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Lisa Melton
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There might be quite a story going on here ...
I would not myself call this "deleting 15 years of data" when talking about an agency that holds crucial datasets going back decades because I don't like giving people heart attacks, but obviously it's not good.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dv5spjpqtyui6kpqktnsfh57/post/3mmfenmpbck2f
(NOTUS didn't do that, someone else did, this is very reasonable and useful coverage.) Idk, I feel like the main vibe shift I missed was "It's good to fudge things and be scary, that's great actually, it motivates the base." I am outmoded in my commitment to trusting people with the truth.
@thomasfuchs that's always such a strange take to me.
Government bodies stretch their budgets way more effectively than private industry.
And it should be obvious that that is so because they don't need a profit.
@snarfmason to be fair, none of the private companies make profits either; e.g. SpaceX had a $4.9 billion net loss on $18.7 billion revenue in 2025
I am really proud of this build, my own design, and I will use it in base colonies going forward, almost exactly.
This is two hybrid (hydra) electrolyzers maintain o2 inside the area at 20kg/tile of pressure, cooled by cold ph2o from the slush geyser.
But it's also a half claymator, which is converting ph2o to o2 and, more importantly, to clay for ceramic, an important midgame insulator. The whole thing is self-powering.
(We'll tap that cool steam vent later.)
@GeePawHill every time you post about this game it looks so interesting. I downloaded it and found it immediately overwhelming. How… how do you get started with this??
some natural philosophers didn't much like Aristotle's thesis because it seemed to be incongruent with more detailed facts of gravity, and had long sought to abandon it, and did so readily
in fact, it's erroneous to say that Newton gave us the good description of gravity, that was given to us by others like Galileo
Chip Butty
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@robcornelius There have been a number of breakthroughs when it comes to #SodiumIonBatteries. I've been posting about them for a while now. More output, smaller scale, components made from wood waste, desalinization of seawater as part of the process, etc., etc.
Il y a toujours des pigeons à plumer 😂😂😂
X impose une limite de 50 posts par jour aux comptes gratuits, la fin d'une époque
https://www.generation-nt.com/actualites/x-limite-posts-gratuits-2075722
Kookie 🍪🇵🇸
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#Linktipp: Sieben Gegenmaßnahmen gegen negative Strompreise https://www.pv-magazine.de/2026/05/22/sieben-gegenmassnahmen-gegen-negative-strompreise/
@Sascha Oh, da haben aber welche Angst, sie könnten die Stromkunden nicht kräftig genug schröpfen. Schämt euch, 🤬
Lisa Melton
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RE: https://unstable.systems/@jneen/116618931097778342
Worth looking at both the quoted text here and •especially• the linked page, which is quite good.
I’ll add another item of my own. The first screenshot mentions giving an LLM the task of “implementing an HTTP server in JavaScript from scratch” in 90 minutes. Sounds impressive, right? Until you remember that every open-source Javascript HTTP server in existence ••was in the training data••.
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The astronomy cloud computing system is down. Again.
(It is down a lot, but I don't use it that often lately. Otherwise I would complain a lot more)
Always makes me so sad that there's just buttloads of money being dumped into AI data centers so people can make awful slop no one wants, but the science computing infrastructure is held together with hope, duct tape, and someone's leftover grant money from 5 years ago.
@sundogplanets tbf not wanting to sound mean, but generally there is a severe lack of funding and appriciation for science computing and the assumption of oh it will exist and people will maintain it with free money is just a lie. But getting people convinced they need to higher and properly compensate staff for it is practically impossible. (And astronomy is definitely one of the worse ones in this)
The Luddites were right
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The Twilight Zone (Classic): Nick Of Time - The Future
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Idzie
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The forest floor of the woods next door is full of trilliums in early spring.
"Private industry is much more efficient and faster than NASA"
Time from first concept to first operational flight:
- Saturn V: ~11 years (1957–1968)
- Space Shuttle: ~13 years (1968–1981)
- SLS: ~14 years (2012–2026)
- SpaceX Starship: 21 years+ (2005–?, no operational flight yet)
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@thomasfuchs that's always such a strange take to me.
Government bodies stretch their budgets way more effectively than private industry.
And it should be obvious that that is so because they don't need a profit.
they said "great, you've given us a very useful description of the form of gravity, how things fall, etc. but you have not answered the WHY question! aristotle's answer, his thesis about gravity, is still necessary!"
some natural philosophers didn't much like Aristotle's thesis because it seemed to be incongruent with more detailed facts of gravity, and had long sought to abandon it, and did so readily
Une travailleuse du sexe prend position face aux dernières déclarations du RN sur les maisons closes.
C'est à écouter.
La publication originale est là : https://www.instagram.com/p/DYm5aioNixK/
@dada un peu fatiguée de voir toujours la même confusion entre abolo et prohibo, et toujours les mêmes discours tenus par toujours les mêmes profils au détriment de toujours les mêmes personnes
Richard MacManus
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I actually agree here. #RSS and especially RSS2 or Atom feeds are the unsung hero for the #AgenticWeb and what I think is a coming agentic social web. Markdown as a format has seen it's stock value as a format gone up by about 1,000 fold. RSS in the AI space will see the same ride. "RSS is the cleanest structured data layer the open web has ever produced. Machine-readable by design, chronologically ordered, with zero algorithmic manipulation. If you need to track a specific domain… 🧵 1/2
