I've seen the Veritasium video and my question at the time was, and remains, how long could it keep this up for? Producing a lot of power for a few seconds is one thing, maintaining it for any significant length of time is quite another when you only have sunlight to rely on.

Perhaps these satellites have much bigger solar arrays than GPS satellites. Perhaps they have huge batteries to allow them to maintain the required level of jamming for an extended period during a conflict.

If the wood isn't burned then where would the lead go instead?

We already use all the wood we need for applications in building, furniture etc. The wood that gets burned in stoves generally isn't good enough for those applications anyway. So, if it isn't burned then presumably it will sit around and slowly rot away. So what happens to the lead then? Does it go back into the soil? Will it leach into rivers and streams to mostly end up in the sea? Perhaps bacteria and fungi which attack the wood will release it into the air anyway?

I've no idea of the answers to this, but it seems to me that if you are going to worry about lead being released by burning then you have to at least explain how that compares with the none burning alternative.

Well, that's certainly very kind of them, not least because one of the other big libraries (alternatekicadlibrary.com) seems to have gone a bit quiet with no update since Aug 2024.

All we need to do is get some Ukrainian industry assistance. I'm sure we could provide some hardware or something as compensation. If any knows how to get drones to "deliver" in difficult circumstances, it's them.

Has this already happened - the title suggests not ("Set to Get")?

I just selected some random city in South Korea and Google maps seemed to be working just fine, including Street View and satellite images. Do I gather that it is something to do with the accuracy of the latitude and longitude values that are displayed?

Can I start by saying that I am completely opposed to the mass collection of DNA from those who have not been convicted of a crime.

However, in cases like this where DNA evidence has produced a very short list of suspects for a very serious crime, I can't help wondering if it should really be necessary to lurk around trying to collect discarded cigarettes.

Surely a mechanism could be invented allowing a judge to permit the police to collect DNA from a small number of suspects on the understanding that no DNA records will be retained from those who are eliminated from the enquiry.

Whilst Linux might struggle with propitiatory Mac hardware, I don't think that this is a fundamental issue with Linux and ARM. For several years my desktop, which I use every day, has been a ARM64 based Raspberry Pi running Gentoo Linux. I have to say that I don't experience any significant problems and the great majority of the software seems to work just fine.

Seeing as this consumes the only PCIe port on the device, you can't use NVMe storage in conjunction with it, making the entire thing far less useful since all of the other storage options for the Pi are dogshit

the cost of the equipment is not what businesses are paying for in the cloud.

consumers are much different, but there are successful cloud pc services that have pricing oriented to consumers. The entire cloud gaming industry, for instance. Some of them like Shadow encourage and provide for the use of the system as a regular cloud PC. There is a value prop, but it does require a massively great Internet connection, which is where it honestly falls completely apart. Consumer ISP's are nowhere near delivering quality of service sufficient for this product.

Nonlinear accoustics is a thing; there's not technically an upper limit for the amount of energy you can drive a transducer with though I would assume it would be extremely difficult to couple enough energy through to cause any real damage. I know personally that it can sound quite loud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I also have little confidence this sort of thing is involved here; Occam's razor says it's a big nothing burger so I'm gonna stick with that until someone brings something concrete forward

It is already the case - and has been for ages - that you have to prove that you have the right to work in the UK before you can start a job by producing various paper documents. However, there are also huge numbers of people working who don't have that right. Ergo, unscrupulous employers don't do the required checks because then they can pay the illegal workers less and not bother with tedious things like taxes and workplace safety.

Nobody (not least from the government) ever explained how this "digital ID" would make any difference. The dodgy employers simply wouldn't bother to check that either!

You don't have this already??? Here in the UK, headlight alignment has been part of the mandatory annual inspection (MOT) for as long as I can remember and certainly from way before the invention of LED headlamps.

Here's a thought. If you want to be taken seriously as a scientific institution then don't say things that are clearly complete rubbish like "The @NCAR_Science is quite literally our global mothership." Perhaps, at a considerable stretch, it is figuratively our "global mothership" but even that sounds a little unlikely!

.... And today I learned that daily passes to "cable tv" are a thing. Bye bye, YouTubeTV. Don't mistake my cancellation as evidence I ever wanted your service in the first place.

"The fact that people are unimpressed that we can have a fluent conversation with a super smart AI that can generate any image/video is mindblowing to me,"

Mindblowing is that companies make all the claims about AI that are 100% unfounded. "generate any image/video"... No it can't. "fluent conversation"... Unless I have to constantly remind it about the thing it said two prompts ago that it forgot. And I PAY for AI access.

It's not anywhere near impressive. It's a party trick at best and dangerously misleading at worst.