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Really disappointed to see the SEC shut down crypto

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On the flip side, time card fraud *is* a felony, and people regularly go to jail for it. Timecard fraud is when an employee:

* Knows that their pay is determined by when they clock in and clock out
* Knowingly clocks in when they are not working, or clocks out significantly after they have stopped working

I don't understand why stealing $1000 in one direction is a felony that DAs give people years for, but in the other it's a civil matter where restitution and a fine are the usual punishments.

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Google used to take pride in minimizing time we spent there, guiding us to relevant pages as quickly as possible. Over time, they tried to answer everything themselves: longer snippets, inline FAQs, search results full of knowledge panels.

Today's Bard announcement feels like their natural evolution: extracting all value out of the internet for themselves, burying pages at the bottom of each GPT-generated essay like footnotes. blog.google/technology/ai/bard

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What a lovely shade of orange

wouldn't it be funny if-.. no, it couldn't be

but maybe, let's have a peek...

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I appreciate the intention of fundraisiers to support "kids with outstanding lunch balances" but what kind of country makes kids to go into debt to eat?

If there's any better use for the taxes I pay than feeding hungry kids, I don't know of it. FEED EVERY KID, EVERY TIME, NO QUESTIONS ASKED.

@malderi @foonathan Agreed. However, I think we’re finally to a point where we have contenders strong enough to start eating large chunks of C++ market share

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I've been reading "C++ has become a legacy language" a lot recently; I'm curious what you think.

Has or will C++ become a legacy language in the near future? For this poll, "legacy language" means a language that is mostly driven by inertia and enthusiasts and does not or should not be used for new projects.

Please boost for reach.

#cpp #cplusplus #rust #safety

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The #balloon: let me drop some knowledge. (A thread) I co-founded the largest high-altitude ballooning project in history and was for years its chief technical architect and lead designer. I’m referring to Google [x]’s Project Loon (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loon_LLC). I have deep practical and operational knowledge about high-altitude ballooning; I’ve designed many iterations of these vehicles and personally overseen dozens of launch operations.

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One thing I'll say for the wave of Republican book-banning that's going on right now -- it's certainly making books seem powerful and *significant*

Book-banning is a terrible way to have the public re-realize the catalytic effect a good book can have on its readers

But here we are: boingboing.net/2023/01/31/unab

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"JPL (Jet Propulsion Lab) has selected Microchip to design and manufacture the multi-core High Performance Spaceflight Computer (HPSC) microprocessor SoC based on eight X280 cores from SiFive ... with four additional RISC-V cores added for general-purpose computing"

eejournal.com/article/nasa-rec

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Hey folks:

Is there a word to describe atmospheric aero-braking with the intent to disintegrate the object in question?

Like the theories about intentionally destroying ice asteroids in Mars' atmosphere for terraforming.

I feel like "aero-braking" has the connotation of wanting to keep the object in one piece.

Is there a term for intentional aero-disintegration?

@LouisIngenthron I’ve seen erosion used in the context of orbital debris, but I don’t know of any missions where something was disintegrated with the purpose of modify the atmosphere so you might need a whole new word or phrase.

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This is the kinda thing that gets me real excited!

Heard this through Joss Bland-Hawthorn, this article discusses the need to set up a Lunar timescale.

Time, at the moment, is connected to Earth's clocks - even for spacecraft out in far reaches of the Solar System.

Eventually, we are going to need a timescale that works across the whole Solar System universally.

Steps are being considered for the lunar timescale ...

BUT .... IMHO, we need to think bigger ... (see next toot)

nature.com/articles/d41586-023

#Timing #Moon #Navigation #Astrophysics #Astrodon

It’s insane that a 30 minute Uber to the airport at 4am costs more than a round trip plane ticket between Phoenix and Denver

@tonic confused as to why you would use that website instead of the official for free?

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I don't know who needs to hear this but

The postal service exists to deliver letters and parcels to people
Not to make money for shareholders

The transport system exists to move people to where they need to go
Not to make money for shareholders

The water, gas, and electricity supplies exist to provide people vital utilities
Not to make money for shareholders

The healthcare system exists to ensure (and that's ENsure, not INsure) the health of the population
Not to make money for shareholders

Shareholders in vital public services are a vampiric drain on those services

Capitalism is a disease

@tonic you can literally drop your resume and a job posting in and ask it to make you a cover letter. You can be pretty natural with it too and say things like emphasize point x in the cover letter more and it’ll do a really good job with it. I find the more conversational and natural you are with it the better it performs

I don’t want to be the guy that uses ChatGPT for my resume but I really do feel like I’m tying a hand behind my back if I don’t.

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