MertsA

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by MertsA 4y ago
The problem I have with this is that we essentially already have a national ID system. Social Security numbers are ubiquitous despite their original intention to not be used for identification because there's no existing national alter
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by MertsA 4y ago
Er, but it's still vitrified and stable as a glassy material that's less prone to leaching fission products into any water right? As far as I understand it, the whole point of vitrifying it is to trap anything and everything aside
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by MertsA 4y ago
If you vitrified it first honestly it'd probably be totally fine. An arguably better plan is just get serious about reprocessing and work towards cleaner processes than PUREX. Not even necessarily a completely new process, just better
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by MertsA 4y ago
That's also essentially how a lot of financing arrangements are already made on the consumer side anyways. When getting financing over the weekend the dealer will draft up a contract between them and the consumer and then later on tran
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by MertsA 4y ago
Basically one. Now if it was 50 kg then you're getting into the realm of criticality.
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by MertsA 4y ago
A few minutes is more than enough under normal conditions. Modern electronics all have bleed resistors that drain any dangerous capacitors when the device is off. In microwave capacitors the bleed resistor is built into the metal can of the
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by MertsA 4y ago
OMFG, I thought this was a hypothetical at the start of this comment. Forget GPUs, $150 for a Raspberry Pi Zero??? And people say Bitcoin is Tulip mania.
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by MertsA 4y ago
I think this has a bit of bad advice for using cp or shell redirection to read / write to raw block devices but dd isn't necessarily the best either. Personally any time I'm trying to image some hard drive, damaged or otherwi
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by MertsA 4y ago
nitrocellulose isn't necessarily very stable. If it's an amateur making gun cotton there's always the risk that they won't properly wash out the acid and if there's enough left, when left to dry the evaporation of t
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by MertsA 4y ago
Forget decoys, some of the videos coming out of Ukraine were showing plenty of Russian tanks with the bags for the reactive armor sagging down clearly only holding the spacers and no ERA plates. It's like the troops believed the cover
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by MertsA 4y ago
It still doesn't burn well unless it's in a fine mist. Even just a puddle of diesel is actually quite difficult to get burning on its own without some other material as a wick of sorts. https://youtu.be/7nL10C7FSbE
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by MertsA 4y ago
I think it's incredibly sad how much regulators let PayPal, Ebay, Apple, and Google get away with in regards to facilitating scammers. Right now PayPal has a loophole in their policies regarding "significantly not as described&quo
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by MertsA 4y ago
Neat, that's one subject that's always bugged me as every article or video out there just handwaves away settling of propellant tanks in orbit with "ullage thrusters". No one ever mentions how you get a nice continuous f
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by MertsA 4y ago
Not as unique as you might assume. https://soatok.blog/2022/02/09/using-rsa-securely-in-2022/ His technical blog posts are top notch mixed in with furry drawings and content galore. Definitely unexpected
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by MertsA 4y ago
Ooof, I knew about filial responsibility laws and the nursing homes abusing them but that sounds downright unconstitutional to enforce them on citizens without some kind of personal voluntary nexus to that state.
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by MertsA 4y ago
How sad is it that Microsoft is more open to supporting game mods than Mojang when Mojang promised a modding API was just around the corner for years and owed a lot of their success to the modders they seemed to spite. The funny thing is th
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by MertsA 4y ago
Presumably CGNAT implementations have some safeguards to prevent one client from exhausting state tables.
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by MertsA 5y ago
That's just not the case. Pumped hydro is fundamentally limited in scope. It might be fairly cost effective but you only have a small amount of suitable sites, it can never scale up by many orders of magnitude to support the energy sto
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by MertsA 5y ago
For a datapoint on Sceptre quality, I've got two 24" Sceptre monitors in front of me that are incredibly annoying because Sceptre cheaped out and doesn't bother to program the monitor serial number into the EDID and instead j
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by MertsA 5y ago
And yet it's still commonplace for electronics to come with stickers saying "Warranty void if seal broken" despite what the law actually states. Magnuson-Moss was passed in 1975. It has been 47 years and still corporations fl
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by MertsA 5y ago
The datacenter in question was going to deliver residual heat to the community. Not really sure how well that works with a datacenter given the relatively low temperature exhaust air but yeah, you jest, but that was apparently the plan. ht
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by MertsA 5y ago
Nobody is proposing planting trees as if that makes burning fossil fuels okay. https://tech.fb.com/engineering/2021/04/renewable-energy/ Facebook's renewable energy projects are pretty impressive an
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by MertsA 5y ago
Not true, they add a bitterant but if it's in the US they're still required to add acetone and methyl isobutyl ketone as well. https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/27/21.49 That formula clearly spel
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by MertsA 5y ago
No one is selling 70% ethanol as an antiseptic, it's isopropyl alcohol. Those additives in ethanol not intended for consumption are 8 parts acetone and 1.5 parts methyl isobutyl ketone to 100 parts ethanol. There are some rare ethanol
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by MertsA 5y ago
I'd suggest looking at the section on Adults and Microwave ovens. Over many cases of people being exposed to an open and operating microwave oven the only injuries were burns close to the surface and peripheral neuropathy from placing
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by MertsA 5y ago
On the contrary, IR penetrates past the dermis. Also, IR is much much higher energy than microwaves although both are non-ionizing radiation and will only result in heating. The amount of heating you get from the sun spread over a square me
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by MertsA 5y ago
I'm pretty sure he's passed that boundary long ago. I'm surprised the power company hasn't tried to stop service yet.
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by MertsA 5y ago
I'd imagine you wouldn't necessarily need to decap the entire chip, just the small part of the die with the fuses. The Xbox 360 Kamikaze hack involved drilling into the package to hit one of the bond wires so coming up with a way
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by MertsA 5y ago
That seems odd, can't high heat cause enough of an "annealing" effect to allow the charge to leak out and reset the cell? I don't know how much heating you could safely manage on a single point on the die but this would
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by MertsA 5y ago
The fuel going into a reactor has a tiny amount of radioactivity. The technicians handling fresh fuel bundles don't need lead lined protective gear, just some gloves and clean room procedures to keep the technician's greasy grubby

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