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by dbtx 7y ago
It's not the kind of tech which people are largely interested in when they say fusion energy. But fusors are already built and used commercially, consuming energy to produce something else. Helium could just be another derived product,
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by dbtx 7y ago
IANAP but I imagine this for a worst case: we are forced to find a way to painstakingly harvest it from vast arrays of solar-powered Hirsch-Farnsworth fusors. Then later on the question will be, "Will we run out of deuterium?"
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by dbtx 7y ago
No, it never occurred to me, so I'll have to check. It'd be nice to resell a refurbished board to someone, someday... at least the connectors are all labeled, so testing it is still possible without the TV. Thanks for the tip.
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by dbtx 7y ago
PBS video buried in the article: https://www.pbs.org/video/kcts-9-documentaries-circuit/ This reminds me of one I saw quite some time ago: The Toxic E-Waste Trade Killing Pakistan's Poorest ( https:/&#x2
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by dbtx 7y ago
They want a minimum 7-character login, and first & last name-- then it seems you can't just type your desired actual address's name@mailfence.com , instead you have to select from a short list of varied combinations of login,
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by dbtx 7y ago
> what if the app activates a shock collar for dog training purposes? That is the wrong shock collar; undo the purchase.
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by dbtx 7y ago
"I clicked on a thing and inadvertently handed off admin rights for my own FB page to someone else" https://youtu.be/UY8tDvK0yXc?t=183
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by dbtx 7y ago
The one group I ever joined held plenty of useful/unique SysEx dumps containing custom patches for a popular 80's music synthesizer, among related things. I wonder who has already backed it up, and if I should. edit: Oops, I'
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by dbtx 7y ago
It was probably 5 seconds, to maximize conversion. Thankfully, I haven't had to think about it for 10+ years.
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by dbtx 7y ago
I'll give you that. I wasn't thinking of a load spike, just that of the perpetually continued service. But it doesn't excuse much. Capt. Obvious says, "it's temporary, it could have been anticipated, 'protectin
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by dbtx 7y ago
That only explains a decision to take them down ITFP. What can be gained by shredding all that information? Maybe they aren't shredding it. Maybe they just want no publically available copies to exist.
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by dbtx 7y ago
Will that be genuine or superficial? Will 'verifying the integrity of that DNA after these edits' become the new cryptomining? Here's a hard problem: 'integrity' and 'verfiy' and "good enough at creat
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by dbtx 7y ago
I'm sure many others' experiences are great. The point was that from what I've heard, such an opportunity exists mainly for people who are not me.
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by dbtx 7y ago
> a lot better than the alternative There are more alternatives. IIRC the goal in 56k days was to make the page load inside 10 seconds. People managed.
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by dbtx 7y ago
Canada very likely disagrees on this being a good idea in many individual cases, such as mine...
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by dbtx 7y ago
That is more of the same IMO: yet more code to wipe off a symptom of a problem that we created with more code, as opposed to solving the problem.
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by dbtx 7y ago
I also got nothing with [0], so I unblocked JavaScript and removed /html from the URL and there's the ticker at [1]. I suppose ia= is for 'inline applet' or something. [0] https://duckduckgo.com/html&#x2F
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by dbtx 7y ago
Funny, you're justifying Google's strategy that e.g. Genius.com complained about: scrape and present the raw data that people want, and they'll be able to avoid another pageload, while the site doesn't get a visitor-- bu
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by dbtx 7y ago
I advised a friend to ditch the JS-powered pop-out social media icons which were hovering almost out of sight over on the right. They said quite flatly, "nope, that's staying". That was probably ten years ago. There is a scho
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by dbtx 7y ago
This is the other side of a bad coin: "why didn't you" assumes they didn't. Just asking if they did will automatically include asking why they didn't and what went wrong when they did, whatever the case may be, an
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by dbtx 7y ago
Have you tried "Have you tried x?"? This follows naturally from "What have you tried?", from the "information to include when asking for help", on which Q&A sites seem to agree. It's rather innocent at
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by dbtx 7y ago
I hear that their more satisfied customers cheerfully instruct the others to adjust their expectations and habits and to buy the insurance.
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by dbtx 7y ago
> But the IP metaphor is, after all, just another metaphor With no apologies to the UNIX metaphor of "everything is a file", my favorite starting point for [pretending at] explaining intelligence/understanding/recogni
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by dbtx 7y ago
Yeah, that expired proper prescription wasn't for toric lenses like I (supposedly) had decades ago. That first time they didn't even tell me the lenses had to be inserted at some correct orientation, and I don't remember seei
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by dbtx 7y ago
It's funny how lens.com requires a scan of a valid prescription and will not fill it after it expires-- stating something about a law. They even send email recommending that you stock up before it does. So I bought 2+ years worth, got
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by dbtx 7y ago
I'm not sure if the argument you heard before is the same, but I'll try to clarify my angle. For me, religion would be defined as something like "what any number of people generally do and expect themselves and each other to
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by dbtx 7y ago
> Even the Muppets can’t make Facebook Portal seem less creepy (linked article at FastCompany) [1] The Muppets pushing anything is and already was obscene (Kermit sipping Lipton meme, anyone?). Their first feature film, which is roughl
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by dbtx 7y ago
> Not knowing something is a boon - it rallies optimism that one day we will find what that unknown thing is. Religion does the opposite - not knowing something is replaced by faith and god. By your own measure, this is a religious belie
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by dbtx 7y ago
I don't hate the USA, I hate fragile/secretly-already-broken promises and simply being lied to. systemd has a smell.
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by dbtx 7y ago
I hadn't heard of that, but having daydreamed about "just a huge array of LEDs on a single die", I hope it turns out.

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