There is a part of me that is ever so slightly disappointed that they didn't emerge from the capsule wearing ape masks.

What if we enacted policies to make having children, you know, affordable?

Let's say that Elon is right and the economics of space-based solar energy make the expense of launching into orbit worthwhile. Let's also say that we manage to avoid the Kessler Syndrome that Elon's companies have largely helped to make more dire.

Compute generates heat. Lots and lots of heat. And heat is difficult to dump in space. How does he plan to get around that not insignificant engineering problem?

I'm not saying it's impossible. I'm saying it's not going to happen in three years.

In Australia's Great Emu War, the emus showed themselves to be a potent force. Now that they are allied with the monkeys, they could be a match for any 21st century army.

Classroom doors at the school are always locked

America is truly a different world from the one I live in.

That's fine, but have they simulated multiple disasters happening at once? That's what messed up the Fukushima plant - earthquake, tsunami, flood, power outage, all at once.

This is strictly anecdotal, but in my 28 years of working in tech, two of the best network engineers I've worked with both majored in English. One of them ran a guerilla poetry group and has a deeper grasp of Active Directory than anyone else in the shop.

Nostr, a startup decentralized social network, got its Twitter-like Damus application listed on Apple's App Store.

Good for them! I've never had an app on the App Store. Are they, like, the first ever to do that?

The World Wide Web Consortium began the year 2023 by forming a new public-interest non-profit organization.

How is this different? Were they a for-profit organization before? Did they not operate in the public interest?

After this story has been posted, I see that the rocket hasn't launched yet. Launch livestream is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

No, because it costs tens of thousands of dollars just to get started fighting this in court. That's a big problem with the DMCA - someone can go around ripping off a bunch of people who don't have the resources to assert their legal "rights".

How is Alexa losing $10 billion this year? There's no way it costs that much to run. Is Amazon sending $10 to everyone who says "Alexa, send me $10"?

Thanks for this. I couldn't make heads nor tails of the article.

Other open-source licenses assert copyright ownership but allow people to use the code (with certain conditions). CC0 asserts that there is no copyright and puts the code in the public domain (as far as that is allowed under copyright law, which generally assumes that everything is owned by someone).

Our messaging security is from the Nineteenth Century
And so my time and place became well known to their artillery
My staff and I with haste were made demonic or angelical
I was the very model of a Russian Major General