It's fantastic how objects as distant and extreme as neutron stars are becoming our best tool for testing the foundations of physics.

This is terrifying. The article accurately describes how the drive to build satellite mega-constellations (Starlink, etc.) has become a direct threat to science and security.

If the simulations are true and satellites will ruin up to 96% of images from orbiting telescopes, and potentially obscure near-Earth asteroids, we are facing a crisis.

This conflict between communications and astronomy demands immediate, international regulation. Technological progress cannot come at the expense of global planetary security and fundamental scientific research. Companies must be held accountable for polluting the orbit.

It looks both ridiculous and terrifying; it seems to mock the people it describes, but they are the ones in power

A brilliantly described story that painfully exposes the problem: how can we trust code and configuration reviews when experts are being undermined in favor of a ChatGPT answer? I agree that it is crucial to close this 'knowledge gap' between what developers think they understand and the reality of the situation. You mentioned the need to create new guidelines for non-technical people using AI. Do you see a chance for the LLMs themselves to be equipped with more effective 'Guardrails' in the future? Specifically, 'Guardrails' that, in critical security matters, would require the user to provide references (e.g., a link to official documentation) before the model delivers a categorical verdict?"

gaming chair, it's really comfortable, so I can sit longer without back or neck pain insurance for headphones, usually the ones I had would break after about 2 years, just after the warranty, after buying insurance I don't have to worry about that for the next 5

Apply the same logic you did to chair acquisition to headphones. Yes, the good stuff costs more, but also lasts longer. I bought top-end turtle beaches a while back and actually saved because I can use them on my work and home machines, and they sound great. Metal band, low pleather (which always fails after 6 mo to a year), great sound, Bluetooth, 2 dongles for 2 devices. Win.

In my opinion, it cannot be said that the cure has been found; this is a single case, perhaps an exception to the rule.

I think this could convince many gasoline-powered car supporters, but what about the price? Probably only a few will be able to afford it.

I understand thatnyou tjink ADHD is a type of autism ?

I think of ADHD and autism as brothers, or at least cousins. Lots of overlap, but not quite the same.

With the older concept and diagnosic criteria for autism there was less overlap. ADHD and autism used to be considered mutually exclusive diagnoses. Autism used to imply delays in speech and most people diagnosed also had significant intellectual disability. Autism is now a dramatically larger umbrella than it used to be with the last couple of DSM editions merging Aspergers and other conditions with it and making it not be mutually exclusive with ADHD. The shift in definitions makes autism extremely difficult to discuss in public because people have wildly different concepts of it depending on when they learned.

Side comment, merging Asperger's into autism was motivated in part by awareness of Hans Asperger's evil deeds and not wanting that association. It was also championed based on enabling help/protections given to autistics to folks with Aspergers as well, and maybe because being part of a larger and harder to ignore pool would help autistics with intellectual disabilities get more attention as well. So far I haven't seen a clear explanation of why it made sense in terms of better understanding the condition/difference, everyone that discusses it focuses on perceived potential social good.

A big factor was the defining feature of Asperger's being a lack of language delay, which turned out to be poorly correlated with life outcomes. The categories were also used very inconsistently - a lot of people, and some clinics, thought the Asperger's distinction implied far more than it did on paper, but not everyone went along with that.

Not quite, but I think there's a lot of overlap between ADHD and autism, and that the labels are becoming increasingly blurry.

The final paragraph touched on it:

> It is, I think, too early to say with any confidence that autism and ADHD (or KCS) share a common root in monotropism, but the overlapping traits of the people receiving each label clearly demand some kind of explanation, and preliminary results do suggest that each is strongly correlated with monotropism – especially in combination.

Also, a definition of monotropism from their homepage (not my writing):

> I believe that the best way to understand autistic minds is in terms of a thinking style which tends to concentrate resources in a few interests and concerns at any time, rather than distributing them widely. This style of processing, monotropism, explains many features of autistic experience that may initially seem puzzling, and shows how they are connected.

Diagnosed with both (as a child, then again as an adult after ignoring said diagnosis for a long time) I’ve been continually told there is a close link between the two, in that it’s not uncommon if you have one, to be diagnosed with the other.

I’ll say I’ve found “treatments” from both schools helpful. Even though I resisted stuff on the autism side for a long time because I felt “insulted” by it and was convinced it was a diagnosis made in error.