Same. It seems weird not to mention that in the article, since it`s a very popular use case for them.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3290363/chinas-hypersonic-jumbo-jet-prototype-hits-mach-6-gobi-desert-test-flight

Nice, thanks for this extra background! My first thought was scramjet too, but it would be nice of them to mention how it takes off and lands.

The original rendering looks awesome, in a bonkers sci-fi kind of way.

Based on the renderings (as there are no actual photos of this thing, other than the blurry-ass pic of what appears to be a rocket taking off vertically) it’s nowhere near the size of a 747. It actually looks rather like an elongated SR-71, which makes me very skeptical that it can actually hit Mach 6.5 because ramjet engines have a hard limit due to something called “physics”. That fact, plus the rocket-like takeoff, are why I think this is more like the X-15 and can’t sustain its top speed for long.

Whoa. If anyone else s wondering like I was how the hell this works, it’s basically a ZIP file that appears as HTML: https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/Polyglot-HTML-ZIP-PNG

Uhh OK, they’ve matched something the X-15 was doing 65 years ago. What’s the endgame here? Build a ludicrously inefficient passenger aircraft?

Do you use anything other than gmail?

I set my Gmail to forward to Proton when I switched, and gradually replaced the address in all my accounts and told friends and family to no longer use it. It took about a year but now everything goes to my custom domain. You don’t need Proton to do any of that, though. If you want to still reply from your Gmail and don’t care about encryption, Fastmail may be a better fit (although IMO it’s less of a good value compared to all the extras you get with Proton Unlimited)

Either way, I really can’t recommend a custom domain enough. I actually used Fastmail for a year before switching to Proton and it was completely painless thanks to the domain.

You can receive but can’t reply from those addresses in Proton because of the way encryption works. Don’t use Proton if you want to keep sending from any other email address.

Edit: frankly, I wouldn’t bother switching unless you plan on using a custom domain for all your email needs. I’m a firm believer in using your own domain, because that way you can switch providers without needing to change your email address — you always own it, because you own the domain.

ChatGPT-ass article. Is all news going to be like this now?

No

And I speak three and am learning a fourth. It’s just a bad name.

Maybe it’s more like for-gay-joe? Or for-gay-o? For-gee-o? For-gy-o? Who knows?

Great, hopefully this high-profile move makes them change their name into something that can’t be potentially pronounced 8 different ways. Forge-joe? Or more like Jorge-ho?

they may inadvertently replicate bad or even illegal practices

“Inadvertently”? Can we please force every journalist in the world to sit through a 5-minute overview of how LLMs work?

This ties into the age-old debate about platforming bigotry in the name of free speech. Bigots don’t care that much about talking with like-minded people — they want to subject others to their beliefs and to feel as though they are a righteous majority. Without their hapless victims they become like a bully standing alone in the schoolyard, impotently yearning for somebody to punch down on.

Does Ed ever miss? I suppose it must be possible, but I have yet to see it.

Vaxry who got banned from Freedesktop for being an asshat? https://drewdevault.com/2024/04/09/2024-04-09-FDO-conduct-enforcement.html

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Well that’s good news — at least it’s one-and-done and won’t divert resources and money from SNW.