Surprised no one mentioned this actually. For those not familiar it's a shooter located on the site of the accident where the disaster produced various mutant monsters and an unstable environment. Really immersive with the difficulty, story and ambience. Haven't seen the movie it was based on.

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It's like the fiction publishing industry had this technology for 10-20 years already.

Wouldn't this make the subscription satellite communications devices like inreach redundant, rather than PLBs? A safety conscious person in the wilds would probably still want a dedicated emergency device (?), only now it has another possible communication method to make it even more reliable.

PLBs as I understand it are designed specifically to be one-shot foolproof devices with no secondary comms, with guaranteed battery lives (15 years I think), robust cases etc. that just sit there until you press the 'Save me' button. A phone (or inreach which is closer but still has messaging etc.) is not a real replacement for that functionality as I see it. Mainly because the other things you use it for mean it can run out of batteries or whatever.

I was thinking about this but what happens with on-the-spot payments? This seems like a functionality that's really convenient (not having to carry a bank card) but that would be on the official device, not the daily use device due to security issues. But paying for stuff in person is a daily use activity.

For this example I couldn't get vscode to perform correctly (maybe possible but not obvious), while the desktop app worked as advertised.

Vscode mistakenly labelled the cells of my scheme notebook as python, while correctly running the scheme kernel. The result was that I could run my cells and get the right output, but entering code was annoying as the auto indenting and error markers were based on python instead of scheme.

Anyway, unless I can fix the vscode weirdness, score one for the desktop app, I will keep using it.

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For example FBI trawling through social media and flagging accounts for review doesn't seem like a strict constitutional violation unless you can prove some coercion; but it does seem like a questionable use of the FBI to be doing content moderation for Twitter absent a criminal investigation.

Maybe this sort of stuff (i.e. government/law enforcement communications with social media companies) should be automatically in the public domain if it isn't part of a criminal investigation.

California slashes rates paid for household solar contributions back to the grid.

TBH I would have just downvoted this if I could. If you're scanning comments before reading, don't bother with it.

A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon by Neil Sheehan (Biography and background to the development of the ICBM)

The American War in Afghanistan: A History by Carter Malkasian

One Minute to Midnight by Michael Dobbs (about the Cuban missile crisis)

Chip War by Chris Miller (about the semiconductor industry and it's place in geopolitical competition)

He's been dead for like 20 years. I think you mean RFK Jr.

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/08/31/r...

I have encountered many people who behave in harmful ways according to personal or organisational incentives that they or others could argue were legitimate. Technical people promoted above their managerial competence level for example, can end up being rated highly by upper management as they are seen to be experts, but can then go on to make terrible strategic decisions.

Also non-technical project management professionals, using techniques that could be interpreted as legitimate, can be rated highly despite contributing next to nothing. Asking tech contributors for deadline estimates, recording the answers, and then chasing the overruns can seem like constructive action.

Then you realise that there are no high level plans coming back that integrate the timelines in a constructive way, it's just a way to apply psychological pressure by getting investment in a target that can be held over people's heads.