Medical device programmers:

Rule of thumb: 1,000 mph at the equator. 1,600 km/hr. So 1600 / 12 = 130 km or so in five minutes.

Though here’s a more subtle thing: the speed of anything at the surface from rotation depends on how far north or south of the equator you are. On the equator, it’s about 1,000 mph, and at the poles, it is 0.

So if a flight takes off from Quito and flies to Anchorage, it has to slow down by a fair amount along the route, and it does this but gradually turning.

that silence can not be used to make negative inferences against the accused

This is also protected by the 5th amendment, but in the United States it is usually a crime to lie to the police for any reason, or to destroy evidence with the aim to thwart an investigation.

Well in Mississippi at least, there never was a whole lot of difference between the old slave patrol and the modern bounty hunters, and now whatever the heck this is.

Back in the day this was called slave patrol.

PSA Airlines, doing business as American Eagle.

More than a decade

NOAA government nautical chart from today:

I checked the NOAA chart viewer yesterday, and it hadn’t changed there

It’s a NIST reference standard. The ur-peanut butter, against which all peanut butter shall be compared (in the United States).

This is pretty off topic, but in traditional newspaperology headlines the story writers have no say in the headline. Headline writing is a separate discipline with specialized headline writers, because you have to carefully count the character sizes to fit the headline into the space.

This traditional art changed on its head when headlines online were no longer constrained by the page layout.

So I think this is a fascinating odd corner of history.

The “Roman” salute is definitely not Roman, and it’s not of fascist invention either. It’s an urban legend among the classical studies people: a made-up non-fact that circulated around the fringes of classical scholarship for a couple hundred years.

The Nazis targeted the trans community the first time around too. Camps, death squads, the whole nine yards…

There was a big chunk of scientific research on the topic that was simply lost because it was literally burned.

There is a painting from the 1700s that depicts Romans using the salute. So the myth that this salute has Roman origin predates the Italian fascists.

The Bellamy salute in the United States dates to 1896. It too predates the Italian fascists, and it seems to draw on the same Roman-origin urban legend.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_black_hole

The two event horizons stretch out toward each other, form some interesting shapes, connect into a cylindrical bridge shape, and then the combined horizon smooths itself out while emitting large amounts of gravitational radiation.

For “realistic” scenarios where these black holes start out in a binary elliptical orbit, the final ringdown phase concludes very rapidly. Gravitational waves are emitted continuously during the inspiral phase, in a manner analogous to how an electron in a circular orbit emits electromagnetic radiation.

The event horizon itself is a mathematical boundary of neither matter nor energy, so it does not appear to slow down or stop from time dilation. (From the perspective of a distant outside observer).

The no-hair theorem applies to stationary black hole solutions. That is, after event horizon ring down is completed.

Editing myself to directly answer the information question:

If you observe an event horizon on a complex distorted bridge shape, you can deduce information about the original merger partners. This is not a violation of any principle, because the famous no hair theorem does not apply in this situation.

The complex shape condition is not stable, and it relaxes to a “simple” shape that provides no information about the individual merger partners. This process completes in finite time, and is usually quite fast.

During this process, undulations and ripples in the shape of the event horizon result in emitted gravitational waves. Presumably, these gravitational waves contain the last information you can possibly get about the original merger partners.

Second edit: I am not a physicist, but I can read Wikipedia. Feel free to correct me.

Ah, yeah okay. I forgot that Valve the privately held company doesn’t have to break out any numbers.

Did steam deck sales actually drop, as in the number of sold units went down? Or did the Steam Deck’s relative ranking on some leaderboard drop to a lower ranking?

The south would like to talk to you about our Lord and savior, biscuits and gravy.

The way I think about it is that the pasta stuff in the pasta water is doing the same thing as the flour in a roux or gravy or whatever.

To get a good sauce, you gotta have the flour/ pasta stuff and fat in the right ratio. And the water is just thinning things out.