Accujack

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by Accujack 7y ago
The males that produce only male offspring that survive are identical to males that don't. Both types of matings produce eggs that hatch larva. The females die before the eggs hatch, so they never see the offspring, thus it's di
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by Accujack 7y ago
They're turning the moths gay!
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by Accujack 7y ago
>Only if it serves as baseload. ...which is the whole point of nuclear. It's constant power. The means to manufacture, service and maintain battery capacity sufficient to meet our civilization's energy needs from renewables si
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by Accujack 7y ago
Yeah, though most are between 100-200. If you can find a list of what model numbers and revisions will work for your TV, you can watch Ebay for a used one.
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by Accujack 7y ago
You're assuming that this "first step" has no impact. It does, and a company that receives one of these letters must undertake measures to correct the problem ($$$) or else face worse sanctions. Getting a warning letter can
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by Accujack 7y ago
It can, the author of the article is cherry picking facts to make it seem like it can't.
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by Accujack 7y ago
>nuclear really does have some real scaling issues Like what? Almost everything from the linked article is false, I'm surprised it's in IEEE at all. As far as I am aware, nuclear has only the same scaling issues as any other
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by Accujack 7y ago
This is a pretty ignorant statement for a lot of reasons. If you look up the term "FDA warning letter" you'll find out that it's not just a communication... it's a step in the process that may result in sanctions, f
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by Accujack 7y ago
Just FYI, repairing flat panel TVs by replacing the boards is fairly easy. Sometimes it's even an upgrade if you find a newer revision of the same board. The boards tend to be used in multiple models of TV, so they're easier to f
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by Accujack 7y ago
>This was a lab break. Or, the lab happened to be studying a similar virus that existed in local bats?
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by Accujack 7y ago
There are far more confirmed cases now, by the way. That number has almost doubled in the last two days. https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...
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by Accujack 7y ago
I've seen at least one report that says the first known patient (who is not necessarily the one who caught the disease from an animal) never visited the Wuhan market. Despite all the media stating it as fact, it's not certain wher
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by Accujack 7y ago
Well, the ultimate means of fighting involves firearms and things like ropes and trees which are not in the control of corporations. Remember the quote about the boxes to use?
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by Accujack 7y ago
Nifty. LinuxCNC runs with various RT patches, but they've more or less standardized on PREEMPT_RT at this point. Seems like a good choice.
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by Accujack 7y ago
There are at last count three separate sets of patches that add real time support to the Linux kernel. I'm interested to find out which they used or if they wrote their own. True hard real time is great, but not actually necessary for
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by Accujack 7y ago
I could see them potentially selling just the bare motherboard to hobbyists in non certified form. However, they might not since that's the main product, along with the I/O expansion modules and the software that drives all of thi
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by Accujack 7y ago
Just out of curiousity, did you look at the real-time HAL included with LinuxCNC at all? There have been attempts to make that code into a dedicated PLC system now and again. What real time extensions did you use with the Raspbian kernel?
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by Accujack 7y ago
If the modules work as claimed, then $360 a pop is fairly cheap. Real world PLC units capable of extensible digital and analog I/O, networked, usually cost anywhere from $1000 - $10,000 per unit. These aren't little gateways to C
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by Accujack 7y ago
>Near the equator, where most people on the planet live Nope. In fact, a minority of people live near the equator... for good reason: https://www.datagraver.com/case/world-population-distributio... Also, the base lo
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by Accujack 7y ago
Assuming there are that many panels, it is in fact quite easy for any industrialized country to design a weapon that can destroy a square mile of panels or more with a single warhead. They're thin sheets of silicon covered in glass.
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by Accujack 7y ago
The PWR tech was chosen by the US government originally because using that type of reactor supported weapons production. Many countries still want it for that reason. Newer types aren't used yet in the US because the incredible over-r
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by Accujack 7y ago
If you're human, every existential problem has to do with technology. That's who we are.
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by Accujack 7y ago
Same thing for the death toll from coal burning plants. All that ash, deaths from that radioactivity and lung disease, deaths caused by global warming, etc. If you look at a long enough time scale, anything can seem like a giant problem.
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by Accujack 7y ago
It's not. Naturally occurring radioactivity in coal ash means that coal burning power plants release far more radioactivity into our environment than nuclear plants do. In fact, if you want to get the least amount of radioactivity int
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by Accujack 7y ago
Most of the nuclear waste that exists is from weapons production. Nuclear generating plants produce only a very small amount. Right now, small enough amounts of waste are produced that reactors generating power actually store the stuff on
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by Accujack 7y ago
Technically, yes. In practical terms, however, switching nuclear reactors to use the Thorium fuel cycle would allow us to use a supply of fuel that would probably outlast human civilization.
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by Accujack 7y ago
Most likely in that time frame we'll be trying to get by on a mix of renewables and non carbon neutral generation from coal or similar, and we'll also have implemented limits on carbon generation that will effectively be crippling
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by Accujack 7y ago
>Solar is fusion and not fission [1]. If you can't even get that right, why should anyone take these weird pro-fission arguments seriously in 2020? To nitpick a bit, he didn't say the sun was powered by fusion, he said fissiona
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by Accujack 7y ago
It's probably also worth noting that photovoltaics have to be exposed to the sun to work... which means that they can't be protected by armor or bunkers, which means that they're terrifically vulnerable to terrorist or other
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by Accujack 7y ago
That technology is far more expensive than photovoltaic panels.... for example, the solar thermal Ivanpah project is now obsolete for that exact reason. Additionally, The storage density of molten salt is far lower than the generation capac

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