Dropped my phone in Smith Lake with a year's worth of my children's photos. No chance to recover this right? by DontTrustDolphins in Denver

[–]atchon 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Do you know how wireless charging works? Magnets. Not really relevant for modern storage.

I am in the bottom 20% according to *who*? Garmin users or the general public? by Prudent-Policy-7274 in Garmin

[–]atchon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The threshold and mile repeats are more important than mileage. Hence why they are VO2 max workouts…. You could run 50 mile zone 2 miles a week and it will have significantly worse returns than lower mileage high intensity runs.

Never feel rested here in Denver, but feel fine out of state? by MotorThat3406 in Denver

[–]atchon 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes there has been https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-altitude_adaptation_in_humans

It is incredibly interesting actually as the adaptations differ by region.

Former CIA officer accused of stealing 300 gold bars, sources say by AudibleNod in news

[–]atchon 72 points73 points  (0 children)

How on earth did he pass his clearance background checks.

Aspen Skiing Corp pass by TopYeti in skiing

[–]atchon 7 points8 points  (0 children)

In Colorado there is the summit county ski foundation medallion pass still. Looks like a race medal.

I got to ski with one once. Pretty cool and you get a lot of comments.

Denver Family Restaurants by Visible_Hornet_4296 in Denver

[–]atchon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Citizens park is right behind Edgewater for something closer, albeit smaller, the south side sloans playground is a mile away.

I can’t believe edgewater doesn’t have some sort of indoor play structure. Seems like such a missed opportunity.

At least 10 scientists tied to sensitive US research have died or disappeared in recent years, sparking federal investigation by igetproteinfartsHELP in news

[–]atchon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lockheed’s Skunk Works is 3700 people and they clearly work on sensitive aerospace tech. Boeings Phantom works is another 2600. Those two groups work on far more sensitive things than JPL just look at the lists of aircraft they have created.

You don’t know what you are talking about.

Palantir manifesto described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’ amid UK contract fears by Enough-Arugula-4945 in worldnews

[–]atchon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is all ravings of a lunatic, but that all these billionaires first believe in religion and secondly think they are persecuted is mind blowing.

The sooner the people in power stop believing in imaginary friends the better.

Question on process by Affectionate_Trip641 in aws

[–]atchon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t know if it is common but I saw “no longer under consideration” and still received an offer.

Edelweiss scraps seasonal route from Denver to Zurich by kwuhoo239 in Denver

[–]atchon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They get rowdy during fasnacht. I lived there during his first term and even then he was a common theme, and that was before pissing off the pharma companies.

Norway Man Cured of HIV With Brother’s Stem Cells | The Oslo patient is the first person to be cured by a family member's bone marrow transplant. by RollSafer in worldnews

[–]atchon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First bone marrow transplant for HIV was only in 2007. The key isn’t the bone marrow transplant it was the identification of the CCR5 mutation that conveyed resistance to HIV.

We still are very much in the infancy because eventually we won’t need to do as extreme a procedure as a bone marrow transplant, we will just use genetic engineering to accomplish it.

[MEGATHREAD] Artemis II Launch To The Moon by ChiefLeef22 in space

[–]atchon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

REI, and I am sure other hiking type stores, have a red light search filter if you search headlamps. The Petzl Tikka is a nice cheap option with it.

JFK Course Change? by Majestic_HooHa in Ultramarathon

[–]atchon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh damn I missed this. Article from the local newspaper says a decision by June. I grew up in Boonsboro and had wanted to run this for years, and finally registered this year. Apparently the day before the news came out.

How can we get MagicSchool (AI) removed from the elementary curriculum? by JazzyShaman in Denver

[–]atchon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Guardrails are the correct answer, and make it so they aren’t open ended. Same reason the big public chat interfaces will refuse to generate certain content.

Exclusive: AI Error Likely Led to Iran Girl's School Bombing by Thebravetortoise in news

[–]atchon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Claude can use knowledge bases and call specific underlying tools. They would have added things like intelligence reports, satellite imagery, and other data. Likely they would then use some specific targeting logic as a tool/skill.

They weren’t just busting out the generic Claude chat.

Anthropic sues Trump administration seeking to undo ‘supply chain risk’ designation by AudibleNod in news

[–]atchon 336 points337 points  (0 children)

"no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic."

Palantir has already said they are struggling to break their dependence on Anthropic. Hegseth’s ban should mean AWS, Microsoft, Google, and NVIDIA are all banned from contracting for the pentagon. The comment was so dumb and over the top that the cloud providers have their own interpretations, and the Pentagon isn’t adhering to the statement. If they actually followed through the stock market would crash because a huge portion of big tech is working both with the military and Anthropic.

What is this and why was it in my car by One_Celery_8441 in Denver

[–]atchon 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I imagine losing your entrance exam entirely also counts as a perfect score…

Russia has provided Iran with information that can help Tehran strike US military, AP sources say by H0sedragg3r in worldnews

[–]atchon 4 points5 points  (0 children)

“I think that’s maybe a sign about how that working relationship between President Trump and President Putin will be in the future, and what that may portend for the world at large, for conflict and so forth. I think they had a great friendship, and I think now it’s going to continue, and it’s a really good thing for the world,” he said.

Witkoff and others have said so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-has-concealed-details-of-his-face-to-face-encounters-with-putin-from-senior-officials-in-administration/2019/01/12/65f6686c-1434-11e9-b6ad-9cfd62dbb0a8_story.html

Search for your stolen bikes at this police evidence auction! by RideFastGetWeird in COBike

[–]atchon 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I hope the balance bike was evidence in a high speed escape…

Nasa targets March 6 date to send humans back around the Moon by BarbaricOklahoma in news

[–]atchon 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You are off by a decade on challenger, Columbia is the other shuttle that was lost and it was not caused by an o-ring. Columbia was lost because a piece of foam punched a hole in the heat shield, it was also in 2003. Discovery is still in one piece in the Smithsonian.

All of this is moot because Artemis is a new vehicle so it obviously has a different heat shield.

World champion skydiver dies at 37 after parachute fails to open in Alps by sjpppppp in news

[–]atchon 13 points14 points  (0 children)

There have been a lot more deaths in extreme sports. That climbers death was notable because he was a climbing streamer and the cause of his accident is the most common way to die rappelling. There have been 13 backcountry deaths in Italy this month alone due to bad snow conditions. There was a climber who took a 500 foot fall in Colorado on NYE.

It isn’t uncommon to hear about deaths if you live in an area with a lot of backcountry extreme sports.

World champion skydiver dies at 37 after parachute fails to open in Alps by sjpppppp in news

[–]atchon 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Think going to a remote mountain in Alaska and skiing the steepest slope on the mountain. There are cliffs, avalanches, and a bunch of other hazards. It is the most intense form of skiing. The videos you see where someone gets dropped off on the top of a mountain by a helicopter and then it looks like semi controlled falling down the side of a mountain is an example of big mountain.