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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Awesome, that is very helpful. > Then the _material_ is a store of energy. Once it's exhausted, the condensation will stop. The paper points out that the sample was surface that maintains a particular temperature (20 degrees C in th
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Sounds about right. I certainly thought it was "infinite" money at the time.
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Oh that's priceless. Real time HN feedback loops.
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I will never understand people who can't think of anything to do if they didn't have a job. Let me ask you a question and perhaps it will help? What if there was something wonderful and curious that you could explore and someone
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
It was definitely an interesting time. That said, the summer of '78 I was renting a room from an IBM engineer who had bought a Heathkit H-11 and was using it to trade stocks. They would enter the prices from the Wall Street Journal eve
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
This: "Water evaporates in higher temperatures, radiates the heat into space, and falls out as rain." The paper says, "Water vapor in the nano-pores radiates its heat into the material and comes out to the surface as liquid
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Does hydroelectric power violate the second law of thermodynamics in your opinion? I mean 1. Drops fall from the sky 2. They collect and flow down a river 3. We use that river to generate hydroelectric power to get free energy! Water vapor,
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Okay, I see where we diverge. The 'cube' was something I was thinking about not in the paper. I'll see if I can describe what I was thinking and you can tell me it breaks the rules :-). You coat a piece of aluminum with nano-
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Okay I think we're saying the same thing, but let me check that.. > This can be done by storing energy in the material itself (that's how desiccants work) This is exactly where the energy goes. From the paper (in it's Mate
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
You didn't read the paper did you :-). First, it isn't a "condenser" (which is kind of the cool science here) it is more of a molecular sieve that exploits two materials (one that repels, and one that attracts) the molec
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
I think the work stands out anyway. Unlike adsorption techniques there is zero change to the mechanism which just keeps pulling water from the air. Presumably, they will put a layer of this material on aluminum to conduct the latent heat an
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
As a coding abstraction I really like this (not sure I'm completely understanding it, but it sounds handy.) I wonder if that's because I spent a couple of years doing kernel programming at Sun? Its nice to be able to write sleep(f
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Nice work! I love an "impossible" problem that falls to bounding estimates like this one does. There was a surprisingly lot of work done in protein folding that had similar sorts of techniques to eliminate structures that would ei
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
This is some great research, the paper is here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59675-5.pdf and there are two things that stand out in it, the first is that they used a "commercial graphene transistor&q
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Worlds first petahertz transistor at ambient conditions(news.arizona.edu)
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
"That's no moon" :-). But more seriously, just another giant lump of stuff swinging around the solar system. I am not an astronomer, so I'm not sure about some of the things I'm reading in that report but to me, it
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
> It's not true that every piece of software is trivial to copy in a clean-room way, that is, only being able to observe its behaviour and not any implementation details. Ideally, you can change the way you look at this slightly.
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
This is pretty cool. I believe it was Bob Metcalf at PARC who had a device in his office that was hooked up to the 3Mbs Ethernet cable and would essentially do the same thing. He built and installed it to get a feel for how much of an issue
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
I get that you're kind of joking but your right! Because nobody can "change" the Win32 ABI except Microsoft you don't get contributors pushing various "feature improvements" on it, not that there aren't a
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
>Not understanding this part, aren't Linux distros achieving this already without licence restrictions and various levels of stability depending on the distro selected? No. Ask yourself, if I install distro <pick one>, can I r
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
> Still, the company with the forked distro would definitely take a bite out of Microsoft's Windows business, if only a small one. That has not been shown to be the case. There is ample evidence that other companies would run this &
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
This is a very good point that has been proven over and over again in the industry. I recall being at Sun and having the argument over ONC and whether or not it should be "open" (which at the time meant everyone could get a copy o
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
"Space Theranos" wins the day for me. There really needs to be a better term than "stupid money" for investors who can be convinced with a slick presentation that by investing in a venture the principals will bring to ma
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
I had the live tracking up and went to bed and apparently it fell out of the sky about 90 minutes later :-). I was hoping that if it started burning over North America I'd be able to go out and see it go over. Alas. I heard rumors that
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Interesting that they took out the hospital/clinic ? Seems like it would be useful. In the US there are 'golf course to the grave' type communities for adults who want to go smoothly from the 50's into the afterlife. And
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
From the article: " Evidence of that dichotomy is not hard to find. As automakers have introduced vehicles with more advanced computing and electrical architectures, they have also struggled to deliver bug-free software on time. "
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Before you can do any of that I'd challenge you to write an AI agent that can crawl the web and only retain "real" information in it's data set. One can pick an arbitrary set of attributes that define "real", I
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
My wife was looking at the mini REI museum of camping gear and her back packing camping stove (a SVEA 123) which she still uses, was identical to one of the artifacts on display.
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
I see it a bit differently, many (most?) web sites explicitly deny scraping execept for Google. Further Google has the infrastructure to crawl several trillion web pages and create a relevant index out of the most authoritative 1.5 trilli
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Ah the memories eh? I had a Digital Group Z80 system with a keyboard that encoded the keypress as an 8 bit value that could be read by the computer It was 6 bits of key press and one bit for shift and one bit for control. I actually know wh

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