This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Their cowardice is palpable. If only NASA could run experiments so that we could understand how the concept of fear-based self preservation eliminates any semblance of courage when faced with even the smallest threat to their ill-defined paradigm of manhood.
In a parallel universe where we have a functioning federal government, I’d imagine something like this would be worthy of a grant or two.
Totally normal.
Imagine dreaming to fly to space only to be denied having it because you also cared about the rights of indigenous people.
They're getting ready to colonize ~~Gaza~~ Klandathu. They can't be caring about the indigenous life. /s
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Why doesn’t Trump like MSI laptops? I think they’re great for gaming in space
Sounds like a paid day off
Cracking on with the important shit, I see.
At least make sure to update all graphics to webp while executing hate based updates.
Janet Petro—the first woman to hold the position since its founding 67 years ago—wrote that diversity programs “divided Americans by race, wasted taxpayer dollars, and resulted in shameful discrimination,”
In 2021, when she was the director of Kennedy Space Center, she spoke at length in an interview about the value of diversity, saying “our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility has been paramount to mission success.”
The turnaround is giving me whiplash.
There's no begrudging following of the rules, it's wholeheartedly embracing the new regime.
I was told to change gender to sex on the apps I develop. I'm pushing to have it removed all together because it's a field that has no relevance and the order is fucking dumb. My niece is trans saying they don't exist doesn't make them not exist.
The quote from the email isn't her words. They were given to her (and all agency heads) to send out to their workforce to implement the EO. It should not be taken as "embracing the new regime".
She sent the email. They're her words now.
They need to give all interviews in with an Inspector Clouseau accent to let us know they are under duress like the US pilot who was put on TV during the first gulf war.
So... "she's just following orders"?
If it quacks like a duck and steps like a goose…
When it is easy everyone thinks they are Oskar Schindler but when it is hard most people are Hugo Boss.
If you have the funds, please support Internet Archives.
With internet archive head quarters being in the US what would happen if the administration went after them? Would people from other countries be able to keep the project going?
We need to distribute all that data, for the sake of history in the future. Data hoarding and torrenting is a service to humanity.
Not just data but in important scientific research too. The republicans want to drive the US back to the stone age, because that's when they were last relevant.
😇 in my mind, I included those datasets in data
But sure! I agree! We need free and open science, worldwide
People need to understand the art of scientific thinking
That's unfortunately a very valid point. Iirc the big problem IA has is the sheer amount of disk space required to store everything.
I wish I had the necessary petabytes of storage to at least store an offline copy. I wonder how many disks that would be and how redundant disks you'd need.
Here's this from 2021. They say they have about 200PB of raw storage across some 20k spinning drives at the time of writing (with more being added constantly, about 25%/yr), and capacities are mixed from 4TB to 16TB, across 750 servers housed on about 75 racks. I have 6x16TB WD red pros that ran me about $355/ea new with tax, and my bill was a smidge over $2100. Assuming you used all 16TB, you'd need about 12,500 16TB disks, which would run you about $4,437,500 without a bulk discount. How much of that is redundancy I'm not sure, but that's just HDDs, not the hardware to actually run everything between storage enclosures, OS, disks, memory, clustering, etc. They say they say a single copy with 16TB drives would be about 15 racks., but how that breaks down I'm not sure.
Oh, just scrubbing MENTIONS of them. Whew!
...for now.
I thought those fucking cretins were supposed to be reducing government waste. How is forcing agencies to paint over murals with positive vibes and update their website to remove magic words a good use of their time and money?
because it's not and never was about that and by the time everyone else realises it will be too late to stop it without great effort
I thought those fucking cretins were supposed to be reducing government waste. How is forcing agencies to paint over murals with positive vibes and update their website to remove magic words a good use of their time and money?
The best way to understand DOGE is to be aware of what it really means: Department of Government Enshitification. The entire point of it is to generally degrade the quality of government.
Because it gives SpaceX an edge over NASA if you delegate menial tasks to PhD level people.
This is definitely the most important thing for the country and for human space exploration as a whole.
/s
Cultural genocide
🌎🧑🚀🔫🤠 always was
What happened to indigenous people and women? I swear I saw one just an hour ago so it seems like they still exist. Maybe not?
That was a cat. You saw a cat an hour ago. Indigenous people and women have never existed. It's been straight white men since Adam and Steve. Wait...
"No homo" -- Steve
Talk about hidden figures…
I caught the irony of that too and it hurts.
Snowflakes
Conservatives are creating their safe space.
