Interestingly, I found a press release saying the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center was supposed to open "mid-2025" but they would "announc[e] the official opening date well in advance of the public opening," and yet, I can't find any updates on that opening date.

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> Why would you fly from LA to DC to see a shuttle when there is already a space shuttle (Endeavor) in LA?

Because Endeavour is not actually on display. When I was there in the spring, they were still constructing the building and I couldn't even see the shuttle.

I've seen Enterprise at Udvar-Hazy, and then I saw Discovery (the tour guide pointed out the special doors that were used to move it in). Discovery sure looked beat-up in comparison - going to space will do that. I also saw Atlantis in Florida; I liked the way they had it tilted on its side, so you could see into the cargo bay.

I'm going to be sad when I can't get a laptop with two USB-A ports. I have a nice little Yubi-key that fits almost entirely in one of my USB-A ports, just a tiny bit sticks out. The USB-C version sticks out enough that leaving it plugged in is likely to break something when one puts the laptop in a bag. And I have a wireless mouse that has a USB-A dongle (the built-in mouse buttons don't emulate a middle button worth beans). I have a bluetooth headset. I could probably get a bluetooth mouse. But there's a significant convenience of having the Yubi-key always there and not having to dig around in my bag for the USB-C version (or an adapter for the USB-A version) and plug it in. I also find it much more convenient than using a 2FA app on my phone.

"... agreed to pay in bitcoin for a 50% discount"

I wonder if the parent put Bitcoin corresponding to the other 50% into a college savings account. Might actually be enough to cover tuition.

I probably flew a dozen times last year and always ask to "opt out of the photograph." The first few times I flew after TSA started doing this, I had to explain, perhaps because I wasn't using the proper wording (or the agents hadn't had many people decline). I never had to ask for a supervisor. The early stories said that agents were not letting people opt out, and no one was sure what happened to the photos afterwards. On my most recent trip, I'm fairly sure the sign said they delete the photos after verifying your ID, but of course there's no way to be sure.

Indeed. Autocorrect is forever changing "its" to "it's" for me.

I encountered a program where "infinity" was taken to be MAX_FLOAT, even though the data type was double.

One thing I wonder for private keys that have been sitting around for 10+ years -- this guys, or even Satoshi Nakamoto's original keys -- just how good is the encryption? I guess even a few computers running non-stop for 10 years probably won't crack it, but could the NSA, or maybe the North Koreans? When we finally get quantum computing, will it be trivial to break the encryption and grab those bitcoins? Or is there a chance that the software he used to create the key has a flaw in its encryption algorithm? (Apparently, a non-trivial number of ransomware programs have bad key generation algorithms, per "The Ransomware Hunting Team" - an interesting read BTW.)

Some alumni parents may be large donors, but I think another piece is that legacy admits may be more likely to attend, and the "yield rate" (percentage of admitted students who enroll) is one of the one of the factors that goes into college rankings. (Whether it should be is a different question.) And it's not just the top universities; there's family pride in multi-generation traditions at mid-ranked public universities as well. So, by prohibiting legacy admits, California is putting its colleges at a disadvantage relative to other states.

> The warmer temperatures brought existential threats including including a fatal disease and more crab-eating predators, their study found. ... >> Billions of crabs ultimately starved to death, The summary kind of misses something here: it wasn't a fatal disease or more crab-eating predators, but that the warmer water increased the crabs' caloric needs.

In my experience, I've gotten a temporary crown on the first visit, and the dentist sends out to get a permanent crown. The second visit is usually 10 minutes to pop off the temporary and adhere the permanent. I don't think you can make a high-quality porcellain crown in 15 minutes.

An interesting book on following that money: Tracers in the Dark ( https://www.penguinrandomhouse... )

Three corrections: 1) click-bait 2) cheap 3) Harvard had nearly 25,000 total students, but only 7,755 undergraduates (7,063 Harvard College plus 692 Extension) https://oira.harvard.edu/factb... But what does Harvard have to do with this story about MIT students, anyway?

From this page regarding a replacement screen: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/i... "Note: True Tone and auto brightness functionality is disabled after a screen replacement, even when using an original Apple screen. Face ID is also disabled, unless the iPhone is running iOS 15.2 or newer." That sounds like parts pairing to me.

Wait ... because *you* experienced "barely even a cold" when you got COVID, you think all the preventative measures that were implemented were grounds for firing and blacklisting all public health officials who implemented them? What about the millions of people who were hospitalized or DIED? Tough luck for them?