It's a black hole, the diameter is 0. You can safely assume it's mass.

EDIT: Yes, people who are wrong all the time, I know some report the diameter as being whatever the diameter of the event horizon or Schwarzschild boundary is, but scientists don't, that's not actually the diameter, they'll tell you the event horizon or Schwarzschild boundary diameter if you ask, but they won't claim it's the diameter of the black hole, so shush.)

EDIT2: Yes, I also know it's generally the "Schwarzschild *radius*", but "the diameter of the Schwarzschild radius" just looks bad to me. Again, shush.)

EDIT3: Yes, I know Slashdot doesn't have an edit button... or does it? Could I be testing a hidden feature? Maybe I'm a beta tester for a revision of Slashcode? Or maybe I just right clicked, inspect element, found the edit button, and removed the style="display: none;" tag on it? You'll never know.

> I think you underestimate how far the country has moved and how quickly. You underestimate the degree to which sexism is a thing of the past and you underestimate how accustomed to a total lack of professionalism in governance we BOTH the first Trump administration and the following Biden Clown show complete with its klepto-cross-dressers had made us.

I think you're trying desperately to pretend the world is something different to what it is because he's right and you're wrong.

Sexism is not a thing of the past. And I've literally heard people say they were voting for Trump because they didn't think the country was "ready" for a female president. On top of that, after decades of the country moving towards equal rights, we now have a regime that many Gen Z men literally voted for because they were told women had too much power and needed to be taken down a peg. Sexism, homophobia, and racism have been so obviously coming back as major movements I'm surprised anyone with a straight face would claim that sexism is a thing of the past.

As for your complaints about Clinton and Harris, both were highly qualified for the job, and as unlikeable as Clinton might have been, how could she possibly be considered less likeable than Trump?

You know who enshittified recipe sites?

Google did.

Google is why most contain a massive story about how the author once baked this delicious recipe based on Deliah Smith's method while on vacation in Tahiti using only the freshest oak leaves and... {continued for another mile of scrollable text}. Because real recipes are short, it became impossible to get any traffic at all with a straightforward "Here's roughly what it tastes like, here's how you make it" site. There was no reason for Google to do this, beyond seeing that some sites would be more valuable to end users if they had a lot of shit on them, despite the fact anyone with half a brain can tell that that's not going to be true for all types of website. I believe this all started around 2010 or so, when Google started going to shit.

And before you complain that recipe writers shouldn't care about traffic, what the fuck's the point of going to the trouble of sharing a recipe online if nobody is going to read it? A reminder too that LLMs are going to destroy the web because nobody's going to put up websites any more for anything but commerce and advertising.

Note also that most recipe websites these days do actually have both a "Print" and "Jump to recipe" button at the top of their pages. They know you're not interested in the stupid inane story. They're embarrassed to have to put that shit up. And ultimately the recipe is still there, so they're not completely enshittified. I still find them useful.

This is a silly comment. No language is going to help you when you turn off the features that make it helpful. But the fact a language CAN help will obviously reduce the problems you have.

It's not as if all code in the kernel needs to be unsafe. Most of the complex code in the kernel - networking protocols, file systems, USB handlers, etc, can be 100% safe as none of it needs direct access to hardware or memory. It's only the hardware access, IPC, scheduler, etc that needs to be unsafe, and even then not all of the code implementing that, just small chunks that need to do specific things.

The bigger issue with the unsafe keyword in Rust is that you're not discouraged from using it unnecessarily, and there's an unfortunate attitude within the Rust community that it's entirely OK to use it to try to get 5% more speed or whatever. But Torvalds is free to impose a "No unnecessary use of "unsafe"" mandate, and probably should. (And the Rust language folks need to understand that some of their policies, including this one, undermines the entire idea of Rust in the first place. Safety should come first.)

I'm not a fan of the unsafe keyword and Rust's rather over-relaxed attitude towards it (I feel alarm bells should be ringing when it's used and when you drag in a crate that uses it), but there's a world of difference between C where everything could be unsafe, and a language where you have to explicitly say "Wait, this bit, this code that's going to remap a memory segment or bit bang a cheap serial port input, needs to be unsafe, so I'll wrap this tiny bit of code in an unsafe block, and audit it as well as I can, while taking advantage of Rust being able to detect issues in the rest of the program."

I'm inclined to think Rust is being used mostly in the wrong places at the moment. Kernel development is actually a great place for it, because you can do these kinds of mixes of code, while a more unsafe-hostile language should be being used for the video games and (largely pointless) rewrites of command line tools. Especially given the unaudited crates.io crap and risks it brings.

Google is not the alternative. Unfortunately the alternative, selecting systems where your data isn't in the hands of third parties, is intentionally being made hard, and people don't want to do it.

Screen Culture in particular was spamming YT with fake trailers years before AI really blew up, and labeled them very, very deceptively ("Official Trailer Release", and such). YouTube should have banned them years ago, and the studios should have sued. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Yep. Similar to aircraft. There's a reason why planes that perform a specific function at specific performance parameters tend to look alike. Because the parameters demands certain shapes, airflow, capacity, etc, and you end up with planes doing the same mission but designed by different teams yet look alike. See the DC-10/L-1011 airliner situation.

