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  • Mars is an example of why the natural process isn't exactly reliable either... You can engineer things to be as durable as planets, there's just generally not much demand for a project to be that costly in resources. In this case, I'm pretty sure making an artificial magnetic field that's more durable than the natural one would also be cheaper than recreating the natural one.

  • I'll say that if the really talented people are signing on to this, that could be noticeable. I know Amazon tends to just churn through devs every year, but actually good software engineers are surprisingly hard to find.

  • Look up how HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) works. They just need to generate a personalized playlist for each person which points at things already hosted on CDN, and insert the ads where they want in the literal text file that your video player reads from to serve you the video.

    I don't know much about it, but it looks like there's specific tags designed for dynamic ad insertion. Idk if YouTube plans to use them in this case though, if they want it to be undetectable to the client.

  • I'm not exactly a deregulation fan, but this race to the bottom also democratized access to air travel. When the prices were fixed, they weren't exactly fixed at anything near the cheap prices we have now (when adjusted for inflation).

  • My company was more flexible, but is getting less and less flexible over time. This correspondingly means I'm not going to be working late during crunches, by my own decision, since it's not like they're paying me for the extra time, or letting me take off a few hours here and there to make up for it the rest of the year.

  • This is actually a major reason I'm glad to work in software. The culture in the industry usually tends not to care about specific working hours as much, as long as you're around consistently and do good work.

  • Having been to a total eclipse before, it's really extremely obvious when it's time and when it's no longer time. It's very different from partial eclipses. You can easily feel the sudden lack of actual sunlight.

    Edit: adding on, I'm pretty sure if you keep the glasses on during the actual eclipse you'll see almost nothing, because the outer fringes of the sun still exposed aren't bright enough to show through those lenses.

  • https://youtu.be/cw20VbX1XCc?si=OiZJV8VBsFjWQ4JC

    A lot of people here have the right idea, but are just more pessimistic than me about the industrial capabilities of our civilization if we survive long enough to achieve them. Star lifting is an idea with what I understand to be reasonably sound scientific principles. It's just a matter of scaling our industry over the next millions or billions of years.

    I like this channel because he's a fairly optimistic but very reality based futurist. He'll tell you straight up if something is unlikely or impossible based on our current understanding of science, but he's one of the few sources I've seen that acknowledges the immense scale that even an Earth or solar system bound civilization is capable of supporting with just modern technology.