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Comment Re: Oh Brave New World with such people in it (Score 1) 114

You’re not wrong. Remember when they kept saying Kamala would start a war?

They? Gloating is unseemly. Nobody though Trump would start a war.
Certainly back in 2016, a small consolation over his win was that a new war less likely than under Clinton, who was something of a Hawk.

But back in the old days, when the US was a democracy, they would have needed support from Congress to start a major war.

Comment Toll roads could've done this decades ago (Score -1) 156

I've been wondering for many years before the first traffic camera appeared, why the toll-roads aren't enforcing the speed limits automatically. The time you enter and exit the highway is recorded down to a second. The distance between these two points is known — your average speed could be computed on the spot even with the early 90-ies technology...

The polite police officers would be standing right behind the toll-booths issuing tickets without the drama of hiding in the bushes, then chasing you at highway speeds...

And, yeah, you could lower it by stopping at a rest area — but it'd still be a tremendous disincentive to speed.

I was and continue to hope, that such universal enforcement, affecting all voters, would cause the limits to go up to reasonable figures — or even be abolished completely...

Submission + - Anthropic blocks Claude subscriptions from third party AI tools like OpenClaw (nerds.xyz)

BrianFagioli writes: Anthropic says Claude subscriptions will no longer cover usage inside third party tools like OpenClaw starting April 4 at 12pm PT. Users who previously logged into those apps with their Claude account will now need to purchase usage bundles or use a Claude API key instead. The company says its subscription plans were built for normal chat usage, not the automated workloads often generated by external clients and agent frameworks.

The move appears aimed at controlling compute costs as demand for AI models continues to rise. Third party tools can generate far more model requests than a typical user chatting in a browser, especially when automation or scripting is involved. Casual users likely will not notice any difference, but developers and power users who relied on those tools may now face usage based pricing.

Comment Re:"have left Earth orbit" ?! (Score 2) 74

We have people in here who think that not re-using a rocket is some sort of crime,

I have to stop you there. The RS-25 rockets on the SLS were indeed being re-used, after they flew on the Shuttle. They were designed for re-use, and incredibly expensive. So it is something of a "crime" to dump them in the ocean. But yes, NASA's attempts to save money by re-using the Shuttle orbiter and boosters were ultimately a failure.

The billions spent on the SLS program since the end of the shuttle program have an opportunity cost. And it was apparent a while back that the SLS was a dead end, and the cost as unsustainable as the Apollo program. Rockets like Starship and New Glenn are the future. Falcon and Falcon heavy are the present.
The Artemis 2 mission could have been done using Falcon Heavy at a fraction of the cost. Or wait a bit and use Starship. We'll be waiting for Starship lunar lander anyway.
 

not thinking how that first stage can only return if it is close enough to the launch site.

Pardon? Have you not seen the barge landings? SpaceX have chosen a "return to launch site" profile for Starship booster, as the most economical, but it is not a requirement. And it won't stop them putting 100-200 ton to LEO. Full re-use of the upper stage might be a long way off, but just re-using the booster is a huge gain.

Comment Re:"have left Earth orbit" ?! (Score 1) 74

they exceeded the escape velocity.

They will be using the Moon's gravity to change direction,

This is plausible, but the first I've heard of it. Citation? Normal TLI is not far short of escape velocity. A bit like Starship being not quite LEO.
My sources said if not for the gravity assist they would go past, and take a few more days to return to earth.

Though I'd still quibble than in a 3-body sense, they are not leaving orbit. We'll need to wait for a Mars Mission for that.

Comment Re:"have left Earth orbit" ?! (Score 1) 74

The S-IVB stages from Apollo 8, 10, 11, and 12 (sorta) are in heliocentric orbits, along with the Tesla Roadster launched by SpaceX.

Well, by "spaceship" I meant designed for human occupancy, so excluding all the science probes, including those that have left solar orbit.
I guess I should have counted the Tesla :-) So long and thanks for all the fish.

Comment "have left Earth orbit" ?! (Score 1) 74

"Ladies and gentlemen, I am so, so excited to be able to tell you that for the first time since 1972 during Apollo 17, human beings have left Earth orbit," NASA's Dr Lori Glaze

I can expect some random science reporter to make this mistake, but bugger me, a senior NASA executive?
It shows politics are far more important than any knowledge of science at NASA today.

Not only is Orion not leaving Earth Orbit (where the fuck do they think the moon is?) , it is not even entering lunar orbit. Orion's apogee has been pushed up for one orbit, but it's perigee is right down here.

There is one spaceship that really did leave Earth orbit, the lunar module "Snoopy" from Apollo 10:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Comment Re: Capacity !=production (Score 2) 96

"Capacity" is extremely important for generating headlines. Less so for generating electricity.

But the numbers for actual generation of electricity from renewables are still impressive. Globally is is around 34%. Not bad!
I'll take a real 34% over a hyped 50% any day. The growth in solar over the last ten years has been amazing. And now be are building the batteries needed to push the numbers higher.

Comment Re:No memory of first AI session, like clean room (Score 2) 124

An AI session does not necessarily train the AI. ... The second session won't have any memory of the first. So it is effectively like one person writing a clean spec

I think he is talking about the actual training of the model, not the inference sessions. LLMs are trained on a LOT of open-source code.
The big models have read countless terrabytes of copyrighted code (Including GPL) in training. So if you ever ask AI to write a clone of GNU software, it might be legal, but can never be truly clean-room.

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