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This is one of the most slippery slopes I think we have ever ventured down in the history of the Internet here in North America.

Not impressed whatsoever with this.

This is not what the internet is all about.


The internet has been dead for like 20 years dude. It's been over.


So let's just roll over and give up then? Is that what you're implying?

If nobody takes a stand against situations like this, it's only going to get worse.

Enact laws that require app makes not to be allowed to harvest so much data and/or hold onto it for more than 24 hours perhaps.

But don't just kick some massively successful company off of your country's internet because you're afraid.


The only way me as a regular person is able to 'take a stand' is to take my income and assets and move somewhere that I believe is more conductive to the way I want to live.

Maybe another open source library will fix it.


How radioactive is this exactly? I picked up one of these in a thrift store a few years ago and have just had it sitting in storage... Waiting to get my retro office vibe once I find the space but I'm willing to let it go if it might kill me? Especially a slow agonizing radioactive based death? Are they seriously so radioactive that the military was afraid of them?


It's not really. It's detectable so it theory it might trip something in a nuclear power plant, but unless you plan on grinding it up and inhaling it, it should stay in the casing.


Nuclear power plants, outside of the reaction chamber, are about the least radioactive places you can go. Given the materials they handle, they operate under such strict procedures to get as early warning as possible if anything is, in fact, leaking from containment.


Which sounds like the story in the article; a radiological survey to ensure safety found a false positive (as in it wasn't the contamination they were looking for). It makes perfect sense to eliminate the false positive from that setting, even if it is a normal everyday item.


Cool concept! I think the main issue is that it's difficult to glean information from audio bits quickly. I can look at Reddit or HN's front page for example and quickly scan what I am interested in reading, but with audio that's not so easy.


Sounds related to Wadsworth's Constant on youtube where it skips the first 30% because early on most were filler intros, also related to the millennial pause, where people over a certain age hit record and have a brief pause before talking versus younger who are already talking while the recording starts, which was an observation of tiktok users of 'elders' like Taylor Swift doing so.


Yeah audio is a different experience that's for sure.

I find it's the sort of thing I use probably at different times to when I might use Twitter - perhaps in bed before sleep listen to some messages, on the couch chilling.


So i have recently begun learning jewelry design using blender since there are a lot of videos on it out there but i have this sneaking suspicion i should be learning CAD instead... Thoughts?


If you're learning jewelry design, I'd like to point you towards Rhino, which is popular in the jewelry design community. It's not OSS, but since you're learning, I'll point out that they have a generous educational discount.

https://www.rhino3d.com/for/jewelry/


There are CAD packages specific to the jewelry industry, they really speed up the work. If you are wanting to do it professionally I'd look into learning those.

Source - Dad was a master jeweler and my parents ran a shop for nearly 40 years


They are both useful skillsets. CAD is nice when you want to manufacture your end result, but you have to think more about constraints and parameters up front.


It's mostly the cost aspect that is preventing me from even exploring the jewelry CAD options... Matrix Gold which is apparently the preeminent CAD software in the jewelry industry... Costs a few thousand dollars and only runs on Windows... Both of which are completely out of touch with my open source Linux setup.


Solidworks is the same way, I just run windows, it's worth it.


It's really surface vs. volume representations. Blender, Maya, and most 3D graphics programs, define surfaces. Modern 3D CAD programs such as FreeCAD, Fusion, and SolidWorks use constructive solid geometry, where everything is a volume. There are exceptions - SketchUp was a constructive solid geometry program, and original AutoCAD was just lines.

The big difference comes when you combine objects or operate on them. Surface-based programs are not that good at combining surfaces. CSG-based programs have to be really good at combining volumes, including subtracting from them. This requires a very difficult geometry program underneath.


Does this mean i can suspend my Linux laptop to ram now?


I thought the issue with this nowadays was that hardware support for suspend-to-ram has been increasingly removed from hardware.

At the same time, S3 sleep worked just fine on supported hardware 10 years ago. So what does suspend-to-ram have to do with Linux 6.11 in particular?


Pretty vague question, suspend to ram has always worked for me on multiple random laptops


Yes, very happy Thinkpad P14s user here on EndeavourOS.


Always worked for me on Thinkpads (T41/T61/T420/T520). T420 reports a somewhat optimistic "122 hours remaining" when coming out of sleep with a fully charged battery though.


If you choose the right laptop, yes. Works for me.


Is suspend-to-ram something that often doesn't work on laptops with Linux, really? I used it on dozens and saw problems maybe once or twice. Though I usually pick ones which are 3+ years old.


The problem is that platforms are removing S3 and S2idle support wasn't great for a while. Those problems should be mostly resolved in 2024 though.


Thinkpad L14 Gen 1, anybody care to take a guess?


You have no idea how little that narrows it down, there's an Intel and an AMD variant.


My apologies, it runs a 4750u amd processor.


That gen should still have "real" S3 sleep, with S2idle/S0ix (same thing, different name) being an option. I'd guess yes.


lol so the answer is "probably not".


>By one estimate, he hit phones in 30 of them,

Wouldn't they know exactly how many states he did this in since he was the only one that knew how to do it?


Probably not all instances of non-violent coin (and coin box) theft were recorded or assigned to him. Some instances could have been theft by employees or the coin box was inadverdently not returned, or needed replacement but a replacement wasn't available.

Post AT&T breakup means the phone companies were less centralized and organized, presumably, than if this had happened in the 1970s.


