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Comment Re:Good luck. (Score 1) 56

There was an initial large disruption as they dumped a huge number of packages into alternate delivery systems that weren't prepared for the sudden massive increase in load. Within a few weeks, it had settled down, and shipping times had improved enough that same-day and next-day shipping were once again available, albeit with shorter "order by" windows. The quality of the delivery experience has dropped significantly (in terms of failed/late deliveries) due to them relying exclusively on "Intelcom" (a gig delivery service) rather than Amazons own delivery system.

My understanding of how it works, at least for Montreal (which used to have multiple Amazon warehouses in the metro area), is that all orders are shipped from the Toronto area, a ~6 hour drive away. Amazon loads orders onto big Amazon trucks (semi trailers) and drives them to an Intelcom distribution centre in Montreal, and Intelcom handles the last-mile delivery. Intelcom doesn't do inter-city delivery, and Amazon doesn't have any infrastructure in Montreal (or Quebec more broadly).

As for why Amazon services Montreal's orders from Toronto (a ~6 hour drive away) instead of Ottawa (a ~2 hour drive away), my only guess is that Ottawa (1.5m metro pop) wasn't big enough absorb all of Montreal's (4.3m metro pop) demand, but Toronto (6.2m) was.

Comment Re:Rogue Terror State (Score 1) 91

Are they?

This century Russia has engaged in a offensive wars against Ukraine and Georgia, put down a couple of internal rebellions and fucked around intervening in five or six conflicts in their neighbourhood and Africa.

Iran has maintained a few proxy militia groups to counter Israel.

China has... done nothing. Specifically refused to engage in any international military action. Not since Vietnam, actually.

Wikipedia's list of wars involving the US is split into multiple pages, despite the US only existing for a few hundred years. The one for 2001 to present is long, I'm not going to count them. Some of them are anti-pirate operations, mostly legal anti-terrorist actions and a UN sanctioned international actions. There are also some illegal offensive wars, a couple of them massive. Betrayal of allies, torture, lots of war crimes.

Domestically, yeah, the US is a better place to live than Iran, especially if you're a woman, although the US is working hard to change that. Probably better than China or Russia too depending on what you value. Internationally none of them hold a candle to the US of A.

Comment Re:Wrong clock (Score 1) 48

Not really. Care results fairly closely match Sweden’s once adjusting for confounding factors like weight, addiction, crime, genetics, and various statistical quirks (for example, Sweden doesn’t nearly as aggressively count premature birth deaths as infant mortality).

I agree with the last part in parethenses. Do you have citations for the rest?

Core vaccine schedule recommendations remain unchanged, and there’s zero proof of significant impact or negative impact.

Not for lack of trying. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/judge-blocks-rfk-jr-from-scaling-back-childhood-vaccine-recommendations.

Canceling federal funding for one particular research program at arguably the richest university in the world - with literally billions in endowments that it’s free to use - isn’t “cancelling all the mRNA research ”.

Bwah? The article I linked to is on Harvard's news site. It is not just about Harvard. As that article notes there's been about 500 million dollars of contracts canceled. Note that even if that were all Harvard (which it isn't) that would be a sizable chunk even in their endowment. And this has on top of that had a major chilling effect causing corporations to stop doing mRNA treatment research in general.

Comment Re:Let the enshitification begin (Score 2) 40

While I generally share the cynicism and doubt about AI as seen here in many Slashdot comments, your comment made me wonder if this is enshitification versus shitting their pants.

When you talk about milking their customers for what they can get, to me that usually connotes that the company is doing well and has little competition, so they can get greedy and get away with it.

However, as I read the article, this sounds more like reality is setting in. After burning money and trying to establish some buzz and activity, they now see that revenue needs to pick up before they spend through their venture capitalization. That is true for any business, but for AI where solid business seems to be lagging behind the hype, this could just be a sensible reality check, trying to preempt a panic before the red line approaches.

I also get a sense, from reading the news and Slashdot comments, that "reality check" time is starting to set in across the AI business spectrum, maybe not yet intense, but the start of a trend that will likely accelerate. Either companies go bust, as many like to predict, or users who have come to love whatever they do with it now find that free lunch is over.

Comment Re:Reusable rockets-- (Score 1) 80

Your assignment: Find out why reusable rockets are only useable for very specific launch envelopes. If you use them out of that launch envelope, there are just as disposable as the rockets you think are some sort of complete waste.

Interesting. I've never seen this claim made before; do you have a reference?

https://www.teslarati.com/spac... Forgive the link, it is a real rah-rah piece.

CEO Elon Musk says SpaceX has successfully expanded the envelope of orbital-class rocket recovery with its 50th booster landing, meaning that all Falcon boosters will have a better chance of safely returning to Earth from now on.

https://space-offshore.com/boo...
"Falcon 9 missions may need to land on a droneship instead of RTLS due to the weight of the payload or the overall mission profile."

I think you have academic access. Here is a good technical report on a lot of rockets that land after use. https://www.sciencedirect.com/.... You'll need academic credentials to download it. But it has a lot more info - and as part of the launch envelopes, there is constraint based on payload as well as direction. If you are going to land, there is a significant reduction in payload.

Looks interesting, I'll take a look when I get back in to work.

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