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looofoooon Consumer Reports finds 'widespread' presence of plastics in food

OK but levels are down from 2009, so we are in the right track.

looofoooon A rocket a day keeps the high costs away (1993)

Another JWST would have cost 1 Billion, so it is more than an Order of magnitude less.

looofoooon Consumer Reports finds 'widespread' presence of plastics in food

But is it the same polymers they found in the food?

looofoooon A rocket a day keeps the high costs away (1993)

What would another James Webb Telescope would have cost? Far far less then the first. Sure it is costly to destroy a prototype, but not as much as you think.

looofoooon Consumer Reports finds 'widespread' presence of plastics in food

What is the problem with these "plastics"?

looofoooon Emacs-copilot: Large language model code completion for Emacs

Can I run the llm on a ssh server and use it with this plugin?

looofoooon There is a misconception that if something's on the internet it'll last for

If you want something to stay online it will vanish in no time. If you want something disappear from the internet, it will stay there forever.

looofoooon Lasers enable satellite internet backbone, might remove need for deep-sea cables

It is just its German Name.

Also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETH_Domain

looofoooon Lasers enable satellite internet backbone, might remove need for deep-sea cables

ETH Lausanne or Zürich?

looofoooon Lasers enable satellite internet backbone, might remove need for deep-sea cables

1550nm water is super transparent.

looofoooon Lasers enable satellite internet backbone, might remove need for deep-sea cables

No, it is 1550nm Laser.

looofoooon Lasers enable satellite internet backbone, might remove need for deep-sea cables

Microwave is also slow compared to this.

looofoooon Lasers enable satellite internet backbone, might remove need for deep-sea cables

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chappe_telegraph

Might be cheaper to build an Tower with PV and battery every 30km than running lines.

Cell-Tower in remote Locations etc.

looofoooon Four children found alive in Amazon 40 days after plane crash

Well Jaguars are very limited in numbers. So of falling risk to be eaten by one of them is low. If it would be high, then there are to many and hence they would decline due to lack of food soon. Plus human is not in their hunting scheme and rather offsetting smell.

looofoooon A Swedish startup’s bid to build a green rival to AWS

How does this work? Will it be forbidden to drive there for work or delivery by gasoline cars?

looofoooon French tax officials use AI to spot 20k undeclared pools (2022)

Next;adversarial pool tiling to counter recognition.