Comment Re: DNS is a tyrant's paradise (Score 1) 46
Some of us are capable of holding 3 distinct thoughts at once, sorry about your disability.
Comment Re:State is probably best stated by the comics (Score 1) 137
I wasn't talking about you but the guy I was originally responding to, sorry if that wasn't clear.
Yes, I hold that against both parties equally, and yes, that applies to where we are in terms of the economy, Iran, etc. I am not being partisan here.
Forced centrism is in fact not a virtue. I am being partisan but I also believe I can fully justify that.
Comment Re: Congrats. They killed it (Score 1) 49
Hey can't put a price on a much needed evening of circle jerking each other. Of the actors won't do it for themselves who will??
Comment Re:Congrats. They killed it (Score 0) 49
It's a bit like media piracy, these are not people who would have spent money on the product no matter.
Anybody so wary to not have an Amazon account or even risk making a burner account wasn't watching the Emmys anyway. The people turned off by that requirement is like a percent of a percent.
Comment Re:State is probably best stated by the comics (Score 1) 137
Sure I can see that perspective and DACA was subject to the same problems all EOs are; they can just be undone with the stroke of a pen. However I think it's worth understanding that DACA didn't just go from idea to EO via Obama as soon as the idea came about, this was an issue that was attempting to be dealt with for the better part of a decade before DACA came through. Also I am not gonna listening to whining about EOs from a supporter of a man who has all but discarded Congress and passed more EOs in 2 years than Obama did in 8.
I mean just today the NY Fed said that we have 2% across the baord inflation solely due to the tariffs, tariffs enacted via EO. No smoke for that?
Would I have preferred real legislation? Absolutely. Did I want a bunch of DACA kids to be deported to countries they have never known in their lives because Republicans want to keep immigration a campaign wedge point forever and ever? No. We've had at least 2 Republican trifectas since then, why no new legislation?
And yeah, here we are because we still don't have an immigration legislation. Republican's refusal to pass that bill for decades means we are going to end up granting amnesty to way more than 1.3m
Submission + - The Trump administration has barred Microsoft, Adobe from H-1B (politico.com)
sinij writes:
The Trump administration has barred Microsoft, Adobe and six IT companies from sponsoring H-1B workers for green cards, Vice President JD Vance announced Thursday. Vance made the comments during a press conference on visa fraud, during which he argued Microsoft is discriminating against Americans by prioritizing foreign workers
Submission + - Audacious space heist aims to bring home bits of mysterious martian moon (science.org)
sciencehabit writes: In 1543, Portuguese merchants caught in stormy winds ran aground on Tanegashima, a verdant island enveloped by crystal-blue waters just south of the Japanese mainland. To those living there, these sailors—the first Europeans known to set foot in Japan—were nothing short of aliens from a distant land, bringing with them strange customs, an unfamiliar language, and new technology.
Nearly 5 centuries later, the island is once again serving as a bridge to an alien world. On 20 October, a rocket will blast off from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA’s) Tanegashima Space Center, flinging a spacecraft the size of a car to Mars. When it arrives, it’ll swoop around the planet before landing on a lumpy island floating above it. And that’s when the real drama begins.
We live in an age of space heists. In recent years, the United States and Japan have retrieved material from several asteroids with smash-and-grab spacecraft. After reaching an asteroid this summer, China is set to return samples from it next year, and it recently conducted the first sample return from the far side of the Moon.
But Japan’s $350 million Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission is going to do something even more audacious: Fly to Phobos (ancient Greek for “fear”), one of the two small, battered moons of Mars, and land on the roughly Manhattan-size body not once, but twice. Using two novel extractors, MMX will gather several tablespoons’ worth of material and return the treasure to Earth in 2031. “Phobos will be the second best known moon in the Solar System,” says Matija Cúk, a research scientist at the SETI Institute.
Those precious few grams of material could resolve the mystery of Phobos’s origin—and, potentially, that of its diminutive partner, Deimos (“dread”). Scientists are split on whether the moons are captured asteroids or the consolidated remnants of material thrown up by a long-ago martian impact. But regardless of their genesis, MMX researchers say it’s likely they have since picked up a dusting of material blasted off Mars itself. “This is not going to be just a Phobos sample return mission,” says Kris Zacny, vice president of exploration systems at Honeybee Robotics, which built one of MMX’s sample extractors. “It’s going to be Phobos and Mars.”
Nearly 5 centuries later, the island is once again serving as a bridge to an alien world. On 20 October, a rocket will blast off from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA’s) Tanegashima Space Center, flinging a spacecraft the size of a car to Mars. When it arrives, it’ll swoop around the planet before landing on a lumpy island floating above it. And that’s when the real drama begins.
