I have a slightly different view of this history. Instead of: "The history here is that this project was very popular on cloud providers (e.g. AWS calls their offering "Elasticache") and the original authors got pissy that they were being cut out of whatever money was being paid for using their free software. So they changed the license and here we are.", I would say: "... and the original investors got pissy that they were being cut out of whatever money was being paid for using the free software in which they invested, although 70% of it was written by others. So they changed the license, they disbanded the Core Team after the original developer left, and here we are."

Redis was not written by Redis Ltd (the company). It was originally written and released more than 15 years ago by Salvatore Sanfilippo (a.k.a. antirez) who was soon joined by a community of developers who loved this open source in-memory database and started contributing to it. The project was sponsored by VMWare/Pivotal for a while, but in 2015 it was bought by a company that had renamed itself Redis Labs (originally Garantia Data). Under the new ownership, Redis continued being open source but in 2018 some optional modules were converted to the proprietary SSPL license. This caused some controversy but the company promised that the core of Redis would always remain free and open source. This worked for a few years and this even survived the departure of the original developer. The Redis project continued being developed by a community led by a Core Team of developers coming from various companies (the main ones being Madelyn Olson from AWS and Zhao Zhao from Alibaba Cloud).

But last year, things changed even more. The company that had renamed itself again from Redis Labs to Redis Ltd decided to break their 2018 promise and announced that they would release the next version of Redis under a proprietary license. They also decided to disband the Core Team and take complete control over the core of Redis. The former members of the Core Team left the Redis project and moved to the fork that eventually became Valkey. According to Madelyn Olson, 70% of the Redis code was written by people outside Redis Ltd, so this story is rather different from some other projects in which the original developers wanted to stop the evil cloud hyperscalers who were profiting from their code without giving anything back. In the case of Redis, some of the core code was actually written by people paid by those could companies and only a minority of the code was written by Redis Ltd.

To hit 1 megawatt you either need even higher voltages, or higher current- both of which require stouter cables and connectors.

Higher current requires thicker conductors to limit resistive losses and heat buildup.

Higher voltage requires insulation to prevent sparks or leakage, but that's easy to handle and doesn't require a whole lot. The wiring in your house is usually rated to handle 600v, even though it will never see more than a 240v potential difference.

Nope. That's why I changed all my players to BlueOS.

The quote in the press release is "the first civil supersonic jet made in America." Which is true.

Am I the only one who has no idea what a "URL Breadcrumb" is?

All I see in my Chrome browser's URL bar is a URL.

I replaced all my SONOS connects with BlueSound node Nano devices. A pricey replacement, but worth it.

As a bonus I was now able to turn off SMB1 on my home Samba server !

The one place where Level 1 charging makes a lot of sense is airport parking lots.

If I'm on a week-long vacation, then a 40-hour charging time is perfectly acceptable. And the lower cost would allow the airport to install a lot more stations. Level 2 charging at airports is just overkill.

The only thing Starship might do is bring down launch costs, but you're still talking about billions of dollars here.

For something like James Webb, probably. But that's because we're so used to the "we can only afford one so over-engineer it" approach.

Starship launches should be cheap. And it can put a lot of stuff in orbit. So take the starlink approach instead of the Webb approach. Every university and college - and even community college - will be able to afford to put a small telescope in orbit that will last a year or two before the orbit degrades and it burns up in the atmosphere. Don't try to overengineer these things. Make them cheap and just launch another every few years.

For something like James Webb, Starship is large enough that it wouldn't have had to bother with that fancy mirror-origami engineering. It could have been launched as a single mirror instead. That would have greatly simplified the engineering involved. Starship is so big that the entire mass of the International Space Station would have only taken two launches to create. It's really going to be game-changing.

Exactly!

My standing desk* takes 1–2 seconds to shift between different heights, so it's very easy to switch between standing and sitting. I've been standing for 1½–2 hours each day (not always consecutively) — which by an amazing coincidence seems about the optimum according to that survey.

There are other benefits, though. I first got it after hurting my back, and found that standing really helps with that. (Disclaimer: back problems vary, this is not medical advice, etc.) And standing encourages you to move more, which also seems beneficial.

(* Actually, a ‘standing desk converter’, an adjustable spring-loaded platform that sits atop my existing desk — much cheaper and less disruptive than a full desk replacement.)

Is it just me who finds it hard to concentrate when standing?

I started using a "walking workstation" at work (basically, a desk with a treadmill) for an hour a day, because they have them available here and it seemed like an easy way to get a little exercise. I found it very difficult to concentrate on anything at first. But as with many things, I got used to it and now it's pretty much just as easy for me to concentrate on stuff on the walking workstation as it is sitting at my desk.

Absolutely.

Starlink isn't meant to compete with existing broadband in well-served communities. It's competitive in under-served areas. People in urban and suburban areas shouldn't bother getting it.

"Compared to the faintest astrophysical sources that we observe with LOFAR, UEMR from Starlink satellites is 10 million times brighter.

The only Starlink satellites I've ever noticed in anybody's photographs are the recently-launched trains of satellites that are still maneuvering into their final orbits. SpaceX has done a good job of keeping the albedo down once they're in a stable orbit.

So, I wonder what more noise they're gonna add.

Next, they should launch telescopes.

Once Starship is able to launch commercial payloads, it will become very cheap to put all sorts of telescopes in orbit where you no longer have to worry about atmospheric distortion and various satellites photo bombing your nighttime sky shots.

There aren't NEARLY enough non-Tesla EVs in North America (except perhaps in California) for this to cause any additional congestion at supercharging stations.

GM may have a lot of EV models now, but none of them are being produced in quantity.

I don't necessarily disagree with where you're going here, but can you elaborate on this:

I've worked at government contractors that had real air-gaps for things like their databases, but that does not seem to be the norm for the rest of the world. How would ordinary businesses make use of their databases if they are not network accessible under any circumstances, printed reports? Some sort of unidirectional transmission? What sort of data ingress are they using?

I ask this because I have been involved in the transfer of data in highly regulated, air-gapped systems, and they are incredibly expensive. Are you really indicating that true air-gap databases will be ubiquitous (or at least commonplace) in the forseeable future?