Well no shit... if you're preventing users from even visiting the web sites you stole the information from, who's going to pay you for clicks and ad exposures?

I'm tempted to ask Gemini to draw a political cartoons showing Philipp Schindler sawing a branch while he stands on it, Wile E. Coyote style. In case that's too obscure for you, the branch could be labelled "Search Profits" and the saw could be labelled "AI Mode."

While that's true,

1) We're not talking about an asteroid-sized object
2) We're not talking about one object occulting things
3) We're not talking about one object being occulted.

While you're right, that through pure chance, the likelihood of taking a shot of one particular asteroid occulting one particular star if you take a shot once every 3 nights is near zero. However... one shot from vera rubin captures on average 10,000,000 stars, and around 1000 potential occulters. It's estimated that an occultation will occur in roughly 1 in 10 to 1 in 100 exposures from vera rubin.

It looks like a square of toilet paper.

It would be a shame to get your avocado-greased fingerprints all over such a display!

Maybe in another dimension

Up until very recently weâ(TM)ve not really been looking at large areas of the sky repeatedly every night. There were likely thousands of occultations and we just didnâ(TM)t see them because we werenâ(TM)t looking at that particular bit of the sky when they happened.

Vera Rubin came online a few months ago, and has precisely that job - to take images of a large portion of the sky with a very wide angle very high resolution camera, and compare them every few nights. The result⦠oh look - thereâ(TM)s a dwarf planet, not just occulting things, but reflecting light.

"Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies only the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive."
- Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard

If you look up the right chapter in the Numerical Recipes book and insert that code or a variation of it into your program's source code, it is not compatible with open source - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I think this is a better analogy, since the gcc compiler does not have large code bases it uses for lookup+injection.

You're telling me. I was on bereavement leave this week but had to spend 3 hours pushing an emergency patch to 57 PHP servers last night. Great times.

They were talking about Skullcandy... Bose is typically known for "No highs, no lows, must be Bose." However they recently took that to heart and reworked their latest line to add more bass emphasis, unfortunately. I think their sound used to be more balanced but I still prefer my Sennheisers to anything from Bose.

We don't have the technology to shoot anything into the sun.

Meta needs the government to pass a Westfall Act, then it can do whatever crimes it wants (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saleh_v._Bush)

What, you think that classified military industrial complex can achieve the kinds of economies of scale that Chinese toy makers can? Dude, give me a break. China will be making these things for $100 while we make them for $1,000,000.

Ukraine has even been involved in training exercises with NATO troops. Their drone battalions have been regularly wiping out American and British infantry units in exercises, because the Americans and British just don't understand how to fight a war with drones in.

The good news on the running out of people front is that Russia is running out of people 10 times faster. The bad news is, Russia has 4 times as many people. That said, those numbers still lie in Ukraine's favour.