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Do scientists think fast radio bursts come from neutron stars or magnetars? And with new tools like CHIME and VLBI, can we figure out if some of these bursts actually repeat?

I'm still fascinated at the prospect of these "star quakes" or magnetic flares that emerge from these stars. I guess these fields would weaken over time, but does it really maintain it's mass, just lose rotation speed or something?

It feels to me like the tyranny of small differences. The fact that the various watchdogs amplified such specific issues greatly overshadowed their support of the mission. From what I've read, the FDA is a backwater from a funding perspective, and yet a punching bag from a regulatory point-of-view.

  *He and his colleagues had also been engaged in a decades-long debate with a sprawling community of watchdogs — mostly doctors, lawyers and scientists from outside the agency — who were often broadly supportive of the agency’s mission but who fought with officials like Califf, sometimes bitterly, over the specifics: How should the F.D.A. be financed? What kind of evidence should new drugs and medical devices require? How should regulators weigh the concerns of industry against the needs of doctors, patients and consumers?*

I ask Alexa to play Spanish guitar music at our family dinner table in an effort to attenuate both the kids "smacking" and my partners reactions to the "smacking". In my testing, it's resulted in less net "smacking" occurrences. So you could be on to something.

This reminds me a lot of the 3Com "Audrey" [0]. And of course HP now owns that as well. I have some bittersweet memories of hacking on that thing after the services were terminated. Maybe this could follow that afterlife legacy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3Com_Audrey

The piece mentions a 2018 survey [0] that revealed that 12% of Wikipedians (editors) have a doctorate degree. Have the demographics changed since then? I'm curious how the pandemic lock-down may have effected usage and editing.

Many doctorate holders contribute rich, well-researched content. However, if these editors predominantly come from similar demographic or cultural backgrounds, it may unintentionally lead to a less representative body of knowledge. I'm sure this kind of diversity is a common discussion and can be controversial to some folks.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20190724142049/https:/meta.wikim...

The GSA facilitates the adoption of cloud services like the Cloud Information Technology (IT) Program and FedRAMP. So there are some areas where I'd say the GSA is key. Firing 60 early career staffers in technology as the article mentions doesn't seem too impactful to the mission. But selling off real estate and consolidating the staff could have a bigger impact as career staff ponder the "fork-in-the-road".

This one could be like Tunguska, an air bust maybe around 10km high. Would that cause a large tsunami?

I used genAI to help me understand the Palermo scale number seeming low.

The 2032 asteroid does warrant tracking, but the Palermo Scale remains below a critical level because:

The impact probability (1.2%) is not high enough to trigger a stronger alarm. The background frequency of 8 Mt impacts is relatively high, making this event less statistically exceptional. The event is still 8 years away, so uncertainties in orbital prediction remain.

I think that CNCF has better handle on abandonware, plus really good observably. https://devstats.cncf.io/

My elderly mother uses it for iMessage, facebook, surfing the web, some sports apps, and lots of crossword and puzzle apps.

Found this at least [1]: "In 2010, as part of the ongoing Luna Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) NASA mission, the Miniature Radio-Frequency (Mini-RF) instrument acquired data that included a pit in Mare Tranquilitatis,” said Professor Lorenzo Bruzzone in a statement. “Years later we have reanalysed these data with complex signal processing techniques we have recently developed, and have discovered radar reflections from the area of the pit that are best explained by an underground cave conduit. This discovery provides the first direct evidence of an accessible lava tube under the surface of the Moon."

[1] https://www.iflscience.com/the-first-cave-has-been-found-on-...

Indeed [1] "Computer security and information privacy expert Bruce Schneier compared MICT to the mass surveillance of the National Security Agency (NSA), revealed in June 2013 by Edward Snowden. Schneier said, "Basically, [the USPS is] doing the same thing as the [NSA] programs, collecting the information on the outside of your mail, the metadata, if you will, of names, addresses, return addresses and postmark locations, which gives the government a pretty good map of your contacts, even if they aren't reading the contents."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_Isolation_Control_and_Tra...