We live in an age of space heists. In recent years, the United States and Japan have retrieved material from several asteroids with smash-and-grab spacecraft. After reaching an asteroid this summer, China is set to return samples from it next year, and it recently conducted the first sample return from the far side of the Moon.
But Japan’s $350 million Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission is going to do something even more audacious: Fly to Phobos (ancient Greek for “fear”), one of the two small, battered moons of Mars, and land on the roughly Manhattan-size body not once, but twice. Using two novel extractors, MMX will gather several tablespoons’ worth of material and return the treasure to Earth in 2031. “Phobos will be the second best known moon in the Solar System,” says Matija Cúk, a research scientist at the SETI Institute.
Those precious few grams of material could resolve the mystery of Phobos’s origin—and, potentially, that of its diminutive partner, Deimos (“dread”). Scientists are split on whether the moons are captured asteroids or the consolidated remnants of material thrown up by a long-ago martian impact. But regardless of their genesis, MMX researchers say it’s likely they have since picked up a dusting of material blasted off Mars itself. “This is not going to be just a Phobos sample return mission,” says Kris Zacny, vice president of exploration systems at Honeybee Robotics, which built one of MMX’s sample extractors. “It’s going to be Phobos and Mars.”
Comment Re:State is probably best stated by the comics (Score 4, Insightful) 137
None of that happens in a vacuum though, the reason DACA was done via EO was that Republicans refused to pass the DREAM Act which was a bi-partisan bill kicked around since 2001 but Republicans would filibuster it at every oppurtunity.
- Same with the McCain Kennedy bill, bipartisan legislation never got a vote in the Senate
- Same with another bill in 2007, never made it out of the Senate
- Same with the Gang of 8 Bill which did et over 60 votes in the Senate, bipartisan! Then John Boehner , Republican Speaker, let it die on the vine, never got a vote.
- Then we have the Lankford bill, a bipartisan yet very conservative bill that Biden signaled he would sign. Was going to be actual law until Trump told Republicans he needed the issue to campaign on (Ted Cruz admitted to this explicitly) so they let it die.
So at every opportunity to pass actual immigration reform, something we have needed for like 50+ years, the last major legislation being from the Reagan era (where he granted amnesty!) Republicans stand in the way, almost like they don't really care about the issue, I mean, if immigration is this huge crisis why no legislation? Someone answer that question.
What is missing from the entire conversation right now is Trump is governing pretty much EXACTLY like Bush, Obama, AND Biden did.
Absolutely fucking not, the lawlessness, the destruction of norms, the bending of the alw, the craven grifting, the brutally divisive rhetoric, it's incredibly different and any equivocation is really just copium or ignorance, usually the former, it's a self soothing permission structure, "we can be fucking unhinged because i feel personally slighted"
Even the bitter clingers thing is just nonsense, even the smallest bit of context destroys that whole talking point, there's a reason it's always brought up and never quoted
But the truth is, is that, our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there's not evidence of that in their daily lives. You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
Um, now these are in some communities, you know. I think what you'll find is, is that people of every background -- there are gonna be a mix of people, you can go in the toughest neighborhoods, you know working-class lunch-pail folks, you'll find Obama enthusiasts. And you can go into places where you think I'd be very strong and people will just be skeptical. The important thing is that you show up and you're doing what you're doing.
What exactly is so offensive about that statement? Who are the snowflakes here?
Comment Re:Rural populations mostly vote red (Republican) (Score 1) 62
That is not responsive to anything I said. What statement did I make that is false?
Submission + - Margaret Hamilton Dies - Led Apollo Software Effort (mit.edu)
Veeru writes: Margaret Hamilton, the groundbreaking researcher who helped create the field of software engineering and whose code helped land NASA’s Apollo astronauts on the moon to win the 20th century space race, has died. She was 90.
Submission + - Original RFC1149 packet up for auction at Christies (blogspot.com)
badger.foo writes: As some of you may remember, in 2001 RFC1149 (TCP/IP over carrier pigeon) was implemented.
Now one of the packets preserved from that event is up for auction at Christies. Direct link to the auction (current bid: USD 2600) is here.
This is a unique chance to own a piece of Internet history!
Now one of the packets preserved from that event is up for auction at Christies. Direct link to the auction (current bid: USD 2600) is here.
This is a unique chance to own a piece of Internet history!
