MertsA

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by MertsA 5y ago
Nuclear being absurdly expensive feels a lot like rocket launches being expensive. We went from the Saturn V with a ballpark cost of 8,800 $/kg adjusted for inflation to the shuttle costing anywhere from 54,500 to 18,000 $/kg and
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by MertsA 5y ago
>no terrorists make off with radioactive material. The reactors that aren't infamous have already had all fuel removed. The one that was scattered all over the countryside has plenty of highly radioactive debris but you can't r
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by MertsA 5y ago
Of the 3 fatalities during that riot 2 were self inflicted and the only remaining one was when a rioter breached the last line of defence between the people screaming "Hang Mike Pence!" and 60 to 80 members of congress. There&#x27
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by MertsA 5y ago
>Interfering with her reception of broadcast TV is what is illegal. It doesn't need to impact more than one person. That's not illegal, also this was in the U.K. Governments regulate the airwaves, that authority ends at the ant
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by MertsA 5y ago
That's on a shared antenna so no significant broadcast going on, just interfering on the local coax. Never heard of antennas being shared between homes before like that but if it is what he says then it'd be too low power to matte
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by MertsA 5y ago
HDDs also use ECC hence why read errors occur on failing drives instead of just silently returning corrupt data. That's not an ironclad guarantee and plenty of places in the data path can let an errant cosmic ray flip bits. BTRFS doesn
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by MertsA 5y ago
What's nice is that as of Linux 5.16 BTRFS now supports ZNS ( https://zonedstorage.io/ ) to drastically reduce write amplification compared to traditional SSDs by bypassing a lot of the FTL and moving to an interface tha
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by MertsA 5y ago
That's not the only iMessage loophole. They also obscure key distribution and have the ability to add and remove keys that are ostensibly for your devices at will. Technically you can check in keychain but virtually no one even does th
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by MertsA 5y ago
No, there's very little helium produced for the same reason that fusion generates massive amounts of energy from very tiny amounts of fuel. In fact there'd be more helium produced in the nuclear reactor generating the tritium than
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by MertsA 5y ago
You'll never come close to getting the visibility that you can with a backup camera. With a decent backup camera the only blind spots are actually underneath the car itself. You can't possibly match that without a camera on anythi
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by MertsA 5y ago
Plenty of people did and found that it did not do anything to them. The origin of the claim that aspartame is an ant poison was this article. https://www.thespoof.com/spoof-news/science-technology/11213... There i
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by MertsA 5y ago
But much more insulin than appropriate will lower blood sugar. This would be more of a question of whether or not aspartame causes an insulin response from the taste.
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by MertsA 5y ago
So long as you don't open the bottle before it has had time to redissolve the CO2 while being nice and cool you should be fine. Same thing applies to shaken or heated soda, so long as the CO2 doesn't leave the bottle it's rev
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by MertsA 5y ago
Was it already frozen when you transferred it to the fridge? That kind of sounds like it was supercooled and it happened to crash out while in the fridge. Once it freezes that's as high as the pressure will ever get, thawing it will on
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by MertsA 5y ago
I found one of these once for a client I was doing some work for. It was an Ecommerce site as well and they had the "brilliant" idea of "solving" SQL injection by exiting early and stopping the page from loading if the U
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by MertsA 5y ago
These loans are illegal in most states however the loan sharks have paid individuals associated with a native american tribe to "own" the company in an effort to claim tribal sovereignty much like casinos like to do in states wher
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by MertsA 5y ago
Diesel might be cleaner in dense cities leading to less smog but coal power around the world still belts out plenty of particulates, scubbers are not perfect and regulations are lax in some localities. One area is marine shipping where diff
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by MertsA 5y ago
Since they're claiming the tried and true "Won't somebody think of the children!" past work on the matter seems relevant. https://nypost.com/2020/06/10/how-facebook-helped-feds-catch...
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by MertsA 5y ago
I think a better example might be cement production. For a blast furnace you don't just need heat, you need to chemically react some reducing agent with the iron ore. Generally that's either coal coke or methane reacting with the
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by MertsA 5y ago
And yet tons of them involve shipping packages of money to US addresses and having a mule pick it up. So many times these scams will involve trying to convince their victims that the IRS only accepts payment via iTunes gift cards. Apple doe
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by MertsA 5y ago
I think part of the motivation here is tying it in with the PSP and having the root of trust be the processor and not processor for some stuff and motherboard for others. For PSP related stuff it does make sense to centralize on AMD rather
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by MertsA 5y ago
Facebook was a straight rename to Meta, no parent company or anything.
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by MertsA 5y ago
I don't understand the interest here. It's not like fungi are magically more effective than virtually any other mass at absorbing ionizing radiation and subatomic particles. "Self-replicating" is meaningless when it need
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by MertsA 5y ago
>CGNAT exists (and well... it "works"). FTFY. CGNAT means consumers get to be behind a double NAT, no port forwarding, poor P2P support, etc. CGNAT is the IPv4 solution of last resort.
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by MertsA 5y ago
>The financial industry couldn't tell the difference between the two so now everyone tries to hide their IDs. What's sad and funny is that the login page for "The Work Number" quite literally uses the following for th
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by MertsA 5y ago
If you're not going for a speedrun and just proceeding at a casual rate it works pretty well to start https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3zvVGJrTP8 in the background. Back when this came out I used to challenge my son to
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by MertsA 5y ago
Turn around at the start.
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by MertsA 5y ago
Don't forget the incident when just running Windows on your MacBook could damage the speakers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh-TdgfSNLs Or more recently the 2019 MBP where plugging in the charger on the left side of
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by MertsA 5y ago
These charlatans sell a $10,000 "Active Ground Block" complete with a 5 day long burn in process. https://www.synergisticresearch.com/power/accessories/galile... Just when I think I've seen the peak
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by MertsA 5y ago
Just looking through the top of the list I see a lot of usernames that I'm not familiar with and some of the more recognizable users further down. There is definitely a significant difference between comment count and karma.

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