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how is this at all related to TFA


Gravity experiments? Easier to do accurately in lower gravity environments, like away from the Earth? And we just so happen to have a nearly permanent laboratory in orbit, which was built and is maintained at tremendous taxpayer expense?

I thought this would be obvious from TFA. I should have been more explicit.


> And we just so happen to have a nearly permanent laboratory in orbit, which was built and is maintained at tremendous taxpayer expense?

Resources are finite, and even though they're not fungible, which current ISS experiment would you replace for this?

Also: https://link.aps.org/accepted/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.062003 >>> LISA Pathfinder (LPF) [10] was a drag-free interfer- ometer located at the first Lagrange point in space be- tween the Earth and Sun. It measured the differential acceleration between two gold-platinum test masses sus- pended in drag free control. By the end of its lifetime, it had surpassed both its requirements and those of its full scale model LISA [11]. Given the success of the mission, and in coordination with other system tests, a handful of days near the end of the mission extension were allocated to performing a dedicated big G experiment for the first time in space. However, because Pathfinder was not de- signed to perform this sort of measurement, it was known that systematics such as absolute distances would limit the results to no better than 1 % relative uncertainty.


Are you confident this would be easier to do in space? It's not entirely obvious to me that the tradeoffs would be worth it.


our station in orbit still experiences ~0.9g. it’s not clear if gravity experiments would be at all easier on it


the issue is where to go?

codeberg, self-hosted forgejo, gitlab, still-beta sourcehut, tangled? github was “the git community” and now it’s fracturing—you need accounts everywhere, you can’t easily discover neat projects

i like tangled if only because it’s built on atproto which emphasizes ownership and transferability of identity: something that would make the move off github so much easier


n=1 but i don't really discover new projects via github, it's mainly here, reddit, or via colleagues. then again, i selfhost forgejo so don't have a real presence on github


Self-hosted Gitlab is great. A lot of the US government uses this via bigbang if familiar. Designing things with an "airgap" in mind and control of your services is paramount in today's AI rush of slop.


might be A/B testing of titles that youtube lets creator's use


Whittaker’s background is in AI research. She talks a lot (and has been for a while) about the privacy implications of AI.

I’m not sure of any one thing that could be considered to prompt it. But a large one is the wide-deployment of models on devices with access to private information (Signal potentially included)


Signal doesn’t have anything to do with Confer besides sharing a founder (who is no longer involved at Signal)


printed documents, images, horribly inaccessible pdfs, horribly inaccessible websites


> Printed documents - Use the original, which is digital.

> Images - Use the original, which is digital.

> horribly inaccessible pdfs - Use the original, which has real text in the PDF

> horribly inaccessible websites - All text on any web site is digital. Nobody uses OCR on a website.

A massive paper producer like the government shouldn't adopt their type setting to people who are using technology wrongly.



God damn...

Why didn't they fax it back and forth a few times as well, just for good measure?


it's easier to mandate font than to excise all processes within the fed bureaucracy that result in these.

images being digital have no bearing on OCR ability


Images: use the original, which is a digital text document and not an image.

Unless they are making documents on typewriters. And in those cases neither Biden or Trump font is an option.


i’m not sure how end-of-life it will actually be because rosetta is used in apple/container and seems to be a large part of the virtualization stuff apple’s built in the last few years


I would imagine they would disable the user-facing "load x86_64 Mach-O's seamlessly" and other loader magic, and keep around the core for such things.


it looks just like signal with a purple theme


thanks sophie. now if only this would get as many eyeballs as the inciting one

sigh


Damn. What’s with all the personal attacks against the author in this comments section?


It’s such a well written (and factually correct) post, I don’t get the hate at all.


American culture still holds puritanical views of sex, and this article crosses the taboo threshold that 15 year olds are having sex.


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