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Comment Mission Extension Vehicle (Score 4, Informative) 53

Also worth noting that this follows on from the earlier Northrup-Grumman "Mission Extension Vehicle", which in 2019 launched to dock and reposition Intelsat 901, a first for a telerobotically operated spacecraft.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Some sites:
  https://www.northropgrumman.co...
  https://news.northropgrumman.c...

Coincidentally, Northrup Grumman was also involved in the SWIFT reboost mission, launched the beginning of this month, tp extend the lifetime of the Swift orbital telescope by boosting it into a higher orbit. (In this case, though, they didn't build the spacecraft, just provided the launch service, on a Pegasus)

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/n...

Comment Re:So OpenAI are criminals? (Score 2) 159

There was no "tens of thousands of actions trying to probe (the) site for weaknesses all at once" - you literally made that up, access was gained by stolen credentials, as noted in the very first sentence of TFS.

The incident report's actual words were:
  The campaign was run by an autonomous agent framework ... executing many thousands of individual actions across a swarm of short-lived sandboxes,

Comment Syllogism [Re:incentives] (Score 2) 159

....(because LLMs cannot actually do things like that with proper protections in place) so it is intent.

Ooh! I love syllogisms.

1. LLMs cannot actually do things like that with proper protections in place.
2. A LLM did that.
3. Conclusion?

Conclusion: proper protections were not in place.

Comment Starbucks [Re:Black coffee] (Score 1) 189

Yes and no. Starbucks seems dominant and they over-roast their coffee. It works well for the super sugary espresso drinks but terrible for anything else.

Bingo, I think you nailed it. Starbucks wants to sell you those fancy syrupy latte caramel drinks, and to get any coffee flavor at all after they add all the sugary sweet gunk and cream, they need a super dark roast.

If you just want coffee, not a desert-in-a-cup, go anywhere else. Your local indy coffeehouse, for example.

Comment Known for decades [Re:The more things change...] (Score 1) 189

The only thing you can be sure of is that every couple of years, you'll get different advice on the health effects of coffee.

Simply not true. Beneficial effects of coffee have been known for decades. This work is simply confirming what previous studies have already shown.
  https://time.com/4116129/coffe...
  http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/...
  http://www.npr.org/sections/th...
  https://www.medicalnewstoday.c...

Comment What do they define as a "cup" (Score 1) 189

This mostly isn't new, just confirming what has been seen in studies going back decades https://time.com/4116129/coffe...

But an important question is, what do they define as a "cup"?

Years back, a "cup" of coffee was defined as a teacup, maybe five ounces. When I drink coffee, I use a coffee mug, which is perhaps twice the size of a teacup. Maybe more, for some of the extra-large coffee mugs.

I took a quick scan through the paper, searching on "cup", but didn't see an actual cup volume given.

Comment Re:Funny ... (Score 1) 121

Needs 'Cold Hard' Proof

That's what I said about AGW. And do you know what most people told me?

I know what I told you. I told you that, for a start, read the IPCC working group 1 report "The Physical Science Basis of Climate Change".
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6...

The way you can tell when people who claim to be skeptics aren't, is that when you tell them where to find the answer to their questions they don't want to hear it.

Many being the same people here trying to sell AGI.

I have never tried to sell AGI. (And I most certainly don't think large language models are AGI, or are ever going to evolve into AGI or anything like it.)

Comment Re:Wish Australia had it, even the equatorial part (Score 1) 263

We have DST, but only some states. But the sun coming up at 4:45am in summer sucks up near the tropics and makes no sense.

Well, this particular discussion is about a (not yet enacted) law concerning DST in the United States, and none of the states are in the topics except Hawaii, which does not use DST.

Comment Re:Can't Channge The Universe (Score 1) 263

You can't change the universe, nor the solar system. There's very specific reasons why the Sun reaches its zenith(daily peak) at mid day(12:00).

The sun does not reach its zenith at 12:00.

If you defined noon as the time of the sun reaching its zenith, days would no longer be the same length. Days in northern hemisphere winter would be slightly longer than 24 hours, and days in northern hemisphere summer would be shorter, due to the difference between sidereal time and solar time.

Comment Re:More dead Americans (Score 3, Insightful) 263

Driving to work in darkness, schoolchildren crossing streets, in winter.

When the daylight hours are short in winter, you have to pick some time in which it's darkness. If it's light during the morning commute, it will be dark during the evening commute.

This depends on how far north you are, of course.

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