Interestingly govspending says only $8.7 million of the $10 million award has been outlayed but I guess it's possible it just doesn't have the outlay info for the $123 million contract?

I think the contract type is a 'firm fixed-price definitive contract' but what happens when the contractor doesn't manage to create the production capability in the contract?

I found a FOIA request on muckrock[3] but it didn't seem to have anything related to the contract in terms of penalties.

[1][$123.1 million] https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_FA850521C0005_970...

https://www.highergov.com/contract/FA850521C0005/

https://g2xchange.com/app/awards/contracts/CONT_AWD_FA850521...

[2][$10 million] https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_75A50525C00001_75...

[3] https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/con...

You would probably need to have the doctor print you a list and then after the appointment contact the hospital/provider to find out... which could be a huge delay in getting the tests done and involve a lot of extra travel time. And I can only imagine the effort required to shop around for the cheapest place to have your blood drawn that also orders from the cheapest lab for whatever tests and that also takes your insurance.

The best I get is my PCP will be like "I want to do this test for this reason but it is usually more expensive so I won't order it if you're worried about cost".

[1] https://features.csis.org/hiddenreach/china-fourth-carrier/

In their latest report to Congress they are not any closer to a rule because, amongst other reasons, all of the impairment detection methods are currently too inaccurate to use. [2]

I personally think it's very unlikely they will pass a rule by 2027 and that it might never get made. I think they'll just keep sending Congress a yearly update saying the same thing: "Sorry, none of the solutions work so we can't make a rule."

[1] https://www.regulations.gov/docket/NHTSA-2022-0079

[2] https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/2026-03/Report-t...

If they're on a 24.04 LTS release is there any reason they would be on a newer version of Podman (without jumping through hoops)? Ubuntu 24.04LTS released on 2024/04/25 and the Debian Import Freeze was on 2024/02/29.

The bleeding edge Podman release at that time was a pre-release v5.0.0-RC3 (2024/02/22) and the latest actual release was v4.9.3 (2024/02/13). That's the version Ubuntu 24.04LTS has. [2][3][4]

So aren't they on the exact version of Podman they're supposed to be on for the operating system version they're running?

[1] https://packages.ubuntu.com/resolute/podman

[2] https://packages.ubuntu.com/noble/podman

[3] https://documentation.ubuntu.com/release-notes/24.04/schedul...

[4] https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/releases?pa...

Sites/apps like Discord sometimes consume the mp4 instead of gif or webp when embedding (and in Discord's case they're not hotlinking, I believe they're running it through their own media proxy service).

For example, <https://klipy.com/gifs/begone-witch> turns into

7.1 MB gif => 679 KB mp4

[1] https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2026-42-sec-prop...

[2] https://www.sec.gov/rules-regulations/2026/05/s7-2026-15

[3] https://www.sec.gov/files/rules/proposed/2026/33-11414.pdf

It would need to be more than just competitive, it would probably need to be doctor-tier "I'm giving up my life plans for this salary in Alaska" level (which is what I assume it's like for foreign labor).

It's possible they can afford it. I would think they would need to double or more their education spending (~$2.77 billion (24/25), ~45% -> wages) state wide which would be most of what the Alaska Permanent Fund pays out per year ($3-4 billion) [4][5]

I imagine it would be politically very unpopular for obvious reasons.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/education-training-and-library/kinde...

[2] https://data.bls.gov/oesprofile/?major_group=250000&occupati... (increase records to see Alaska)

[3] https://www.schoolfinancedata.org/annual-reports/2024

https://www.schoolfinancedata.org/annual-reports/2025

[4] https://alaskapolicyforum.org/2025/06/alaskas-schools-are-ro...

[5] https://apfc.org/the-fund/fund-structure/

If it has bipartisan support then it should be easy for congress to do its job and pass it as a law. And it should be easy for the President to ask them to do so.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-ipo-anthropic-paying-...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/technology/google-investm...

You can get a $200 to $300 microcenter cpu+motherboard+16GB DDR5 bundle [1], then $300-$400 GPU, and you'll be able to play nearly every game on the market just fine at 1080p.

I'm sure there are pre-builts using stockpiled RAM that are similar $1000 price range.

And if you buy used you can do even better. $300-400 might get you a 5060 or a 9060XT right now [2][3] but if you go used you can get something like a 3080 instead.

I play games at 1080p with a 1660 Ti and, outside of some newer UE5 games that heavily rely on frame gen for performance (Monster Hunter Wilds performance was too poor to play), everything I've thrown at it has been playable and some games even 100+ FPS.

[1] https://www.microcenter.com/site/content/bundle-and-save.asp...

[2] https://pcpartpicker.com/products/video-card/#c=594,593&sort...

[3] https://pcpartpicker.com/products/video-card/#c=596&sort=pri...

tldr; Impairment detection methods are currently too inaccurate to use (both false positive and false negative).

And then if anything is ever accurate enough they'll have to create testable standards that car manufacturers can easily implement.

And NHTSA is concerned with security and privacy issues as well. They'll keep updating congress on progress once a year.

My take is it's very possible the rule may never get made.

[1] https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/2026-03/Report-t...

A lot of people do monkey-see-monkey-do: observing other people driving through water and then trying to follow. Some people just go slowly until it feels too sketchy and then try to back up.

People inevitably get stuck.

The really big issue is when the road is lower in some spot and you don't expect it.

For example, in my city there is a road that will be perfectly clear until you hit a small section that's a low spot at an underpass. Cars driving too fast hit that section during a heavy rain and quickly get flooded/stranded.

> We’re already at the point where marginal buyers in the poor world are getting priced out of the smartphone market. We’re rapidly approaching the point where buyers in the rich world feel the same thing.

So it predicts that phones we buy are next.

Some are still on npm but marked "deprecated":

https://www.npmjs.com/package/size-sensor/v/1.0.4?activeTab=...

As the article states, you can see in the package.json that the optionalDependencies references "@antv/setup": "github:antvis/G2#7cb42f57561c321ecb09b4552802ae0ac55b3a7a"

I'm pretty sure those commits have been removed from github:

https://github.com/antvis/G2/issues/7401#issuecomment-448480...

https://github.com/antvis/G2/issues/7394

The website's domain was created 3 months ago (site doesn't even have any entries in the wayback machine) and supposedly pulls from USDA AMS data but when I looked at reports[1][2] I didn't see double prices compared to last year.

Some prices even looked lower? But it was hard to make comparisons because of report structure and data disparity.

[1] CA Hay: https://mymarketnews.ams.usda.gov/viewReport/2904

[2] CO Hay: https://mymarketnews.ams.usda.gov/viewReport/2905

Set text size as preferred, underline links (or not), turn off display name styles (or not), ui density compact or default, chat message display to compact, space between message groups 0px, turn off all the animated emojis and gif animation stuff if you want.

In client use, there's a button to hide member list (or not).

You can definitely make discord look like a slightly less dense IRC client (mainly because of the channel picker) if you want. And if you want to go really crazy use it in a browser and userscript customize it or use betterdiscord.

I think a lot of the features like embeds and emoji reactions add a lot of value compared to IRC (which I think is also why the IRC world is trying to add those features).