Yep.

Scanning down the comments -

Nope. They missed it.

International travel. You can get one of these, put a limited set of files you need on it, travel with it, and if it gets damaged, lost, or analyzed by customs, then it's no big deal. When you get home, you can wipe it and then it's ready for the next trip.

Thanks, I'll look it up. Didn't realize the milky way was so young, relatively.

Almost as old as the universe? 4.5 Billion versus 13.8 Billion. Am I missing something here?

Seems to me I read about this in Atlas Shrugged.

Can it take out a building yet?
What kind of input device does it use (Keyboard, xylophone) ?
Man portable?/Vehicle mount?

So many unanswered questions ...

Hmmm,
        Been running Linux on the desktop for 10-15 years. Don't have a problem with it. Occasionally there are problems, but compared to having all my files uploaded to the cloud, having my machine reboot every time a butterfly flaps its wings someplace, having windows overwrite the boot configuration of the system, etc. I don't feel like I have a real problem.

For the software that doesn't run on linux natively or under wine/proton, I just don't use it. It has been so long since I had to use something that doesn't run under Linux, that I don't miss it.

As far as the games go with kernel level anti-cheat, if you never get into them, you never miss them. I'm not an artist, so I don't use any adobe platform software.

I prefer the software that allows you to fix things yourself or hire someone to do so. Proprietary software has it's place, but not as something I would rely on.

But I guess, I'm either lying, have low standards or very poor memories. Sorry about that.

What you describe is called indirect TPMS. It works by measuring the differences in speed between wheels through the ABS wheel speed sensors, and triggers if it detects an outlier. It doesn't require an additional sensor inside each wheel, instead using existing sensors and some arithmetic, so it costs less, but cannot indicate the pressure for each individual wheel, plus it requires the reset procedure that you referenced when new tires are installed or after you've corrected whatever caused it to trigger. My 2004 BMW has that, and so did Mazdas into the current decade.

While OpenAI may have modified their contract to remove mass surveillance on US citizens, there is curiously no mention of the other reason Anthropic was dropped by the Pentagon - using AI for autonomous lethal weapons. So it looks like they're still going to do that part. What could possibly go wrong?

Wow.

20 fucking hours and only two (three now) comments on a straight science article, but political bullshit has you fucking 'nerds' lining up.

Where are the people who could hve recited all 274 objects? Where are the people who can tell me everything I could possibly want to know about Saturn, had hands on experience with the observational and telemetry hardware, worked with the information gathering systems.

Have you all died, or just went away. Seriously, I would like to know. There has to be at least one of you around here still....

Right?

I once knew a guy who had pi memorized to 500 places. Honestly, thinking about it, I'm no longer sure if he had any other useful talent.

And it was useful. He could pick any spot in the series, run it front to back, back to front, every other number, whatever he wanted, and with math you can do in you head or with a pencil and paper, make something cryptography secure, or at least very inconvenient to solve without using the rubber hose method, and we even solved that more than 30 years ago.

I hope you all come back some day. I miss you.

(Posted as someone who forgot his first two slash logins, used to have sacmog, and then one other I forgot in a ... 151 soaked evening... before this, and still have kronickoff so I can bitch if they manage to kill this account.)

But in all seriousness, is this just another symptom of my git off my lawn syndrome, got to grow the beard to show I'm here or what?

Or are memories all I'll ever have?

Pardon me.

Murder for financial gain.

I'm pretty sure murder for hire should be close to the top.

Oh yeah. These were just communication satellites. Easily measured wattage.

This guy wants to fuck with sunlight.

I always love read about people who have a new way to control the sun.

They're a firmly documented and shining part of history. Every single one of their success just shine out.

DAMN.

Thank you.

That was the trigger I needed. Been trying to remember for a year or more.

The Complete Venus Equilateral.

Gotta go get it now, but it seems to be more relevant on many levels .....

Let us see, from memory:

Destruction if the beam to Earth wanders even a fraction off target ... Check.

Inter[solar,planetary,..cene] competition and screwing the consumers for every penny...Check.

Multiple litigious attacks by the bad guy...Check.

Basic replication and transporter technology (via Star Trek definitions)...Check.

Attempt to legally block above technology for monetary gain....Check.

Oh yeah, bad guy dies riding the legal award to the death, with no accomplishment. But he can't give it up. Legally...Check.

And if I haven't pissed off enough people by now, I'm going to hunt down one of these AI gurus and ask them to correlate Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged with current politics.

In my opinion, the first prompt would be something like:
How many government officials, from local to national, in the last 10 years have used the:

"I didn't know. I quit. You can't blame me." [Fucking retards.]

Now I'm going to have another shot of [tequila, rum gives me gas from the sugar] and go sail the seas.

Argargarg.

This concept has been around for a while...

Agreed!