When fusion or fission occurs you get new atoms.

It’s Hydrogen that’s existed since the universe cooled enough for electrons and protons to make atoms. Seconds after the big bang.

That’s most hydrogen.

It’s never been fused into heavier elements just still sticking around and caught in the planetary part of the solar system rather than the sun itself. Or any previous suns.

There’s some helium like that but most helium was formed inside suns later, and heavier elements all formed later in suns or supernovas.

Is the internet scarier?

Or is it just millennials and “internet natives” having kids and more of them knowing better what the internet actually is.

I tell people to imagine a public place with everyone in it, the majority wearing masks or costumes. With constantly recording surveillance. Do you take off your mask.

Sure the mask is not perfect protection, and there are areas off to the side where people seem to not be wearing masks. But go ahead and choose a way to keep your kids safe.

If you want a market solution to correct this, it should cost more money to submit frivolous patents.

Or simply rate limit the number of parents a company can submit if they have a lot of failed applications.

Sorry, you’ve wasted our time with 3 failed applications this month, no more applications until next month.

Wayfair has not been traded significantly by pension funds because it has not been a significant stock for long enough.

There may be some index linked investments which have pulled in Wayfair stock, but those will be treated as a whole and will be designed to be less risky.

It is a bad thing when stock value can be manipulated upwards by layoffs. It’s usually a sign the company is doing worse than they expected, their growth has reached a limit, so logically their long term forecasts should decrease.

But the market recognises their short term balance sheet has just seen an improvement and the short term money moves in. Ready for the ultimate buy out of a company that’s reached the peak of growth, so the main owners are ready to sell to a larger company.

Hopefully at an inflated market rate because short term decisions are being made to make the company look better to an algorithm.

The US should definitely have sanctions applied to it when they break international law.

At the moment there isn’t much consideration of “will doing this come back to bite me in the ass at a later date” when a country commits violence or funds a foreign coup.

That’s because there’s too much consideration of “will doing this come back to bite me in the ass at a later date.” When applying sanctions.

If the sanctions were virtually guaranteed to get triggered, the difficult decision would be for the regime doing the wrong thing in the first place.

Honestly, a regime should have to factor in the risk of losing all their money abroad if they start an illegal war or attempt genocide.

The theory of Europe relying on Russian gas as they joined the world economy was that mutual reliance prevents war because the consequences harm both sides.

Losing assets to the victims of the war you start would be a useful precedent to set and keep. The logic is the same.

The problem is that because sanctions hurt both sides we’re still reluctant to use them.

We should have activated sanctions over the war in Georgia, or the first invasion of Crimea. Eventually we did as Russia marched on another Nation’s capital.

Banks are never going to take an action that harms them. If we want to redirect the seized assets of Russia it will have to be governments which force them.

I’d suggest you look into that a bit closer.

Some investments are pensions, but generally they are buying solely on metrics. It’s also worth noting they’re focused on the long term. Pension funds line bonds, indexes and long term stocks.

The money moving quickly and affecting value day to day, week to week, even quarter to quarter is the rich trying to extract a quick buck.

Pension funds are increasingly likely to be holding the bag on a company that the short termists have eviscerated these days.

If you really care about pensions you’d be in favour of massive market reforms to slow trading and promote companies long term health.

As someone who has performed data recovery on optane systems. No, just no.

There’s larger slow mechanical storage.

Faster flash and xpoint storage

RAM.

Any device can use a level up to cache and appear faster.

But RAM caching is generally better handled by the OS itself.

Flash coaching isn’t an awful idea except when it goes wrong your back to “safety remove disk” being absolutely vital. So the OS needs to be aware and cutting power at the wrong time can kill your install.

Every update says “so not turn off your computer” for a reason but the actual redundancy we now have is leagues better than 10 years ago

God forbid one component in an optane chain becomes unreliable.

Ultimately everything needs to run in RAM. Everything needs persistent storage. A non-standard middle step between persistent and volatile memory is best avoided.

Xpoint was an interesting experiment but CXL replaced it. Ultimately the choice for data centres is to support more RAM. The additional RAM replacing the optane cache while the waits to be written is more compatible and predictable.

You can now have terrabytes of RAM and if you rarely boot and have redundant systems. There’s need for the middle step.

The cost of memory and SSD per gigabyte as a cache matters. But RAM error correction and other protocols give even more advantages to avoiding optane.

“The customers aren’t products” is genuinely a decent mantra.

If a company makes you the product avoid it or at least know the value they’re getting.

If you get something free, your data and attention is often the price. If you pay for something you should not be exploited further as a resource.

They value Tesla as a battery manufacturer. I’m not saying that’s right but they’re hoping other manufacturers will end up using their batteries just like every phone uses Samsung’s screens.

I think Tesla has a small lead but is going to be quickly out-developed.

The self driving stuff has always been fluff. The gigafactory not so much.

Some manufacturers use standard audio connectors to carry just plain power.

They’re robust and can carry relatively high current and voltage.

It works, I can see why they get used. After all RCAs are on everything for everything.

I have an e-bike that uses an XLR as a charging port for the battery.

There’s an IR led on a cable with a 3.5mm jack somewhere that’s an extender for my home cinema system remote.

