That's what a lot of the "Starlink causes Kessler!" scaremongers don't realize -- as of last year, Starlink's orbital shell sits where there basically isn't any debris at all, and what is there is very short lived. Atmospheric drag quickly clears low mass debris at that altitude. Higher mass objects have to actively maintain their orbit (including e.g. attitude control, thrust) or their lifetime is best measured in months rather than years.

Countries that welcome immigrants are able to increase the tax base, and supply critical labor that locals don't want to do, including taking care of the elderly.

But you take in too many, too fast, AND if you allow those that are diametrically opposed to your values and way of life.....YOU LOSE YOUR COUNTRY.

and that's what we're seeing now across EU and trying to combat in the US.

The sad thing is there are now far more resources for learning than ever before. I used to have to go to the library and look through microfilm.

Now we have Wikipedia, which is better than any encyclopedia. If you want to know how to reroof a house, there are hundreds of videos available about that.

A more important problem is that often the teachers don't find the material interesting.

If the teacher actually enjoys the book 1984, they can teach their students to enjoy it. That kind of teacher is a good teacher.

Your boos mean nothing!!

Stanford grads aren't idiots, though. They have at least a minimal level of intelligence.

You're talking about what AI might be in the future, not what it is now.

It is extremely important to make that distinction.

More than one study suggests we're past the tipping point for Kessler syndrome: https://www.bbc.com/news/world...

Nah I just typed the wrong word and meant Starlink.

In some LEO altitudes, objects can take 50,000 years on average to clear out due to orbital decay. At the Earthlink altitude it takes 10-20 years on average for an object to de-orbit.

Because the number of objects increase dramatically every time there is an explosion/collision, we have likely already hit Kesler syndrome. That is, even if we don't launch anything else, the amount of space junk will just keep increasing. (You would know that if you'd bothered to read the Wikipedia article).

Scientists used to think that space junk would clear because of the atmosphere, but that hasn't been thought true for thirty years or more. There is probably no way to avoid Kessler syndrome now.

Oh come on, green is a very beautiful color. It's probably Biden's fault.

Someone needs to let Trump know that the best way to clean algae from a fountain is to add laundry detergent. Lots of it.

That's a little extreme, some are better than others. Last time I went to Los Gatos DMV, even though it was a bit farther away. Much more pleasant than Santa Clara DMV. Next time I'll probably go to Capitola DMV, even though it's rather far. I'll visit some nice restaurants while I'm there.

Ships have been floating through the Straight of Hormuz for a month or so now, and Iran hasn't been able to do anything about it. They tried.

https://www.politico.com/news/...

The big three are not vertically integrated. Ford recently was talking about the industry outsources a lot of components. They tell somebody, e.g. Bosch, to make a seat motor, give specifications, then Bosch designs and manufactures it. That they might use that part across multiple models isn't vertical integration. This is also apparently why they can't do software updates like Tesla can -- Tesla IS vertically integrated in all of the ways that matter, unlike them.

As for the few companies today, a lot of that likely has to do with cars back then being a lot less complex than they are today. If you ever open the engine compartment of a 1930s era car, you'll see what I mean. Note also when most became defunct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Much of this added complexity is regulatory -- in those older times, you didn't need catalytic converters for example.

A lot of those companies also produced cars that were either dogshit, butt ugly, or both (I.e. AMC Gremlin.) They were either facing a buyout or bankruptcy in many cases.

He's currently binge watching Leave it to Beaver.

His legal guardian ends up paying for that, typically after he throws a tantrum over something he heard about Trump and breaks stuff.

"I want to use claude code to run 10 unattended Chrome beta testers [more info about what is being tested and specifics]. Write me one or more md files to execute and give me instructions for enabling Chrome mcp, then give me an sh script to launch 10 separate Chrome instances on macos."

I wrote that exact prompt, more or less, a month or two ago, and then other iterations since then, and it's been working very well.

Using LLMs to create prompts for LLMs to use was a good realization.