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On the other hand, Tesla vehicles have similar hardware built into them, and don't require such hands-on intervention. (And that's the hardware that will be going up.)

If I remember correctly, the original version of wordle used a word list that was run past the creator's wife, who had learned English later in life. The result was a really accessible game - none of the words felt like ones you wouldn't know. It probably makes sense to reuse words than risk losing that accessibility.

(I kept a copy of original wordle, and it seems to have 2,315 words that are possible answers.)

In a lot of places, it's a photo ID. Usually that required a birth certificate to get, and often a few more pieces of corroborating information to make it harder.

It would not surprise me if it was a mix of both. (Portions of the military stood down, and the more loyal aspects were suppressed.)

If you look at the Wikipedia article on the 2024 Venezuelan presidential election, it seems to be unlikely that the outcome of that election was that Maduro won.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Venezuelan_presidential_e...

Some context:

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5636278-trump-s...

It appears to be an open question as to if independent agencies are allowed under the constitution. The most recent round of articles seem to be like that one in The Hill, which indicate the answer is likely to be 'no'.

This seems to be in response to that.

If you don't have a presence in the EU, then the EU can't require anything of you.

They also did a recall on speakers (under their soundcore subbrand) for the same thing. I'm not sure if this is good or bad - they proactively contacted me to let me know about the recall.

For context.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathfinder_Technology_Demonstr...

NASA's TBIRD mission demonstrated 200Gbps laser communications (in a tiny 6U form factor) to earth.

The Starlink inter-satellite laser links are 200Gbps space-to-space, and I believe the space-to-earth downlink of each Starlink V2 mini is 96 Gbps.

Sorry about that, thanks for the fix.

From https://x.com/rookisaacman/status/1985796145017471442, Isaacman's plan for NASA:

- Reorganize and Empower

Pivot from the drawn-out, multi-phase RIF “death by a thousand cuts” to a single, data-driven reorganization aimed at reducing layers of bureaucracy between leadership and the engineers, researchers, and technicians--basically all the “doers”. Align departments tightly to the mission so that information flows for quick decision-making. One example, which was mischaracterized by a reporter, was exploring relocating all aircraft to Armstrong so there could be a single hierarchy for aviation operations, maintenance, and safety. From there, aircraft like T-38s would operate on detachment at JSC. Other goals of the reorganization, would be to liberate the NASA budget from dated infrastructure that is in disrepair to free up resources to invest in what is needed for the mission of the day. And maybe most importantly, reenergize a culture of empowerment, ownership, and urgency--and recalibrate a framework that acknowledges some risks are worth taking.

– American Leadership in the High Ground of Space Put more astronauts in space with greater frequency, including rebooting the Payload Specialist programs to give opportunities for the NASA workforce--especially on opportunities that could unlock the orbital economy--the chance to go to space. Fulfill the 35-year promise and President Trump’s Artemis plan to return American astronauts to the Moon and determine the scientific, economic, and national security reasons to support an enduring lunar presence. Eventually, transition to an affordable, repeatable lunar architecture that supports frequent missions. When that foundation is built, shift resources toward the near-impossible that no one else will work on like nuclear electric propulsion for efficient transport of mass, active cooling of cryogenic propellants, surface power, and even potential DoD applications. To be clear, the plan does not issue a directive to cancel Gateway or SLS, in fact, the word “Gateway” is used only three times in the entire document. It does explore the possibility of pivoting hardware and resources to a nuclear electric propulsion program after the objectives of the President’s budget are complete. On the same note, it also seeks to research the possibility that Orion could be launched on multiple platforms to support a variety of future mission applications. As an example of the report being dated, Sen. Cruz’s has subsequently incorporated additional funding in the OBBB for further Artemis missions--which brings clarity to the topic.

- Solving the Orbital Economy Maximize the remaining life of the ISS. Streamline the process for high-potential science and research to reach orbit. Partner with industry (pharmaceuticals, mining, biotech, etc) to figure out how to extract more value from space than we put in--and critically attempt to solve the orbital economy. That is the only way commercial space station companies will have a fighting chance to succeed. I don’t think there is anything controversial here--we need to figure out how to pay for the exciting future we all want to see in space.

– NASA as a Force Multiplier for Science Leverage NASA’s resources--financial (bulk buying launch and bus from numerous providers), technical, and operational expertise to increase the frequency of missions, reduce costs, and empower academic institutions to contribute to real discovery missions. The idea is to get some of that $1 trillion in university endowments into the fight, alongside NASA, to further science and discovery. Expand the CLPS-style approach across planetary science to accelerate discovery and reduce time-to-science... better to have 10 x $100 million missions and a few fail than a single overdue and costly $1B+ mission. I know the “science-as-a-service” concept got people fired up, but that was specifically called out in the plan for Earth observation, from companies that already have constellations like Planet, BlackSky, etc. Why build bespoke satellites at greater cost and delay when you could pay for the data as needed from existing providers and repurpose the funds for more planetary science missions (as an example)? With respect to JPL, it was a research request to look at overlaps between the work of the laboratory and what prime contractors were also doing on their behalf. The report never even remotely suggested that America could ever do without the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Personally, I have publicly defended programs like the Chandra X-ray Observatory, offered to fund a Hubble reboost mission, and anything suggesting that I am anti-science or want to outsource that responsibility is simply untrue.