I like this use case. - Even if not entirely practical, it highlights a real issue and challenge we face as a society. Let's try to auto-tune down the tone of angry customers.

Our brains are wired to connect with others, and this includes picking up on and replicating emotions and behaviors. It's part of our mirror neuron system, which helps us understand and empathize with others. While this is beneficial in many social interactions, it can lead to escalation in conflict situations if not managed properly.

I'm having trouble parsing tfa; does this mean the sun is at "solar maximum" now, and does this also mean we may be in for some more frequent and intense auroras?

I had a friend that interned for a state senator and she operated the "Robo Pen" to sign correspondence. I was impressed to see this listed on the site: https://www.drawingmachines.org/post.php?id=207

This is what black boxes should be constructed with.

In this case the same airlines are killing efforts for high speed rail between the major Texas metros. AA and SWA would lose out if an efficient rail alternative existed.

I’ve had some colleagues take this flight from HOU to DAL or vice versa, and they love it. The flights show up these days in SAP Concur, but in my experience have always been just out of reach of “policy” which creates exceptions and alerts in our corp t&e bureaucracy. I travel quite a bit and would jump at the chance if the fares were only $30 less.

Combined with the devaluation of flyer miles and loyalty programs, JSX is in a great position to bridge the gap until we get a train

That’s a good analogy. They are both platforms. The accelerators for things like Java, MQ, databases, are built in to the platform.

Combine low ARPU with perceived risk (in the wake of the Vegas hacks last year) and a termination for convenience clause and this is a no brained for Caesars. There’s just not enough upside for Caesars to host in their marquee properties.

I think the point was that the application includes the source attribute of the data.

This is a great idea. Hopefully this gets more attention and resources. You're really well positioned to fill a gap in the ecosystem.

The virtue signaling put me off as well. Although I'm not sure it's specific to America.

The data is the data, and the way it's phrased with "kept out" and "lifted out" both to say the same thing which as I understand the data is that each of these groups were either over or under the poverty line as a result of the incentives. Adding extra weight and flower to the movement is a distraction with the intent of persuasion.

Time to leverage IBM Cloud KYOK model. You need level 4 especially if you're using 3rd party: FIPS 140-2 Level 4 certified HSM

https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/hs-crypto?topic=hs-crypto-faq-bas...

That's not quite accurate based on the filings. Rather it should read that ARM has existing agreements with a number of companies, Amazon, Apple, Samsung, even Nvidia.

The ARM architecture is so ubiquitous that everyone wants a piece. I kind of think of ARM as a DMZ: The business model of licensing IP to a broad range of clients means that a lot of companies have a vested interest in ARM remaining a neutral party. We've seen with Nvidia and others that ARM isn't a clean acquisition target, so now everyone gets a place at the table, and thus license security for the long term. It's a bit similar to OpenAI, and how I think that in today's market, no regulator would allow a major tech company to acquire them.

Great find! I really dig these circular stories that shape the electronics history. The story behind ARM has always fascinated me. The search for low power with efficiency kind of seems like the holy grail of the time. The Acorn story reminds me a lot of the Po Bronson novel "The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest: [1] 1. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/306422.The_First_20_Mill...

have you considered that maybe the hyperscalers and other massive cloud storage solutions (apple, comcast, AT&T) leverage tapes in this manner? I suspect if you're using something like AWS Glacier, you're using "someone else's robotic tape library"

Multi cluster management that separates the control plane from the worker plane. So it's like a RYO managed K8s service. Now you just need to get a full time SRE team to take care of what Red Hat, GCP, AWS, IBM Cloud SRE teams do for you today in any of the managed container platforms.

Might look into some of the tools like novoids Memacs. Notion here is to build tools that push feeds, history data, into Emacs. Using org in your use case with the Khoj tool, could be the "glue" you need to tie it all together. https://github.com/novoid/Memacs#readme.

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