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Taxiless drivers are coming to the streets of san francisco

An 8" telescope bought in 2024 will take better photos than hubble.

Because... ? Well ... we say so!

I wish everyone involved with the telescope well, and hope that everything goes smoothly.

When it does, I wouldn't mind some telescope time on Hubble :)

https://xkcd.com/323/

Yes.

Speaking as an Indian, I am nomally not a fan of our PM, However, so far, the steps he has taken have been correct and timely. I am residing in a semi-rural district in North India, and it is REALLY strange to see the police actually do their job. They are going door to door, even to houses in the middle of large fields, tracking down every single person with any travel history, domestic or international. Our healthcare systems are nowhere near the west both in standards and capacity, so if widespread community transmission happens, we're fucked. So it is best to act pre-emptively, excessively. I for one, applaud this decision, and reserve my hatred for Modi for another day.

Good idea. For starters, lets begin with decentralizing aggressively.

Based on the fact that I'm Indian, I don't believe for one second the numbers that are being peddled around. The REAL situation is that different entities (govt, organizations, temples etc) are shutting enmasse as if the virus is already here... and it is. There is only one fact now that matters - recognizing an exponential function, and curbing it early. Believe in science. Believe in maths.

I created this sheet, for people to clone and play with if they want. Also it seems from at least one paper, that the mean doubling time is 7.4 days.

The standard disclaimer applies. I am not an expert.

Having worked at a fortune-500 semiconductor firm, I can speak a lot to the process that goes into chip making, but I'll say this. There's always this tension between making chips "smarter" (better RTL, better algorithmic design, smarter processors) and "faster". Historically, most energy is spent on the latter. I was amazed at how ultra-inefficient some basic designs and bus interconnects inside an SOC I worked on were, and wondered, hey, we could easily double performance just if we spent a bit more energy making this better. Most of the time, managers weren't interested. As the article suggests, we may be reaching the limits of "faster". There is a LOT of wiggle room yet on the "smarter" front, and I'm still talking hardware.

A non profit radio telescope captured S-Band info and from the doppler shift it looks as if the spacecraft had tumbled on its crash trajectory. Video explaining this: https://youtu.be/5xKJG00-S_c