I wonder how practical this is. It appears that the surface features need to be so small that they couldn't be painted over, for example. Paint adds significant weight to an airliner, but is worth it for the protection and performance it provides.

The article even mentioned the relationship. When laminar flow turns into turbulent flow, aerodynamic drag increases. Turbulent flow in turn is what we hear as noise. You can also reason that noise is acoustic energy, and that noise is a parasitic load on the action we want the fan to do: moving air from one side to the other side.

Doping was done under medical supervision before. It still was not safe. Florence Griffith-Joyner and Marco Pantani both were doped in hospitals, and Eufemanio Fuentes was a physician whose speciality was doping. Being from Europe, I know more of the European side of doping, including the death of Birgit Dressel, who was a patient of University teacher Armin Kluemper.

Someone remember the XFL? This one petered out quickly too.

Donald Trump is famously bad at negotiations. Unfortunately millions of Americans cannot separate the pretend Trump from that stupid game show and the real Trump who couldn't sell steak, gambling and booze to Americans.

There's a story from Ed McMahon where he was doing a real estate deal with Trump and he just let Trump go on and on and on and when Trump was done blathering he had given up everything and McMahon had gotten everything from the negotiations.

If the Democrats weren't so fucking useless that story would have been everywhere. But they don't like to run attack ads so they don't. They go low we lose every fucking election and end up in death camps. I think that was the slogan.

And a bribery slush fund.

The big one is that a proper sovereign wealth fund has layers and layers of checks and balances to prevent the money from disappearing into people's pockets. Nothing Trump is done has any of those controls for what I should think are obvious reasons.

That's a sovereign wealth fund which is what you linked to or rather you linked to Trump's corrupt slush fund pretending to be a sovereign wealth fund.

Nationalization is something very different. When you nationalize something you're taking a universal public service that previously was being provided by private citizens and having a provided by the government instead. You don't for example nationalized Twinkie production because not everybody in the country has a desire for twinkies. You do nationalize electricity production because electricity is a universally desired commodity that has no easily fungible replacements. Electricity in the age of solar is a even better example of that because with enough investment you can basically produce effectively limitless amounts of it rendering profiting from it irrelevant unless you are artificially constraining supply... Which of course we are.

So be careful not to mix up the concept of a sovereign wealth fund which is the government investing in private businesses and profiting from it and the concept of nationalizing the production of a good for the providing of a service. They're different things and they need different controls and checks and balances to prevent them from becoming corrupt or breaking down.

Also remember if you build either of those things people are going to try to break them so that they can privatize them and steal all your money and you have to be prepared when they succeed and instead of just giving up you have to actually solve and fix the problems.

I have read several posts from maintainers that have read the reports and they're more or less bullshit. What they're finding is a bunch of theoretical problems that in practice cannot be exploited. The reason they are finding them is because they're the kind of problems that nobody would go looking for because they would know that the structure of the code makes them impossible to exploit in the real world. They aren't just theoretical and they aren't just difficult to exploit there are other controls in place that prevent them from being exploited but if you took those controls away you could theoretically exploit them. That sort of thing.

Basically this is just another shitty AI hype press release.

Now it's not impossible this will change in 6 months to a year but if AI gets that good then we're going to have bigger problems because we're going to be looking at something like 25 to 40% unemployment. Security is going to be the least of your problems. You're going to have roving bands of bandits within about 6 months. I mean the last thing we're going to do is just give people food and shelter because that would be theft.

The Iranian government has fully consolidated their power. It's not just that he gave them cover to go after their opposition, by starting a useless War so that he could replace Obama's plan with everything but worse he completely neutered any opposition to the Iranian government.

When you're at attacked everybody just gathers around the existing power structures. That's what happened in America with 9/11. All of the sudden douche nozzles like George Bush Jr and Rudy Giuliani were considered great people. Both men were on the way out the door politically when 9/11 hit and had very successful careers because of the attack.

The exact same thing happened with the Iranian government. They had serious opposition because they can't feed their people and they were going to have to start giving real concessions and maybe even some semblance of democracy. Trump shit all over that with his staggering incompetence.

There's a thing called a chesterton's fence where you don't take down the fence unless you understand why it was put up. There is a damn good reason why even the stupidest fucking administration's imaginable did not attack Iran.

And now the reasons why are plain for anyone to see. Meanwhile Iran has now demonstrated complete control of the strait of Hormuz meaning they can shut down 1/5 of the world's traffic anytime they want. And we can do fuck all about it because Trump squandered basically all the Goodwill in the world for the United States so he could threaten Greenland and Canada.

Son, are you winning?

I am so fucking tired of winning.

That balance goes both ways. If there's not enough work people won't do it and supply will drop.

Meanwhile pay was getting so bad you couldn't get drivers. Uber punishes you for refusing unprofitable rides

On the basis that all major games get tested on their hardware extensively, because they have in excess of 90% of the market.

It was meant to make Gavin newsom look bad. If he signed it he pissed off the entire tech sector, of he didn't he gets hammered by think of the children attack adds. As an added bonus Facebook, Twitter and Planitir want this.

I'm not surprised their quietly gutting the law. It's what I predicted.

They have a card that is competitive with the most common gaming systems in use today. They are improving rapidly. They have a lot of pre-orders because it runs the games that are popular in China well enough, and is competitively priced.

The company that makes it isn't a genocidal totalitarian dictatorship. And even if it was, that isn't an excuse to let them take market share from Western companies.

Gamers Nexus will probably test it soon.

The issue tends to be compatibility with games that aren't popular in China. Basically everyone except Nvidia has compatibility problems to some extent.

News today that a Chinese company has released a GPU that benchmarks similarly to an Nvidia RTX 3060. Coincidentally, the 3060 is the most popular GPU in the Steam charts.

It's designed and manufactured domestically. The rate at which they are catching up is impressive.

And the same thing is true of space. Even disadvantaged by geography.

It's Musk though, so is just as likely to be an excuse for his hilariously optimistic claims about how easy and quick it would be to get to Mars.

He seems to have realized, over a decade later, and is now talking about a moon base. Wait till he discovers what a shit-show that is.