Submission + - Microsoft releases LiteBox operating system and it is not Windows (nerds.xyz)
BrianFagioli writes: Microsoft has released LiteBox 0.1.0, an open-source library operating system written primarily in Rust. The project provides operating system services through a smaller interface to the host, aiming to reduce the attack surface. Its use cases include sandboxing Linux applications on Linux and running Linux programs on Windows.
A source-based explainer examines how the architecture works and where compatibility falls short. The Windows runner currently supports x86-64 only and requires executable rewriting and bundled dependencies. Source comments also indicate that fork is not yet supported, and Microsoft warns that the project is still working toward a stable release.
A source-based explainer examines how the architecture works and where compatibility falls short. The Windows runner currently supports x86-64 only and requires executable rewriting and bundled dependencies. Source comments also indicate that fork is not yet supported, and Microsoft warns that the project is still working toward a stable release.
Comment Re:Rural populations mostly vote red (Republican) (Score 2) 62
Ilhan has been in her seat for 4 terms, any day now she'll reveal her secret plan for Sharia? What's she been waiting for? I don't even particuarly like Omar, I think she's an omnicause slopulist but I'm not so deranged to think she's some secret Islamist.
I guarantee whatever media figures you get your news from are far more radical. How about you share your media sources and podcasts with us?
Source: thousands of years of history.
Turkey and Iran for example were once free nations.
And yet the fact you said that shows us all you actually haven't read the history of either of those places to understand why they are where they are now. Also you know who is the biggest fawning fan of Erdogan? Donald Trump and Republicans.
Meanwhile we have JD Vance campaigning with Victor Fucking Orban which is a form of authoritarianism far more likely to grab hold in the US but that's white folks so you have no worries about that do you.
Comment Re:Risk reward and perverse incentives (Score 1) 47
Close to how I want to see nuclear power re-launched in America:
Legislation for funding 10-30 new reactors, owned and operated by government (like TVA does already)
Build them on selected Federal land sites
Have the Army Corp of Engineers certify and plan on a standardized design for construction (example, work with Westinghouse on our own version of an AP1000)
Fund a Manhattan Project style research initiative into fuel reprocessing and build a site(s) to absorb waste fuel.
Submission + - First Nuclear Clocks Start Ticking in Vienna and Beijing (phys.org)
necro81 writes: Two groups, one in Vienna and one in Beijing, have successfully demonstrated the world's first nuclear clocks. Standard atomic clocks, like the caesium clocks that define the second, operate by observing the transition of electrons between different orbits about the nucleus. The resulting radiation is usually in the microwave range, and can produce clocks accurate to one second in 100 billion years.
Nuclear clocks go a step further, and probe energy transitions within the nucleus itself. Nuclei can arrange their protons and neutrons into different configurations, called isomers. The isomer with the lowest energy is the one usually found; higher-energy ones are only metastable and decay quickly. Usually it takes serious energy — x-rays and gamma rays — to excite a nucleus into a higher-energy arrangement. It so happens that thorium-229 can be excited using UV light with a wavelength of 148 nm — just within the capabilities of some exotic lasers.
It's still been quite a challenge. For one thing, Th-229 is not found in nature; it must be extracted from the decay chain of uranium-235. The Beijing team used just a microgram mixed in a crystal of calcium fluoride.
Although these prototype nuclear clocks are not yet more accurate than existing atomic clocks (one second in millions, rather than billions, of years), they show the way towards what may be possible. Because the energy transition is in the nucleus, rather than the electron cloud, it is less susceptible to outside disturbances like magnetic fields. And the fundamental frequency is much higher (five orders of magnitude), which should yield more precise timing. This development could lead to smaller and more reliable time standards across the world (and solar system).
Nuclear clocks go a step further, and probe energy transitions within the nucleus itself. Nuclei can arrange their protons and neutrons into different configurations, called isomers. The isomer with the lowest energy is the one usually found; higher-energy ones are only metastable and decay quickly. Usually it takes serious energy — x-rays and gamma rays — to excite a nucleus into a higher-energy arrangement. It so happens that thorium-229 can be excited using UV light with a wavelength of 148 nm — just within the capabilities of some exotic lasers.
It's still been quite a challenge. For one thing, Th-229 is not found in nature; it must be extracted from the decay chain of uranium-235. The Beijing team used just a microgram mixed in a crystal of calcium fluoride.
Although these prototype nuclear clocks are not yet more accurate than existing atomic clocks (one second in millions, rather than billions, of years), they show the way towards what may be possible. Because the energy transition is in the nucleus, rather than the electron cloud, it is less susceptible to outside disturbances like magnetic fields. And the fundamental frequency is much higher (five orders of magnitude), which should yield more precise timing. This development could lead to smaller and more reliable time standards across the world (and solar system).
