While it is an enormous problem, possibly the most significant, we know how to shield against radiation, but it's going to take mass in the form of hydrogen-rich molecules like water or polyethylene (as examples). To solve that problem we are either going to have to make launches a lot cheaper, or figure out how to do it all in orbit.

It's at the edge of our technological capacity to produce such a spacecraft now, so the barrier is economic. That's a massive barrier, but in theory we definitely could, if we put a significant percentage of GDP of the wealthiest nations towards the project, produce a spacecraft that keep astronauts alive and relatively protected from ionizing radiation both on the journey and while on Mars.

As to your general assholery, I guess everyone has to have an outlet, though why Slashdot is a bit mysterious.

Eh traditionall the big "need many hdmi" tasks was multicamera editing.

I know that at some point Multi Camera support got broken or removed but apparently it came back? Honestly its been a long long time since i've been anything close to knowledable about FCP

As an australian Solar is a genuinely viable solution for energy (like it is in most sunny places), and we do have a lot of it.

But the whole industry is getting a bad rep, largely not of their own making due to the relentless illegal spam phone calls that most australians get a couple of times a day offering "access to the government solar rebate". I've had to completely block phone calls from melbourne (most seem to come from that area code) and inform my melbourne friends to just text me on social media and I'll phone them. And its made people very sus on the industry, despite the fact the vast majority of solar installers are just regular tradesmen honest dealers.

I would hope not. Apple will apple I guess, but they are probably well aware that extensibility is a marketing plus not a negative , particularly with tech crowd, I'd argue in recent times a lot of the lock down has had more to do with manufacturing and performance efficiencies and that it has actually harmed them commercially, and they know it, but the commercial harm is outweighed by the manufacturing savings as well as the general speediness of on-chip memory. That said I *think* the latest mac minis can be storage upgraded, so it seems apple isn't too worried about it.

To be fair, outside of GPUs there really isn't much need for third party cards, and arguably even GPUs aren't a show stopper with third party GPU cages. But really for 99% of the use cases the Apple silicon GPUs are good enough. Nobody sane is buying a mac pro to run games, and for AI thats a whole different complicated set of reasonings (for training you'll always be better off with a datacenter server and abank $15K datacenter GPUs.). For everything else, the Apple silicon GPU seems to punch above its weight class.

Oh I suppose there is also video intake cards. I know my father was consulting on a job (he's an audio and video engineer who designs radio and TV studios) where they had mac pro and some black magic cards that had a whole boatload of hdmi signals coming in, and they've had to migrate to a PC. But I think increasingly there are viable thunderbolt solutions for that.

I suspect its been a while since he's been capable of that.

Most dudes that age are well beyond pecker functionalty, and throw in morbid obesity and a lifetime of poor health choices and yeah, short of viagra, odds are low.

Not gonna lie, I'd take the 100 day hit for the $2-3mil settlement if it was me.

Though I'd probably go metaphorically John Wik on them for losing my dog.

What "excellent film adaptation" are you talking about? There's one old animated adaptation, and that's is. There's also a movie that bears the same title, but it's apparently a coincidence: nothing except the title and names of some of main characters matches, thus I don't see how it could be relevant to Tolkien's books.

Enough with the gate keeping.

You cant make a literal version of LOTR unless you want an extremely boring trilogy of unwatchable 9 hour films.

You know full well that while it deviated from the books in some minor and a couple of major, ways (they did our boy Tom Bombadil wrong) it was largely a fairly close adaption of the *story*, but not the writing.

Your entitled to feel agrieved that a film that was never made and never will be made was not made, but lets not pretend your weird stance is anything other than juvenile gate keeping.

The same company that banned people for linking to the British Holocaust Museum (HMD.Org.UK) claiming the links were violations of the policy on "dangerous individuals and organizations." Zuckerberg is a pedophilic little-boy-raping sick-trash Nazi.

"...the difference between solar and wind known problems..."

Be fair. If he can't reply with some sort of namecalling like "TDS" or "Libtard" or some barking phrase he heard a shouting man say on youtube, then he can't really answer you. Which I think is a bit unfair on him.

This debate has been going on for at least a couple of decades. I remember back in the Usenet days, when AOL and other early ISP users first started showing up in droves with whacked out untraceable bang paths that people were trying to sort out technical solutions, usually involving some servers tarpitting some domains, with the inevitable consequence that valid users (by whatever definition any given Usenet group had) were blocked.

In a way, AI bots aren't any different than the spam problem on fax machines and email; universal low-barrier delivery meets large scale programmatic swill. AI allows complexity that earlier spambots couldn't dream of, when the most sophisticated way of defeating filters was spelling "porn" as "pr0n" and a bit of header fuckery. In the end there is only two ways to go; either do what filtering you can and accept some degree of false positives, or go to identification systems that will, one way or the other, compromise anonymity, because make no mistake, once you start storing any kind of data linking an account to an actual human being; biometric, picture ID, phone number, mailing address or whatever, it won't take long for the court order to show up demanding you hand over all the de-anonymized account data to find the person distributing child porn, drugs, or calling their local political representative dirty names.

Neo and Android-based Chromebooks, and "good-enough" Office alternatives like Google Docs and I would argue even LibreOffice (I use it almost exclusively these days), mean Microsoft is suffering a differentiation crisis. They'll likely have the corporate lock for some time to come, though they've managed to fuck up Outlook so badly that I have to be wondering if the only thing really keeping the big guys locked in as Teams at this point.

MS's ability to leverage Windows as the platform is decaying, and the "bells and whistles" approach has managed to alienate a lot of users. People are at the point where they use Windows because they have to, but there's enough platform-agnostic functionality out there that the old lock-ins they relied on to keep Windows dominant are becoming more like prisons for their own development teams.

I know MacOS has its critics, and in its own way it has its UI lock in, but after using it now for four years, and my use of Windows now being reduced to an RDP session at work, I have to say the experience overall has been pretty pleasant and productive. The lack of update nagging, the sheer horsepower of Apple Silicon, an actual *nix prompt instead of WSL, printing that isn't an absolute shitshow (and this is saying something because Windows used to be the reigning heavyweight champion of plug and play printer handling).

Windows 11 is its own type of hell, and every time I'm forced to use it I find it a slow, bloated, unintuitive mess. It feels like Windows 7 if you had let your 12 year old kid download a whole bunch of dubious software and now the desktop and taskbar do strange things while spam spontaneously appears. If someone had shown me Windows 11 fifteen years ago I would have gone "Holy shit man, your Windows 7 machine has been rootkitted!"

I can't be bothered to read the article after that summary.

What a mess of conflated nonsense. Stock price, unrelated developer activity due to AI, free software replacing rapist vendor software... What does any of that have to do with open sourcing SaaS or SaaS "apocalypse"?

If you wanna talk about AI slop, this sure looks like it.

Under normal circumstances I'd yell at you for that, that being my apparent role on this forum it seems, but it turns out I'm as annoyed by the blurb as you are. And its too hot and muggy here, so I'm too fucking blah to bother reading it myself so..... have at it.

my wife just got us both quest 3s's for valentines so we could go to a virtual mini concert together on vrchat; we also have been exploring various user made worlds there; including places ported from games from my childhood like phantasy star online (theres even a vr playable implimentation of the basic gameplay); its been amazing fun and really a special experience to be in those spaces physically with my heavenly wife; i wish we had met back then; but she was a toddler in russia at the time

....I really want to ask but I'm worried what the answer might be....