I've been living in Tonga for the last few years. A couple of years back we had a ship "accidentally" anchor drag the fibre in three different places, and were without internet for about 2 months while they did exactly the same repair as they are doing now. They had backup sat gear but being disused for some time some of the staff had taken some of the parts home with them (I shit you not), and they were lost. They claimed they would have another backup system in place to prevent a similar event again, but here we are. The repair is not particularly difficult (contracted to a foreign, purpose built vessel of course) and the outage itself is not at all surprising. I'm not there now, but man it sucked not having internet for 2 months. I have little sympathy though really. This outage is largely of their own making.

From reading earlier reports they are going with LIDAR and have no cameras. This is due to the glasshole effect and it's about bloody time a company took notice too. Always-on AR cameras have no place in social situations. These new glasses may be able to identify some objects using LIDAR but it may not do the job you want so well. It really, really does the job I want though. I so hope this doesn't rely on other apple hardware to run.

The oldest person in the world just got younger. Medical miracle.

Yeah, but what happens when we have swarms of 100+ OTS drones in an attack? I think they'll start to become quite effective. First wave hits some windows to make an entry point for subsequent waves that start detonating inside the building (perhaps with face detection software for a trigger).

We've only achieved eradication once, with smallpox. We have achieved elimination several times. China, NZ and a few others others all successfully *eliminated* covid (yes there were subsequent incursions). Eradication means globally, whereas elimination is a localised term and can refer to any area of interest - in terms of covid it's usually at a country-level.

PSA: There is no such word as "alot".

While only an anecdote, my account was disabled for uploading too many videos during a storm event, but not only did they respond quickly, but they increased my upload limit for no cost to allow for my burst-needs to continue.

It could also be epigenetic effects from mother to offspring (and not germline), much as holocaust survivors had epigenetic effects on offspring. That is, we already have a gene to do this and epigenetics can influence how strongly that gene is expressed.

It ends once vaccines are approved for children and rolled out to all those that have consent. Until then the right thing to do is wear the mask. After that, all bets are off.

I guess you could say yachts are a specialty application, but there are a LOT of yachts. Anything under about 40 ft really doesn't have space for enough panels to produce a generous amount of power and people have to skimp on their use. 30% efficient panels would be wonderful and many people would gladly pay a hefty premium.

Nobody seems to have mentioned The Great, an American comedy-drama television series loosely based on the rise of Catherine the Great, Empress of All Russia.

iirc one third of participants received the placebo.

Just checking that you're aware that the main anchor reporting the show isn't *meant* to be Trump. Sure he shares Trump's face, but he's meant to be a different character. Check later on in the episode for actual deep fakes of Trump.

I wish that were true.

No, they're not called vomit comets at all. You may be thinking of the low-g parabolic flights often used for training: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...