Comment Re:Also... (Score 1) 67
Yep, indeed.
Comment Also... (Score 5, Insightful) 67
Universal healthcare is also a significant reason why the US loses out to every other rich country in the world in objective metrics of healthcare.
(e.g., cost, longevity, infant mortality, maternal mortality, etc.)
Submission + - So many birds are migrating that they're appearing on weather radar (washingtonpost.com)
alternative_right writes: Between 2010 and 2013, the radars were upgraded with technology that allows both horizontal and vertical pulses of energy to be emitted. By comparing the returned signals, meteorologists can determine the shape of whatever is in the sky. Raindrops are a bit wider than they are tall, and shaped like hamburger buns; snowflakes are — obviously — flaky; but lofted tornado debris is spiked or jagged.
Birds, meanwhile, appear as somewhat spiked objects, as do insects. But insects appear a bit more round and uniform on radar, and are also lightweight enough to become caught up in the wind. Birds travel higher than most bugs, and also can fly against or perpendicular to the wind. After all, they have places to go — southward. Meteorologists can also determine their direction of motion through their analyses.
Birds, meanwhile, appear as somewhat spiked objects, as do insects. But insects appear a bit more round and uniform on radar, and are also lightweight enough to become caught up in the wind. Birds travel higher than most bugs, and also can fly against or perpendicular to the wind. After all, they have places to go — southward. Meteorologists can also determine their direction of motion through their analyses.
Submission + - How USB-C Ended the Great Connector Wars (itbrew.com)
An anonymous reader writes: It's easy to forget the dark ages of peripheral connectivity. A twisted nest of proprietary connectors was the norm. Then, in 2014, a hero emerged: USB-C. It promised a reversible connector, high-speed data transfer, and enough power to charge a laptop. It was a revolution. This article from IT Brew breaks down the three waves of USB-C adoption, from its humble beginnings in the PC industry to its EU-mandated takeover of the mobile world. It's how a single connector brought order to the chaos and became the undisputed king of the hardware industry.
Comment Last time I checked, long term is 3-5 years (Score 1) 46
Six months will save money, yes, but will not allow the executives to focus on long term goals
A more worthy goal would be to report AND PAY TAXES every 4 months. More steady income for the IRS, less reporting burden for companies.
We can harvest twice, or even thrice a year, and we now have computers to aid the record keeping instead of scribes and abacus...
Yearly taxes are an anachronism from early non-automated agricultural society...
JM2C
YMMV
Comment Re:How many tabs could you have open with 32-bit? (Score 1) 40
How much CPU power does a machine have that can't run a 64bit OS and browser? Would such a machine cope with even a single tab of a modern bloated website?
You would be surprised what some 32 bit only machines can do.
But at this stage, most machines running a 32 bit OS are machines capable of 64 bit operation, but that have a very expensive or very critical peripheral that has only 32 bit drivers.
Comment Cars replaced horses. That made rich people richer (Score 2) 102
Cars replaced horses. That made rich people richer.
But, eventually, cars gave everyone FAR better lives.
It is too soon to know all the ways AI will eventually affect us.
But, eventually, cars gave everyone FAR better lives.
It is too soon to know all the ways AI will eventually affect us.
Comment The licensing complaint is pretty simple to solve (Score 3, Interesting) 21
Train a coding AI model just on BSD, MIT, ISC, APACHE, WTFPL, CC0 and compatible licensed code, and only accept code generated by that model.
Easy peasy.
Comment Stop Writing Cathedrals of Complexity (Score 3, Funny) 48
and Start Writing Bazaars of Improvisation
Comment Re:Price up, benefits down (Score 1) 22
That's in part because a lot of products sold via third-party sellers on Amazon are fulfilled by Walmart or Target by retail arbitrageurs.
Comment Re:The replacement system sucks. (Score 2) 46
You should not use Amazon Family even if you do live in the same household.
The system Amazon has devised is an Unacceptable security risk.
The problem is the new "program" requires that you Make all your Payment methods, such as your credit card, available for everyone else in the household -- They can click a button in the Family section of their Account management to automatically add your credit card to their Amazon wallet.
That means, for example.. If you wanted to share Prime delivery with your Elderly parent you are housing; They can go into their Amazon account and instantly add Your credit card, and then make a purchase on you instead of using their own card. Also, If they set their password to 1234 or their account gets hacked, and let a few other people access their account, now your account suddenly has a massive issue as well, and there is really no way to manage this risk. You just have to trust your family members more than is due or warranted in most cases.. Spouses often have some non-Joint bank accounts and cards for Personal and Joint for the household costs only - the very deliberate reason of not putting all the eggs in one basket, and making sure people retain a level of independence, and still have their own funds allocated just for each person's personal usage.
Chilax. While what you say is technically true (which is the best kind of true), nowadays many banks offer "virtual pre-paid credit cards" to compliment the one you have. If anyone is so concerned with this "loophole", they may as well set up one for "Amazon-Family" Stuff, and use that one only for amazon.
Comment Re:Weighted average of multiple GNSS systems (Score 1) 39
So, the europeans (union) are so lazy that they let their leader fly in a plain Flacon 900LX plane?!
Actually you'll find this fascination with hardening transport for leaders is an almost uniquely American thing among democracies. I say among democracies because dictatorships surround themselves by military for obvious reasons.
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Your president hides in a bullet proof truck costing tax payers millions.
I am not an USoAn, but I live in one of those "dictatorships" you allude (if you care about which one, you can search my comment history). So I hope you understand my confusion. Your information was interesting.
Having said that, I still do believe that a president/head of state has to have a dedicated plane, with heightened security and more roboust flight systems. It does not have to be a 747 decorated in Gold leaf with every conceivable luxury inside, but rather something utilitarian, that does the job and does not crash while doing it.
Comment Re:Weighted average of multiple GNSS systems (Score 1) 39
I did not find that the plane had military-grade systems. The picture from the Bulgarian information services shows a Falcon 900LX aircraft registration OO-GPE, belonging to Luxaviation Belgium. It's a civilian jet that any other day it be carrying CEOs or celebrities. https://www.ainonline.com/avia...
So, the europeans (union) are so lazy that they let their leader fly in a plain Flacon 900LX plane?!
Not a miliatry hardened/modified Falcon 900XL Plane?!
While a land war rages in europe (the continent) cor ~3 years now!
Les mots me manquent.
Comment Re:Weighted average of multiple GNSS systems (Score 1) 39
Maybe, but how many regular commercial ships and planes have access to this military grade stuff?
I'd wager the plane of the president of the eurpean union has access to the military grade stuff. And that is the plane TFS and TFA mention explicitly . So....
Comment Weighted average of multiple GNSS systems (Score 3, Interesting) 39
As early as 2018, even earlier, Polish scientists (Poland is a member of NATO) were working on using multiple GNSSs to improve acuracy and being more resilient to interference/jaming/spoofing
https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292...
That plane had (Military Grade)GPS + (Military Grade) Galileo and yet was Jammed? Either the Russians are very advanced in the Jamming Game, or the europeans are very lazy hardening their (Military Grade) GNSS Systems
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