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Comment Re:Blessing in disguise? (Score 1) 77

I got one around 2008. They were the best of the non-premium 1080p HDMI screens at the time.

The one I got had slightly better test review scores on display quality than the LG that year. The Sony was 20% better for 3x the price.

It lasted about twelve years and by then a bigger 4K with much brighter colors was half the cost in nominal dollars, so probably 1/4 the cost in real terms.

And by then cheap flashable streaming sticks were available as was pihole and fairly easy outbound NAT rewriting rules to keep the beasts contained.

Comment Mars is still the goal (Score 1) 73

The Moon is target practice. We need to get away from innovative bespoke engineering, into industrial mass production with continuous improvement. To do that we need to fly often. Mars just doesn't have the launch window availability. The biggest part of the challenge is that we were born in the bottom of a deep well. To toss enough stuff out of the well for a long journey is critical. Boosters that reliably fly on time often and cheaply enough to get ships and fuel out of the well. Ships that carry fuel into orbit and return over and over since the vast majority of the material we need to send out of the well isn't payloads or ships, it's fuel. Kilotons of fuel. Once the factories and processes are set up for that going far beyond the Moon is fairly easy. But with a narrow opportunity every two years that's not going to happen in a human lifespan. It's not enough refinement cycles per year.

I see this accelerating the Mars objective, not deferring it.

Comment "Critical Infrastructure" (Score 1) 180

Well nothing we think of as "critical infrastructure" is using consumer routers - and if it were that could and should be remedied quickly without a ban on consumer routers.

So ... this leaves us with an open question for this to make legal sense.

The best fit is probably an Internet Drivers License and mandatory packet signing for a surveillance control grid and CBDC coming down the pike rapidly.

When in the course of Human Events....

Comment Re:Rust could be awesome. (Score 2) 31

Yeah, not sure if you remember the Vegan Crossfit Pythonistas.

Instead of saying, "we could write a program to..." they would dogmatically intone, "we could write a Python script to..." in almost every situation.

Not sure who taught them the NLP but their dedication was a fervor.

A whole lot of rewriting of fast, debugged, working code got rewritten by them just because Perl, Ruby, and Bash felt like heresy.. For a while python stacktraces were the error message of common use on Fedora.

Comment "Stop making people hate you." (Score 1) 48

Now that we know that Meta lobbied for all of these simultaneous "age verification" laws he's losing what little support he still had.

Have you seen that interview where he just has a bottle of barbecue sauce on his bookshelf?

To make him "relatable" they say?

There's a decades old cartoon that asks, "how would you like your tyranny wrapped, in 'stopping terrorism' or 'protecting the children'?

2025 edit: 'stopping antisemitism' as that's all DoJCRD seems to know about.

Comment Re:So much for state's rights. (Score 1) 76

States have no rights in the American system. They have powers, insofar as they exercise them.

Humans have rights, granted by God, as the default religious basis for the Natural Rights Republic.

You'll notice that Regulating AI appears nowhere in Article I , and Federalist 10 explains why these powers were strictly limited.

Yet the Political/Parasite class is happy to abrogate their power for power and money and ensure a government school child never hears about The Federalist Papers in thirteen years of compulsory schooling.

So we're left with too few Americans who even know they should be livid.

Perhaps letting Robert Maxwell and Howard Zinn be in charge of the textbooks was a massive and fatal mistake.

Submission + - Ryugu asteroid samples contain all DNA and RNA building blocks

symbolset writes: More and more science is pushing back the Drake equation, reducing the parameters necessary for life to form. From the discovery that organic molecules are formed in the little red dot protogalaxies at the edge of our visible universe to AI models that identify a self replicating RNA molecule in only 45 nucleotides. Now comes Toshiki Koga et al with a study published in the journal Nature Astronomy reported on by phys.org finding all the nucleobases of RNA and DNA in pristine samples collected from the asteroid Ryugu. The bases being uracil adenine, guanine, cytosine and thymine. Ammonia was also found.

The universe it seems is made of soup.

Comment Re:Such BS overselling (Score 1) 120

Ideally you'll charge batteries with them and then use a low-frequency inverter to power the fridge.

But this is another $2k on the low end for something decent.

Does anybody know how they synchronize the AC waveform on these plug-in things?

I have been operating on the understanding that you can smash DC sources together but not AC. It sounds like I could parallel inverters with this tech. That would be cool.

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