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by boznz 4mo ago
The Rolls Royce modular reactor update page [1] leaves me scratching my head as to where they are, it seems they've passed some really hard UK regulation though, maybe the official source is not the best: [1] https://www.rol
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by boznz 4mo ago
Gutenberg might be ugly, but it was fast to load, had all the data I needed and I was downloading the ePub within 5 seconds. That's a winning formulla these days in my book (no pun intended)
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by boznz 4mo ago
The book has aged, but humanity hasn't
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by boznz 4mo ago
Add both my Sci-Fi/Techno-Thriller ePub books to this list DRM Free, and Free as in Beer if you download them off my website. https://rodyne.com/
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by boznz 4mo ago
I take your point, but an IC is not pure silicon
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by boznz 4mo ago
There are still plenty of us writing the book start to finish with all our own words and plots, it is very tempting to use AI to get the cover art correct, but going to a cover artist will these days likely get you the same "AI assiste
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by boznz 4mo ago
And get confirmation bias on whatever they write from like-minded cronies, without the usual anonymous piss-takers.. kinda sad really!
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by boznz 4mo ago
Yeah, based on the people and organizations moving there, RedSky would be more appropriate.
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by boznz 4mo ago
I receive a dozen or so emails a year from people who read my free sci-fi books. they are generally to say thanks, or to point out spelling errors or something factually incorrect that I have usually fixed. Most are shocked I reply. I guess
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by boznz 4mo ago
This is a technical site (or was at one point in time), I for one would be happy with zero of this shit.
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by boznz 4mo ago
Neither are the politicians, or the influencers, or Hollywood, they all have an end-game, a message or something to sell, none of these people are better than you, yet people pick someone and agrees with everything they say. The world has l
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by boznz 4mo ago
For my free novels which I deliberately keep the styles to header2 and body text, it is surprising the amount of crud that all the ePub conversion softwares generate, especially since they are just zipped web-pages. These days I usually get
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by boznz 4mo ago
A shame electricity is not the whole picture when it comes to energy. The resurgence in EV sales off the back of high gas prices is awesome, but almost 100% of bulk transport costs still rely on oil. Also, unlike EV's which can be plug
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by boznz 4mo ago
Not just the US, a lot of developed countries have outsourced the problem to China (or other countries) to look good on paper, and tanked their local manufacturing as a by-product. It will be interesting how history records this moment.
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by boznz 4mo ago
Traveled the world in my youth and regretfully did not visit several notable locations when I lived close-by. Now I'm partially retired I am making up for it big time - though it helps having a great starting point. Last week I hiked t
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by boznz 5mo ago
The various CERN web pages such as this were a treasure trove of information when I was working on my last novel. I actually included a few paragraphs on Castor thinking of using it as a side-plot, but my editor cut the plot out along with
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by boznz 5mo ago
The Verge used to be my go to site for technology, now it just spouts the same crap as everyone else. Sad really.
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by boznz 5mo ago
Nothing 'apparent' about it.
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by boznz 5mo ago
Nice article. I had to go down this rabbit-hole researching my first book. Actual likelihood of anyone actually being able to receive these past a few tens of LY is quite low without very sensitive receivers. Also as another commenter point
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by boznz 5mo ago
.. or Downvote
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by boznz 5mo ago
Those that can Do, those that can't Bullshit.
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by boznz 5mo ago
Retired so two projects; a 2D arcade board using a RP2350, and my 3rd sci-fi/techno-thriller novel: Currently approx 140,000 words into a 100,000 word novel and about 50% complete.
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by boznz 5mo ago
There is a very clear effect, the bureaucrats can distance themselves from any unpopular policies or decisions and blame the consultants.
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by boznz 6mo ago
Why have a stack, machine-code all the way down baby
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by boznz 6mo ago
Due to increased regulation etc you cannot just translate 1985 $, £ or Euro to a 2026 one. There is an actual example in the UK Hinkley Point C current estimate $43b, (£35b) where as sizewell B commissioned in 1987 was $3.2b billion (£2b) o
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by boznz 6mo ago
decoupling is a real issue, but I think you are right in this case.
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by boznz 6mo ago
All the trends say this will be the case in a few years, but a lot of people like to pretend otherwise.
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by boznz 6mo ago
Reading non-fiction maybe, but reading fiction is about escaping and immersing yourself in another world for a few hours, like gaming, and I doubt people will ever stop doing either.
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by boznz 6mo ago
Yes, not a good time to be a new author, as I well know, but you also need to go back to the title of this post "why I write" - There is a lot more to wanting to write than fame and money (which you are very unlikely to see either
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by boznz 6mo ago
Seriously DONT CHANGE THE FUCKING POST TITLE AFTER SOMEONE HAS COMMENTED

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