The alerts icon (triangle with a ! in it) shows a text list of the outages. There are many active; only one happened recently. They seem spaced out from each other, not indicative of a burst of Chinese naval activity.
Readit Newskoenigdavidmj commented on Taiwan Submarine Cable Map Showing Current Outage smc.peering.tw/... · Posted by u/phantomathkg
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If we aren't going to abolish the death penalty, we should at least require a higher standard of proof than beyond a reasonable doubt to carry it out. It should require incontrovertible proof. Circumstantial evidence should not be allowed. Expert testimony should be barred. The evidence must be conclusive, plain, and certain to every member of the jury. This would allow you to execute, e.g., mass shooters who give themselves up, but make it extremely unlikely to irreversibly kill someone on the basis of junk science, induced or extorted testimony, or other fallible evidence.
We don’t use the word reasonable anymore the way it was written originally, and the actual meaning is what you’re asking for, except for every conviction, not just capital ones. It doesn’t mean “a small but tolerable level of doubt”. It means doubt backed by reason. “Aliens made me do it” is doubt that is not backed by reason. “There is another plausible way that conforms to the evidence given that he came to possess that laptop” is reasonable doubt.
koenigdavidmj commented on Real-time map of every Starlink satellite in orbit starlinkmap.org/... · Posted by u/fredrickd
Im already seeing an impact. Rural wifi networks are being replaced by starlink, at least for those able to afford it. Starlink is certainly faster to setup and maintain, but remains far more expensive day to day than a rural wifi net.
I have family on a rural network with solar-powered relays setup on islands. New retirees to the area are just buying starlink without even asking about the local net. So it is no longer being expanded to new locations/islands. The new people also dont want relays on thier land. They dont support the local/cheap option it because they have been sold starlink by whatever off-grid company is setting up thier new cabin.
The San Juans?
koenigdavidmj commented on Why are Apple Silicon VMs so different? eclecticlight.co/2023/12/... · Posted by u/ingve
My great confusion is why docker —-platform linux/amd64 is so much faster (almost native performance) than x86 UTM VMs. Can docker somehow leverage Rosetta?
Docker runs an ARM kernel and uses qemu in user mode on the individual binary level. Anything CPU-bound is emulated, but as soon as you do a system call, you’re back in native land, so I/O bound stuff should run decently.
koenigdavidmj commented on Watsonx: IBM's code assistant for turning COBOL into Java pcmag.com/articles/ibms-p... · Posted by u/Anon84
> Skyla Loomis, IBM’s Vice President of IBM Z Software adds, “But you have to remember that this is a developer assistant tool. It's AI assisted, but it still requires the developer. So yes, the developer is involved with the tooling and helping the customers select the services.” Once the partnership between man and machine is established, the AI steps in and says, ‘Okay, I want to transform this portion of code. The developer may still need to perform some minor editing of the code that the AI provides, Loomis explains. “It might be 80 or 90 percent of what they need, but it still requires a couple of changes. It’s a productivity enhancement—not a developer replacement type of activity.”
That seems to be the spot humans are weakest at—reviewing something where we think the computer did a good job 90% of the time, but quickly noticing when something goes wrong. Similar to level 3 self-driving—requiring full attention, able to instantly snap into full unassisted driving.
A perhaps less conventional intervention could be using starlink or similar to permit remote takeover of flights that appear to be going rogue. Potentially also addresses some hijacking scenarios (though maybe introduces others).
Then you have to trust a bunch of people on the ground to be sane, in addition to whoever is in the cockpit.
Which of these options does medical insurance cover?
My wife has had kids in all these settings, except the home birth was through the same provider as the birthing center. All of them were covered by insurance, except the birthing center is out of network. There’s an in-network one the next city over.
(This is a perfectly ordinary HDHP/HSA plan through a large company that you’ve heard of.)
koenigdavidmj commented on Why are maps so hard to make? readmargins.com/p/say-hel... · Posted by u/danso
This looks good. I will check it out this afternoon. I can see several use cases for it.
The best ever mapping software for personal use was Microsoft's Streets and Trips. buy a license and use it forever. Too bad they killed it off so you no longer can get updated roads and maps.
It had every feature that one could need to facilitate navigation. I keep an old laptop with WinXP around so I can do trip planning even today. It made the whole method of defining individual legs of a trip simple so that one could adjust things on the fly if you made it to one destination and discovered a lot of other interesting things to do or see. You could brainstorm different side trips in a few minutes. You could even print point to point maps.
I love that software. I really love any software that I can buy for one price and use forever. I am not a SaaS fan though that is where everyone is going. Sad.
Furkot.com should get you a lot of what you want here, except obviously not offline.