The law contains no provision for extending or changing that deadline.

Wrong. Or at least incomplete and misleading.

It is true that the text of the original standalone bill doesn't have any provisions about extensions - see https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521. But that version was never passed into law in the first place.

The law that was actually passed was incorporated into "H.R.815 - Making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes." See https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/815. Quoting the text of the bill (click on the text tab): "... the President may grant a 1-time extension of not more than 90 days with respect to the date on which this subsection would otherwise apply to such application pursuant to paragraph (2), if the President certifies to Congress that...".

So one extension is allowed (subject to various conditions), but multiple extensions do not seem to be allowed.

(Definitively making an oversimplified / wrong claim that ignores details seems like exactly the kind of thing that Trump himself is so often guilty of.)

how different from a "big crunch" is a black hole?

What is the definition of cannot pass through? Would the copy that is trying the pass through be blocked in some way?

I want to be able to walk up to the screen of a game and see the fly that just landed on a spectator's nose./p

Given many views inside a house, such as all the frames of a walk around video, i want software that can build a set of images of each wall, floor, and ceiling, in that house. Then i want software that can produce new views inside, at new designated angles that were not previously shot. If the input is fully complete, then the output should be, as well. most of the AI would be in scanning the input image frames to "understand" how each frame is shot. I have done this before, manually, a couple times, and merged the images. I think AI should be able to do this, to the extent the input covers.

I guess Scotty was just a few years early trying to talk to the mouse: https://youtu.be/QpWhugUmV5U?t...

Too many homes let the heat out and just pay for more to keep it warm ana cozy all winter. And, or course, some of that power comes from solar panels that take light in and reflect almost none of it back out to space.

Any of flipk's 3 similar responses does a pretty good job of explaining what is going on: Losing energy to heat and/or EM radiation. Its not really a paradox; just some difficulty fully accounting for everything that affects the total energy of the system, as opposed to conservation of charge approach where energy can basically be ignored.

It reminds me of the first day of the first physics course I took as a senior in high school. The teacher gave us a pre-test (of multiple-choice questions) as part of a gimick to show how much we learned over the course. But I had already studied physics quite a bit on my own, and I think I was only confused on one question and made a dumb mistake on a second. My confusion involved a problem about the final speed of a mass after two moving balls "merged together". I tried to analyze it using conservation of energy, not realizing that energy is lost when smooshing the balls together into a clump, and my answer wasn't one of the multiple choices. I hadn't realized this is much easier with conservation of momentum, where you can just ignore the lost energy. (I studied this more when I got home, so basically most of what I learned in the course I learned on the first day, and not even in the class itself.) Your capacitor problem is essentially identical from a mathematical perspective.

Regarding AI, it doesn't surprise me it has trouble. If it had been trained on enough text like flipk's, you might have gotten lucky such that it could have regurgitated "correct BS" based on the blind text token statistics it might have derived from such training. But the underlying design of LLM's has no ability to derive anything like it from first principals...

Given enough power, it will generate new X-files episodes until the heat death of the Universe.

That sounds like a core idea that could be expanded into a (new) episode of the X-files...

I've heard of various techniques of loosening up old drives that have too much friction to start spinning, including something about sticking it in a freezer. (I have doubts; the water condensation from humidity and rapidly-changing temperature...)

My favorite is to rapidly spin the drive housing back and forth along the same axis as the internal platters with my wrist, so that inertia of the platters holds them (closer) to stationary than the housing, and loosens things up. Then try to power it up again. This is much gentler than most other techniques, so it is unlikely to damage the drive further. In fact, I used this technique for a few YEARS with a 40 MB drive from ca. 1986 after it started having this problem in the 90's. Initially I could usually spin the whole computer this way to get it to loosen up, but over time things got more stuck and it became more common to need to remove the drive from the computer to get enough torque where it was needed... (Of course, I've always kept good backups...)

I last booted that machine this way in 2012 (after a hiatus) when I discovered disk2fdi (currently at http://www.oldskool.org/disk2f... ), a DOS program that successfully read my old Apple II disks onto this PC compatible, with the (satisfied) prerequisite that the PC happens to have two floppy drives... (Then transfer the floppy images to newer machines over my LAN, and use emulators and/or other tools to extract files from the images...)

I suspect I could still boot it today if I bothered to pull it out of storage and try, although it might be even more difficult...

This article reminds me of the many https:://joelonsoftware.com blog articles from 20 years ago. (See the organized lists at the bottom of the front page.)

Especially relevant to Zaides' article:

"Hitting the High Notes" https://www.joelonsoftware.com... is about the benefits of hiring the very top-notch developers, is especially relevant.

"The Law of Leaky Abstractions" https://www.joelonsoftware.com... is about how developers still need to understand details about how lower-level abstractions actually work in order to use higher-level abstractions effectively.

"Big Macs vs the Naked Chef" https://www.joelonsoftware.com... is about how trying to use training, process and methodologies to substitute for real talent, and how it doesn't work particularly well.

There are also semi-counter-aguments, like "The Development Abstraction Layer" https://www.joelonsoftware.com... (and others), about how there are a ton of additional non-development jobs needed to turn software development into a profitable business, and those jobs are mostly hidden and unknown to developers. (Side order: effective managers don't dictate precisely what to develop, but instead focus on creating the illusion that the writing great code is the only thing that is needed...)

Due to a disability, I can only type with my right hand. It definitely slows my typing. But, I have learned to work around this. For example, I use "sticky keys" which lets me type Shift, Ctrl, Alt, and release those keys. so, Ctrl+C is typed by pressing Ctrl then releasing it, then pressing C then releasing it. The regular way also works while "sticky keys" is enabled.

My first thought was to wonder if this is a subtle indication that someone somehow invented the fictional "Dollhouse" imprinting technology, and wanted this data as a raw source of skills/etc to edit into personalities to actually imprint in the dolls...

My second thought was to wonder what this data could actually be useful for (nefarious or otherwise), since it is doubtful it really "reads your mind". But the article does mention it "... can reveal mental health conditions, emotional states, and cognitive patterns, even when anonymized". I guess that is a legitimate concern.

I think the point of the "study" is that those who get UBI continue employed work, refuting a common claim that much of the population would quit working.

Does it really matter?

To the extent people do quit working, there is more work to do, allowing those who want more luxuries to get another job and earn extra money for that.

I have doubts about this study. I believe it does not study the reality of an economy with a UBI (emphasis on "universal" ... everyone gets it). things could be very different in such an economy. maybe they then need to study how it effects 122 people not getting a UBI.

i would call it a misstudy. how would a UBI affect behavior in an economy that is not getting virtually any UBI. a true study would provide a UBI to the entire income earning aged population to correctly see how the study group behaves in a UBI affected economy.