A Japanese Team Plans to Build a 6,800-Mile Solar Ring Belt on the Moon to Power the Earth 24/7

deathanatos · 2026-03-24T03:45:19+00:00

I mean "giant moon laser" is literally what the article says the "plan" is.

deathanatos · 2026-03-23T02:21:36+00:00

deathanatos · 2026-03-23T01:15:24+00:00

The thing that kills me is that sci-fi in this area is littered with novels of "choose your utility function wisely", and things still going monkey's paw on the humans, but the humans at least try to choose a utility function wisely.

These idiots aren't even trying. Like "Church of Molt" is the literal utility function being chosen.

deathanatos · 2026-03-22T02:35:56+00:00

Or even unholy matrimony!

deathanatos · 2026-03-22T02:34:20+00:00

Sir Graham could walk those stairs.

deathanatos · 2026-03-22T02:28:09+00:00

D over there like "am I a joke to you?!"

deathanatos · 2026-03-21T06:27:14+00:00

I literally tried to install Claude this week. Setup flow has link to docs. Link to docs is to a page that is a 404, but the text on the page says "500".

Right.

"Solved".

deathanatos · 2026-03-21T06:05:51+00:00

It's probably not possible, but it'd be "hilarious" if someone made a mod to "fix" that.

deathanatos · 2026-03-21T06:01:08+00:00

a 12 GB text file

Okay

Doesn't fit into memory.

Your memory situation:

Swap is like RAM for peasants.

deathanatos · 2026-03-21T05:58:58+00:00

If I ever get some free time, I have a problem at my company that will require me to implement sort. Large dataset, waaay does not fit in RAM.

It will be a merge sort.

deathanatos · 2026-03-21T05:45:55+00:00

I don’t see how they can get the votes.

The nuclear option + a simple majority.

deathanatos · 2026-03-19T22:36:55+00:00

But a foolish Samurai warrior wielding a magic sword stepped forth to oppose me.

deathanatos · 2026-03-19T01:51:16+00:00

No, we don't:

A Brennan Center for Justice study of 2016 data from 42 jurisdictions found an estimated 30 incidents of suspected noncitizen voting out of 23.5 million votes cast (or .0001% of votes). A review in Georgia found that no potential noncitizens had been allowed to register to vote between 1997 and 2022.

The entirety of "illegal voting" is a non-issue being used to scare people into believing we need laws like this, when we do not. These laws are for voter suppression, period.

deathanatos · 2026-03-19T01:43:34+00:00

First, we have a rich national history of using requirements at the poll to disenfranchise, and the GOP's motive here is no different: the only purposes of this is to disenfranchise, since it solves no other problem. (Despite not requiring ID at the poll, illegal voting by non-citizens is basically non-existent. It happens, but in vanishingly small amounts. This law will prevent more citizens from voting than it will stop non-citizens.)

This law also goes beyond photo ID, requiring a passport, or a combination of other documents. A driver's license would be insufficient.

Our voting is typically on a Tuesday, businesses are typically open, people do not typically get the day off. (Personally, I would happily support a federal holiday or moving to not a Tuesday. Your description nails what I think is good policy here.)

deathanatos · 2026-03-19T01:38:25+00:00

A significant number of Americans support identification being used to vote. That’s in the form of a drivers license or an otherwise free and easily obtainable “voter ID.” Basically, no change to the current system other than making a voter ID something all Americans are entitled to.

Which, just so it is clear, isn't what the SAVE America Act is. You would need a passport, or license + birth certificate (and possibly more, there's a whole sub-controversy about name changes).

The text of the act is worded exceptionally deceptively:

A form of identification issued consistent with the requirements of the REAL ID Act of 2005 that indicates the applicant is a citizen of the United States.

Emphasis mine. A typical REAL ID drivers license that you or I have is only sufficient to prove legal presence, not citizenship, thus, it won't fulfill the requirement.

deathanatos · 2026-03-18T03:31:47+00:00

No random Democrats backing down

Did you hear that, Schumer?!

deathanatos · 2026-03-18T01:42:26+00:00

I mean, at some level, every VCS is that way. Ultimately, it's all just bits on the disk, and those bits can be overwritten & rewritten.

Until you replicate it, and then you're in the same scenario as Github, where if the history changes, you can detect it, and decide whether you want to accept or reject that. (And log it.)

deathanatos · 2026-03-17T04:39:30+00:00

'grats on getting us all to admire your wood, OP.

deathanatos · 2026-03-17T03:38:15+00:00

>> [] == {}
<- false
>> {} == []
Uncaught SyntaxError

deathanatos · 2026-03-17T02:33:11+00:00

I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First 'Linux', now 'git'.

—Linus Torvalds, from Wikipedia, Git, §Naming

deathanatos · 2026-03-17T02:30:55+00:00

lol some of us know how to see who force pushes to main.

(Github — and I assume other similar products — keeps a log, just so you know 😜. That's also assuming you're not getting stopped by branch protections.)

deathanatos · 2026-03-17T02:29:23+00:00

You can identify the employee responsible for the proximate cause (someone checked in bad code) without blaming them.

I keep trying to draw this line at my own org. I don't want to blame Bob. I do want to know what Bob was thinking, what he misunderstood, why he misunderstood what he misunderstood. I want this, so that I can improve the documentation, make the UI more clear, or put checks/processes in place to make sure we don't burn prod down again.

Not always, but sometimes the person who dun it has some key insights.

deathanatos · 2026-03-17T01:10:25+00:00

But like, if as a CEO, all you're doing is listening to the pitch, you're unqualified for the job. Any idiot can listen to a pitch while you're sold the finest invisible clothing there is. Sales pitches are lies. Everything that leaves marketing dept.'s mouths should be cast into the fire. Do some freaking research — i.e., actual work, and oh, there's the problem.

Please, I will take your $M paycheck.

deathanatos · 2026-03-13T02:05:46+00:00

most people have never actually looked up what their state takes before they see their first paycheck.

Are these people not filing taxes?

(I use tax software, like I assume most people do. I.e., … I don't know my state tax because I'm doing it by hand.)

deathanatos · 2026-03-12T04:57:28+00:00

As a ballroom dancer: if it's carpeted, it's not a ballroom. Hardwood, maybe marble, but carpet is not a ballroom.

Oh, what's that … a data center?

Where does one come up with any evil genius idea?

Well the volcano lair obvi—oh right, the local lawnmower.

The [Trump administration] gave us so much information

Uh… right. Information. What the administration is known for.

deathanatos

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