These articles better discuss CVN-79’s Electromagnetic Catapult and F-35C delays compared to the Energy Reporters one linked at the end of the post: https://news.usni.org/2025/07/... https://www.twz.com/28367/navy...

Is this essentially just an ad for the podcast?

Federal employees with less than three years of service start with 13 days of annual leave, not 20. Itâ(TM)s theoretically possible to negotiate some degree of matching of private sector leave to your leave category (13, 20, or 26 are the groupings for feds) if youâ(TM)ve never been a fed before, but many agencies simply refuse to negotiate on it. (Sick leave isnâ(TM)t lumped with annual leave and they arenâ(TM)t interchangeable)

I hope he carbonates milk to celebrate.

Datacenters are generally far better designed than these often containerized bitcoin operations, for one thing.

Soanybody seen an article that says how FAR it can travel, and not merely “a journey consuming 80,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity?”

Funny timing on this story, as it comes just as some in Congress are doing the bidding of large retailers in trying to kill the credit card rewards industry because it would reduce transaction fees for retailers who would almost certainly not pass that on to consumers. https://www.cbsnews.com/boston...

Well, yes, but try to remember when this was, a patch would have required distributing said patch -and- getting users to install it. This wasn’t a trivial exercise back when that all but required physical media. Microsoft putting in a compatibility mode for one of the major games of the time effectively solved the problem with one fewer floppy/CD.

You say that like said engineers had any input on which contractors were selected.

MFR remains inferior to APS-C and 35mm full frame SLRs, what changed is that MIRRORLESS models of those formats have become available that are nearly as useful as an SLR, except in certain specific areas of photography.

The lens isn't the limiting factor on dynamic range, the sensor/film/capture device is the limiting factor. I'm not "asking the lens" to do anything besides point light at said device.

One space. The typewriter is dead, please donâ(TM)t bring two spaces back.

You are sorely misinformed. While some prisons in the US are private, most are owned by the states or federal government. You make it sound like every prison is private, when those are the exception, rather than the rule.

Indeed. They actually have to use diesel vehicles only within a certain area at the observatory for that reason.

Out of curiosity though, doesnâ(TM)t Houston need to know how much weight remains on the station for stationkeeping maneuvers and whatnot?