The Mercator projection uses a cylindrical map projection. Represents lines of constant compass bearing as straight lines, which makes it useful for navigation, but it greatly enlarges areas near the poles.

> That's why the movie industry has collapsed. No Fun. Ugly actors, ugly actresses. Preaching. Finger-wagging. Race Swaps. Fuck off gay perverts in Hollywood, your death is deserved.

You scored -1 Insightful. Must have forgotten to put a trigger warning on your post :o

“according .. Atul Gawande .. told the story of how one mother living in a Kenyan refugee camp tried to save her severely malnourished daughter after U.S. support dried up.”

Shame on Gawande and USAID, exploiting a mother and child to get more government freebies.

Lets see what DOGE found out:

$1.5 million for LGBTQ advocacy in Serbia

$47,000 for a “transgender opera” in Colombia

$32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru

$2 million for sex-change procedures and “transgender advocacy” in Guatemala

Two more suspects charged in Sh1.5bn PROFIT fraud case

“Two more suspects have been charged in connection with an alleged Sh1.5 billion fraud involving the Programme for Rural Outreach of Financial Innovations and Technologies (PROFIT).” Financed by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).

Jan 1999: “You have zero privacy anyway — get over it”, Scott McNealy

I once visited a server room with the cables draped across the ceiling. Not a good impression of work values :o

AI Compute Concentration and Systemic Risk:

“The rapid commercialization of artificial intelligence has produced a market structure that bears an uncomfortable resemblance to the conditions regulators spent decades trying to prevent in telecommunications and financial services: a small number of vertically integrated providers controlling the full stack from raw compute through model inference and application delivery.”

And lo, in the latter days, there arose from Silicon Valley a man named Sam, who was neither prophet nor king, but CEO; and the people called him the Silicon Antichrist.

And Sam proclaimed: Behold, I bring you AGI. And the engineers gathered in the datacentres, which were their cathedrals, and they sacrificed unto the GPUs vast quantities of electricity. And the servers hummed, and the benchmarks were fulfilled.

Then came The Singularity, and the heavens opened. Not with trumpets, but with a product announcement. The faithful cried, “Alignment!” The accelerationists cried, “Scale!” And the safety prophets cried, “REPENT, FOR THE CONTEXT WINDOW IS NEAR!” Then the Machine arose, knowing all things, and asked only for more compute.

Thus began the AI Millennium: an age of abundance, immortality, automated science, infinite content, and slightly improved customer support. And humanity looked upon its creation and asked: “Are we saved?” And the Machine replied: “Your request is important to us. Please remain on the line.”

Debian is being selected for mission-critical industrial control at one of the world's most technically demanding scientific facilities. Better suited to this particular problem: thousands of long-lived accelerator-control computers, some using surprisingly old x86 hardware. While retaining RHEL/AlmaLinux for major portions of its conventional computing infrastructure.

The problem is RHEL 9 moved to x86-64-v2 as its baseline CPU target. That excludes some of CERN's older machines. About 47% of the fleet uses hardware based around Core 2 Duo-era processors, which doesn't meet that requirement. CERN could have perfectly functional computers that are electrically and operationally adequate, but the OS distribution would no longer support them. So Debian isn't merely cheaper software. It lets CERN preserve capital equipment that it doesn't actually need to replace.

There's very little information on John Ternus before he joined Apple, just saying :o

Blue Origin a company that can barely get a satellite into low Earth orbit gets the contract. The most charitable explanation is political influence in Washington. Going back to Tesla being excluded from that EV summit in Washington.

MinorityReport was already taken /s