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by moh_maya 3y ago
'Proxima Fusion, incorporated in January, aims to build a complex device known as a stellarator and is the latest company to join the emerging fusion industry’s effort to generate electricity by fusing atoms. Although the amount of fun
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by moh_maya 3y ago
Thank you!
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by moh_maya 3y ago
/off topic Have you documented & written about your microscope experiments (both building them and the experiments themselves) on the web? If you have, and are comfortable, can you please share the link? Just curious. Ex-biologist,
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by moh_maya 3y ago
From [0] ‘ This is a binding agreement that has financial penalties if we can’t build a fusion system,” Helion founder and CEO David Kirtley tells The Verge. “We’ve committed to be able to build a system and sell it commercially to [Microso
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Where did FTX customer money go? Firm says Bankman-Fried took $2.2B(arstechnica.com)
130 points by moh_maya 4y ago|59 comments
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by moh_maya 4y ago
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/03/room-temperature-sup... Good article that contextualises the results and concerns about the lab that published these results.
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by moh_maya 4y ago
Radio and television, I think. They were a medium for non-literates to also participate in learning and exploration, in a way they couldn’t if the only way to do so was through reading.
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Could getting rid of old cells turn back the clock on aging?(arstechnica.com)
3 points by moh_maya 4y ago|0 comments
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by moh_maya 4y ago
That doesn’t make sense to me: why design it if it cannot / will not be tested to validate / demonstrate the value of their ‘algorithmicEngineering’? How can one make any functional claims of value without some functional testing?
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by moh_maya 4y ago
“Published 11 May 22” — since then, is there any news of fire tests? I’m sure its cool they’ve been able to design and 3D print a complex structure - however, the company blog appears to only link to additive manufacturing companies: I coul
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by moh_maya 4y ago
Matt Levine's analysis [1,2] are (imo) good places to get a sense of the issues around this - his commentary on the legal, financial and commercial aspects is illuminating, and entertainingly so. Based on his analysis, it does seem lik
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by moh_maya 4y ago
unless its for Alzheimer's? [0] 'The FDA’s eventual decision to ignore the advice of its advisory committee and approve the drug, it says, was based on aducanumab’s ability to lower levels of amyloid plaques in the brain — protein
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by moh_maya 4y ago
Azad - from Ian Bank’s player of games: not in its avatar as an entrance exam for Azadian civil services, but just for the complexity and sheer range implied by the game. Then, Thud, the game loosely described by Sir Terry Pratchett in Thud
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by moh_maya 5y ago
I use the Microsoft sculpt [0] It is a membrane keyboard, not mechanical, but it works well for me. The numpad is separate from the main keyboard, so that works well too. It is wireless - which is a good thing and a bad thing. Good because
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by moh_maya 5y ago
https://y-n10.com/ The website of the Nintendo founder's family office. It..is just beautifully designed, and a homage to the original game consoles and the entire art form of PC gaming when it started. Earlier thread
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by moh_maya 5y ago
So I don’t think we are anywhere close to what you are suggesting. But if it comes down to it, I’m actually completely ok with such an approach. How is this any different than mandating the small pox vaccine, or the polio vaccine? The vacci
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by moh_maya 5y ago
@dang thank you! For sheparding this site and building in humanity. Wish you and yours a fantastic year ahead!
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by moh_maya 5y ago
So, price to consumer may not necessarily the only metric of consumer harm that one must consider. Another thing that is unique to large corps (Reliance, Amazon) is the network / conglomerate leverage they can bring to bear. Hina Khan&
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by moh_maya 5y ago
Iodine? Keep it cold and it stays solid. But it doesn’t liquify; it is one of the elements that can sublimate from solid to gas (not sure of the physical chem here, but the transition temp to liquid vs gas from solid is so close that it do
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by moh_maya 5y ago
/off topic I am learning to design PCBs, and while I have a basic understanding of the components (viz. resistors, diodes, transistors, etc) as the board gets populated with more components, (consider, for instance, an arduino dev boar
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by moh_maya 5y ago
Bank apps don’t work. Some enterprise security apps don’t work. Rooting is a pain, and custom boot loaders require investment of mental bandwidth that I’d much rather dedicate elsewhere. Which isn’t to say I don’t see the value of it; a cou
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Chip Scale Atomic Clock (CSAC)(microsemi.com)
65 points by moh_maya 5y ago|62 comments
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by moh_maya 5y ago
If nothing else, follow their guides for the arduino nano 33 ble sense + TinyML. They are a lot of fun! [1] https://docs.edgeimpulse.com/docs/continuous-motion-recognit... [2] https://tinymlbook.com/
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The Google Nest Hub is first commercial Fuchsia device(arstechnica.com)
236 points by moh_maya 5y ago|238 comments
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Shop Class as Soulcraft (2006)(thenewatlantis.com)
85 points by moh_maya 5y ago|49 comments
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by moh_maya 5y ago
"I was sometimes quieted at the sight of a gang of conduit entering a large panel in a commercial setting, bent into nestled, flowing curves, with varying offsets, that somehow all terminated in the same plane. This was a skill so far
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by moh_maya 5y ago
If I were at the negotiating table, I'd say, as India, come preach to me once you (i.e. OECD / NATO / Western Europe) reduce your carbon intensity first. [1] Why should my citizens give up basic development and quality of lif
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by moh_maya 5y ago
Yep. Grew up with them, and it was these books that sustained my interest and imagination in science. I still remember a hard-bound, deep blue coloured (roughly) notebook sized book that had these amazing DIY projects for space, including a
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by moh_maya 6y ago
Ian Banks / Culture Series and the neural lace.. [1] [1] https://www.economist.com/1843/2017/03/31/the-novelist-who-i...
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by moh_maya 6y ago
Yep; had an RX8 in Ithaca, NY. Had 2 sets of wheels + tires: one for summer and one for winter. The winter tires meant I was cruising safely and smoothly in a RWD car while regular vehicles with all seasons (and on occasion, Subarus with AW

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