BZZZT!
I was talking about commercial space, not residential. The residential space tends to get rented.
Given the current state of the art, there's not even a guarantee that the real harm won't show up in the 2nd or even 3rd generation. Not all state of the art modifications prove to be stable.
If something goes wrong and the child needs expensive lifelong medical care for an unanticipated problem, guess who will be first to shout "NOT IT!"
> Bruh. Apt already relies on Perl, which has no formal language specification. What nonsense is this?
You are right, which is why I don't think this is a huge deal.
Though perl5 compatibility back to c.2000 is pretty good.
Today's rust code most likely won't run in 2050 on modern compilers.
But perl4 code doesn't run well today either.
Yet nothing in trixie needs to run anything from buzz - so as long as everything works within a version or two it's hard to imagine anybody being negatively affected.
I have a UPS package shipped Overnight/Saturday Delivery on Friday and it now appears to be on a truck near Chicago. It was originally scheduled to transit from South Dakota to New England.
New delivery date is Tuesday. I hope the sender gets his money back!
(I didn't need it that quickly but the sender was making good on a delivery date guarantee, at a loss of his profits).
I have a floppy controller on order that doesn't know how to read disks; it just passes through magnetic field data to software which is supposed to be able to reconstruct the disk image.
Hopefully these tapes will be OK to read as long as somebody can build a magnetic read head of the correct type.
Maybe with ML there will be a reasonable chance of reconstructing faded regions. Old audio tape is still mostly fine, so fingers crossed.
BTW, what a great job these folks have!
> No need for all that. Either "Judgement is for the other side" or "Case dismissed." Clears the docket, and slows down these kinds of submissions until they're at least doublechecked.
Interesting. I think you've changed my mind about this.
Economic incentives are probably the way to go.
> Hopefully there are more relevant "science objectives" than this dead issue.
It's an exoteric story. Really they want funding to build rockets and this is a technology demonstrator.
But there is a theory that the asteroid belt is the former crust of Mars. More data on that would be interesting.
It's of course "widely discredited" but not with a scientific method or anything. Comparing isotope ratios would be fun someday.
Most of the second guessing of the pilot seems to assume the pilot could press pause and work out the alternatives on a chalkboard for an hour or two and then resume real-time with a solution in hand.
The fact is, it all happened in a handful of seconds. I doubt the pilot even had time to fully assess the problem before hitting the ground.
The problem is in the solution. Rationally, those Herdsmen need to hash out an agreementfor the fair use of that land to keep it just below it's carrying capacity.
But what really happens that some 'nobleman' declares the entire commons to belong to him and sends a goon squad to wipe out any herdsman who disagrees. He then 'allows' the herdsmen to use the land in exchange for a painfully large share of their productivity. For some reason he expects gratitude for that arrangement.
Alas, we've moved beyond even that. Now the 'nobleman', seeing that the herdsmen are making do with a smaller commons over the hill but unable to grab control of it sends his goons to salt the earth overnight so the herdsmen will have to 'rent' land from him.
But even that isn't enough for some. They want more 'rent' than any herdsman can pay while still making a living. So they leave the field fallow while trying to grab even more land. For some reason they think they can squeeze blood from a turnip.
If you find that unbelievable as an analogy, explain why there are entire blocks in NYC that haven't seen any space rented in over 10 years, yet the asking price hasn't budged even as the neighborhood has been given over to rats and junkies.
If you REALLY want to you can set this in pavucontrol in about twenty seconds. Should last until the browser restarts.
Might even work with pipewire if the planets are aligned.
Given I haven't used Firefox for that long now, do they finally have the ability to select input and output devices for audio?
I use speakers for normal audio, but Teams / Discord etc on a headset only.
Yet the feature request to be able to select audio streams has been around for at least a decade and never implemented... I gave up caring in waiting for an outbreak of common sense - but you wanted to know what 'tech' is missing...
I'm afraid that you, and history, ignored Rosalind Franklin, whose work was vital and also deserved the prize.
History didn't ignore her; her name is all over the histories of the discovery of the structure of DNA. She wasn't awarded the Nobel prize because Nobel prizes aren't awarded posthumously, but I agree if she had been alive, she should (and very likely would) have been added.
By the way, her work after leaving King's College, in elucidating the structure of viruses, was also groundbreaking.
The person whose work was vital in the x-ray crystallography of DNA and also deserved the prize is Raymond Gosling
While the photo was taken by her assistant, the fact is that it was Franklin's expertise in X-ray crystallography that resulted in a superior level of image quality. Her contribution is deservedly significant because if she had not used such techniques to precisely control the humidity of the imaging chamber, the images Gosling took would not have had the resolution they did.
Nope. The technique was invented by Gosling back when he was working for Wilkins, before Franklin arrived at King's College. And, yes, in doing that work he learned that humidity was the key.
Not to downplay Franklin's role-- she was doing the hard work of interpretation of the x-ray diffraction patterns-- but Photo 51 was taken by Gosling.
To say that it was Gosling's photo, thus implying that he--of anyone at Kings College--should have received some measure of credit for the discovery,
Correct: he should have received some measure of credit. And, to be fair, he did: the Nature paper (in the same issue as Watson and Crick's) was authored by Franklin and Gosling.
But Watson, Crick, and Wilkins got a Nobel prize. Gosling, who did the actual work, finished his degree, couldn't find a job in Britain, and left the field. If there's a person who was unfairly erased from the histories, it's Raymond Goslling.
is a misrepresentation in the sense that a lab assistant whose responsibility is to operate machinery is not necessarily the one who devised the method or protocol of operation,
Maybe not. That was the excuse for why Jocelyn Bell didn't share the Nobel prize for discovering pulsars. But in this case Gosling was the one who devised the method and protocol, and did so before Franklin arrived at King's college.
There's several good books on the details (although I advise you to skip Watson's book the Double Helix, which is sensational but glosses over the contributions of everybody else.)
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination -- but the combination is locked up in the safe. -- Peter DeVries
