if we stop using coal for power, what're we gonna do with (bing) "1.1 trillion tons of proven coal reserves, enough to last around 133 years at current consumption levels" worldwide?
If you had a 133 year supply of cigarettes, would you feel you needed to smoke them?
No. There is no bi-polarity. And the people booing you are not mentally ill.
Bipolar actually has other meanings - #1 from Merriam-Webster is in play here.
1) having or marked by two mutually repellent forces or diametrically opposed natures or views
2) having or involving the use of two poles or polarities (e.g. bipolar transistors)
3) relating to, associated with, or occurring in both polar regions (e.g. Arctic/Antarctic birds)
4) psychology : being, characteristic of, or affected with a bipolar disorder
There's a large contingent of alleged humans who get a tingle in their nethers presenting LLM output as their own original thought.
LLM or no LLM, there is a long-standing policy against that: Wikipedia is not a publisher of original thought.
TAT-8 carried 280Mbit/s in the days when the equivalent number of telephone circuits was relevant. The Fastnet cable will deliver 320Tbit/s, so one million times more! I wonder how many newer cables cross TAT-8 and therefore lie on top of it? Dragging TAT-8 up from the sea floor sounds like it could cause some collateral damage. Perhaps they will leave some sections down there to avoid this.
Other links: Submarine cable repair animation, Informative article with annoying graphics
There's some prior art in buying land around new stations before building begins. "Metroland" is an area to the north west of London that was developed by the Metropolitan Railway on that basis. Build the stations, attract commuters, and make a profit from house sales and increased traffic. It would be interesting if the big gaps in CA high speed rail - San Jose to Central Valley, and Central Valley to LA, could be partly financed by commuter rail. People can commute a long way on high speed rail: look at Kent to London St Pancras on High Speed 1.
I think what they mean by "most flights from Raleigh-Durham International Airport in North Carolina to Portland, Maine, were canceled" is that airports north of Raleigh and south of Portland have canceled most of their flights. As RDU->PDM is operated by Breeze on Mondays and Fridays only, then taking it literally means a remarkably small percentage of US flights. Breeze have very nice A220s.
I get it, he has done lots of weird things, but who of us hasn’t.
If we're using RFKjr as a comparison, then I haven't done lots of weird things.
Federated Union Of Bear Cub Carcass Dumpers Endorses RFK Jr.
So, do we have to preserve the privacy of someone going on a jolly jaunt on the taxpayers' dollar
When the three astronauts rip off their monitoring electrodes in Apollo 13, it's great to know that someone in the movie theater was saying "Won't somebody think of the taxpayers?"
Astonishingly huge swaths are given away of the IPv6 address space.
One eighth of the total address space (2000::/3) is allocated for use on the Internet. If the RIRs ever get anywhere near assigning all of this then the policy on the rest of the address space will need to be reassessed. That is not happening any time soon.
This doesn't count possible exponentiation to numbers that approach infinity, never get there, but are mind-boggling nonetheless.
I'm not sure what you mean, but I'm not losing any sleep with almost 7/8 of the address space unallocated (minus about 2% for special addresses like fe80::/10).
Wait, I thought the orbiter that relays their signals back and forth is kaput. How will it persevere, when the conditions are so severe, my dear?
There are others. but:
NASA has lost contact with one of its three spacecraft orbiting Mars, the agency announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, a second Mars orbiter is perilously close to running out of fuel, and the third mission is running well past its warranty.
[...]
NASA’s Curiosity and Perseverance rovers have the capability for direct-to-Earth communications, but the orbiting relay network can support vastly higher data throughput. Without overhead satellites, much of the science data and many of the spectacular images collected by NASA’s rovers might never make it off the planet.
Sad to hear that the sample return mission is delayed. Is it too divert funding to the moon?
The decision has been left to the new administration after the previous plan was in danger of swallowing all the science budget - ref.
"I may kid around about drugs, but really, I take them seriously." - Doctor Graper
