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Comment Re:Why do we need a giant publicly funded moon bas (Score 1) 75

Hell of an assumption considering which company volunteered to retrieve astronauts from the ISS after "only" another rocket company failed to do so.

Not sure what you mean by "volunteered". SpaceX was paid to retrieve the astronauts, which they did as part of their contracted flights to the space station.

Comment Because you're not in charge (Score 1) 55

Mark Zuckerberg is. He has billions of dollars and zero oversight or regulations so he makes the rules.

If you ever get tired of that situation there's a whole bunch of people who would change it if you would ever be willing to vote for them. But you are probably not since well, I mean you're doing well effort mod bait posts on a dead web forum. I'm just saying I question your judgment.

Comment Re:Space is still hard (Score 1) 45

True.

SpaceX's recent successes tend to make people forget that the company started out with three failures in their first three attempts to launch their first rocket, the Falcon-1. (And, for that matter, SpaceX also had it's share of explosions on the pad during a static fire.)

Yeah: space is hard.

Comment Re:embarrassing what qualifies as a programmer (Score 1) 143

Sure, so why are you bringing your feelings into this?

You actually have no evidence that he's never asked, "how do I avoid memory bugs in C?"

If I had to make a bet, I'd say literally every programmer that has spent a non-trivial amount of time in C has asked that question of themselves, even if only in passing. It is a constant fight, but it's also a deeply stupid fight to have if you have a tools--including a whole, purpose-built language--that allows you to elide that fight almost in its entirety. Like, you can CHOOSE to do it for fun if you like, but if your goal is to write memory-safe code, use all the tools at your disposal.

I'm a C++ programmer (that's what the games industry runs on) and I have the extreme privilege of only having to worry about keeping games from crashing, the most trivial kind of memory safety. It's a deeply stupid language (IMO) that has only gotten better by poaching the best parts of other languages. But I'd love to not ever have to think about weird crashes that are caused by people kicking the stack 5 minutes ago in some other game system. If I was told that Unreal Engine was being fully reinstrumented in Rust, I'd learn Rust. What a relief it would be.

Anway, tl;dr: you're the one that's got feefees about this. Rust is a demonstrably safer language in real-world use. For you to rail against it this much is just your feelings, not anything to do with facts.

Comment Then enforce antitrust law (Score 3, Informative) 55

Every few years a new social media site comes up and all the kids go there because they don't want to be on the same site as their parents because of course they don't.

And then every few years Facebook either buys that site out or runs them out of business by underpricing advertising in that space until there's no revenue for that company and they run out of investor cash. It's gotten to the point where nobody's really challenging Facebook anymore for anything except hoping for a buyout.

Facebook does this because those kids are going to grow up and keep using the site they are used to and Facebook needs to make sure they own that and filter those users back into their main ecosystem whether those users like it or not.

They of course couldn't do this with tick tock so they just have the government step in since it's a Chinese company. Incidentally it was only because it was a Chinese company backed by the Chinese government that they couldn't do that.

If you start voting for politicians who enforce antitrust law then Facebook goes away in about 10 or 15 years.

Comment Re:Grundfos? (Score 1) 55

Second - doesn't the EU have an interconnected power grid?

It does. But that doesn't mean you can infinitely send power where you want. Major HV connections are starting to be a limiting factor and governments are spending a small fortune to expand them. It's not like Schleswig-Holstein (one of the main landing points for North Sea wind can send power to Frankfurt via Limburg if the Dutch interconnector is also already overloaded. Regional constraints do very much still exist.

To be clear we're not out of total power capacity. We're out of the ability to move power around where its needed. Yesterday the spot price for energy hit 80c/kWh as soon as the sun set in the Netherlands because the wind wasn't blowing in Germany and their sudden loss of solar caused the power network to swing the complete opposite direction from import across one of the main 480kV links to export.

Likewise to my Italian example, Italy has enough power plants to keep the lights on, but the 220kV transmission lines from Mezze to Turin weren't able to carry that power resulting in the power outage.

No one is fully reliant on themselves but interconnection has limitations.

Probably should do a whole grid/generation redesign, and it is going to cost a lot.going to cost a lot, but power use isn't going to decrease, and temps are only going to go up. If they are going offline now, it will only get a lot worse if they have energy gobbling data centers.

In PA, there is a whole revolt against data centers going on, and going off grid is looking better all the time.

Submission + - Researchers identify people through ordinary Wi-Fi with 99 percent-accuracy (tomshardware.com)

Baron_Yam writes: Security researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany have published a paper demonstrating that unencrypted beamforming data broadcast by Wi-Fi devices during normal operation can be used to identify individuals walking through a room with 99.5% accuracy, regardless of whether the individuals are carrying Wi-Fi devices. The tactic leverages the router's beamforming tech to identify individuals with up to 99.5% accuracy, and it works with existing routers, too.

The system, called BFId, requires no specialized hardware, no access to the target Wi-Fi network, and works even if the person being tracked isn't carrying a wireless device. The team tested the attack on 197 participants, the largest dataset ever used in Wi-Fi-based identification works, and plans to present its findings at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) in Taipei.

See GitHub — https://github.com/ruvnet/RuVi... — for your own personal implementation requiring a couple of APs and a couple of ESP32 nodes. You can get full-home per-zone motion and occupancy detection fairly reliably, with the potential for pose detection and in optimal areas even respiration rate. With the right hardware and configuration, you can theoretically get heart rate too.

Comment Re:We may have altered the plan. (Score 2) 75

I'm not an expert on rebuilding massively exploded launch infrastructure; but I have a suspicion that a 2026-2029 plan is now going to involve less Blue Origin than previously believed.

Ars Technica has an article discussing how this is a major setback in the NASA lunar plan: https://arstechnica.com/space/...

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