At least it’s all on the far side of the garage door thingy that everyone has to roll under at the last second.

Guy looks kinda like he’s wearing a jacket with a gap at the waist. That would totally not work. You can’t have a gap that lets air out. The Apollo suits were one piece designs; two piece with a hard shell locking waist ring came later.

We’re talking nowadays about compression suits that are only inflated around the head and maybe some upper body. Those would help a lot with mobility, but nothing like that has been deployed yet.

At least you don’t need to worry about hills in New Orleans.

I bet they had crappy throws or no throws, too.

For those who may be from the Frozen Nawth, Mardi Gras parades, particularly in New Orleans, are all about the free giveaways.

Surely, they can just un-replicate it and replenish the replicator protein stocks.

Edit: Thinking about this problem some more, there’s probably a serious issue figuring out what fluids and tissues are safe to un-replicate.

Per the technical manual, the personnel transporters have quark-scale resolution, but the cargo transporters and replicators only have molecular-scale resolution. It would be a gross safety violation to put a living being through anything short of a personnel-rated transporter. Meanwhile any kind of bodily fluid that is emitted is going to have a bunch of still living cells, at least for a while. (I’m not even discussing the gametes here yet). So how do you get the computer to safely and reliably make the determination?

Cue up Pulp Fiction conversation about foot massage.

The statutory penalty in the US is on the order of $100,000 per infringement. “Statutory” means that the number is written into the law, and the aggrieved party doesn’t have to establish or prove actual losses.

This is a Photoshop / “artistic rendering” from the Whitehouse. The real Time magazine has never bestowed the honor of a cover to the Cheeto.

Edit: Apparently, I just made shit up. Trump first appeared on Time magazine in 1989.

Natv in Broken Arrow is pretty good.

Your common sense prevents you from doing that.

You have:

No tea

that silence can not be used to make negative inferences against the accused

This is also protected by the 5th amendment, but in the United States it is usually a crime to lie to the police for any reason, or to destroy evidence with the aim to thwart an investigation.

It’s a NIST reference standard. The ur-peanut butter, against which all peanut butter shall be compared (in the United States).

This is pretty off topic, but in traditional newspaperology headlines the story writers have no say in the headline. Headline writing is a separate discipline with specialized headline writers, because you have to carefully count the character sizes to fit the headline into the space.

This traditional art changed on its head when headlines online were no longer constrained by the page layout.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_black_hole

The two event horizons stretch out toward each other, form some interesting shapes, connect into a cylindrical bridge shape, and then the combined horizon smooths itself out while emitting large amounts of gravitational radiation.

For “realistic” scenarios where these black holes start out in a binary elliptical orbit, the final ringdown phase concludes very rapidly. Gravitational waves are emitted continuously during the inspiral phase, in a manner analogous to how an electron in a circular orbit emits electromagnetic radiation.

The event horizon itself is a mathematical boundary of neither matter nor energy, so it does not appear to slow down or stop from time dilation. (From the perspective of a distant outside observer).

The no-hair theorem applies to stationary black hole solutions. That is, after event horizon ring down is completed.

Editing myself to directly answer the information question:

If you observe an event horizon on a complex distorted bridge shape, you can deduce information about the original merger partners. This is not a violation of any principle, because the famous no hair theorem does not apply in this situation.

The complex shape condition is not stable, and it relaxes to a “simple” shape that provides no information about the individual merger partners. This process completes in finite time, and is usually quite fast.

During this process, undulations and ripples in the shape of the event horizon result in emitted gravitational waves. Presumably, these gravitational waves contain the last information you can possibly get about the original merger partners.

Second edit: I am not a physicist, but I can read Wikipedia. Feel free to correct me.

There oughta be some kind of joke here about how England used to sentence prisoners to transportation.

“coherent graviton pulse” at least sounds like a gravitational wave laser gun, which would be pretty cool.

Lai micromanaged her time and only allowed her to sleep for a few minutes over the course of four days leading up to the event. Further abuse included imposing daily Christian worship, forcing Sydney to write lines like a schoolchild, daily check-ins over WhatsApp of her outfits as part of “quality control”, and humiliating her in front of colleagues.

Okay. This shit has nothing to do with productivity. That is not putting anyone “in the zone.”. This is not “crunch” culture. This is just straight-up chauvinistic misogynist bullshit.

Backpage moderated some posts, sure. But what was the role of Salesforce here besides supplying a software package?

The problem is that it is still relatively rare for someone to have the patience and attention to detail to be able to tell the computer exactly what they want from it. The fraction of people that have that kind of natural ability hasn’t changed that much, and it’s not really something you can train.

So while the schools are pumping out more grads, the average quality of those entry level junior engineers is going down, down, down.

This heartens me that there will still be a place those who can produce quality software. But the current situation is not going to do any favours for average software quality any time soon.

Edit: I want to clarify something. I think anyone can be trained to write computer programs. The natural ability I’m talking about is actually the ability to tolerate programming day in and day out, as an occupation.