Yeah, he is nice and direct. I actually worry that will prove a weakness in the long run. The politician shtick where you use a ton of words to say nothing is popular because it works.
It's possible we can manage a UK-style deal where we accept "only" 10% in exchange for whatever perceived concessions. Trump will probably want a much lower rate on US products, though. That would make it pretty hard to protect our domestic industries; they'd be losing US market share and not gaining market share here.
Well, we're probably getting something like that either way.
I do wonder if people are expecting public smack-talk from Carney, which would never gain us anything.
Okay, I do like some music from the 90's. Some of it straight up sounds like parody now, though. I wasn't sure WTF was going on when I heard "Too Close" for the first time.
How many keys would that amount to if each one actually had a button? This page makes me think it would be far too many.
You know, I was actually relieved to hear he knows we're not getting a full resumption of free trade.
I'm kind of fed up with Ali Express at this point. Nothing actually gets delivered. Does anyone know any other Amazon alternatives?
Sort of? Existing software isn't smart enough to fight a battle on it's own, and electronic warfare is a real thing that makes communications hard. In a full-blown war situation there's appeal in having a human being in a cockpit close to possible targets.
The things we worry about in Canada are more specific, though. For example, we probably don't need long-range bombers of our own.
I mean, -60 is extremely unusual even in the high arctic, but the point stands at "just" -40.
It's usually more a matter of designers not bothering with severe cold conditions than any fundamental issue. In a pinch, I imagine just getting an FPV drone up to temperature in a tent or sleeping bag would give you a bit of range. For more, you'd need to insulate it and add a little internal heater, but that seems doable.
Most of what happens in the arctic is going to involve long-distance gas (or nuclear) powered equipment anyway. It's big and sparsely populated.
I've wondered about just SAMs and MANPADs as an alternative to any new fighter jet. We can't really trust the F-35 and the alternatives (the Gripen E) might not be survivable, depending on a bunch of data I don't have.
Sure, they can't be used offensively, but that's not the main thing I worry about in the near future.
The cost isn't actually much higher for the Gripen proposal this is about, although I'm not sure if that leaves things like the actual factories out.
It's more like 15% of the whole annual budget. About half of the discretionary budget, but then you add in interest payments and social security and things like that.
But yes, the rest of the Western world has been complacent as hell.
I don't know, being the last person on the planet to realise Putin might not genuinely want peace is pretty dumb. And, if he actually just needed Russia to win that would have been pretty easy to accomplish, as US president.
the unshittified internet
If you were in the 1% or whatever of the developed-world population that had it, a nice collection of bookmarks and an hour to load every image over your shitty dialup.
Like, I'll go ahead and say the internet has gotten worse, but only after a decade or two where it got much, much better.
As for the rest of the stuff, the 90's were kind of a sweet spot. The Cold War was over, the new gilded age was just starting to gather and some of the 20th century problems were on their way out. Leaded gasoline, rampant littering, near-disposable cars and cigarette smoke everywhere are more 1980's and earlier in my head.
90's music is often terrible to my ears, by the way, and grinding was weird.
Wow, that really puts the impact of covid in perspective.
I mean, most of the people here didn't mention it at all.
Yes, it's better to be gay in America in 2025 than 1995, although might not be trending in a good direction now. Probably black too, although that's been a painfully slow process by comparison.
are we just amusing ourselves until death?
Yes. That's arguably neither a good nor bad thing; a life with a prescribed meaning or prescribed expectations would be scary in a different way.
There's been philosophers that got famous arguing it's actually great and we should be excited, even, but "your mileage may vary".
he idea of this came to me because I was pondering why people fight so hard to beat diseases and live a few more years. What are they planning to do? Why exert effort just to be here longer when you don’t have a reason?
There is a thing called quality-adjusted life years. To make decisions about certain things like transplants, and to measure the effectiveness of health policy, they absolutely will factor in how much time you'll get from treatment and how much it's worth living.
Nations like mine will also help you peace out gracefully.
Which was weird, because honestly that flattered the police in no way.
Yes, that's a pretty famous moment for your parent's lines to start coming out of your mouth. TBF the reaction to that seems to be "I can't become my parents" more often than "they were right".
This. This so hard.
Like, it doesn't matter how smart you are, you're working with only a little bit of data on a world filled with lies, which tends to beget bad ideas. And that's not even getting into the non-rational drivers kids can have.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/37414239
> I've read the old papers proving that fact, but honestly it seems like some of the terminology and notation has changed since the 70's, and I roundly can't make heads or tails of it. The other sources I can find are in textbooks that I don't own. > > Ideally, what I'm hoping for is a segment of pseudocode or some modern language that generates an n-character string from some kind of seed, which then cannot be recognised in linear time. > > It's of interest to me just because, coming from other areas of math where inverting a bijective function is routine, it's highly unintuitive that you provably can't sometimes in complexity theory.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/37414239
> I've read the old papers proving that fact, but honestly it seems like some of the terminology and notation has changed since the 70's, and I roundly can't make heads or tails of it. The other sources I can find are in textbooks that I don't own. > > Ideally, what I'm hoping for is a segment of pseudocode or some modern language that generates an n-character string from some kind of seed, which then cannot be recognised in linear time. > > It's of interest to me just because, coming from other areas of math where inverting a bijective function is routine, it's highly unintuitive that you provably can't sometimes in complexity theory.
