in the linux kernel.

Gaslighting grammar nazis might also feign confusion but they mostly left for Facebook.

We should recognize that this site might benefit from accessible writing in submissions.

Comment Re:Great... (Score 1) 35

I bought a 21" Acer touchscreen for $179 a decade ago. It is hooked up with USB as mouse/digitizer.

It's impossible to buy those now. 15" for a repackaged 4K laptop screen at $200 or then $700+ for a 24" 1080p "kiosk screen" or even more for 4K.

The middle segment is totally gone.

Probably because $25/hr minimum wage is spiking demand for automated ordering, I'm not sure.

The Unifi price is consistent with the insane market.

My current desktop screen is 4K / 24" and was under $200. I just want a basic digitizer on that for under double the price. Nope!

Comment Re:Troublemakers? (Score 1) 24

> The core point of research is to find out what is true

No it's not. The core of it now is to get grants from agencies, pass along overhead, juice the H-index, and ensure job security.

You describe an ideal world, not Big Science.

The journals have been shown to be complicit in corruption, especially during the lockdowns.

We need distributed p2p blockchain science publication, with delayed attribution, probably using zksnarks to underpin it.

Reputation should come from merit - right now the merit is largely determined by reputation.

Comment Re:Why would ReiserFS be removed? (Score 4, Informative) 70

Usually the kernel interfaces are changing and nobody feels like maintaining the code.

Usually because no one is using it.

Some exceptions exist like Itanium but then a market player picks up the ball.

For a news spool or something like that which ReiserFS used to handle, today most people would use a JFS or ZFS with small files in a special device on a fast disk, compressed too.

Nobody really uses ufs or fat16 or ext2 outside of very niche cases anymore which is just fine. An old livecd will be usable for archaeology for a long time.

Comment The other MeToo movement (Score 1) 25

a broader trend among tech giants, who are cutting costs and focusing on their core businesses in response to the rapidly evolving AI landscape.

Shoving AI into all their existing products because ... well ... all the other fat cats are doing it.

If you get fired for going against the grain, you look like a rogue loser when you go job hunting.

If you get fired for going WITH the grain, you look like a generic loser when you go job hunting, but all your competitors are also a generic loser, leveling the playing field.

Comment Re: Scarlet Johansson Sent Two Letters (Score 1) 239

Yes, I'm sure it's perfectly reasonable to expect it to be illegal to sound like a celebrity. I guess that other actress should have her tongue cut out, because otherwise she violates ScarJo's copyright every time she speaks!

Payback's a bitch, though: that other actress can also have ScarJo's tongue cut out, too. A tongue for a tongue: the perfect justice system! ;-)

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