While the panels themselves are smaller and cheaper, the need for the 2-axis tilt might make the total cost of ownership higher because of the increased maintenance, repair, and replacement costs of the moving parts.

It might be better suited to utility scale projects with repair techs on salary.

Intel also aims to make products that are directed towards the end-user and the company’s partners

Who were they making stuff for before?

Well, that and the companies doing it are also a litigious scourge on traditional farmers, and are responsible for causing cancer in conventional farm workers, and are suspected to be the ones responsible for the increase in food allergies.

A hammer is just a tool. They can be used to do a lot of good, potentially. But, if in practice the only thing that hammers ever really got used for is assaulting people, then it might be reasonable for people to give hammers & their manufacturers a bit of side eye.

The eggs are from these flappy guys:

unsent emails kept in the gmail drafts folder allows syncing notes across devices, and its searchable

Fox “News” and their malicious swarms of disinformation spreaders are concerned about losing their monopoly.

Floor 2 is a fucking mystery. Its too low to walk around the perimeter, but they didn’t install a floor in the middle. There’s not enough room for insulation between the sun-beaten roof and the living space, but that might be less of an issue because of the huge holes in the trim letting in a steady flow of outside air. That vaulted ceiling also means the house will lose all its heat in the Winter.

There’s no window or exhaust fan in the bathroom.

It looks like there are holes in the outside wall where windows could be installed, but there are metal flaps there instead. Best case scenario is there is no wall insulation between those flaps and the interior drywall, getting wet and doing biology.

What’s Germany’s plan to secure the EU merchant fleet against Iranian anti-ship missiles, fired by Iranian proxies in Yemen, without help from USA or Israel?

Industry likes it too. Without a Federal standard, appliance makers would need 50 smaller, less efficient production lines to meet each State’s individual standards.

Imagine an infinitely large box with nothing in it. Where is the center? There isn’t one.

Imagine that box suddenly fills with pieces of stuff, more or less evenly distributed. Still no center.

Imagine the box starts getting bigger, but the amount of stuff stays the same and the distance between stuff quickly increases even though the stuff isn’t moving that fast. Where’s the center of the infinitely large box?

Losing ~1.4 km/s at GEO would put a fragment into geostationary transfer orbit, with one side of the elliptical orbit at geostationary altitude and the other side at low orbit altitude where it would experience increased drag.

https://xkcd.com/1356/

Sorry to disappoint, but exploding something at GEO would make things worse.

All satellites in orbit of Earth will experience atmospheric drag. Even the Moon is bumping into gas atoms.

Geostationary satellites will eventually fall. It might take millions of years, but eventually the thin atmosphere will slow those satellites down enough that their orbit will fall into the thick, lower atmosphere where they’ll burn up or crash into the Earth’s surface.

Exploding a satellite up there will just make a shotgun spray of projectiles that will still take millions of years to fall. Assuming the projectiles shoot off in all directions fairly evenly, then the ones that get shot backwards relative to the motion of the satellite will end up in a lower orbit that will decay faster. The pieces that get shot forward might actually escape Earth orbit all together and become little asteroids orbiting the Sun.

The thing that’s special about geostationary orbit isn’t that the orbit of things at that altitude does not decay. That altitude is special because at that altitude, orbital speed is equal to the Earth’s rotational speed. A satellite at that altitude over the equator will remain over that same longitude - it won’t rise and set like the Moon, it will remain in the same spot overhead both night and day.

you can add “–cookies-from-browser firefox” or whatever browser you use, to the end of the yt-dlp target

We’re still burning fossil carbon for energy.

Carbon capture does not make sense until we have an excess of clean energy to power it.

Scaling it now would do more harm than good.

At that time, the first second of eternity will have passed.

We’ll be back the next time protons happen.

There is no escape.

A dozen, a hundred, there’s no way to tell.

yeah, just serve up some r34 animated rats and put cocaine in the beverages

Yes, photons were released when the universe began to cool enough for electrons to combine with protons to make the first neutral hydrogen atoms. Those first photons are now observed as the Cosmic Microwave Background.

This article presents evidence that the cause of those primordial neutral hydrogen atoms having their electrons stripped away again was not primarily huge celestial formations like supermassive black holes or giant galaxies. Instead, it looks like the early universe produced such a large number of small galaxies that the light from stars in those small galaxies did the deed.

There’s a lot to unpack here.

Lets start with the attempt to define “usefulness” as the degree to which connection to humans happens. Human connection on the internet has always been illusory. Yet we still find utility in it.

“Trusted sources” have always been 100% biased in favor of whoever owns them. We all have equal free speech rights, but some of us are more free than others because the ability to purchase a bigger megaphone scales with access to capital.

Organized, capitalized propaganda farms existed before LLMs and have been engaged in the same kind of destructive information warfare. LLMs seem to be more persuasive than the wage-slave humans employed by troll farms and other mass media outlets, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing if it manufactures a more rational public opinion.

LLMs lower the capital requirement to begin competing in the propaganda war. The biggest players who could afford to buy enormous media empires and fund human-generated influence operations are going to have to compete against the rest of us.

This planet has been a soulless hellscape longer than any of us have been alive, and LLMs are more likely to improve the situation than make it worse.