– Investing in the Future The congressionally mandated “learning period” will eventually expire, and the government will inevitably play a greater role in certifying commercial missions (crewed and uncrewed) just like they do with aircraft, ships, trains, etc. NASA eventually should build a Starfleet Academy to train and prepare the commercial industry to operate safely and successfully in this future space economy, and consolidate and upgrade mission control into a single “NORAD of peaceful space,” allowing JSC to become the spaceflight center of excellence and oversee multiple government and commercial missions simultaneously. Other investments for the future included AI, replacing dated IT systems, and ways to alleviate the demand on the Deep Space Network.

If I'm remembering correctly, the community jailbroke the iPhone OS and produced a toolchain and app installer before the App Store's original release.

I believe it was night out, so you wouldn't really have any light to illuminate it externally.

It sure looks like the Rogan thing was a one-off, though. I believe that the bit was that Musk hadn't done it before, and I don't see much evidence he's used marijuana since.

So, my original point was that a business is not under the jurisdiction of the UK just because it offers a service to UK citizen - I probably should have mentioned I'm not in the UK.

Whether the website is illegal or not would depend on Russian law in your example. I'd also suspect that other laws might apply, like wire fraud. Some of those would likely be enforceable in other countries.

Simply offering a service to UK citizens isn't enough to provide jurisdiction. If I run a lemonade stand, and a UK citizen walks up a pays a dollar for a glass of lemonade, then that doesn't give the UK jurisdiction over the lemonade stand.

That's what's happening here - a webserver is operating entirely out of the UK, with no nexus. UK citizens send requests to it - just like all other countries citizens do, so either the website would be covered by all laws or just the places where it has nexus.

This is especially true in the US, where speech is strongly protected - making Ofcom's assertion that its regulation overrides the first amendment especially egregious. The UK government's behavior here is a bit shameful.

It seems odd that Apple could release an update that breaks common software, and not go to the trouble of at least contacting the developers of the software and discussing the issue.

A bagel shop in Manhattan also accepts money from UK citizens, but that doesn't mean it's subject to UK law.

Lots of things interfere with astronomical observations - if someone builds a house, it'll interfere with their neighbors observing a star close to the horizon.

Especially since the observations appear to be outside the protected spectrum, the answer is "that's probably okay". There's balancing that needs to be done - does the safety benefit of a world in which nobody can be out of contact of emergency services, and the economic benefit of having reasonably high speed internet available everywhere, outweigh the loss of radio astronomy potential.

I think it probably does.

Huh? How does radio astronomy affect space or terrestrial weather forecasting?

That, plus the way the scene is set, you cut to the family not knowing if the astronauts survived. And then the movie cuts out about 4 minutes of waiting between when Apollo 13 regains contact, and when the main chutes are deployed and unreefed - when things seem 100% safe, and everyone starts cheering.

It's a really good decision in a movie that made a lot of them, as it made the relief hit all at once.

And then you see Jim Lovell's cameo as the captain of the Iwo Jima, just to cap the movie off.

38M is the number of accounts registered. It seems like the number of users is lower and falling.

I wonder if at least part of this is to ensure that the gambling is run by the military, rather than the service members going off base to gamble at places that could be connected to organized crime. Does anyone know if in the countries where this is happening off-based gambling has such connections?

Murder is illegal, but games and stories about murder are protected free expression. None of the games in question involve actual people, let alone people being harmed, and so why wouldn't they be treated the same way?

Two arguments I can think of:

The first is that you're banning free expression, and banning free expression is inherently harmful.

There's also the displacement theory - with the legal content being much more accessible and regulated to ensure minors aren't involved in production, it displaces illegal content that does harm minors.

Python has the pprint module, which takes care of this for you, and for more datatypes than are done here. (I don't see how this would handle a hashmap in a sensible way.)

But I'm not sure how this addresses what I was saying, which is that the intuitions about algorithms you get working on Python are easier to transfer to popular languages like C++, Java, Javascript, Rust, etc..

Collective Shout, which organized this, claims to be an Australian feminist organization. (Admittedly, this may be an act.)

> Knowing your way around the ecosystem of one programming language does not build up the intuition necessary for identifying O(n²) (or worse!) algorithms and choosing/writing O(log(n)) (or better!) ones instead.

I'll disagree with this, at least in terms of Scheme versus Python.

Python is visually close enough to other languages that the skills you develop to quickly see O(n²) algorithms easily transfer to many other languages. Scheme is very different visually, and so the intuition doesn't transfer as well. Sure, it's possible your intuition is wrong, but when scanning a program intuition can help in the first pass.

It's pretty likely there will be a slow-scan TV event in mid-July, where the station will be transmitting images you can pick up with a radio. These are nice because you don't neeed a license - anyone with a radio that can pick up the right frequencies can receive.

$140 billion for 15 million illegal immigrants is under $10,000 per deportation, which strikes me as kind of light, given that as the process is likely to involve international plane flights, board. and so on.

I don't think there are any plans to deport citizens or legal immigrants, as opposed to illegal aliens.