Someday I hope a company might emerge that develops things for the sake of developing things to enhance their popularity.


That's contradictory; what you're looking for is a charity.

A company does things for the sake of profit.


It can be profitable to be innovative in my opinion.


South Korea and Taiwan are hell of a lot more stable than they were decades ago.

Taiwan has transitioned from an authoritarian regime under martial law (lifted in 1987) to a vibrant democracy. Regular, free elections have become a norm, and political power transitions smoothly.

Taiwan's economy has grown significantly, becoming one of the "Four Asian Tigers" with a strong technology sector. Companies like TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) are global leaders.

Taiwan has seen advancements in social issues, such as becoming the first country in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage in 2019.

South Korea has also moved from a period of military dictatorship to a stable, democratic society with regular and peaceful elections.

South Korea has transformed from a war-torn country in the 1950s to one of the world's largest economies, excelling in technology, automotive, and other industries. It is home to major global brands like Samsung, Hyundai, and LG.

South Korea has made significant strides in education, healthcare, and quality of life. Its cultural exports, like K-pop and Korean dramas, have gained international popularity, enhancing its soft power.


Was this comment generated with the help of an LLM?


It's the same formatting style as many of their other comments, while the content is different from the usual LLM-generated fare, so I'm leaning no.

Comments about comments being LLM generated are getting old pretty fast though.


I hate the future. You're seriously questioning me and or my intelligence because LLMs exist now? Perfect.


Are you using one? It really stuck out to me as well.


Yeah, me as well, though I like Tawain and it is very scenic.


It definitely looks a bit too concise and extraneous information packed to be anything else


How do their goverments being democratic have anything to do with their potential for invasion? Please go back in time and tell half of Europe this argument during WW2. This has nothing to do with the stability of their govt or society. It has a to do with their belligerent neighbors (and their own belligerent policies).


My point was that they are improving over time, not degrading.


They started making garbage quality products and their brand recognition plummeted? Look at the mukka express for example. [0]

They did one thing well and succeeded for decades and then tried to expand their business and failed miserably.

I have seen crap quality bialetti everything. They make pots and pans now too.

[0] https://www.amazon.ca/Bialetti-Express-Cow-Print-Stovetop-Ca...


That's a rate of about 4.3 centimeters per hour.

Can anybody elaborate as to why this process takes so long?


As the hole gets deeper, the amount of time to bring up core sections and send the drill back down become significant. That combined with the previously mentioned short field season. Drilling more than a few hundred meters becomes very difficult logistically as well, especially in such a remote setting.


Who knew, drilling is O(N^2)


Anyone who has hung a heavy picture/frame? :-)

(you need to pull the drill out periodically to let the dust out, and the distance of that pull increases with depth. But it is O(K1 * N^2 + K2 * N) where K1/K2 are pull-out and drilling-in (both seconds per mm), and for short holes most of the time will be drilling not removing dust.


It's not O(N^2) is it? It can be a continuous line of ice being pushed up. Depending on the weight bearing ability of the lift and digging capacity, you would figure out a fixed distance after which you would place the buckets to carry up the ice.

Its an interesting interview question at the very least. (More complications arise as and how you get deeper into the ice).


You can't have a continuous line of ice coming up, unless you're digging for slush. Each intact X-meter core must be hauled up on its own, and then the drill has to go back down. The deeper you are, the longer it takes to haul up one core and send the drill back down. So, retrieving the cores is clearly O(N^2).

Drilling the core itself is O(N), but as you go deeper the core retrieval dominates. Not to mention everything getting more complex the deeper you go.


We need a couple more bore holes to do a Tower of Hanoi style question for interviews.


Like fetching the n-th element from a linked list by starting at the first node.


It's not a continuous 24/7/365 process. They have a drilling season each year, I believe about 6-8 weeks, have drilled at 2 different sites and been interrupted by the pandemic.


why was ice drilling interrupted by the pandemic?


International travel was not easy nor reliable during the pandemic, with many borders de facto closed or severely restricted, with quarantines, tests, etc.. needed. The drilling season involves moving an international team from each of their home countries to Greenland, then back again a few weeks later. So practically impossible to make sure the drilling season could happen with the crew required and then get them home again.


Every country I know of had special exemptions in place though, after the first few weeks of panic, for those who could supply credible written explanations.


Getting supplies such as food and shift changeovers?


it's a very high aspect ratio hole (267:1) so they have to peck-drill it and it takes a very long time to lift the drillbit to remove the swarf from the end


I'm going to see if I can work the term "swarf" into conversation tomorrow. (We all need goals.)


I've never drilled a hole with 10m diameter before, but I imagine they've been more careful about taking and studying cores than you were.


Surely you mean 10cm?


My word. I and at least one other poster here were misled by the picture at the top of the article.

But, for whatever it's worth, a trip to Wikipedia tells me that they took 2 years off, due to covid.


It's more realistic to say that covid caused logistics issue two summers in a row. The first summer was presumably 2020 when almost every country locked down. In 2021 things weren't much better and the various polar programs were dealing with both caution and a backlog of issues from the previous year.

The actual downtime may have been significantly less than 24 months but still could have killed progress for 36. There's a pretty small window that you can deploy for these sorts of operations.


I believe the deeper the layer of ice, the thougher it is, so at the surface is relatively easy to drill but at those depths it might be like drilling on steel.


Did you store the tube of ice?


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