Comment Re:Let's see in six weeks... (Score 1) 343
There is a route from the Caspian sea to the Azov sea through the Volga-Don canal.
Comment Fakeable (Score 4, Interesting) 57
Interestingly, I was in a lab yesterday and met a PhD student whose thesis was largely about using LLMs to fake fingerprints and retinal scans.
Submission + - Two new studies about how many birds die from wind turbines (euronews.com)
ZipNada writes: The energy company Vattenfall and the tech company Spoor have analysed the extent to which wind turbines endanger birds at the offshore wind farm in Aberdeen. Over a period of 19 months — from June 2023 to December 2024 — video recordings of a wind turbine were made with the help of AI-supported analyses. A total of 2,007 bird flight paths near the monitored turbine were examined.
"By combining AI-powered detection and detailed expert analysis, we can replace assumptions with concrete observations and measure actual behaviour in the immediate vicinity of wind turbines," says Ask Helseth, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Spoor.
The study found that there was not a single collision
A study by the German Offshore Wind Energy Association (BWO) also shows that migratory birds almost completely avoid wind turbines.
For one and a half years, researchers analysed over four million bird movements with the help of radar and AI-based cameras. The result showed that over 99.8 per cent of migratory birds reliably avoided the wind turbines.
"By combining AI-powered detection and detailed expert analysis, we can replace assumptions with concrete observations and measure actual behaviour in the immediate vicinity of wind turbines," says Ask Helseth, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Spoor.
The study found that there was not a single collision
A study by the German Offshore Wind Energy Association (BWO) also shows that migratory birds almost completely avoid wind turbines.
For one and a half years, researchers analysed over four million bird movements with the help of radar and AI-based cameras. The result showed that over 99.8 per cent of migratory birds reliably avoided the wind turbines.
Comment Re:Let's see in six weeks... (Score 1) 343
Iran has two coasts. This is the opposite of landlocked.
Submission + - Government Workers Say They're Getting Inundated With Religion (wired.com)
joshuark writes: Federal workers across multiple U.S. agencies are complaining that Christianity is flooding into their workplaces in ways they've never seen before—and they feel powerless to speak up.
It started after President Trump returned to office and signed an executive order in February 2025 creating a White House Faith Office and similar offices inside federal agencies. Since then, religion has crept into everyday government life in a big way...Secretary Brooke Rollins sent an agency-wide Easter email titled "He has risen!" with explicitly Christian messaging. One employee called it "grotesque" and suspected AI wrote it. A formal complaint was filed with the Office of Special Counsel.
Department of Labor hosts monthly worship services with pastors and political figures. One speaker, Alveda King, said she was "more concerned about" nonreligious employees—a comment that rattled staffers who felt it implied atheists were going to hell.
Health and Human Services, under vaccine denier RFK Jr., expanded funding for faith-based addiction treatment and gave workers the afternoon off for Good Friday.
Department of Defense has seen the most dramatic shift, with Secretary Pete Hegseth hosting monthly prayer services featuring high-profile Christian nationalist figures like Doug Wilson, who has advocated for a theocracy and argued women shouldn't vote. Hegseth himself has called the U.S. war with Iran a "holy war."
Employees are afraid to push back—only 22.5% of federal workers in 2025 say they could report wrongdoing without retaliation, down from nearly 72% in 2024.
The government's position: these events are voluntary and legally permitted. A public policy professor quoted in the piece put it plainly: "The Trump administration has opened a new chapter in the integration of Christianity into the daily work of government."
It started after President Trump returned to office and signed an executive order in February 2025 creating a White House Faith Office and similar offices inside federal agencies. Since then, religion has crept into everyday government life in a big way...Secretary Brooke Rollins sent an agency-wide Easter email titled "He has risen!" with explicitly Christian messaging. One employee called it "grotesque" and suspected AI wrote it. A formal complaint was filed with the Office of Special Counsel.
Department of Labor hosts monthly worship services with pastors and political figures. One speaker, Alveda King, said she was "more concerned about" nonreligious employees—a comment that rattled staffers who felt it implied atheists were going to hell.
Health and Human Services, under vaccine denier RFK Jr., expanded funding for faith-based addiction treatment and gave workers the afternoon off for Good Friday.
Department of Defense has seen the most dramatic shift, with Secretary Pete Hegseth hosting monthly prayer services featuring high-profile Christian nationalist figures like Doug Wilson, who has advocated for a theocracy and argued women shouldn't vote. Hegseth himself has called the U.S. war with Iran a "holy war."
Employees are afraid to push back—only 22.5% of federal workers in 2025 say they could report wrongdoing without retaliation, down from nearly 72% in 2024.
The government's position: these events are voluntary and legally permitted. A public policy professor quoted in the piece put it plainly: "The Trump administration has opened a new chapter in the integration of Christianity into the daily work of government."
Comment Re:Really Quite Remarkable (Score 1) 343
No, because the military burns a shitload of fuel, tankers burn a shitload of fuel idling and burning refineries are really bad for the environment.
Comment Re:Live theater is a much better value (Score 1) 152
Live theater where I live is quite good. It's just not a lot of variety. the shows stay a long time, they have decided to chase each other's repertoire, and my most favorite troupe has taken to repeating work done 5-7 years ago. Good shows. I want a little more variety.
And of course there are things to see on the screen that cannot be replicated on the stage. Just different and interesting.
Comment Re:Windows on Anything Not So Good Lately (Score 1) 89
"With the RAM pricing, a MacBook Pro is actually priced considerably less than a comparably specced ThinkPad"
Well, as of yesterday, maybe. Is Apple immune to supplier pricing?
Comment Re:Rust is a specialist language (Score 1) 170
It seems to me - not the first time, too - that you are quite full of yourself. As the old saying in toilets around the world goes, "stand closer, it is shorter than you think".
Comment Re:Never going to happen. (Score 1) 139
Doesn't klippers rendsr the stl files being printed as a preview?
Comment New Samsung cell phones have Google connections. (Score 4, Insightful) 48
New Samsung cell phones have many connections to Google.
There need to be laws limiting Google's invasions to user devices.
Fewer than 1 of a hundred ads are interesting to me. Maybe 1 in a thousand.
There need to be laws limiting Google's invasions to user devices.
Fewer than 1 of a hundred ads are interesting to me. Maybe 1 in a thousand.
Comment Re:Seems to me maybe government isn't the answer t (Score 1) 118
Until recently, distilling your own spirits was prohibited. A legacy of that era so well named.
And they you go and write 'The world isn't fair and it's not because of "the state"'. Oh my. We do, however, owe a duty to each other and ourselves to be honest about that, to challenge and defeat corruption and abuse, and care for one another. Not defer that duty of care to some entity we pay to make it go away.
But government satisfies the ultimate condition of Man's heart - to rule. Which infects every activity we endeavor to practice.
Comment Re:Air for how many people? (Score 1) 69
"42 because it's what you get when you multiply six by nine"
Comment Wasn't it the other way around? (Score 1) 91
So the current production version of Mark Zuckerberg is building a newer version with a more intuitive human interface, I get it.
Comment Re:Rust is a specialist language (Score 1) 170
Dude, I have developed a CMS in Perl decades ago when PHP was still nothing of significance. It is not propaganda, it is honest truth.
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