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by acidburnNSA 8mo ago
This is the way. Do you use frigate for NVR or something else?
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by acidburnNSA 8mo ago
Frigate is incredible. I have 3 instances of it (different homes across the family) running using various amcrest and reolink local-only PoE and Wifi cams. I access the remotely using wireguard. One is running on a 2017 miniatx box (Intel i
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by acidburnNSA 8mo ago
I used to do that but switched to Logseq and love it. Most people use obsidian.
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by acidburnNSA 9mo ago
Lots of good stuff in here. One thing to note about building off-grid self-sufficient abodes for "Problem space #3: The zombie apocalypse" is that the roving hordes of warlord-run gangs will consider finding those to be the ultima
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by acidburnNSA 9mo ago
If you have the compose key enabled it's trivial to write all sorts of things. Em dash is compose (right alt for me) --- En dash is compose --. You can type other fun things like section symbol (compose So) and fractions like ⅐ with co
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by acidburnNSA 9mo ago
For me I use en dashes a lot for ranges like 1–N
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by acidburnNSA 10mo ago
Well that was a demo but it didn't quite kick of the 'age'
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by acidburnNSA 10mo ago
Calling plutonium a bridge fuel to HALEU is such a crazy thing to say. Plutonium is derived from Uranium-238, which is 99.3% of natural uranium. HALEU is enriched U-235, which is 0.7%. There's no large-scale nuclear future running on H
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by acidburnNSA 10mo ago
I tried showing a finance guy a Python version of a levelized cost of electricity spreadsheet he made. He laughed in my face and continued using Excel to drive executive decisions.
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by acidburnNSA 11mo ago
It's not that impressive. IMHO. The thing they're demonstrating is that they have connections in the admin sufficient to get access to get stuff done. That can be valuable.
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by acidburnNSA 11mo ago
They used old TRISO fuel from General Atomics, not their own new fuel. They used their connections to Secretary of Energy Chris Wright to get priority access at LANL, who provided nuclear engineering services and an existing critical facili
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by acidburnNSA 11mo ago
I like the idea of battery powered ships for short haul ferries. I'm expecting nuclear-powered civilian ships like the Savannah, Otto Hahn, Mutsu, and all the Russian icebreakers to be the better solution for longer haul cargo, tanker,
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by acidburnNSA 11mo ago
I'm right in the middle of those groups. I think they're mostly crazy and will be hit on the head with the Rickover memo when reactor performance and economics become real considerations, but also I think the industry has been pre
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by acidburnNSA 1y ago
Archive link: https://archive.is/Q3tQ0
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Silicon Valley's Risky Plan to Revive Nuclear Power in America(bloomberg.com)
4 points by acidburnNSA 1y ago|3 comments
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by acidburnNSA 1y ago
The cruise missile is technically easier than the airplane because you don't need to shield the pilot or crew, which is the really hard part in the air because radiation shielding is heavy. Project Pluto got quite far along in the US i
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by acidburnNSA 1y ago
Did you ever try one of those Flash-based room escape games? It was really amazing to lose yourself in the challenges and puzzles.
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by acidburnNSA 1y ago
This was never an actual reactor design. Ford imagined a future where nuclear power could, maybe somehow, be miniaturized. It was a vision. Even as early as 1956, textbooks said [1]: "The fantastic possibility has been envisaged of inc
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by acidburnNSA 1y ago
I have freshrss on a VPS and use the web interface as my client on computers and my phone. Is FocusReader a big upgrade over the native web experience?
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by acidburnNSA 1y ago
I'm not trying to say they were stupid. I'm explaining my lived experience where I needed a lightweight linux server for an internal app and it worked great until a 100% Windows-based IT team policy required that Defender be insta
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by acidburnNSA 1y ago
In my example they literally demanded to run Windows Defender on a Linux server that I requested. There was no Linux experience on the IT team whatsoever.
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by acidburnNSA 1y ago
Good choice! I've been solo boot Linux for years and absolutely love it.
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by acidburnNSA 1y ago
A lot of the corporate IT workforce is heavily invested in Microsoft systems. It creates somewhat of a co-dependency. I only run Linux at home. My mom also runs Linux, though she doesn't really know a lot about it. If I could I would h
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by acidburnNSA 1y ago
Damn. I was hoping that confidential compute could allow nuclear reactor design work (export controlled, not classified) to go into the public cloud and avoid the govcloud high premium costs. But this kind of takes the wind out of the idea.
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by acidburnNSA 1y ago
I have ideas of a plan to help in nuclear, which is to make open source reactor company quality assurance and engineering procedures that establish clear compliance with regs but also incorporate all sorts of efficiency lessons learned
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by acidburnNSA 1y ago
Maybe this article? https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-are-nuclear-power... There is some regulatory burden for sure. But the NRC has been very conducive to standardization, and approved construction and operat
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by acidburnNSA 1y ago
The problem in my mind with a "clean is clean" litmus test is that it eliminates the word "clean"'s ability to differentiate between sustainable and unsustainable human development. Using systematic metrics to annoi
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by acidburnNSA 1y ago
Ok, well by this definition, all human development activity is unclean. This is a perfectly valid point of view but is pretty distinct from the modern definition of clean.
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by acidburnNSA 1y ago
Both those design types were operational in the 1960s in the US but have been shut down due to lack of performance and industrial interest. New interest has started today, but let's not claim the new ones are some kind of new improved
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by acidburnNSA 1y ago
What do you mean? Modern in situ uranium mining is one of the lowest impact mining of resources we have. It's not perfectly clean, but it's pretty darn good.

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