My latest vaccine shots had the 6G upgrade, to take advantage of the higher-speed web access when the networks upgrade, but if they're selling those frequencies to high-power carriers, then I won't be able to walk into any area that handles AT&T or Verizon. :P

Seriously, this will totally wreck the 6G/WiFi6 specification, utterly ruin the planned 7G/WiFi7 update, and cause no end of problems to those already using WiFi6 equipment - basically, people with working gear may well find their hardware simply no longer operates, which is really NOT what no vendor or customer wants to hear. Vendors with existing gear will need to do a recall, which won't be popular, and the replacement products simply aren't going to do even a fraction as well as the customers were promised - which, again, won't go down well. And it won't be the politicians who get the blame, despite it being the politicians who are at fault.

I won't be impressed until the AI has better recommendations than 4 out of 5 dentists.

Of all the things an elite group of people could do to control everyone else's lives, geoengineering schemes have to rank up there at the very top.

This was a pre-emissions model (the car wasn't new when I got it). The only pollution control I remember it having was a PCV valve. After adjusting net vs gross HP, the 5.7L engine was rated for similar power as my current (non turbo) 2.5L. It also probably burned through 2.5X the fuel, and produced orders of magnitude more smog.

The new car is probably heavier, but I assume that a wider power band and more efficient transmission give my current car the overall edge in performance specs. The old car probably had better bottom-end torque, so it could do burnouts easier. That, along with the loud noise, rattling chassis and very scary handling characteristics probably made it feel faster than the current car, but that's nothing but psychology.

What a load of bunk.

The 0-60 time of my base-model mid-sized family sedan with a naturally aspirated 4-banger beats the 350 cubic inch 4bbl equipped muscle car that I had 45 years ago. It has no problem merging onto highways.

This ought to be really easy to rectify:

So it's effectively an organ transplant, only instead of using a donor organ, they use donor stem cells to grow the needed functionality in the recipient. That's a really cool technique, but it has all the rejection issues. Now if they could disable whatever caused the recipient's immune system to mess up their receptors in the first place, they could then use the recipient's own stem cells and eliminate all the immune suppression required for organ recipients, and it would be a real cure. This is one step in that process.

Oddly enough, my 30-year-old stereo amplifier has one. I'll finally have a use for it!

1/100 the speed of compiled languages is typical for interpreted languages.

Non-ancient implementations of Java are fully compiled. Toy benchmarks and Java programs carefully written as if there were no automatic memory management (and don't call standard libraries) can run just as fast ac C code.

Java can't directly support features that depend on dynamic typing and similar flexible run-time behavior that interpreted languages. However, many Java developers sorely miss those features, so they heavily use the reflection APIs and various "beans" frameworks to work around the pre-compilable static typing. This can actually end up running *slower* than Python because many of those Java features are dog slow.

You can already get implementations of Python that do JIT compiling like Java. They often run in the ballpark of about 1/10 the speed of C.

https://redmonk.com/sogrady/fi...

That's the full graph, showing how each language they tracked rated on both GitHub and Stack Overflow.

I find it interesting that D is slightly ahead of Visual Basic on GitHub and significantly ahead on Stack Overflow. And everyone has heard of Visual Basic, but it's hard to find people who have even heard of D.

This was actually invented by a guy sitting on a rug in the Middle East about 4000 years ago.

"For you?? ... Mmmm, I would give you the goat for twenty pieces of silver. Take or leave."

I'll summarize YouTube's "shorts" algorithm:

1. Show Waffle Iron a row of shorts
2. Waffle Iron clicks on the "Don't show these" button.
3. Print "Got it. We'll adjust your preferences."
4. Sleep(a couple of days).
5. Goto 1.

But somehow *you* cracked the secret, so the security was actually next to zero.

Yeah, the enemy would never guess that a large office building completely devoid of windows might possibly be a telephone switch.

On exactly what the detector is capable of detecting. If they're looking, at any point, for radio waves, then I'd start there. Do the radio waves correspond to the absorption (and therefore emission) band for any molecule or chemical bond that is likely to arise in the ice?

This is so basic that I'm thinking that if this was remotely plausible, they'd have already thought of it. This is too junior to miss. Ergo, the detector isn't looking for radio waves (which seems the most likely, given it's a particle detector, not a radio telescope), or nothing obvious exists at that frequency (which is only a meaningful answer if, indeed, it is a radio telescope).

So, the question is, what precisely does the detector actually detect?