If Starlink is anything to go by (and Kuiper satellites are at similar altitudes) you’re looking at 25-50ms. My Starlink experience was over 18 months ago and there are are lot more satellites up than there were then so it might be more consistent.

Surely if the same principle applies - why would Ofcom care what a US court decides?

The drive to the bottom line (see what I did there?) is a slippery slope. A good CEO will balance profitability with employee satisfaction. Why? Because a company's employees should be their best customers. If you have "half" as many customers right out of the gate, the company is going to do worse as a result. People who talk about AI eliminating jobs forget that their business model relies on a base of customers willing to spend their money on the product. If people are out of work, they aren't going to buy a shiny new car.

MCP may very well stand for "Model Context Protocol", but in the 1980's it stood for the villain of the Tron series, Master Control Program. Will tying AI together be a good thing or will we see the rise of another kind of MCP?

An interesting idea. Cross-signing sort of achieves this.

How would certificate revocation work with multiple signers? If one signer said the certificate was revoked, but the other said it wasn't, which would you trust?

Char coal, yes. Mined coal isn't that ancient.

.. and at 2,950 kilograms, someone doesn't know how much a 2023 Rolls-Royce Spectre weighs.

Your assumption is wrong. Gender can be known and it is still fine to use "their" as a pronoun.

From A Comedy Of Errors, Shakespeare, first published in 1623 - Act 4 Scene 3:

There’s not a man I meet but doth salute me
As if I were their well-acquainted friend,

So feel free to claim that I'm encouraging "pronoun dog whistle games". I don't care. You are wrong, and your foghorn of false indignation is far louder.

English lacks a specific common-gender third-person singular pronoun and there are examples of "their", "they", "them" and "themselves" being used as singular third-person pronouns going back hundreds of years. It is certainly not incorrect.

I lost a lot of weight after reading "The Hackers Diet" He was a real help to me.

I just checked and a single model plan is $10k per month. Even if AI were my business, no thanks...

It is not a coincidence that Musk lit the biggest rocket ever built on 4/20. Then, when they were scheduled to flip for stage separation, it just kept flipping until they blew it up. Thinking like Musk, that could have always been the plan. The primary purpose of this launch was to collect data on flight performance, etc, etc. But I wouldn't put it past Musk to have an almost bigger mission to just launch and explode the biggest rocket in history on 4/20 as a pure stunt. The man acts like a kid sometimes.

Generally by around junior year of undergrad as a physics major, you realize "holy shit, it's just progressively improving models all the way down - and none of these models get to a 'real' understanding of what's going on underneath the hood".

That's the reality. We don't know what quantum measurement or wave function collapse 'is', where the boundary between classical behavior and quantum behavior sits, why general relativity works well but we can't seem to get it to play nice with quantum mechanics - and the proposals to do so don't really yield a satisfying sense of understanding either.

Anyway, I find it very surprising that these would be revelations to any physicist. The thousandth time you write the "approximately equal to" operator as an undergrad or drop all the higher order terms from a diff-eq it is self-evident what level of understanding you can get from physics.