She did more good for NASA and computing than we know.

We made some progress apparently since the headline and the article are positive and not a victim narrative.

It would help greatly if news did that more and less of always looking for a who is a victim angle.

Who watches the 'awards' shows, besides people wanting to ooh and aah over the fashion show?

Music award shows maybe, but only for the live musical performances.

Predict that the awards shows will stay around, though the exit of boomers and boomer institutions from popular culture will relegate these legacy institutions to a tiny corner somewhere.

1. Company 'cannot find' qualified highly skilled workers
2. Company imports a worker or hires a graduate student as a H1B
3. H1B worker is 'indentured servitude' employed for 3 years at just under market wages
4. Company still claims 'critical shortage' of skilled workers

If there is such a critical shortage of skilled workers, the the H1B employee's total wages and cost should be much higher than employing a US citizen.

Supply and demand, right?

We know that this is wage suppression.

I've seen it first hand at two large international companies where the 'critical shortage' of highly skilled workers was for a QA person who could test in-house .NET based Windows desktop applications doing basic reporting on help desk tickets.

In other words, a junior level entry level QA job.

Decades of the large defense contractors + government agencies owning all space flight did little to reduce the cost.

A decade of non-governmental and not old-line government contractors has done more to reduce the cost to send a kilogram to space.

This is the question been pondering for awhile. What is the effect on the body of mothers due to the large amounts human growth hormone produced while she is pregnant versus childless women?

We already know this for thousands of years.

You roughly wake up just before or at sunrise, work wile the sun is shining, eat the evening meal, do some inside the house chores, sleep and do it again the next day.

without clocks>/b>

If days are too long, too hot, too cold, you may sleep some in the middle of the day.

This works all without clocks.

This is how it worked in the USA until the railroads lobbied the government for time zones over 100 years ago.

Not directly at the OP here, there is too much of the pattern

1. Headline from a news story
2. A quote from some 'expert' or a 'survey' or a 'study'
3. The author / poster / commentator add a single personal story "I know a person that..."
4. Large numbers of people express outrage of some form or another claiming that "All people X are..."

Can't we just delete the personal anecdote from the discussion since too many people cannot control their emotions and demand radical legal changes, entire groups to lose their rights, entire groups to police the behavior of people they do not even known, ....?

News should not be "here is a study which confirms our talking point" and "here is an expert who parrots the dogma talking point" and "oops, we did not even try to find anyone to analyze the scientific basis and methodology of the study".

Agree. This is academic 'research' rent seeking because of the increased likelihood that an academic journal would publish a paper that confirms one or more long held left leaning talking points (even untrue talking points).

It is 50 years into this women/men earnings talking points football match.

The academic research community should be able to evaluate the wages earned for the same job and same work hours in a scientific way and publish the results.

This decades long political orthodoxy of never letting new data disprove left leaning talking points and disprove the oppressor / oppressed dogma needs to stop.

Failing to reevaluate this dogma keeps the (both political parties) platform of decay, status quo, stagnation, and decline in living standards.

The women who were penalized with job loss, lower pay, and other negative bias effects are retired and in their 70s or older.

It is not the responsibility of men 18 to 65, nor is it the government's responsibility to provide handouts, special programs, priority job placement and contracting to women 18-65 who were never ones discriminated against in jobs, hiring or contracting

If anything, banks, old-line corporations, the government need to apologize to women 70 or older. An 18 year old women today should not receive extra government services, special programs or extra government spending becasue someone older than 70 may have had negative treatment in employment.

The first point to report is the gender wage gap does not exist and is "is estimated to be between 1 to 2 per cent" when doing the same job and working the same number of hours.

This habit or repeating false 'facts" from grievance studies does nothing to help the economic situation of the lowest paid workers.

Dishonest reporting to affirm what is not true and then have an unscientific study of https://www.the-independent.co...

Female AI agents ‘paid’ less than males, study finds
Gender pay gap extends to artificial intelligence agents as female bots paid 10 per cent less than male counterparts
Anthony Cuthbertson 06 October 2026

"When taking into account men and women in the same employment and with similar skills and experience, the pay gap is estimated to be between 1 to 2 per cent."

And those corrections require atomic clocks.

You think LLMs would write "Slashdot doesn't have table support, so it's hard to do side-by-side well, but:"? You think LLMs like writing sentences that end in conjunctions that express incomplete thoughts? Do you think LLMs write "high frequences", "naively pairs", call H.265 X.265 (I was thinking of what you refer to it as in ffmpeg), imbalanced parens after "lacks motion vectors",etc?

Don't get me wrong, I am a LLM user, I absolutely do use it sometimes for search, fact checking things I'm writing, spelling/grammar checks (clearly not that time, lol), etc. But I write my own posts.

First of all, it is important to remember that, like racism, sexism, etc, ageism most definitely is acceptable when practiced by liberals. It is only evil when practiced by the others. People need to be reminded of this from time to time.

Second, I feel like you already probably know the difference between not seeing a comedian because they are outdated, and calling them hurtful names. After all, they try to entertain. Age is an immutable trait. Surely not even you would advocate offending them because they are old?

