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- "They fly now."

Not at all. In fact my wife is trans. And I do know a bit about the subject

And of course there are outliers. The question is what we (society) do with that. They used to be marginalized, then we went completely the other way. In particular, not only trying to convince kids that they might be one of those outliers, but offer them gender affirming care (or whatever we're supposed to call it these days), with far-reaching lifelong consequences. In the past, the incidence of regret after the surgery used to be incredibly low (around 0.1%), but it is already climbing (3-5% now). A German study showed that of people aged 5-12 and diagnosed with "gender identity disorder" (their term), more than half no longer carried that diagnosis after 5 years. Yet some people are so stuck in their ideology that they refuse to understand that the diagnosis in kids is highly unreliable, and continue to push them towards treatment. And yes, even "just" hormone treatment at a young age has serious consequences, regardless of whether the person transitions later in life or not.

That's the ideological "nonsense" I was referring to.

Really? The gender fluidity nonsense. CRT and Intersectionalism. Or half of the field of Sociology and most of its departments that have devolved into an echo chamber devoid of scientific fact, imposing groupthink instead and ousting those who do not toe the line. The nutty left is just as nuts as the nutty right. But culturally they are a hell of a lot more influential, billionaire propaganda notwithstanding. The best trick that the radical left has pulled is somehow convincing the intelligentsia that their brand of insanity was in fact truthful, mainstream rather than radical, and the only decent opinion to hold.

Maybe. I first read the headline as if the Vietnamese jails were the ones doing the pirating.

That is what Danfoss recommended after the last attack: update your crap and disconnect it. The supermarkets (and I guess blood banks) that were hit in the second attack failed to follow that advice.

The answer is to actually hold actual miscreants to account, after you have established that they are in fact miscreants. Not label an entire social class, political party or the people who voted for them as such. What is happening is part of what you describe: it is easier to label a group as "evil", especially if they aren't a particularly popular group, than it is to go after individual who have done actual wrong.

This statement exemplifies what's wrong with politics today. This attitude of "We're right, everyone knows we're right, so whoever is against us is either stupid or evil". Old-school elected officials at least tried to be a leader for everyone in their bailiwick, from millionaires, entrepreneurs, landlords, students, blue-collar workers to single mums on the dole. They might have certain priorities, spend more on one group than another, but they understood that everyone's interests were theirs to be concerned with, even if they conflicted with their beliefs or with each other. What they looked for was balance, rather than absolutes.

Now there's this us-vs-them mentality pervading politics, even amongst elected officials. We're here for those who voted for us and fuck everyone else. They are "trolling the libs", or we have Mamdani addressing the rich in a TikTok video, knocking on the camera lens and declaring: "I'm coming for you". Fuck that, seriously. It's fine that an elected official increases taxes on a certain group, but instead of pretending that this group is evil and had it coming, how about a simple: "thank you for your additional contribution".

We need to start treating political opponents and social classes other than our own as if they too have society's best interest at heart, treat them as fellow countrymen on the same journey, or at least treat them as human fucking beings. And I say this as a European, because it is the exact same shit show over here.

Religion should be relegated to its proper place: a private belief, or a hobby. No more exemptions: what is good for the goose is good for the gander, same rules for all. And no more protected status. Most religions' tenets are reprehensible. Some not so much in practice, others very much so, on average. But in either case we should have the courage to stand up to such ideas... and not be stricken down in name of the law for it.
"Life of Brian" could not be made today. A Muslim version would be completely out of the question. That's the position that religion has in our lives these days.

Now with more... molecules!

The summary mentions 1kW for the satellite with 4 TPUs, but the latest TPUs do seem to have a power draw of 1kW for a single chip.
Your calculation seems to be pretty good; a quick search turns up a paper that mentions 1.1 m^2 to 1.4 m^2 per kW for the proposed SpaceX datacenter sats. I've no idea how large they could make the radiator, maybe 500m^2 is doable. Enough for a tiny data center, but keep in mind you need almost twice that area again in solar panels, to generate the required power.

Closer to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy tradition. All they need are the words "Don't Panic" on the front cover.

If it doesn't, it has no real value.

Almost nothing on Wikipedia is true, but all of it is "verifiable" in that there's at least one published source making the claim. Even if 99.9% of all other sources say the opposite.

(The Haka is not, for example, a war chant. Which is attested to, but because it's claimed to be online, it is "verifiable".)

The number of errors is huge, the number of "official editors" who know anything about the subject is extremely small, and this has always been the case. This is why nobody reputable cites Wikipedia. Wikipedia is where you go to find out what is potentially interesting, but you ALWAYS obtain the facts from elsewhere, if you've any sense.

Your best engineers will be AuDHD, and AuDHD folk don't do well in these sorts of synthetic tests.

I can code in 20+ languages for over 12 different OS', write code that's good enough for CERN to run for particle accelerator data collection for a decade, have accelerated systems by an order of magnitude by understanding the poem space better than their previous engineers, but I am abysmal at exam style settings.

The software industry is riddled with SEs who write abysmal code but can pass a coding test easily. They're the folk that you have always needed to reject but didn't because they ticked a box.