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by greenbit 2y ago
Only if you intend to stand near it while it's running. Not trying to be glib, just pointing out that at least initially, there might not be any humans near. Admittedly, radiation might be a bother for high density electronics (CPUs, R
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by greenbit 2y ago
Is it the shapes, similar to how patterns of holes can disturb some people? Or is it more abstract, like "unknowable fragments of someone's inner-most reality flowed through there"? Not that I have a name for it either way. T
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by greenbit 2y ago
Never felt like files were something that the C64 was especially good at. Sure, these days I too build lots of little tools and manipulate files an what not, on Linux. Back in the day though, on the 64, used to roll with not much beyond the
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by greenbit 2y ago
A quick take: CO2 gets pushed deep underground into basaltic rock, which apparently reacts with the CO2 to form CaCO3, MgCO3, maybe others. I.e., it turns into a stable solid so it doesn't ooze back to the surface.
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by greenbit 2y ago
Interesting, did not know these things could be used to make assessments, judgments, categorizations, etc. Had been under the impression they just riff out text based on suggestions.
156.
by greenbit 2y ago
How is an AI supposed to work that out? Given the talk about how these models have a tendency to confabulate, this would seem problematic. Idk though, maybe this is now a thing?
157.
by greenbit 2y ago
I must have missed something. Why not just use the water without the compressed air, i.e., pumped hydro? There must be some advantage, but they didn't seem to say. I'd guess maybe if your lower reservoir were underground, the wate
158.
by greenbit 2y ago
I'll believe it when I start seeing cars that were built in the 90s floating around like toy balloons.
159.
by greenbit 2y ago
I believe it just says that cancelling a card doesn't automatically kill recurring payment associated with that card. Sure, recurring charges are something that streamers do, but aren't there other "as a service" sectors
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by greenbit 2y ago
Probably just emits another photon of the exact same wavelength a short time later. The time would be probabilistic, like 50% chance of emission in X amount of time.
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by greenbit 2y ago
"A plane in 3D space can be thought of as a flat surface that stretches infinitely far, splitting space into two halves." Fun fact - if you have the coefficients of the equation ax+by+cz+d=0 that represents your plane, you can plu
162.
by greenbit 2y ago
Just waiting for 'E.T.' to get the treatment. =P
163.
by greenbit 2y ago
Right? Expecting to see this on hackaday soon, if it isn't already.
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by greenbit 2y ago
No frame buffer. The target CRT display scanned an electron beam from left to right in about 63 microseconds, snapped it back in just a couple more microseconds, working gradually downward to produce about 200 such lines before taking a cou
165.
by greenbit 2y ago
Reminded me of the line from Errand of Mercy, "You will find there are many rules and regulations. They will be posted. Violation of the smallest of them will be punished by death."
166.
by greenbit 2y ago
Not for Linux users. Forces you to open windows first.
167.
by greenbit 2y ago
A particular model of calculator expresses a certain ratio in terms of pi. Presented in the modern omg!mysteries! way, but to their credit does take a stab at analysis. Hadn't heard the term 'mediant' before, so that was actu
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by greenbit 3y ago
I remember being thrilled to bits that indexed addressing offered automatic increment/decrement, obviating the need to follow your load or store with an explicit INC or DEC, saving a byte (or 2? Idk, 40y ago) of memory, which was a big
169.
by greenbit 3y ago
Remember when you could set the color of individual display elements any which way you liked? The 'theme' idea of giving the users what they want, by giving them the controls was far superior to this mode nonsense. Don't like
170.
by greenbit 3y ago
Wish there was a counter, something to tell you "this is puzzle #N". Also, it would be good to know that there are only 20 from the start. "Puzzle #N/20"? Should be easy mods to make. Anyway, apart from that, oddly
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by greenbit 3y ago
There were those double high density disks that never quite caught on, but one fun thing was having the double hd drive (2.8M) and doing anything that would write to an existing 'regular' (1.4M) floppy -- the drive would write nar
172.
by greenbit 3y ago
Sure! Burn it today, pump it back out of the ground and burn it again, in 200 million years! "We can attach to that"
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by greenbit 3y ago
Don't forget that timeshare on the moon!
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by greenbit 3y ago
"It is therefore a fact of the world that virtually all the popular synthetic sweeteners were discovered accidentally by chemists randomly eating their research topic." Yikes.
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by greenbit 3y ago
The idea that the entire universe is just one big static 4D object, with your entire life embedded in it like a book, just doesn't sit well. The passage of time is the most directly apprehensible aspect of reality. If it's all lai
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by greenbit 3y ago
Quick take: The same mechanism that an algae uses to sense light can be transplanted into neurons so that you can simulate them with light. Much finer than jabbing wires into tissues. Fascinating!
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by greenbit 3y ago
Heads up, that's about an hour and 15 minutes of video, the first 10 minutes of which actually talks about chess as an example of the sort of perspective that will be applied to the music problem.
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by greenbit 3y ago
Switches are really only for enumerated/integral types, where a single variable can take on a small number of interesting values. Some if-else situations don't translate to switch-case at all, though. One such is when you're
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by greenbit 3y ago
So while each line is only 525kV relative to the environment, it's 1.05MV between the two lines. A megavolt seems to have been practical HVDC tech for a while now, I was just idly wondering if they had taken things up a notch in this l
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by greenbit 3y ago
Didn't see mention of the voltage/current specs. 1400A at 1MV maybe? HVDC is morbidly fascinating, and the gear to transform has that awesome 1950s sci-fi look.

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