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by informatimago 5y ago
Oh, sorry, you're right, I confused TW with GW. I used the data from: https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-pr... which dates from 2019, and has become worse than the data from wikipedia that d
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by informatimago 5y ago
What a joke! France has 61 TW of nuclear power, and this covers only 35% of only France energy needs!!! Imagine how much more solar installations will be needed to cover the energy needs of the world!
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by informatimago 5y ago
They would make a link between StudiO and Apple Watch (Health app). That would be an important part of the marketing. And then, they would expand to all other groceries. You'd buy or order your food from Apple Stores (or perhaps, Ap
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by informatimago 5y ago
Yeah, it's called capital gathering. Without this war chestnut, Apple wouldn't have existed.
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by informatimago 5y ago
Assuming a Mars colony is established over then next 40 years, and assuming it won't be entirely independent from Earth, my guess is that a new calendar will have to be established, that will be independent of any planet, of any specif
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by informatimago 5y ago
The point is that the current worldwide energy consumption is 4.3 % nuclear, 6.9 % hydro, and all the rest is hydrocarbons. To stop consuming hydrocarbons, we'd have to multiply the nuclear plants by 21. There's a difference betwe
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by informatimago 5y ago
That's not so easy. For example Elon said that SpaceX could send people to Mars for $500k, and that he wanted to send 1 million people to colonise Mars. But also, using 1000 SpaceShips @ 100 people each, doing 10 travels. Well, if S
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by informatimago 5y ago
I wonder how do they check all those digits are exact? Do they compute it two or more different ways? It is not possible to design a physical test for that precision. But even mathematically, if there's an error in the middle of the di
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by informatimago 5y ago
The question, is what do they wait before merging with NVIDIA Holodeck?
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by informatimago 5y ago
Of course. Any tourism is a waste! Let's forbid people to move outside of their village! And by the way, capitalist stores like: https://tinyurl.com/live-store are a waste too, imagine the CO2 to produce all that pai
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by informatimago 5y ago
Hmm. Lava lamps don't seem random to me. They're macroscopic processes. Randomness exist at the brownian movement scale, but macroscopically, the movements and timings must be rather deterministic or at least statistically very
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by informatimago 5y ago
The Reader's Digest published several stories of airmen who fell from more than 5000 feet without a parachute (it had burned in the plane), and survived with no significant injury, during WWII. Clearly parachutes are not that useful.
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by informatimago 5y ago
Even more troubling than Aliens, Russians or Chineses, would be if those devices were NAZI UFO, or worse, non-homo-sapiens-sapiens devices (say, remnants of some ancient civilisation that lives hidden on (in) Earth.
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by informatimago 5y ago
Classic "1984" rewriting.
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by informatimago 5y ago
This is rather idiotic to petition for that. This is what will happen anyways. As soon as life in large space stations will be possible, billionaires will go up and stay living there all or most of the time. Trillions will be made in s
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by informatimago 5y ago
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.12.422516v1....
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by informatimago 5y ago
This is how BCC works!!! BCC = Blind Carbon Copy = you don't see that you (or another BCC recipient) is a recipent. Your address is not written on the letter, only on the envelope (ie. given to the MTA).
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by informatimago 5y ago
Also, the pro for Tennis and Boomerang is if the drone comes closer, you can directly hit it with the racket or the boomerang, while trying to hit it with balls or an arrow wouldn't be as effective.
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by informatimago 5y ago
That code wasn't the basis for unicode, where the mentioned characters have different offset in the common Chinese plane: (map 'list (lambda (c) (- (char-code c) #x4e00)) "你他我") --> (352 214 5137) But then, unicode ha
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by informatimago 5y ago
I would design the batteries element with little robotic legs, so that when a thermal runaway occurs, they would disassemble and run away dispersing from the hot elements, to cool down each individually. </me mode="overengineer
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by informatimago 6y ago
On the other hand: The dean of Saône-et-Loire, vaccinated on January 27, dies 5 days later https://fr.theepochtimes.com/doyenne-de-saone-loire-vaccinee... DUH!
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by informatimago 6y ago
Alternatively, turn it into an IRC feed. irc://irc.freenode.org/#hn https://github.com/informatimago/lisp/tree/master/small-cl-p...
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Impossible to Delete Applications on iOS 14.2
3 points by informatimago 6y ago|2 comments
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by informatimago 6y ago
How long it would have taken to use a fucking compiler generating buffer overflow checks when compiling sudo and other unix tools?
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by informatimago 6y ago
That's why there's botihn in irc://irc.freenode.org/#hn
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by informatimago 6y ago
What a bunch of fuckers! "They haven’t disclosed when they plan to unveil the Vision EQXX electric prototype." Not even a commercial product, a prototype, and they don't know when they'll be able to show it! What they&#x
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by informatimago 6y ago
Yes. World IQ is dropping fast. The contest will be won by the person using a robot finger on an old spare iPhone, able to provide the longest continuous support (power, internet, etc). The contest would last months if not years. Uptimes f
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by informatimago 6y ago
Asimov's laws are only good for a lifetime writing career in exploring their exceptions. Is there any Asimov story where the laws were applied strictly and successfully? I don't remember one.
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by informatimago 6y ago
Just mount a remote controlled weapon for self defence! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNPJMk2fgJU
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by informatimago 6y ago
COVID-19 is just an excuse. There's a vending machine in my building. It works full regime during lock-downs. Well, as long as they can resupply it!

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