Yes the ICE tracking app is a bit tricky in the trump era, in pricipal ICE is law enforcement, and any app that interferes with legitimate law enforcement ( if you don't like ghe laws on the books work to change them ), but when you have a convited criminal, thst seames tomsdmire and want to emulste desopots ocupuimg the oval offuce... yea it's a tricky one all right. And before you say " but trump was elected in a free and open election " yes I know, that's the scary part, who votes for a convicted cry fot fge highest office in the land, I still dont get that part

There is, or at least, a eather large advanrage to having yje transaction going via an app. The apple wallet ( I cant remember if using wallet/apple pay from safari was avalable on ips from the start or mot. Having not to fush out u You debot/credit card evry time yo want to tip a creator a few bux is a convei factor that is rather impotrant to certain peopke. Allso not havung to give you payment detail to yet another third party ( apple allready has it miht allso be nice for some people. Is ghat worth 3 % well the clurt say no. But they dud not want to decide how much jt is worth

That it's a competitive system is the problem. The world advances through cooperation.

Not exactly true. The world largely advances by Natural selection. Survival of the fittest. Allocating scarce resources, such as money, to the projects and people who prove the most meritorious or effective or valuable usage of the resource. Of course Collaboration has a value, but it's largely involving or between researches who already passed the bar. You gotta have people reaching a certain level before a degree of collaboration becomes of value.

As nice as YouTube science content can be, shows like PBS Nova are still better because they had the budget to do better and the incentive to get it right.

US Solicitor General John Sauer disagrees.

In the oral arguments for Trump v Slaughter, on Monday, Sauer said this isn't true when Justice Kagan pushed him on it. She said that the Founders clearly intended to have a separation of powers, to which he basically said "Yeah, but with the caveat that they created the 'unitary executive'", by which he seemed to mean that they intended the president to be able to do pretty much anything.

Kagan responded with a nuanced argument about how we have long allowed Congress to delegate limited legislative and judicial functions to the executive branch in the way we allow Congress to delegate the power to create and evaluate federal rules to executive-branch agencies, but that that strategy rests on a "deal" that both limits the scope of said rulemaking and evaluative functions and isolates them to the designated agency. She said that breaking that isolation by allowing the president detailed control over those functions abrogated and invalidated the deal, unconstitutionally concentrating power in ways that were clearly not intended by the Founders.

Sauer disagreed. I'll stop describing the discussion here and invite you to listen to it. The discussion is both fascinating and very accessible, and the linked clip is less than seven minutes long.

The court seems poised to take Sauer's view, which I think is clearly wrong. If they do, it's going to come back and bite conservatives hard when we get an active liberal president, as we inevitably will someday if the Trump administration fails to end democracy in the US.

What's very sad is that we already went through all of this and learned these lessons 150 years ago. After 100 years of experience with a thoroughly-politicized executive branch, we passed the Pentleton Civil Service Reform act in 1883 specifically to insulate most civil servants from presidential interference. Various other laws have subsequently been passed to create protections for federal workers and to establish high-level positions that are explicitly protected from the president. SCOTUS seems bent on overturning all of that and returning us to the pre-Pendleton era.

Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it, and it's looking we're gonna repeat a lot of bad history before we re-learn those 19th-century lessons.

Should have asked AI to make the movie for you and keep the money for yourself.

An executive order is nothing more than a memo. It does not have the force of law. This is just as DOA as inane attempts to override the 14th amendment with an executive order.

This is why Elon's claim that Tesla was using photon counting to overcome the dynamic range limitations of camera only sensors was complete rubbish. Actual photon counting sensors are extremely tricky to do well.

But hey ho, Tesla stock goes up.

I think MS will get major pushback from some real big clients (read some government agencies) if they try to drop on prem completly. I'd imagen NSA an Dod (and their counterparts around the world) won't let go on their air gapped on prem systems for a cloud solution. But what doo i know these systems might not be running MS sw in the first place

More like; server : you have 2 options
1: model only (no textures) 36TB
2: Textures only 2-100 PB (depending on resolution)
You; holy crap 36TB for models only, tea never mind that

Bombs and the like is Not MS flightsims bread and butter, for that kind of thing that try dcs

Didnt SCOTUS just gut regulatory agencies from doing things like this? Doesnt Congress have to pass laws for the agencies to implement? Or is that just anything the Dema wanted to regulate?

EOs like this shouldnt be worth the price of the paper they are written on

That's odd, for my purposes -- story writing, research, and keeping my schedule -- I've found Grok to be very inferior to Chat GPT. Only in image editing is it superior.

we have to many Ph.D's and when you need to do this to keep your slot = the college system is broken.

They are students not PhDs. And you don't "need" to do this to keep "your slot". Nobody is entitled to a slot. What you have to earn is not owed to you.

It's a competitive system, and you have to maintain certain level of merit and academic progress.

There is a right way. Either follow the rules or quit, and go do something more productive. And somebody deciding to become a criminal does not mean the system is broken.

Or, more concisely: Countries should aim to be poor.