Or would you?

Understand that it can be hard to keep up with who it is okay to offend, and who it is bad to offend.

It may be true that older people are less likely to have moral panic attacks than younger people. After all, they have already been through numerous moral panics already, and were probably true believers themselves at some point. Eventually they realized that such panics are rarely organic, and mostly started to serve ruling-class political interests, such as divide-and-conquer. This can make them seem more skeptical when new ones crop up, while younger people are still true believers.

But remember, it is the younger demographic which insists that it embraces tolerance and diversity. Is it wrong that comedians took them at their word? You cannot blame older comedians that the whole thing is a lie.

Slashdot doesn't have table support, so it's hard to do side-by-side well, but:

JPEG XL advantages:

Licensing:

JPEG XL: Fully royalty-free (Open source / Apache 2.0)
HEIC: Proprietary patent minefield (MPEG LA, Advance, Velos; royalties apply)

Legacy JPEG Migration:

JPEG XL: Lossless, reversible bitstream transcoding (~20% smaller); fast enough for real-time web servers
HEIC: Lossy re-encode only (generational quality loss; cannot reconstruct original JPEG)

Fine Detail & Textures

JPEG XL: Retains sharp text, fine lines, subtle textures, and film grain
HEIC: Video-derived coding (HEVC / X.265). Tends to smooth out high frequences and smudge grain.

Software Encoding Speed

JPEG XL: Extremely fast; highly parallelized SIMD architecture
HEIC: Exceptionally slow and computationally expensive in software

Software Decoding Speed

JPEG XL: Fast, lightweight multi-threaded CPU decoding
HEIC: Heavy CPU overhead (without using hardware acceleration)

Progressive Rendering:

JPEG XL: True progressive decode; smart saliency algorithm to focus bandwidth on critical details first.
HEIC: None; full file must be received and decoded before display

Lossless Compression
JPEG XL: Dedicated modular mode; vastly outperforms PNG and WebP
HEIC: Ill-suited; you basically have to try to do lossless compression with an inherently-lossy format

Bit Depth & HDR

JPEG XL: Native HDR; up to 32-bit floating point per channel
HEIC: Typically capped at 10-bit or 12-bit integer

Max Dimensions & Scaling

JPEG XL: Up to 1B x 1B; efficient viewport/crop loading without full decoding
HEIC: v5.2, 4096x2160; v6.2: 8192x4320; a tiling hack allows up to 16384 x 16384

Channels & Color Spaces:

JPEG XL: Arbitrary color spaces (hyperspectral); unlimited extra channels (alpha, depth, thermal, masks, CMYK, etc)
HEIC: Rigid container; limited auxiliary channels and standard video color spaces

HEIC advantages:

Rollout / acceleration:

JPEG XL: no dedicated hardware acceleration (thankfully, it's not as important because it's so much more efficient). Software adoption still rolling out.
HEIC: Hardware silicon (ASICs). Default capture format on modern iOS/Android; native capture in Sony, Canon, and Nikon cameras

Video:

JPEG XL: Supports animations (GIF/APNG replacement), with some optimizations** (it's not just a series of stills), but lacks the full set of optimizations that a proper video codec has.
HEIC: Container naively pairs full HEVC video tracks and audio with video.

** - JPEG XL can store up to 4 reference frames in a buffer, with multiple blending modes from the references (add, replace, multiply, etc); has subframe bounding boxes ("dirty rectangles") for when only part of a frame changes; invisible frames; modular deltas (differences between frames); etc. However, it lacks motion vectors (e.g. detecting a feature drifting across a scene and simply having to encode "move it" (followed by any needed deltas). So it's great for "GIFs", but if you wanted to encode a full movie, it'd be significantly larger than e.g. HEVC.

Look, I use HEIC, but JPEG-XL is just better.

* Royalty-free
* Lossless transcoding of legacy JPEGs to immediately reduce their sizes by ~20% (fast enough that you can have webservers do it in realtime)
* Better fine detail / high frequency data representation for the same bitrate. HEIC was designed for video and simply is not as good at stills.
* Faster decoding
* MUCH faster compression
* True progressive decoding - and not old-school blocky progressive decoding, but using a smart algorithm that restores coarse detail (particularly focusing on parts of the image that the eyes immediately focus on) first, then progressively adding in finer detail that the eyes take more time to notice later.
* Vastly better lossless compression
* Better colour depth and native HDR (up to 32 bit per channel)
* Up to 1B x 1B pixel images (again, useful for scientific and engineering applications), with efficient loading (don't have to load and decode the whole 1B x 1B image at full resolution to view it)
* Arbitrary colour spaces - you can even use it for scientific hyperspectral imaging. You can include e.g. alpha, depth maps, thermal data, selection masks, etc etc.

It's just a better format for stills. It's annoying that it's taken this long to get support to take off (because it takes ages for most people to update their browsers), but I'm really glad that it's starting to.

The need for them came from relativity, but the atomic clocks needed to be able to handle such fine corrections are based on the hyperfine transition of 133Cs. You're not getting very far on atomic clocks without particle physics