I've read the old papers proving that fact, but honestly it seems like some of the terminology and notation has changed since the 70's, and I roundly can't make heads or tails of it. The other sources I can find are in textbooks that I don't own.
Ideally, what I'm hoping for is a segment of pseudocode or some modern language that generates an n-character string from some kind of seed, which then cannot be recognised in linear time.
It's of interest to me just because, coming from other areas of math where inverting a bijective function is routine, it's highly unintuitive that you provably can't sometimes in complexity theory.
All the new art, I presume, is still over there.
Bluesky, which uses it, has been opened to federation now, and the standard basically just looks better than ActivityPub. Has anyone heard about a project to make a Lemmy-style "link aggregator" service on it?
Today is Remembrance Day, but it’s likely that many of you have forgotten about Project Arrow . Named after the Canadian-made Avro Arrow interceptor aircraft from the 1950s, this all-electric SUV concept with autonomous driving capabilities is a collaboration between nearly 60 different companies in...
It's a few months old, but in light of recent events I think it still checks out. Make sure to watch the walkaround!
So, this ate up a full day. Thought someone else might think it was neat. The rules were I allowed myself to look up dates, but not whole new figures I wasn't familiar with, and the goal was to go as far back as possible:
Greta Thunberg 2003- Emannuel Macron 1977- Roger Penrose 1931- Elizabeth II 1926-2022 Albert Einstein 1879-1955 Franz-Joseph I 1830-1916 Victoria I 1819-1901 Nepoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821 Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790 Isaac Newton 1642-1727 Galileo Galilei 1564-1642 William Shakespeare 1564-1616 Elizabeth I 1533-1603 Henry VIII 1491-1547 Christopher Colombus 1451-1506 Mehmed the Conquerer 1432-1481 Zheng He 1371-1433 Geoffrey Chaucer 1343-1400 Wat Tyler 1341-1381 Ibn Buttata 1304-1368 Marco Polo 1254-1324 Kublai Khan 1215-1294 Fibbonacci 1170-1245 Ghengis Khan 1162-1227 Saladin 1138-1193 Averroes 1126-1198 Ismail Al-Jazari 1136–1206 Muhammad al-Idrisi 1100-1165 Al-Ghazali 1058-1111 Alexios I Komnenos 1057-1118 Pope Urban II 1035-1099 Willie the Bastard 1028-1087 Avicenna 980-1037 Leif Erikson 975-1020 Erik the Red 950-1003 Herald Fairhair 850-932 Ingolfr Arnarson 849-910 Al-Khwarizmi 780-850 Charlemagne 748-814 Pope Gregory III Unk.-741 An Lushan 703-757 Charles Martel 688-741 Bede 673-735 Empress Wu Zetian 624-705 Aisha bint Abi-Bakr 614-678 Emporer Taizhong 598-649 Prophet Muhammad 570-632 Maurice I 582-602 Gregory of Tours 538-594 Brendan the Navigator 484-577 Justinian I 482-565 Clovis I 466-511 Aleric II 460-507 Theodoric the Great 454-526 Odoacer 433-493 Attila the Hun 406-453 Aleric I 370-411 Theodosius the Great 347-395 Valentinian the Great 321-375 Constantine the Great 272-337 Diocletian 242-311 Valarian 199-264 Ardashir I 180-242 Philip the Arab 204-249 Commodus 161-192 Septimus Severus 145-211 Antoninus 86-161 Hadrian 76-138 Pliny the Younger 61-113 Trajan 53-117 Pliny the Elder 23-79 Josephus 37-100 Nero 37-68 Caligula 12-41 Wang Mang 46-23 BC Augustus 63-14 BC Virgil 70-19 BC Herod the Great 72-4 BC Julius Caesar 100-44 BC Pompey 106-48 BC Cicero 106-43 BC Cato the Younger 95-46 BC Gaius Marius 157-86 BC Gaius Graccus 154-121 BC Tiberius Graccus 163-133 BC Hipparchus 190-120 BC Cato the Elder 234-149 BC Hannibal 247-183 BC Archimedes 287-212 BC Pyrrus 319-272 BC Epicurus 341-270 BC Alexander the Great 353-323 BC Aristotle 384-322 BC Plato 427-348 BC Socrates 470-399 BC Euripedes 480-406 BC Xerxes I 518-465 BC Darius the Great 550-486 BC Croesus 585-546 BC Cyrus the Great 600-530 BC Nebuchadnezzar II the Great 605-562 BC Sappho 630-570 BC
At this point I crapped out, because I hadn't read about Ashurbanipal yet. If I had, I could have gone a few further:
Ashurbanipal 685-631 BC Taharqa Ukn.-664 BC Sennacherib 705-681 BC Sargon II 770-705 BC
Unfortunately my East Asian history is ass, and I'm still not sure about the deeds of You of Zhou, so it ends there. The early 1100's were also weirdly hard, although I'm not sure why - thank god for al-Idrisi's map.
