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Comment Venture Scam (Score 1) 147

Why do people keep talking about putting something HOT in space. Outer space is NOT COLD. The main requirement for computing (after power) is cooling. Infrared radiation is the usual form of cooling, and that ain't fast. They have to know this. So either someone is Dunning Krugering all over the place, or it's another scam to get money from people who are ignorant of the reality.

Comment Pedantry Alert (Score 2) 92

How can the poster make such a ridiculous OBVIOUS mistake? Makes the pedantic 90% of my brain seethe. "the loose, powdery layer that blankets the Moon's surface" The lunar soil is NOT "powdery." It sharp and pointy like crystals or shards of glass. To be "powdery" would require some way to grind it (eg water), which the moon has never had. Now it is quite possible, and would be required, to grind the soil before using it to grow plants, but damn it, who with any scientific knowledge does not know this?

Recommended moon setting book (nothing to do with grinding lunar soil): "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress". And of course "The Menace from Earth."

Comment Good Business (Score 2) 76

To pump up stocks by firing thousands of people who's work you lay claim to is just GOOD BUSINESS. That the American way. Now, in practically any other country the company would be required to treat their employees legally and with respect. Those are BAD countries. All those stupid Europeans, Asians, et al. GOOD BUSINESS is just something they don't understand. Maybe that's why they can't double there billions of dollars since Covid. You need those billions. You have a golf game next week and Smithee won't be able to brag about his investments being better than yours. That's GOOD BUSINESS, anything that puts you ahead of the other billionaires. I mean, come on, those thousands could just go work at Walmart. It's not like they are "real" SMART people. If they were, they'd be the ones firing all of their employees.

Comment Arrogance (Score 2) 101

Because it is our arrogance to think that signals must exist in the electromagnetic realm. We DO NOT know the ins and outs of the universe. Physics is NOT how things work. It's what we show and demonstrate and wrap math around. We've had, what a couple hundred years in using radio signals to communicate. The trilobites had MILLIONS of years to work on their understanding of the universe, and thinking that we would be able to find a millennia of EM usage historical representation of trilobite technology is just goofy. Science is WHAT WE CAN SAY about how the universe works, proven through decades of other scientists trying to break any theory. There is no reason to think that we will not scrap EM in a few millennia and look back at how innocent and quaint we were to think that EM runs the universe. All that the scientists are presenting their data. It's the ignorant "reporters" who put all these grand theories around it. Good data. Keep looking. That's what science does. Pretty boring huh?

Comment I say again what is programming (Score 1, Informative) 16

Lets say I want to use AI to write my code.
Here's what the bosses think an AI developer does: "main() Make a game better than hungry birds; " Done.
Here's what I found on coding websites.: "line of C code, call some AI object, line of C code, call some AI function......."

I have no comment except to say: THIS IS BONKERS

Comment And for fallasy bingo (Score -1, Troll) 75

"In a move that has delighted fans of classic science fiction,"

WTF. You just assume that because YOU like something EVERYONE must like it. No. B5 is not "classic science fiction." It's debatable if it's even science fiction. Writers like Heinlein, Asimov Clark, Smith (Doc and Cordwainer), ++ ad nauseam wrote "classic science fiction," but none have written anything goofy like B5. B5, Star Trek, Star Wars,.. have never been and will never be "classic science fiction.' During the classic years, science fiction was written for the science/math/engineering geeks. Now it's been taken over by people want to wear goofy costumes and argue which series is better. NOT smart people. Idiots as a matter of fact. I'm so tired of it. The only show I'd give a pass to since the 80s would be Blakes 7. As least they tried, with authors like Tanith Lee pitching in. Ramble over. Pass though and ignore this old guy who remember a very different time when there was no science fiction without REAL science.

Submission + - Texas sues over dumping of old (giant) wind turbines (texasattorneygeneral.gov)

An anonymous reader writes: "Global was purportedly hired by numerous companies to break down, transport, and recycle turbine blades. The company failed to properly dispose of the waste and instead created a stockpile of over 3,000 wind turbine blades and parts, which has created unpermitted, illegal disposal sites. These sites damage beautiful Texas land and threaten surrounding communities. Global’s actions are in violation of Texas’s solid waste disposal laws and other administrative orders."

So much for green and clean.

Submission + - A Reverse Engineer's Map of Standard Math Definitions

acz writes: I put up an experimental math manual that tries to explain why standard definitions appear, using a simple lens: Start with a space of candidates, apply constraints, and treat what remains as the definition or theorem you end up using.

It’s not claiming math from nothing. It’s explicitly regime-declared: it follows the classical branch and marks where that branch is a choice (rather than a contradiction forcing it). The goal is traceability: you can see which ideas are introduced because something broke, and you can see common failure modes instead of just final results.

Submission + - The quiet part is said out loud: SLS launch rate is too slow (arstechnica.com)

seeker writes: SLS, the launch vehicle for the Artemis moon exploration system, has a launch rate that is too slow. Yes, it uses hydrogen as a fuel, with its superior propellant capabilities vs methane (SpaceX Startship) or Kerosene (SpaceX Falcon). But hydrogen is hard to handle. Would you take a vehicle you can use once every 3 years or one you can reuse and relaunch 50 times a year?

Details at Ars

Comment A does = B (Score 1) 61

So if concussions are harder to get, the players will just HIT EACH OTHER HARDER. This isn't some secret. The athletes, coaches, owners have collectively decided that the current level of brain damage is OK. This will not change anything. So is boxing still a sport? How long until we get the Rollerball spiked fist to back of the neck.

Comment Why? (Score 1) 64

Because it's insane. If you have to change 100 lights at the right time, for lets say 10 calls per day, with, oh, let's say a .1% chance of failure somewhere in the grid.... basically chaos. We already have pressure plates signalling lights to turn green when someone needs to take a left turn, and I know a handful that are broken, and being "left turn on arrow only YOU WILL NEVER TURN. People have to turn right and do a Uey to get where they need to go. And guess what? It will never be fixed. Because the the high profit consultants who sold the system promise the county mucho bucks in tickets if someone crosses on even a just turned yellow. And that county already has that money slotted into the budget. And there was no money budgeted to monitor, fix, tweek the system. Drones cars will continue to cause accidents. Governments have turned driver safety into a profitable system that requires people to break the rules. And it will continue to rot. So, doom and gloom, until someone "hacks" the probably very unsecured system to give you right of way every time. Cap'n Crunch whistle anyone?

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