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  • Re: Cosmic simulations that once needed supercomputers now run on a laptop

    From Bill Sloman@bill.sloman@ieee.org to sci.electronics.design on Fri Sep 26 01:48:10 2025
    From Newsgroup: sci.electronics.design

    On 26/09/2025 1:14 am, john larkin wrote:
    On Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:22:34 +1000, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
    wrote:
    On 25/09/2025 1:29 am, john larkin wrote:
    On Wed, 24 Sep 2025 22:43:20 +1000, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
    wrote:
    On 24/09/2025 3:56 am, john larkin wrote:
    On Tue, 23 Sep 2025 17:42:13 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> >>>>> wrote:
    On 24/09/2025 12:44 am, john larkin wrote:
    On Tue, 23 Sep 2025 11:59:13 +0100, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid >>>>>>>> (Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
    Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
    ]
    <snip>

    And the plants are
    growing outrageously. The sky is full of birds; hummers, silly little
    things, seagulls, noisy wild parrots, aerial battles between the crows
    and hawks, owls at night. The jays eat Fritos out of my hand.

    And when the next climate crisis kills you, they will peck over your
    corpse just as enthusiastically - probably more enthusiastically because
    there won't be all that many other food sources around.

    It must be awful to believe that.

    Choosing what you believe on the basis that it has to make you feel good
    is not a great survival strategy.

    We sure don't.

    Trump may have made similar sorts of choices when he invested hugely in
    a series of schemes which didn't pay off.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2016/live-updates/general-election/real-time-fact-checking-and-analysis-of-the-first-presidential-debate/fact-check-has-trump-declared-bankruptcy-four-or-six-times/

    His recent speech to the UN articulated ideas about climate change that
    don't seem to be based on reliable evidence, any more than yours are.
    --
    Bill Sloman, Sydney


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  • From Bill Sloman@bill.sloman@ieee.org to sci.electronics.design on Fri Sep 26 02:05:30 2025
    From Newsgroup: sci.electronics.design

    On 26/09/2025 1:11 am, john larkin wrote:
    On Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:00:17 +1000, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
    wrote:

    On 25/09/2025 1:13 am, john larkin wrote:
    On Wed, 24 Sep 2025 07:38:39 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
    wrote:

    On Tue, 23 Sep 2025 17:42:13 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> >>>>> wrote:

    On 24/09/2025 12:44 am, john larkin wrote:
    On Tue, 23 Sep 2025 11:59:13 +0100, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid >>>>>>>> (Liz Tuddenham) wrote:

    Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:

    <snip>

    NASA presents some more astronuts:
    https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/09/250923021204.htm
    scroll down for their 'CV'.

    Will US still exist in 2026?

    Granting the sheer irrationality of Trump's recent speech to the UN, it
    does seem to be in need of a regime change.

    Certainly. Russia in its present form may not.

    Putin has some very silly ideas, but he's nowhere near as lunatic as Trump.

    Interesting moral position. A million casualities and exporting their
    best talent and destroying their economy is more than silly ideas.
    He's wrecked Russia for decades.

    It's not a moral position, just a statement of fact.

    He has taught literally armies of conscripts, many criminals, how to scrounge, fight, and kill. Not good.

    He - personally - didn't teach them anything. He just conscripted them
    into an army and tried to use it to invade the Ukraine.

    He's captured some territory, but not nearly enough. It is totally
    immoral as well as pretty foolish, but he doesn't change his mind nearly
    as often as Trump, and he doesn't seem to be obsessed with exploiting photo-opportunities, though he's happy to exploit Trump's obsession with
    them.
    Today's big headline in our local newspaper is about how nice and cool
    it is this year, and something about pizza.

    If your local newspaper published anything accurate about climate
    change, Trump would have then shut down for lese majesty. And the oil
    companies would stop buying advertising space from them.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9

    Oh, the local rag is all climate change, mainly from reusing
    Associated Press feeds.

    It's cold and foggy again, as it usually is here in the Alemany Gap. Yesterday was actually tee shirt weather; not today.

    So what. Climate change is a decade-long process. Weather is chaotic and nobody pays any attention to slow drifts in the climate
    (which isn't chaotic) until some low frequency weather event kills a few people.
    --
    Bill Sloman, Sydney


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