Oh FFS. Trump is the most pro-nuclear president in four decades, including supporting fusion research and exploring new reactor designs: Trump Bets Big on Nuclear

"United States President Donald Trump is putting his money where his mouth is as he doubles down on efforts to accelerate the expansion of the country’s nuclear energy sector. The government will spend billions in public funding to reinvigorate U.S. nuclear power, following decades of underinvestment. Unlike renewable energy, Trump views nuclear power as key to expanding the U.S. electricity generation capacity and recently announced the target of quadrupling nuclear capacity by 2050.
In May, President Trump signed an executive order calling for the U.S. to develop 10 new large nuclear reactors by the end of the decade. In addition, several tech companies, including Alphabet, Amazon, Meta Platforms, and Microsoft, are providing billions in private funding to restart old nuclear plants, upgrade existing ones, and deploy new reactor technology to meet the growing demands from the data centres powering advanced technologies, such as artificial intelligence.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DoE) loan office will dedicate significant funds to the nuclear energy industry to support the development of new reactors. This week, the Energy Secretary Chris Wright stated, “We have significant lending authority at the loan programme office By far the biggest use of those dollars will be for nuclear power plants — to get those first plants built.”

I've actually heard Isaacman is considered a "not terrible" choice within NASA itself. Phil Plait sounded fairly surprised and cautiously optimistic when writing about him earlier this year: https://badastronomy.beehiiv.c...

His nomination originally was apparently derailed because Musk supported him, and Trump finally got tired of Musk. So it wasn't due to merit. And much as I think Musk is awful, I don't see Musk supporting someone to be head of NASA as a disqualification, it seems to be the one agency Musk wants to see do well, even if Musk also wants to suck money out of it to fund his own company.

I think "wait and see" is justified here.

Boots on the ground already happened about 55 years ago, there is zero point in a moon mission to merely put boots on the ground.

As an aside, this documovie is awesome and everyone here should find the time to watch it at some point: you can get it on various streaming platforms, and it's also available on Blu-ray: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

+1 for Forgejo. Small and efficient and likely to be everything you need - yes, there are CI/CD use cases that it doesn't work with, so it might not be what you need, but 99% of people and orgs will find it is just fine.

Gitlab isn't bad - it's more advanced in places than Forgejo, but also a memory hog - but Gitlab's maintainers are giving off serious enshittification-is-just-around-the-corner vibes right now. The mandatory AI account (I forget the name) even on self hosted instances would be one example. Why is it necessary if the AI features are "optional" and "disabled"?

Forgejo is a fork of Gitea when it started giving off the same vibes. Thankfully Gitea didn't go that way - possibly because of the fork - but most of the mindshare is with Forgejo now anyway.

Either way, there are self hostable options that aren't Github. I'm surprised Gitlab didn't see a mass exodus when they became the source for Microsoft's LLM-assisted-coding efforts. But really, now, even if you don't want to self host, there are plenty of third parties who use that platform, and honestly, you should be looking into self hosting anyway.

It wouldn't do jack shit, because no one watches CNN. Travelers used to be stuck with their network, as CNN used to pay airports to display their network, but that ended in 2021 as mobile devices took away that information monopoly, and CNN lost that ad revenue. CNN has half the viewers of MS Now, and only a quarter the viewers of Fox. CNN is way past their glory days, and essentially has become an Also Ran. And cable news doesn't have nearly the reach that the traditional US Big 3 news networks does. All the major cable news players combined still make up less viewers than the lowest rated Big 3 player, CBS, with 4+ million viewers. Which, btw, pales in comparison to ABC, with 8+ million viewers, and NBC with 6+ million. The idea that the Ellisons would "take over" American media is laughable on its face, even if they got Warner Bros. They'd still be a distant third in broadcast reach behind Disney and Comcast, hysterical wailing to the contrary.

OK. When? Because I've been hearing worst case scenarios all my adult life, and most of them are now past their predicted dates. Beginning with Paul Erlich's infamous predictions of mass-starvation in the 60's and 70's, nearly every year the press is filled with credentialed experts that tell us the end is nigh and that the point of no return is almost here. If you want to know why most of the public is so Meh about these doomsday predictions, it's because we've been inundated with the Boy Crying Wolf all of our lives. Would you like a timeline of all the point of no return predictions over the years? It's readily available.

Uh, no, it isn't. Post COVID, some companies are trying to guilt trip customers into tipping all employees in every job... I'm looking at you, fancy-pantsy coffee shops like Starbucks, Dutch Brothers, 7-Brew, etc.... but the vast majority of employees do not ask for nor receive tips as part of their jobs in America. And in jobs where I'd like to tip them for extra service.... grocery pickup, for instance... they're generally not allowed to ask for or receive tips.

Tipping is fine for waitressing, because if the service is good they can make considerably more money. But the post-COVID attempt by some companies to normalize tipping in their industries never took off in the US. Americans resented the push and saw it for what it was.