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by blacksqr 4y ago
Still some issues of basic math and physics. If your aim is to heat a house, the most efficient thing you could do with a liter of ethanol is burn it. If inventor is claiming the device can do better than that it's simply perpetual mot
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by blacksqr 4y ago
Hard to make sense of product description, but found a patent: https://data.epo.org/publication-server/document?iDocId=6120... Apparently, hydrogen and oxygen are combusted to produce high-temperature steam, which driv
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by blacksqr 4y ago
It is a dark day when the younglings no longer recognize the sacred Initialed Ones.
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by blacksqr 4y ago
Our path is clear. Pave over all forests and our climate change problems are over.
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by blacksqr 4y ago
Waiting for the announcement of an even more intrusive technology called Proctolio.
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If reduced income is so tightly linked to greater mortality, the only sane and human response is to guarantee a universal minimum income.
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by blacksqr 4y ago
Good point, I should have clarified that I meant fantasies of one's own country's medieval period, which of course the USA did not have.
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by blacksqr 4y ago
Medievalist movements in England, Germany and Japan, among other places, were the window dressing of racist, nationalist political movements in those countries. They called to mind a simpler time when the Folk were pure of heart and blood,
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by blacksqr 4y ago
> Much material is drawn from the 19th century, when the Romantic movement created its own version of the Middle Ages Author confuses the Romantic movement with the Pre-Raphaelite movement. The Romantic movement was proto-modernist and s
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by blacksqr 4y ago
When they say salt, they don't mean sodium chloride, they mean a NaCl–KCl–AlCl3 complex that melts at relatively low temperature.
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Tcl.
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Subversion Guidelines (2021) [pdf](home.thep.lu.se)
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Debuggers don't give you enough information when you want more, and too much information when you want less. Learning and effectively using a debugger can require as much cognitive load as programming itself. Given that, using a debugg
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by blacksqr 4y ago
Tclmake, a partial Make clone in pure Tcl: https://github.com/TclLab/tclmake
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To me, the issue and flaw with this argument, as with most computation-based theories about existence and consciousness, is that we like to conceive of computation in purely abstract terms. But it's been known since the 1940s that the
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System Tools Library: Windows and Linux system management tools(github.com)
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Tcled: Pure Tcl Console Text Editor (2019)(github.com)
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by blacksqr 4y ago
> A neural network is really a mathematical system that learns skills by pinpointing patterns in vast amounts of digital data. And that's different from a brain, because... ?
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tl;dr The concept of artificial sentience makes me feel icky, and the people who believe in it are weird, therefore it cannot exist.
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Non-Materialist Physicalism (2021)(physicalism.com)
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by blacksqr 4y ago
Speaker in the video clearly does not remember the 1990s, because that's when the collaborative peer-to-peer file sharing technology he describes was invented. If he did remember, he would know the answer to why his vision has never c
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by blacksqr 4y ago
Yet you can be sure that some will still complain about the lack of atmosphere.
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It seems absurd that a state that's literally an active volcano can't get all its energy from geothermal sources.
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> What was needed was a project so ludicrously ambitious, yet so immeasurably beneficial to all the European powers, that it would at last force them to put aside their differences and cooperate Interesting, so he was a sort of inverse O
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This will be used as an ominous foreshadowing scene in the movie that will be made about the coming AI war.
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Learn the difference between imperative and declarative! Knowing the difference between imperative and declarative is very important.
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N.B. the Tcl script is absurdly inefficient. A single simple optimization cuts the run time in half.
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The actual news here is that a research group has developed a new greener way to generate synthesis gas (the standard way is to inject water or steam into a chamber of burning coal). Once you have the synthesis gas, there are existing metho
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by blacksqr 4y ago
Yes. Put the solution to a global crisis threatening the survival of everyone on earth behind a paywall.
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"a power density of as much as 7 W per square meter of heat exchanger surface was measured for some runs at 40°C. This value is much higher than values obtained with membrane systems"

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