The perchlorates are a serious sticking issue. While I continue to be amazed at human ingenuity, the remediation problem for Martian soil seems to be very difficult. Not only that, but the perchlorates are *everywhere*, which means the entire environment is fundamentally poisonous to humans. That doesn't make it impossible, but it raises the bar another notch where we are already potentially dealing with low atmospheric pressure, extremely high CO2 concentration, very low O2 concentration, serious cold, etc. Again, not impossible, but Mars is almost as inhospitable as the Moon.

Yeah, their assumption that a sterile planetary body will not spontaneously develop this chemistry is not a really solid null hypothesis, especially given the number of demonstrations that amino acids fall out of proto-Earth conditions.

Was a free directory assistance program that was also a training program for Google voice recognition. When they had enough data, they canned the service.

Thanks for your questions, Freenet caches data but it isn’t meant to be a long-term storage network. It’s better to think of it as a communication system. Data persists as long as at least one node remains subscribed to it. If nobody subscribes (including the author), it will eventually disappear from the network. So yes, if only your node subscribes then the data will only exist there and won’t be available when your machine is offline. But if other nodes subscribe it will be replicated automatically and remain available even if your node goes offline.

Not from 2023, the linked video is from last month. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The destruction was with the previous Doctor, under Chris Chibnall.

Yet millions of people believe itâ(TM)s a good bet to play 1 in 36,000 odds and happy to win a hundred bucks.

$diety, I wish I had mod points right now -- that's brilliant!

to the early days of app stores where there were five useful apps and 20 others that would pretend to pour beer out of your phone into a glass. Also, virtual cats. And fishtanks.

your dad was trying to use the intergalactic modem to contact Earth. I swear, you kids. . .

Maybe it's because I'm a scientist, but I had to use a bot to distill down the example for me:

I had to press it to simplify a few times, and it came down to:

And also, maybe because I speak science-geek, the quote from the abstract ...

... makes perfect sense.

Some of us were around in 1974 for the US year round DST experiment.
It was not pretty. It was not safe. It was so dark at school bus stops, that many stores and even McD were giving out packs of reflective stickers for kids to paste on their clothes, shoes, and bookbags so they could be seen.
Just keep standard time year round. Happy farms, zero real harm, no more changing, no more kvetching about changing twice a year.

The ribbon format is just bad. There is no uniformity to the UI. You have to spend time learning the UI, rather than just using it.

This is definitely a situation where simpler is better, and it's very hard to beat the standard drop-down tree'd menu with modal dialogs at the leaves.

Japan really doesn't span enough longitude to warrant multiple time zones, unlike China which spans something like 5.