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by mppm 2y ago
We need to raise 1.63 Gazillion dollars to stay ahead of the game, to make sure that the newest models remain in the hands of an independent nonprofit acting for the benefit of all humanity, rather than some authoritarian regime... And inve
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by mppm 2y ago
These problems could be prevented by a ranked choice vote (your vote transfers to your next candidate when your favorite is eliminated) to determine the executive, and your first choice used to determine legislative seats proportionally. Th
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by mppm 2y ago
Cooperation in the face of adversity and rising water levels == very moving and profound. What's not to understand? /s
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by mppm 2y ago
The overall package -- plot, characters, visual style. There are so many movies that nail all three, but Flow is weak in every category, IMO.
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by mppm 2y ago
I am honestly surprised by this. Congrats to the makers and to the Blender community, of course, but to me Flow looked more like a feature-film-length demo reel. And not even the most impressive demo reel, visually speaking. Compared to all
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by mppm 2y ago
> What do you mean by "metals don't actually withstand temperature"? As in the raw metal would melt were it not for the cooling vanes? A small addition to the sibling comments: Combustion temperatures in modern turbines ar
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by mppm 2y ago
In production?
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by mppm 2y ago
The reason why microturbines are not taking off is, as you mentioned, low efficiency. "Not fantastic" is a bit of an understatement. Especially if you want the turbine to be reasonably cheap (no superalloys, etc) and if it runs be
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by mppm 2y ago
One important aspect of modern jet engines that the article only mentions on the periphery are the materials engineering problems in the hot section. There are many metals (not to mention ceramics) that can survive 1000C temperatures, but t
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by mppm 2y ago
Convection depends on buoyancy and hence gravity, and conduction in nitrogen gas is extremely low, so I don't think your idea would work. You need a conventional radiator with forced circulation.
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by mppm 2y ago
This logic applies more to Google than Mozilla. Their mission is (or ought to be) to cover development and hosting costs associated with Firefox, not to milk users for all they are worth on the ad market.
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by mppm 2y ago
I think you are bending the meaning of the word license to the breaking point here. What your analysis implies, is that Mozilla needs permission to store and process your data in order to carry out the services implied by your use of Fi
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by mppm 2y ago
They've got it all figured out, you just don't understand. Basically, the plan is: 1. Put data on the moon 2. ??? 3. Profit For more info, check out their promotional video: https://www.lonestarlunar.com/video
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by mppm 2y ago
> I assume the best solution then is just to keep an exclusion zone, and shrink it over the decades as the Cs decays? That's exactly how it's handled now, but it takes several multiples of 30 years to make a real dent in the ra
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by mppm 2y ago
This is pure clickbait. The fungus in question thrives in high-radiation environments, but it in no way helps to clean them up or shield against the radiation. The main radiation hazard around Chernobyl is Cs-137. Its gamma emissions happ
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by mppm 2y ago
Am I reading this right? You can initiate device linking in Signal by clicking on an external URL ? This is so stupid, I don't even have words for this. In a security-focused app you should not be able to link anything, without manual
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by mppm 2y ago
It's even worth than that. The personal utility of money is definitely sublinear. Hence a small chance to make a lot of money is worth considerably less than getting its expected value with certainty.
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by mppm 2y ago
> big boom The probability of interaction of neutrinos with matter increases with the energy. I've asked o1 to estimate the mean free path of a 120 PeV neutrino in water and it came up with 1000km. So let's say, conservatively,
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by mppm 2y ago
Besides niche scientific applications, this is mostly about extremely large constellations. The classic LEO, roughly 500km-1000km, is already quite full, and placing a lot of new satellites there increases the risk of triggering a chain rea
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by mppm 2y ago
Interesting. So a 32-chip GDDR6 clamshell design could pack 64GB VRAM with about 2TB/s on a 1024bit bus, consuming around 100W for the memory subsystem? With current chip prices [1], this would cost just about 200$ (!) for the memory c
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by mppm 2y ago
I think a relevant bit of context for this move are the restructuring negotiations with Microsoft. Matt Levine has some excellent commentary on this [1][2], as usual. In short, due to their unusual "capped-profit" investment, Micr
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by mppm 2y ago
I'm not sure if you are being sarcastic or not, but the practical upshot of this new "Public Benefit Corporation" thing, with or without a trust or non-profit attached, is that you can tell both the public and your invest
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by mppm 2y ago
£110 a month for 100 GB is actually less than I would have expected for a really remote place like the Falklands. As a point of comparison, I used to pay something like 10 USD per GB on flexiroam while traveling, though I think it's a
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by mppm 2y ago
In this debate, it's worth remembering that there are two separate risks that are worth insuring against: 1) the risk of losing your home in a wildfire or natural disaster and 2) this risk and/or expected damage going up over time
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by mppm 2y ago
Close, but not quite. The general tendency for large nuclei to be less stable is correct, but for any given size, there is something of a optimum proton/neutron ratio that is most stable, and either adding or removing neutrons will red
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by mppm 2y ago
Rutherfordium has relatively stable isotopes (up to 48 min) [1] and is definitely agreed to exist. This article is about extremely neutron-deficient isotopes and their excited states. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ru
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by mppm 2y ago
They are talking about titanium ions.
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by mppm 2y ago
Also relevant: The Trouble With Fusion [1]. It's from 1983, but could well have been written today, as nothing has really changed in the grand scheme of things. In short, there are multiple technical and economical challenges that st
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by mppm 2y ago
This is fascinating. Do you have more info about the Rutan connection?
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by mppm 2y ago
"Fast enough" is very nearly orbital speed, though. Suborbital range is very short on the lower end, and increases rapidly and nonlinearly later. E.g. if you can boost to 2km/s (~ Mach 7), this gives you, I kid you not, aro

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