A few things that surprised me: Fibbonacci could have met Ghengis Khan, Benjamin Franklin could have talked to Isaac Newton, and Galileo was literally the same age as Shakespeare.
Last trip to the grocery store I couldn't find any non-US salad kits, and Silk NextMilk is made down there now, because I guess our plants were the listeria ones. Chip dip was surprisingly hard to find too, although I did it.
I'm very pleased with how many vegetables actually come from Mexico (definitely via the US though), and there's even a few things you can get from greenhouses, so that situation is less dire than I'd expected.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25237011
> About Carcinisation > > About Speculative Evolution > > Just imagine... Crablike humans, crablike dogs, crablike birds!
Refactoring gets really bad reviews, but from where I'm sitting as a hobby programmer in relative ignorance it seems like it should be easier, because you could potentially reuse a lot of code. Can someone break it down for me?
I'm thinking of a situation where the code is ugly but still legible here. I completely understand that actual reverse engineering is harder than coding on a blank slate.
Captain your fishing trawler to explore a collection of remote isles and their surrounding depths to see what lies below. Sell your catch to the locals and complete quests to learn more about each area's troubled past. Outfit your boat with better equipment to trawl deep-sea trenches and navigate to...
cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/20865153
> cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22774281 > > > Usually i don't suggest prime gaming but this game is totally worth the hassle to make a free trial subscription. The free key is for the GoG site. > > > > DREDGE is a single-player fishing adventure with a sinister undercurrent. Sell your catch, upgrade your boat, and dredge the depths for long-buried secrets. Explore a mysterious archipelago and discover why some things are best left forgotten.
This is one of those takes that's so controversial I'm afraid to post it, which is exactly why I have to.
I neither endorse nor disavow this, and no, I'm not in the picture.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/33597552
> Summary from the 404 media newsletter > > > Heart cockles, a group of marine molluscs, contain little communities of algae in their shells as part of a symbiotic relationship; the algae get shelter and protection, and the cockles get algae-processed nutrients. > > > > Now, scientists have discovered that cockle shells have a host of mind-boggling adaptations to keep these algae happy, including windows that offer “the first example of fiber optic cable bundles in a living creature.” > > > > “We show that the fibrous prismatic crystals act like parallel bundles of fiber optic cables in the shell windows, not just transmitting light but projecting high-resolution images through the window,” that have “a resolution of >100 lines/mm,” said researchers led by Dakota McCoy of the University of Chicago. > > From the article in the link above: > > ! > > Fig. 1: Heart cockles (Corculum cardissa and Corculum spp.) are asymmetrical, photosymbiotic bivalves. > > > ! > > Fig. 2: Transparent windows allow heart cockle shells to transmit 11–62% of photosynthetically active radiation (mean = 31%) and significantly screen out UV radiation (mean = 14%, range = 5–28%).
New plant evolution possibility just dropped?
I considered posting this elsewhere, but only Canadians are really going to get why it's funny. Regina being totally self aware about it's (lack of) reputation made it for me.
Physicists are one step closer to developing a clock based on energy shifts in atomic nuclei.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/21879517
> A link to the preprint. I'll do the actual math on how many transitions/second it works out to later and edit. > > I've had an eye on this for like a decade, so I'm hyped. > >Edit: > >So, because of the structure of the crystal the atoms are in, it actually has 5 resonances. These were expected, although a couple other weak ones showed up as well. They give a what I understand to be a projected undisturbed value of 2,020,407,384,335.(2) KHz. > >Then a possible redefinition of the second could be "The time taken for 2,020,407,384,335,200 peaks of the radiation produced by the first nuclear isomerism of an unperturbed 229Th nucleus to pass a fixed point in space."
Physicists are one step closer to developing a clock based on energy shifts in atomic nuclei.
A link to the preprint. I'll do the actual math on how many transitions/second it works out to later and edit.
I've had an eye on this for like a decade, so I'm hyped.
Edit:
So, because of the structure of the crystal the atoms are in, it actually has 5 resonances. These were expected, although a couple other weak ones showed up as well. They give a what I understand to be a projected undisturbed value of 2,020,407,384,335.(2) KHz.
Then a possible redefinition of the second could be "The time taken for 2,020,407,384,335,200 peaks of the radiation produced by the first nuclear isomerism of an unperturbed 229Th nucleus to pass a fixed point in space."
US president says he is 'very close' to presenting proposal to free remaining hostages as Israelis protest over latest deaths
Per the rules, this is the original headline. However, the interesting part is that he's preparing a Gaza offer that he says will be "final".
They've hewn very close to the whole "unconditional support" thing, so I'm curious what that means exactly.