Slashdot now the home of Luddites? "Why do we need a SPACE BASE?"
A lot of people write off space 'competition' as just militaristic dick-flexing.
You do understand where ICBMs came from? There isn't a serious question that space is absolutely now a context for global-state competition; it's not dick-flexing to recognize that this will shortly expand from orbital space to really the entire cislunar sphere.
It is, in fact, one of the generally-undisputed roles of government to try to recognize a strategic vulnerability and address it proactively.

Further - and this may end up getting modded to oblivion as recounting these facts is distasteful on /. -
SpaceX is multiples cheaper than competitives in launch cost per kg - $1500-$4000 vs $18k alternatives vs $54k NASA
To suggest "SpaceX is a slush fund from Trump to Elon" makes no sense. I want our govt to be using the CHEAPEST AVAILABLE LAUNCH capability. Are you asserting they shouldn't?

BlueOrigin is well behind but commercial launch development is *significantly* driving down costs, that's unquestionable.

As far as "publicly funded" ...would you rather it be a corporate thing entirely? Does that make sense?

"It's accepted that Lithium is not rare."
You and I and some may recognize that, but the media organs have been screeching for some time about China's "monopoly" on rare earths and the west's "vulnerability" for a decade or more.
I can't count the number of times I've had to explain that yes, in fact the US has world-leading deposits of lithium. (as much as 40 million tons of reserves. vs Chinas 10)

"this process is welcome. As it has a dramatic reduction in toxic residuals from processing"
Fully agree, this would be a wonderful opportunity. Not only does this absolutely mean less toxins anywhere, this would open the chance of actually doing lithium recovery domestically (it doesn't really matter how clean the process is, I expect crowds of Earth Firsters gathering to oppose any such industry, regardless; this would just mean it has a reasonable chance of moving out of the morass of environmental protests...).

A software engineer says, "Yes, I've developed techniques for avoiding entire classes of bugs in C, but there are a few types I'm still struggling with."

Someone who has not yet developed the engineering mindset immediately comes up with excuses. "We can't do that."

An engineer looks for solutions, not excuses. It's easy to tell the difference once you recognize it.

LiFePO4 is much safer, but has a lower energy density. It's great for in-house battery backup, less so for verhicles and probably a non-starter for planes.

Where traditional lithium batteries spout flames if punctured and lead to thermal runaway, LiFePO4 mostly just spew noxious gases which can be vented and don't cause nearby cells to ignite.

Black Rock has been building data centers as an investment vehicle. It's not clear whether they are all being used or not.

That is to say, they are definitely not all being used. Whether or not a meaningful percentage of them are being left unused is still an open question.

I hope I never work with you.

Ok, time for some programming advice you should have learned right after college.

Every time you write a bug, ask yourself, "How do I avoid this bug in the future? What can I change?"

Start doing it, and your code will quickly improve.

You clearly didn't read my comment.

They think center-left is ultra right-wing.

Some mostly sensible people consider themselves center-left and feel hurt that the he Valley types are calling them fascists.

It's all complicated by the 1D spectrum model of the French Parliament being applied to politics broadly.

The Left Authoritarians really hate the Right Authoritarians while the Left Libertarians and the Right Libertarians mostly get along.

It sort of makes sense becauae violence is inherent in the former while cooperation is inherent in the latter.

But the angry aren't usually educated im polisci at all and just operate on the Friend/Eny distinction of their tribe's momentary collective preferences, which can turn on a dime.

The Valley oligarchs will also switch allegiances instantaneously if they perceive advantage in profit or control with shifting winds.

They keep adding timing noise to these API's as attacks show up but this really speaks to the need to have the noise in the core I/O libraries, not inside each new API.

If it's writing to disk in any way it should go through a code path with timing noise.

It would be easier on the feature developers too.

Probably in the network API's too. Have a turbo mode in preferences at one end of a privacy slider, maybe. Default should be safe but the browser benchmark people incentivize the wrong thing. "You get what you measure" and stuff.

Apparently it's also called perfect randomness.

The numbers are just symbols. You can use anything, even A,B,C,D,E,F

It's really hard to take you seriously when both of your definitions are circular. Get a better dictionary.

It's an overseas market too.

Lots of defects in the case.

Somebody said his legal defense is that if Congress can do it he can. If true it could be an impactful case.

With the growing ability to run local models at home on your own hardware, especially if you have Apple Silicon computers....I'm wondering if soon we'll see a LARGE drop in subscriptions to the Frontier models?

From what I'm seeing these local models can do what about 98% of the populace needs....and you aren't sharing your data with a corporation that is just sucking up all your data into their AI?