Aside from some of the long gaps between text I didn't think it was so bad. And I wholeheartedly approve of a process that checks the preferences of the target audience even if it's not what I (or they) would pick.
However I can't imagine anyone tests well with the video content. The discussion on teachers using AI generated slides (lesson 2) was really interesting, but it had to fight my desire to stop that awful audio. Clearly the sound recording didn't go well and you have what you have, but at least edit it so the three talkers are at some sort of consistent volume. I was raising and lowering trying to make out what was said from one speaker then being deafened by the next.
(To combat the poor sound, and make it more accessible, could be worth looking at adding subtitles. A fun opportunity to play with AI subtitling systems maybe ;) )
Maybe as a concession to us older folks you could make the pagedown key instantly flip to the next page (without changing the position of the current page relative to the viewport)? Then the site could be used like a PDF slide deck in "fit page" mode, which would be a lot better.
I also could not get past my outrage about this, how about a link to the content in a format suitable for the old and cranky? Even raw text would be better than this.
As the “services that offer podcasts” can bit a bit of a racket, it’s possible that putting your podcast on your own website classifies your website as an “online service” and therefore that controls independent creators
If you subscribe to someone’s Notes you also subscribe to their email articles. No thank you, especially if aal their articles are behind a paywall. Not sure why Musk is so freaked out over Notes. Probably just general paranoia.
The FDIC $250,000 insurance is there to protect the depositors.
The amount is not a secret.
If you keep more than that in cash in a bank account, you take a known risk and must definitely not be bailed out.
You did not need to keep that large amount in cash. You could have bought short-term US treasury bills with every cent above $250k, and your deposits would have been perfectly safe. All of it.
Why would that merit a recurring charge? In other words, what ongoing expense is incurred by the company to display a particular icon next to your name?
Any alien race with technology to reach Sol will also have superior technology to defend themselves. Only start worrying when the “balloon” shot down the F-18s and F35s that were scrambled to shoot it down.
>Any alien race with technology to reach Sol will also have superior technology to defend themselves.
Actually I was surprised to find this isn't _strictly_ true, but it is likely.
One possibility is other solar systems (far away) with a different blend of materials that make certain advancements "easier". One hypothetical example is a far away solar system having high quantities of "exotic" stable super-heavy elements that make things like FTL possible.
In such a scenario we wouldn't discover it because it's not naturally occurring in our solar system, and we wouldn't stumble on it until we built a large enough particle accelerator. So another race could be _way_ ahead of us with respect to FTL, but way behind us in things like material science or computers. Imagine if their solar system was completely missing say... silicon.
Our first interstellar probes are unlikely to be able to destroy a fighter jet. They'll likely be similar to and just as fragile as the probes we use in our own solar system: https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/initiative/3
Aliens doesn’t mean tip of the spear of an alien invasion force.
Could just be some alien scientists who managed to scrape together a bit of grant money sending out cheap disposable probes to various systems to collect data.
I've never really thought about it before, but I'm not sure if "The Sun" actually has an officially sanctioned name! I'll accept "Sol", and "The Sol System". I'll also accept "Helios/The Helios System", or the "Terran System" to refer to our entire Solar System. And I'm sure many different cultures have their own term. But in terms of science/academia, I'm not sure that it has an official name. Looks like the IAU (International Astronomical Union) hasn't given it a sanctioned designation. [0] [1] [2]
