Clouds will depend on the frequency.
X-Ray lasers are extremely difficult but they exist. Stepping down from extremely difficult to merely difficult may have some merit.
Whether it's worth the cost will be interesting. Microsats is curious - geostationary would be an easier place to start without the steering complexity.
An interesting project for sure.
Remember when they ported VAX/VMS to PC architecture and put a Windows 3 GUI on top?
That evolved.
"Watch this space."
> pay the Chinese to host our fucking military servers
no, but that's literally what they were doing.
DC doesn't run a serious country.
Patent law in Japan works different than in the rest of the world.
And your stupid idea, just because someone else did it already: is just that, stupid.
I know an anecdote about lightbulbs. One company (A) sued another one (B) for patent infringement. It was about the windings. So A claimed B copied the improved winding that ensured better conduction or something. Company defended by saying, close to the bulb we have this "rim". Our conduction is better because of that rim, we do not know anything about windings, we do them like we thought is common sense.
So B won over A.
Keep in mind: patent disputes and similar are extremely rare in Japan. Usually companies approach each other and try to solve disputes like that over a half a year of dinner parties.
Well, as I said legal words have a meaning.
Breaking into a car is most certain similar to breaking into a house, and similar to burlaring.
However robbery means: you use threat or violence to get an item a person does not want to give away.
So, if I hold a bag under my arm, and you snatch it and run away, that is a (mild?) case of robbery. If you wait behind a corner, threaten me and make me hand it over: a not so mild form of robbery, depending if you show a weapon
If I sit on a bench and back is beside me, and you pass by, snatch it, and run away: theft.
when you've only been taught whole words,
That is not how it works.
That is until you have learned the whole alphabet. Then you learn words letter by letter, but READ them as whole words when you know the word.
So, if you have an unknown word, obviously you can not read it as a whole word, but have to decipher it.
I'd imagine that figuring out how to do it on the fly can be rather intimidating if you've never even encountered the idea before No idea what that is supposed to mean. While you learn how to read whole words, obviously you simultaneously learn how to put them together as sounds. Otherwise no one would learn reading
but I can assure you from personal experience that even in a Sefer Torah, there are spaces between the words is that modern Hebrew? I was the opinion that historically they had no spaces, like Greek and Latin or Egyptian, or cuneiform.
The AI overview is interesting. I copy/paste it here:
Ancient Hebrew did not consistently use blank spaces between words. Instead, early manuscripts often used continuous strings of letters (scriptio continua) or separated words with visual markers like dots or vertical lines. Systematic spacing between words in Hebrew texts only became standard much later
The evolution of word division in Hebrew writing highlights several distinct historical phases:
* Early Inscriptions (Before 1st Millennium BCE): Some of the earliest paleo-Hebrew inscriptions occasionally employed word dividers such as vertical lines or small dots (like the famous Mesha Stele), but many texts and everyday documents ran completely together with no spaces at all.
* The Dead Sea Scrolls Era (c. 3rd Century BCE to 1st Century CE): The transition from paleo-Hebrew scripts to the square Aramaic script brought about varied scribal habits. Manuscripts from this period show a mix of formats: some use continuous text, while others leave gaps, spaces, or dots.
* The Masoretic Text (c. 6th to 10th Century CE): Medieval scribes called Masoretes standardized the vocalization (vowel points) and cantillation (chanting notes) for the Hebrew Bible. They also introduced structured spacing, paragraph breaks (using specific spacing letters like Pe and Samekh in the text), and systemized verse markers (like the sof pasuq, represented by a colon-like symbol
* Modern Hebrew: Modern Hebrew writing uses standard, single-character spacing between words, just like Latin-based languages, and incorporates modern punctuation.
Additionally, ancient Hebrew was written with consonants only; vowel markings and other punctuation were not added until centuries later.
Well, regarding Thai. Sometimes being able to deceiver the alphabet does not help. As it is written like it was incepted 600 years ago, and the pronunciation was different. That basically you need to know two things: the real word/meaning, and the ancient writing. Or you can not read it at all at present time. Especially loanwords from other languages. That is of course not very common. I stumbled over such a word yesterday
yeah, people have been calling out specific trades on Twitter for months.
This is just an excuse for the Establishment's AI Control Grid.
"We must completely destroy your Liberty for your Safety."
People better wake up fast.
If you learned whole word reading, you can read every language whole word.
If you know the words.
Hebrew (at least historically, no idea about right now) and Thai for instance have no spaces between words.
Also it is a silly misconception that people who learned whole word reading can not read letters and build up a word with sound, that is a ridiculous idea.
You must have strange unions in your country.
With Free Pascal you can compiler for all majour platforms.
No idea however how the GUI library looks like.
I prefer Dart, it is more C++ - ish
Correct.
The current war and upcoming $1000/mo typical residential utility bills is what's driving me. And the math on a Carrington Event.
I know of three other people who are off-grid capable in my network of high hundreds of households.
But also he doesn't really age, or at lesst he deages on occasion.
Maybe we'll get James Bond and the Philosopher's Stone.
> All that stuff has to react rapidly
Just to add color
Now imagine you need to start a few dozen air conditioners simultaneously. The startup energy can be 10x the operating energy.
I've been doing the math on some of this for home solar. In my case I can ramp up the voltage over a few seconds but AIUI rockets still need instant action in many cases.
It's possible future reusable spacecraft could be more proactive, lowering costs and necessary chassis strength. Most of our technology starts off brute force and gets refined with more elegance but also more complexity over time. We're still early days in spaceflight.
How "bout those removable phone batteries?
Yeah, taxes are generally unavoidable for most people.
Hosting a blog on Substack is just a market choice among so many.
Apple and Google stores are a bit more grey; I'd allow it.
I haven't lost my mind -- it's backed up on tape somewhere.
