Ok, who funds it? National Science Foundation doesn't allocate nearly enough money as it is, let alone enough to replace the tens to hundreds of active telescopes producing scientific data every night. And those telescopes are already oversubscribed with people waiting in line for available time. So unless we're slowing astronomy to a halt, we'd need similar numbers of telescopes.
And none of that takes into account that many of these telescopes are used specifically as experimenter telescopes where a given scientist can use their own equipment to perform unique observations that cannot be easily done with space-based telescopes.
It took over a decade to produce the Webb telescope and get it into space, and still is a massive feat of engineering not easily reproduced. We're not nearly to a point where we can just write off ground-based observatories in place of space-based ones.
Exactly. Musk makes a passable "hype man" that would do great on a sales pitch. But it's the same story as every sales team where he promises so much that isn't feasible to deliver on the timelines he promises.
Yep. Current employer is doing the same. Team member goes into the office 3 days a week, and all our calls are now very noisy with other people in the background. There's only two of us in this location so all our team meetings are video calls anyways. What point is there to going back in at all in that situation?!
There’s no real point, not in a physical science way
It’s all contrived political points; contracts, socialized norms the elders in charge refuse to negotiate.
The stubbornness and selfishness of the gerontocracy, to serve the dying and dead is gross. Some kind of mental illness fueled by their huffing leaded gas and growing up in world war/Cold War paranoia made it so they cannot escape the idea life is 24/7 militarized economic production.
I think a lot of it has to do with justifying real estate holding, which have likely fallen significantly in value since the pandemic, as remote work had increased. Selling at the worst time is likely out of the question, so they try to make it worth holding on to.
Elders here I think means “the kind of people who care more about personal status than any actual value to the company”, so that means most C-suite asses.
I took it that this fine isn't enough to change anything, and will likely just be added to the overhead that gets snuck into these opaque service charges.
10k isn't even a slap on the wrist. More like picking a piece of lint off the wrist.
My point was more about the scale of the fine than my current woes. I just meant that if one guy, with no job could pay the total fine for a large ISP, then the fine is way, way, too small
Or it's for playing modern games on hardware from this decade. The Switch is now 7 years old, and was dated hardware from the outset.
Plenty of people use Yuzu to play Switch games on hardware that can actually support modern resolutions, or so you can actually achieve decent framerates at modern resolutions.
Dolphin was in development since the GameCube was the "current gen", on through the Wii's lifecycle. Hell, by this point in the Wii lifecycle, it was already on the way out and Wii-U was releasing.
Sure, but it's also profoundly annoying to spend your workday deploying and maintaining services, then come home and have to do the same.
I ran Jellyfin some years back, when I was evaluating Plex/Emby/Jellyfin after switching from Kodi, and I probably spent a week or more chasing random issues and crashes. So I put it on the shelf and picked Plex since it was nearly 0 effort and it made the family happy given how easy it was to use (and didn't crash).
Of course people want something that's easy to set up and use. A lot of people want a tool, not a new hobby. And the best way to accomplish that is unfortunately to optimize for ease of setup and stability instead of new features. But that can be hard for an open-source project when everyone is asking for the new thing a for-profit company added to their product.
The FedEx driver for my route misdelivers constantly. I get deliveries for my house number but three streets away (1234 Foo St. instead of 1234 Bar Dr.) just about every couple of weeks. I've spoken to the driver and to customer support, but it still keeps happening.
I now know that "neighbor" and get greeted with a laugh every time I swing by to drop off their packages.
To be in that same boat as your story makes me wonder if it's a systemic bug. But also, holy hell, how is routing a truck to a street address not a solved problem in 2024?
I would also have accepted if they'd leave the EXIF data in their "delivery proof" images, so I can do my own GPS navigation, because the picture of some piece of grass with my box sitting on it, shockingly, is not a good way to track down lost parcels
If I could snap my fingers and end FedEx as a company I would do it without any hesitation. Hell, in a more constructive vein: if I could pay to ensure that no one ever used FedEx to ship something to me, I'd do that, too (even as I write that I'm cognizant that's perverse incentives for FedEx improving, but it would be a more likely fix than just praying for FedEx to go out of business anytime soon; it'd be like shipping insurance but in the other direction)
Do I get a breakdown of what went into each item's price on the display sticker?
Because we get that now on most (if not all) grocery stores and retailers. I can see what items in my grocery receipt were charged which of the various local taxes and can dispute them. I've had groceries miss-categorized and considered prepared food which carries a local tax in my area, but they were not prepared foods and should not have been taxed.
Having a full price up front isn't the magical cure a lot of people paint it as.
You sure can have that. Why not, its just some extra lines printed out on the receipt. No one, certainly not I, are asking to do away with itemized receipts.
That was normal in Texas ~15-20yrs ago. But in the intervening time, I've seen that become less common. I've run into places that won't let you pay after and will instead just ask you to prepay (full transaction) and come back in to get the difference refunded.
But I've also ran into plenty of places that if you hit "pay inside" on the pump will simply just turn the pump on, or will call you via the pump intercom (is that common everywhere?) and tell you they're turning the pump on for a max of XX gallons and to prepay or use the card at the pump if that's not enough.
The pump intercom is done because then you know someone inside actually saw you and is expecting you. If you drive off without paying they are much more likely to notice and call the police in time for the police to catch you. Or at least that is what they want you to think.
Yeah, I figured the intercom call was to get you thinking that they're watching closely, even though they're usually too busy with other customers to really be watching someone on the chance they drive off.
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