Comment Re:Also... breathing. (Score 1) 238
The history of the claim that vaccines cause autism is extremely well documented - as a deliberate fraud.
Well aware, but thanks. More people should learn, and believe, this.
Submission + - CERN can now produce antihydrogen atoms eight times faster than before (home.cern)
fahrbot-bot writes: CERN is reporting that a new cooling technique means that the ALPHA experiment at their Antimatter Factory can produce antihydrogen atoms, the simplest form of atomic antimatter, eight times faster than before – over 15,000 antihydrogen atoms in a matter of hours.
Producing and trapping antihydrogen is an extremely complicated process. Previous methods took 24 hours to trap just 2,000 atoms, limiting the scope of experiments at ALPHA. The Swansea-led team has changed that.
Using laser-cooled beryllium ions, the team has demonstrated that it is possible to cool positrons to less than 10 Kelvin (below –263C), significantly colder than the previous threshold of about 15 Kelvin. These cooler positrons dramatically boost the efficiency of antihydrogen production and trapping—allowing a record 15,000 atoms to be trapped in less than seven hours.
Alternate article in Phys.org.
Producing and trapping antihydrogen is an extremely complicated process. Previous methods took 24 hours to trap just 2,000 atoms, limiting the scope of experiments at ALPHA. The Swansea-led team has changed that.
Using laser-cooled beryllium ions, the team has demonstrated that it is possible to cool positrons to less than 10 Kelvin (below –263C), significantly colder than the previous threshold of about 15 Kelvin. These cooler positrons dramatically boost the efficiency of antihydrogen production and trapping—allowing a record 15,000 atoms to be trapped in less than seven hours.
Alternate article in Phys.org.
Comment Also... breathing. (Score 5, Insightful) 238
The revised webpage says: "The claim 'vaccines do not cause autism' is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism. Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities."
Breathing can also cause Autism -- and definitely death. Fact: All people with Autism and/or who have died are/were habitual breathers. Claims to the contrary are not evidence based because studies have not ruled out the possibility that breathing can cause Autism and definitely death.
In related news: The inmates are running the asylum.
Comment Re:Starting with Pixel 10? (Score 1) 38
you have to use our data-raping OS
That was only meant to be the in-house, development name.
Comment Re:Case in point (Score 1) 190
“The fact that people are unimpressed that we can have a fluent conversation with a super smart AI that can generate any image/video is mindblowing to me,”
Where can you actually do that? That's not a thing. These people seriously think they have cortana over there. Apart from they dropped her already.
More to the point, many (most?) people probably don't even want to do that or care. For example, I don't need (or want) to have a conversation with a AI/LLM and don't need to generate images/videos or, more precisely, have AI generate them for me - and I can do my own coding.
Comment Starting with Pixel 10? (Score 1) 38
Is there some technical reason this couldn't be supported on earlier models?
Comment Just kids? (Score 1) 222
American Kids Can't Do Math Anymore
The current president has stated several times he / his administration will bring down the price of prescriptions 500%, 1000%, 1500% and people go, "Cool".
Noting that 100% mean free and +100% means they pay you. (Sorry, but the premise here means I had to include that.)
Comment Re:Engineers initially suspected a coordinated att (Score 1) 57
When something goes wrong your mind always jumps to hackers, but most of the time its your own fault.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity / incompetence.
Comment Re:Built In Limit? (Score 1) 57
Sure, but if there's a limit, the code should handle/ignore excesses gracefully *and* report it so the data and/or code can be reviewed and updated.
Comment Re:Automation (Score 1) 57
It's not the centralization that did this, but the automation.
Coupled with arbitrary program limits and poor error handling and reporting. From TFS:
The software had a built-in limit of 200 bot detection features.
The enlarged file contained more than 200 entries.
The software crashed when it encountered the unexpected file size.
Comment Re:n/a (Score 1) 57
maybe centralization isn't such a good thing after all?
More like arbitrary program limits and poor error handling and reporting. From TFS:
The software had a built-in limit of 200 bot detection features.
The enlarged file contained more than 200 entries.
The software crashed when it encountered the unexpected file size.
Comment Re:It worked (Score 1) 34
It worked on me, I was avoiding TP-Link products because of this. Am I wrong to do that?
You can install OpenWRT on many of their models and they seem to work quite well like that.
Comment Re:Didn't Help (Score 1) 34
Needs parenthesis: (((Netgear) Accused by (Rival)) of (China Smear)) To (Fan Security Fear)
Sorry, still can't parse; who or what is supposed to be Jewish again?
Looks like LISP.
Comment Re:Oh, Such Greatness (Score 1) 242
Not just in the past -- especially those who need the quotation marks...
Comment Fine for getting started (Score 4, Informative) 31
I'll agree with that, especially if you're younger / less experienced and don't have a lot of code you've written banked from which you can pull. Cleaning up, or at least heavily reviewing, the vibe code for production may be a good way to hone your skills. The environment is kind of like that already with the existence of sites like Stack Overflow -- none of which were around when I was in university and getting started.
Way back then, the system administrator (4.3BSD on VAX-11/785 and, later, also earlier Sun systems) was also a very knowledgeable programmer and would answer SA/coding questions - eventually. His first answer was always, "Did you read the man page?" [Off to read man pages.] His second was, "Did you read the source code?" [Off to read BSD source.] Then he would lean back, with the keyboard still on his lap, and scribble something helpful on the whiteboard... It actually was a good, if annoying, learning process as I read a LOT of man pages and BSD source -- which helped me a immensely when I became a SA and systems programmer.
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