the ionizing radiation which causes shortwave radio blackouts does. CMEs, no.

each letter is 10x the letter before.

solar flares often do launch CMEs (coronal mass ejections), but all of these three did not. Aside from a partial shortwave radio blackout right after each one, the effect on earth is expected to be minimal. no special auroras even.

diagram:
https://images.seattletimes.co...

article:
https://www.seattletimes.com/b...

the summary of the article is that someone claiming to be a current boeing employee posted a whistleblowey account on a forum which says that boeing's own internal documentation system points strongly to the bolts (which are not the primary load-bearing item holding the door plug in place) having never been installed.

major solar storms come from earth-facing coronal mass ejections, and take about three days to travel the distance from the sun to earth. the exact moment of arrival is unknown until it's about half an hour away tho. so it's true we only have a little bit of time of accurate warning but we also have about three days of rough warning.

some solar storms are surprises, arriving at the 30-minute outpost unexpectedly, without any correlated CME. but those are minor ones.

just visit spaceweather.com once a day to get the skinny on current events.

the argument here in favor of this universe being a simulation is "information complexity in this universe seems to tend to decrease, which is kind of sort of like a computer cleaning up disk space, so probably we're in a simulation" ?

not to be alarmist but we're clearly in the start of an existential crisis for human creativity. ask it to tell you a story about something. ask it to answer basic tech-screen software interview questions. ask it to write an essay on a topic.

It does really good.

together with visual generation like dall-e and craiyon, and bearing in mind that these are baby versions available for free to the public, what does all this mean for the value of human creativity ?

we were in a similar situation at the advent of photography, and that worked out fine, so there's that. but i'm worried.

I am far from sufficiently informed, but a thought that comes to my mind is this whole thing is to large degree an exercise on Russia's part to see what needs fixing in the army for some other action.

this is a great outcome. I'm super happy for Wardle.

it's so frustrating to see this whole crypto thing be as successful as it is with basically zero discussion of environmental impact at the high level.
a bitcoin seems like basically 'proof of harm'.
this seems fixable, but nobody big seems to give a hoot.

you could try, you know, deleting your FB account/s.

Can someone explain this screenshot from the git repo's examples,
where the operation is a simple CapitalizeString(),
and the "Total Time" is 0.7 seconds (capitalizing just 30 characters or so!)
but the "CPU Time" is 46 seconds.

https://raw.githubusercontent....

many cities have official organizations for tenants rights.
i've seen them be extremely helpful with grounded advice,
and there's a very low barrier to entry. just call.