I watched a documentary about that: Into Eternity

What I thought was interesting about the film was the balance between entertaining a fantastical vision of some future explorer stumbling across the radioactive site, and the mundanity of most of the actual work.

One of the engineers said something like: “When we seal this up with so much concrete, there’s no way you’re getting in here without machinery. We should be more concerned about a future civilization that comes back here for radioactive materials when they’ve exhausted all other natural sources”

And then there’s a whole section of the film about rules-lawyering the storage site. The dump was chartered by the Finish government to seal waste “for all time”, and the engineers were mad that nothing is truly permanent.

I liked it. I thought the action was pretty good and Jared Leto worked well. Setting aside my IRL feelings about the “AI” industry, the film had me caring about Ares and the future of programs like him. Whether intentional or not, I thought that the plot connected to how governments IRL are trying to turn “AI” into tools of hate.

Going into the film, I was a bit surprised that there was no real connection between it and Tron Legacy. I though the whole plot about Isos being advanced programs would have some relation to Ares, but it’s not even brought up.

A good friend of mine is quitting their (once) dream fed job, counting down the remainder until their last day. They work for the government to enforce engineering safety standards, but can no longer stomach the gutting of safety regulations that their department manages. Upon raising ethical concerns, they got dragged into a room with lawyers who relayed a parable about ethics. The lesson was: Be “a good soldier” and ignore safety regulations if you’re told to do so.

I go to work everyday and feel like a mail clerk in the Death Star

- My friend to me

Pedantry:

I can buy all the drinks I want at a bar. I’m just not allowed to consume them myself.

No bar is going to eject someone just because they’re buying drinks for other people.

When the game tells you something is urgent, it’s usually lying. You have all the time in the world, and nothing to fear from a long rest.

The only exception to this that I encountered was in the underdark. You take a boat to an area with an optional quest to rescue some gnomes (or dwarfs?). Forget exactly what I did (long rest, or taking the boat back again) but the gnomes had outlived their usefulness by the time I got back to them.

Problem is that if you use white text on dark background, the bugs will be attracted to your code.

Meanwhile, when I use dark text on a white background, the bugs are only attracted to whitespace. Easily removed with a linter.

Solarized gang rise up!

If I don’t want to be blinded by my screen, I either turn the monitor brightness down or the ambient lighting up.

Does this mean it should be possible to have 30 simultaneous JS8Call transmissions on a single SSB CB channel?

Yes. If you play around with JS8Call, you’ll notice that the UI picks a frequency offset from the SSB band and parks itself there. If you move the offset frequency to be near other traffic, the messages from nearby offsets will auto-populate in the yellow text box.

Do people have to transmit after each other or can they transmit at the same time while being spaced out within the the same channel?

Data frames are synchronized to 15 second time windows (I think). You can transmit during the same window as anyone else, as long as you’re not both on the same frequency offset.

Not just hours. Per reporting from Protos, the position opened several days in advance.

https://protos.com/maduro-polymarket-bet-raises-insider-trading-concerns/

I appreciate that the definition of the does not contain the word the.

Protos reporting on the bet indicates that this unknown person had been building a position since December. The list of people who knew so far in advance must be smaller.

I like analog clocks because they’re usually more decorative than digital clocks. If I’m going to hang a clock in a room (and I will, because I hate not knowing what time it is) then chances are high that I’ll get some cool artsy analog.

These are really cool! I’ve been meaning to get a 6m antenna ever since I got my IC-705. Now that this page has taught me about the hentenna, I think I might build one.

Not sure if you’re making a joke, but that’s also the conclusion of this video:

ChatGPT was trained on mandela-effect data (reddit posts) talking about emojis that don’t really exist. When asked about these specific emojis, its text prediction is primed to answer that they exist, but it cannot substatiate that prediction by outputting the non-existing emoji.

I’ve heard people say “the wee hours of the night” to refer to time between midnight and dawn.

I think one of the reasons that there’s not a good word for that in English is because it’s the time anyone is least likely to be awake, so there’s not much reason to talk about it. And then by the time humans built enough lights to do something worthwhile at 02:00, we also had clocks and started to describe that period in reference to clock readings.

I was AMAB (Assigned Marketing At Business school) and coming out as sales was really stressful. I’m glad someone understands.

Everett on his best behavior. A rare one.

The story I heard was that Kopi Luwak was discovered by Indonesian slaves working Dutch coffee plantations. They weren’t allowed to drink the coffee they farmed, but they were allowed to pick through civet dung and gather coffee that way.

Once the Dutch learned what the slaves were doing and tried it for themselves, they determined it tasted better than their own terrible brew methods and declared it a delicacy. Then the slaves were left with nothing.

It is on by default, but can be disabled in your repo config: https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/conf_ref.html

The feature works by adding a flag to one random http request to a fedora repo every week. Fedora then aggregates the http logs that have been flagged to derive their metrics. You can opt out of sending the flag, but if you’re querying fedora repos then you still end up in their http log.

His full name is Theodore Grinch, but his friends (numbering 0) call him The.