(That might be what this is, so see if your phone camera can see the IR light from a TV remote and then test it with that thing)

This possible LED plugged into something either home made/bespoke, very old, or Chinese.

Small chance it’s from some medical or scientific equipment that hasn’t moved with the times.

If it’s an LED put a DC voltage down that plug. If it’s a light sensor, measure for a DC voltage.

Audio AC signals didn’t have an effect so it’s probably a DC component.

My bet, point your phone camera at it and put a DC voltage down there in the right direction and you’ll see IR light come out.

It might be the receiver. In which case you need to monitor voltage. Then point a TV remote at it.

You gave the Democrats 48 seats, the Republicans 49 and independents 3.

That’s enough power to filibuster, not enact change.

Get back to the rest of us when we see anything close to a supermajority for the democrats and you can call that “total power”.

You’ve given the Democrats some power and it’s done you some good. The inflation act is not bad for a 1 seat majority.

Try upping it a bit and you’ll do more than just keep the lights on and avoid government shutdowns.

Or don’t turn up at the polls and hand an on the record fascist the white house.

Watching from outside the first Trump term was a bizarre result. But he lost the popular vote and won on a personality cult in some key demographics, while idiots decided Hilary Clinton wasn’t good enough to turnout for.

If Trump actually wins while his personality and politics are laid bare, after a disastrous 4 years in office domestically and in foreign policy. I honestly don’t know what I’ll think of the USA.

I’d certainly support any cessation from the states that actually fuel your economy and want to keep democracy.

He supported a book banning law. He’s in the wrong.

Now he’s not gone back on that, he’s complaining the law he supported is applying to his books.

He wants to be above the law while others are not.

For context.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/if-vlc-can-ship-a-free-dvd-player-why-cant-microsoft/

Under French law DVD and Blu-ray codecs aren’t patentable and VLC is based in France. The organisation isn’t breaking any laws.

Whether using VLC in the US is the legal grey area.

So it’s not VideoLAN who might be breaking a law, it’s you by circumventing the anti piracy keys in DVDs and Blurays. Millennium copyright act and anywhere that signs up to a treaty containing reciprocal copyright law might have an issue.

Patent infringements might also be possible in the US if you edited that open source code in that country, but US to EU patent treaties don’t cover software France deems unpatentable so distributing the codec is probably fine as long as it’s of French origin (and non-commercial use as per the GPL licence)

In the UK, the codec might be patentable now after Brexit interestingly but we haven’t yet diverged on patent treaties with the EU yet as far as I know and we’re part of the US patent treaty still.

Similar things happened with MP3 codecs in Linux before it was also made free. You’d either be prompted to make the choice to install yourself during or after the install. Or perhaps 2 downloads offered, one with and one without.

All to show you as an individual made the choice to use those codecs. If there were any possible damages from an individual download is would be less than $40 in licencing. So a lawyer would have to submit a case for each individual for that as a possible settlement, not even guaranteed.

As long as a large organisation isn’t liable for the codec install, it falls into “de minimis” legal territory.

I remember a Live CD install of Ubuntu required some hoops to get codecs at one point in the distant past. I looked it up then out of curiosity.

You lose backwards compatibility with web browsers if you do that.

It also doesn’t help reader apps or plugins, SEO or various other things to have the site stream the text instead of just loading it.

Basically it moves you from standard thing everything understands to non-standard thing which might break. It’s just not worth it.

It’s because the 737 MAX went through significant changes and lobbies the FAA to avoid recertification.

Essentially we have a record which planes have gone through a rigorous certification process in their current configuration and which haven’t because looking back it’s plain as day.

The design of most planes has been checked properly because the FAA and Boeing have usually done their job properly. In the case of this change to the 737 they haven’t.

I’d still recommend requesting a flight on another companies airplane when possible and never accepting a ticket on a 737 max even if it’s allowed back in the air.

But there’s no need to cause a mass grounding of safe aircraft that don’t have any problems. That would be incredibly wasteful and more importantly bring older aircraft into service as an alternative. Older aircraft which would be less safe than the ones on the ground.

An iron curtain of the internet is serving who exactly?

If we “Cut Russia off” the state will definitely be able to circumvent the block, ordinary people won’t.

At the moment ordinary Russians can and do circumvent the Russian states censorship and that’s a very good thing. We don’t want to enforce that from our side too.

Ok. If I take 100 dollars off you each month until the police stop me. Stopping me is punishment enough because I lose revenue.

Talking money off you and taking your data and selling it on is different, but both are wrong and both should come with a punishment. Not just an order to stop.

In the EU they wouldn’t have tried this in the first place, because they’d get fined.

It’s happened, like I say I can’t find it either now. It might have been the copyright owner who died. But fans use AI to find samples in old songs now. You can do it yourself.

Unfortunately copyright claims get buried as they don’t look good for either party.

In principle though, do you consider an unrecognisable sample copyright infringement. Because I get the feeling of I put the effort in to dig and cite examples for you, you’d then just move on to claiming it’s still somehow different if AI does it.

Different court case. Galvanize was not discovered by an AI.

Honestly there are so many successful and failed cases against them I can’t find it right now. But I remember an AI discovered sample being subject of a court case just after one of them died.