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For users of both, how does this compare to searchGPT, in terms of results quality and quantity?


Is it snake oil? The amount of power that would be delivered to the ground seems quite minuscule based on that small orbital mirror size.

In fact it should be over three orders of magnitude lower than that of normal sunlight on the solar panel, which is roughly 1000 W per square meter.

Here are the calculations:

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Assumptions:

Solar constant: 1366 W/m²

Mirror area: 100 m² (10 m x 10 m)

Reflectivity of aluminized Mylar: 90%

Atmospheric attenuation: 70% of reflected sunlight reaches Earth’s surface

Spot diameter on Earth: 500 meters

Spot area on Earth: π × (250 m)² ≈ 196,350 m²

Calculation:

Total incident power = 1366 W/m² × 100 m² = 136,600 W

Reflected power (after reflectivity) = 136,600 W × 0.90 = 122,940 W

Power reaching Earth’s surface (after atmospheric attenuation) = 122,940 W × 0.70 = 86,058 W

Power per square meter actually delivered at Earth’s surface = 86,058 W ÷ 196,350 m² ≈ 0.438 W/m²


Since it has the eink it could also be a book reader. I know that once too many things are added it takes away from the low aspect, but that seems like a good one to me.


It's hard to get a sense of dimensions from the images show, but this seems likely to be a ~5" screen, possibly smaller.

You can read on a device of that size, but would do much better with a larger device in most cases, 8" minimum for flowed text, 10" or 13" if you read many PDFs.

(I've been driving a 13.3" Onyx BOOX for the past 3+ years, and like it a lot. One of its key strengths is its size, though that comes with a price.)


No problem with this is it it does not interfere with infection. Only with replication. So it will not stop people from becoming infected.


It does in fact prevent infection you have misunderstood.

It very clearly prevents infection incredibly well, proof of that in the real world is exactly why there is excitement over this drug.

It also sounds as though you misunderstood the mechanism, it interferes in both an early and a late step in the viral process, there no theoretical reason to describe it as "not interfering with infection".


From what I read, it interferes with capsid formation. Since HIV is a retrovirus, by the time capsid formation is happening it has already integrated itself with the host cell’s DNA.

That implies that as long as the drug is present, the virus won’t be able to replicate, however as soon as the drug is no longer present the virus will start replicating. Because the cell has been infected.


There's no infection without replication.


Of course, the illness cannot get worse without the virus first infecting a cell, and then replicating in that cell to infect other cells in the body, and then potentially infecting other hosts; that is how a virus works, right?

Now, if replication is stopped, AND the body is able to destroy the first infected cell, then the patient is cured, but otherwise?

I guess that even if the body's immune system cannot get rid of that "patient cell zero", it is quite possible that a 6 month period is enough for the cell to die from the virus.

I do not have any medical training though, so please correct me if I am wrong.


Epithelial skin / mucosa cells are the most likely "patient zero" cells, and those are shed regularly.


Infection is when the virus replicates faster than the body can eliminate it.


I really believe that reliable and safe autonomous driving requires LIDAR or something else that gives direct distance readouts In all lighting conditions.


I bought Affinity and have tried to use it but really don’t find it anything like equivalent to the Adobe products unfortunately.

For color correction of photographs, PhotoPea does a much better job than Affinity I feel.

After wasting 15 or 30 minutes trying to get Affinity to work for a photo touchup and color correction, I give up and use PhotoPea.


Affinity has really sophisticated colour editing controls.

For example you can apply adjustment layers and then use a blend curve (not just blend ranges) to moderate it. So if you want warmer shadows, it's as easy as using a colour temperature adjustment to warm up your image and then adjusting the curve so that it doesn't apply where you don't want it.

And you have cross-model curves: you can apply Lab curves to RGB model images without converting.

It has a Capture-One-style HSL wheel. It supports LUTs (and LUT inference!)

I can think of some things Photoshop does that Affinity Photo does not, but I've been using it nine years now for my photography and web work (along with Designer). I think for almost every normal Photoshop user[0] there's no reason not to use Affinity Photo instead.

[0] Unless you're particularly wedded to Lightroom, for which there is no Affinity alternative.


The drug, Lenacapavir, is a capsid inhibitor. That means it prevents HIV virus from assembling into infectious particles by interfering with the production of the capsid and packaging of viral RNA into it.

This also means that it actually does not stop infection. Cells still get infected, but this drug prevents more virus from being produced.

My question is, since there are infected cells in these individuals, if they stop taking the drug aren’t they likely to become immediately highly infected, because the drug only interferes with viral replication while it is present in the body? Once infected, a cell is permanently infected.

I think this should be the case, unless infected cells are somehow killed off through some other mechanism: maybe they get lysed through an accumulation of partially formed capsids?

Seems important to know anyway


Alien Blue works better than Apollo in reader mode in several very significant ways:

- In AB dark mode there is no white flash! The screen stays black while the page is loading. In Apollo the screen goes white until the page is finished loading.

- In AB the reader mode forces all sites into reader / minimal HTML mode whether or not the website wants to allow reader mode

- In AB the reader mode seems to get more images and other content which is left out of reader mode by websites. It also seems to be less confused by some websites that display something other than the main content when reader mode is selected.


Disappointed that there was no reply to this from the developer. Apparently he either doesn't care about these issues or finds them too difficult to correct!


I met Barlow in 1995 in Cannes at the digital conference (the name of which I forget) that was held there, where I was trying to get international distribution for a product I'd created. We had dinner together at a funky restaurant up the hill which might have been called the Flying Saucer.

We'd met at a cocktail party earlier that day while I was arguing with Nicolas Negroponte after a talk he'd given where he had claimed that the internet would automatically route around any barrier. I was telling him that the Chinese were bound to put in border routers or firewalls blocking their citizens from accessing content they didn't want them to see.

Barlow chimed in and said that I was right and that we had to stop that from happening everywhere. Negroponte didn't want to hear it.

Now it turns out we were both right: the Chinese and others try to block data with varying success and the Internet still to some extent routes around it. I wish there was less of the former and more of the latter.


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