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Bluesky still chugging along.

Just saying.

The fact that these drones are only appearing in NATO aligned countries makes it seem pretty obvious to me that it's one of two possibilities.

1) Russian sabre-rattling

2) NATO countries running "secret" drills in public in anticipation of 1)

The UFO community is of course running with a third option that doesn't warrant any seriousness.

There's a wonderful scifi novel based on these themes, called "The Sparrow"

Pretty harrowing reading.

If SETI is successful it would be a fascinating to sit back and observe the deeply religious.

Maybe I'm not thinking this through clearly enough but isn't this "just fine" for the current administration? From their perspective what exactly is the downside to this?

How likely is it that the end game becomes that we stop writing apps for actual human users and instead sites become massive walls of minified text against a black screen.

I was sceptical about this for factor seeing as it seemed like a gimmicky throwback to the early to mid 2000s.

But honestly, now that I've played around with Samsungs offerings I get it. Back in the day phones had quite a bit of personality, and Samsung really nailed that aspect.

I wonder how quickly the gunman will be found. I've always wondered if the authorities would ever be able to find someone who patterned themselves after a character like The Jackal.

Looks like the definition of boilerplate will continue to shift up the chain

This is a feeling that definitely becomes more acute the older one gets.

Try shopping for toys for your kids today. Every time I'm with my 7 year old browsing the toy aisles I fondly remember my Tonka truck from when I was his age.

I outgrew it and it was still in perfect condition. My sons toys barely last a month.

My mind is boggled at the speed with which an object that size is travelling.

Amazing.

Microsoft, apparently

Well why not?

Is there supposed to be a single elected shell for Linux? Powershell on Linux is just one of plenty others.

Are soldiers dumb automatons though? I struggle to imagine them looking forward to the prospect of firing on American citizens.

It's a curious own goal by Musk. I would imagine that Tesla have pretty detailed profile data on the average Tesla customer.

Surely there were pretty clear signals that a significant number of those people would vote with their wallets based on his politics.

I'm excited about this.

Think of all of your favorite novels that are deemed "impossible" to adapt to the screen.

Or think of all the brilliant ideas for films that are destined to die in the minds of people who will never, ever have the luck or connections required to make it to Hollywood.

When this stuff truly matures and gets commoditized I think we are going to see an explosion of some of the most mind blowing art.

Wonder how Elon is going to explain this away.

All this has done is pushed Grok waaaaaay down the list of preferred AI chat bots. They are all untrustworthy but Grok is clearly egregiously so.

Let me go re read "Midnight's Children" for the umpteenth time

Ok so I've just done this and got the same result. It's plenty fast.

And this is a pretty average laptop. Dell, Intel Core i7 with 16GB of RAM. In fact it's Windows 11 Home edition.

Now I bet if I tried this same test on my work PC which is supposed to be much beefier I'd probably find that it takes an extra second or two.

This being HN I'm almost 100% certain that the only time anyone touches a PC is at work. And work PCs have loads of gunk on them.

I just opened Word and Excel after a cold start of the OS (Windows 11)

Both opened fully in a second. So just how much faster should these apps actually open?

I suspect this is aimed at Enterprise installations where the machines are gunked up with corporate spyware.

Another reason why itcoin is a pipedream too, particularly for third world countries

I actually don't see anywhere on the Nominatim website that restricts commercial usage contrary to the article's comparison chart,

It's darkly humorous how conservative politicians keep gaslighting people by stating that this was the mandate of the people.

It's a nerdy colloquialism. ie, it's not that serious

Every once in a while for a good chuckle I visit r/UFOs or r/aliens where people go gaga over blurry videos of balloons in the sky.

I've never understood how that stuff seems to capture the imagination more than actual science like this.

>Community was in revolt

>Dozens of users publicly cancelled

A bit hyperbolic, no? Last I read they have over 400,000 paying users.

Such a brilliant idea all the same.

A shame that the economics never seemed to work.

Perhaps because they know it wouldn't matter.

It's not like there is a ready drop in replacement for things people desire from the US.

Makes sense. Anyone with even half a brain wouldn't take the risk of getting caught up in this ICE nonsense.

I believe there is certainly some hubris involved in their projected timeline but I think at least part of that is due to a belief that we have much, much better tooling today than was available to teams that attempted this sort of thing back in the day.