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Conservatives call on Elon Musk to step in after Liberals provide loan to Ottawa-based satellite operator
  • Yes. Burning debris in the upper atmosphere has unknown effets on the environment, plus the exploitation of rare earth metal that cannot be recycled and the energy expenditure. Musk want to burn more satellites per year than what we ever launched prior to this, and every other greedy company wants to follow suit with their own junk.

  • No One Is Buying AMD Zen 5 CPUs, So What's Going On?
  • My modelling is CPU bound as it's a model made in Fortran by physicists (me included). The fact is that I wouldn't get a 4x boost, and a model running overnight still would. When I actually need performance I use a 1000 cores compute cluster for multiple days, so that would never run on any consumer CPU anyways.

    For the data processing, the real bottle neck is disk access and my scripting speed, so the CPU doesn't really need to be amazing.

  • Light Pollution vs Streetlights & Perceived Safety
  • I just want to say, as a light pollution researcher, it warms my heart to see people start to get it.

    You're on the right track and got plenty of good suggestions already. I'll add that the way to improve the feeling of safety is to light the faces of people, so you need lights at least taller than humans if you want them pointing downwards. Uniformity of lighting is also a big part, so multiple small lamps tend to be better than one big one.

    In short, keep it dim, amber/red, uniform, localized, downward pointing (with dark roads if possible) and turn it off when not needed (most town in France shit off the lights in the evening and no one complained).

    Also, keeping the streets narrow, winding and having buildings close (aka European streets) will confine the light in the city better than the opposite.

    Feel free to ask me anything and good luck!

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