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by nukeman 3y ago
I work at a Department of Energy facility as a contractor. Our DOE facility rep was a Navy Nuke, and gave me a copy of this book. I agree that it is fantastic. And it’s written in a gripping narrative style, so it reads more like a novel an
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by nukeman 3y ago
My hunch is that a decent bit of tech-Reddit will migrate to HN. But more general stuff, no.
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by nukeman 3y ago
Because we don’t want the site to be completely overwhelmed and turned into Reddit 2.0. Currently, invites are turned off, but are likely to be turned back on in the next week or so. Normally, they are pretty easy to get (asking for one in
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by nukeman 3y ago
It’s absolutely insane to see many parts of Reddit in open revolt. I think this is the worst it’s ever been. Worse than 2015, 2018, 2020…
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by nukeman 3y ago
Reddit’s value these days is as a super-forum. Instead of needing five logins and five accounts for separate hobbies, you can have one login, one account, and if you occasionally want to comment or ask questions about something else, you ca
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by nukeman 3y ago
I wonder what the other three places are that store nitrate film? I would guess the National Archives and some facility in Southern California. Where else though?
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by nukeman 3y ago
Hmmm, maybe try punching in the full IUPAC name: (RS)-N-methyl-1-phenylpropan-2-amine
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by nukeman 3y ago
That’s generally been my thought on how to deal with invasive plants (and probably insects). We’d need to assuage public concerns first in order for the strategy to be accepted, however. But ultimately I think there is huge potential for su
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by nukeman 3y ago
One other thing with fuel fees is that they aren’t taxed the same way airline tickets are, so there is a tax benefit to charging for fuel fees as well.
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by nukeman 3y ago
What airline, so I know to avoid them?
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by nukeman 3y ago
Seriously? I’m insanely pro-nuke, and work in the nuclear sector, but Westinghouse should really focus on their AP1000. They’ve already got deals in place with several countries, and now that they’ve got them running in more than one countr
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by nukeman 4y ago
ALARA/ALARP has been a standard for a long time. I think you could make the argument that “reasonably” has been ignored more recently. Ultimately, it isn’t the sole reason for nuclear construction issues. All large infrastructure is pr
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by nukeman 4y ago
Synthetic fuels are generally cleaner in that they have significantly less sulfur and a decent bit less aromatics. There’s a great picture on Wikipedia that illustrates the difference.
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by nukeman 4y ago
I’ve used both. PowerPoint is a breeze (it helps I was taught by my mother, who did it professionally). The tax software was annoying, but not to the extent of pushing me to go upstairs, grab a gun, and blow my brains out.
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by nukeman 4y ago
Your tax prep software or PowerPoint isn’t going to drive you to kill yourself. But an advanced, LLM Chatbot might.
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by nukeman 4y ago
Bigger vehicles by volume are safer, as there is more space for crumple zones. Bigger vehicles by mass are more dangerous, as there is more momentum and kinetic energy involved in a collision.
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by nukeman 4y ago
They let their rollout lag significantly, pinning things on one model for a long time. There was likely some internal corporate politicking involved.
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by nukeman 4y ago
Some military folks put nuclear weapons storage training materials onto Quizlet, so I don’t doubt for a second people would try to put ChatGPT onto a classified computer system.
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by nukeman 4y ago
It can be done. But it requires a lot of work. When you aren’t in the fields planting/fertilizing/harvesting (which takes up a lot of time on its own), you’re gonna be slaughtering animals, preserving foods (through canning, salti
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by nukeman 4y ago
The courts have traditionally been very deferential to national security-based arguments. Whether you agree or not (I’m mixed), that’s the situation on the ground.
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by nukeman 4y ago
Perks of a stand-alone national lab I guess! My workplace (Savannah River Site) has a strict no-booze policy. Although people frequently bring donuts!
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by nukeman 4y ago
The major point is ultimately that the organization of labor does not inherently lead to higher project costs. You may be right that the peculiarities of American labor are one potential cause of higher costs.
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by nukeman 4y ago
And what would you say makes them different?
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by nukeman 4y ago
France has unions out the wazoo, yet you don’t see nearly the level of cost increases.
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by nukeman 4y ago
No, it’s more along the lines of “build a high-speed rail line from Karachi to Islamabad” instead of encouraging further air travel. The corridor is around 1500 km long, so a line with an average operating speed of 320 kph would enable sub-
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by nukeman 4y ago
We’ll probably start to see a more complete picture of how it performs in six months or so. My hunch is that it will still struggle with citation generation.
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by nukeman 4y ago
And the reality is “I don’t know” is a valid response! But it isn’t satisfying, I remember five year-old me would get very upset with my mom if she said something like that, unless it was followed up with “but let’s go look it up together.”
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by nukeman 4y ago
I suspect the fact that it’s mostly all over the place, it doesn’t narrow toward the correct answer. Here’s his full test: https://old.reddit.com/r/nuclearweapons/comments/117hssn/cha...
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by nukeman 4y ago
While it might be good for a non-technical essay, for technical matters, it has a bad habit of spewing nonsense, both in answers and citations. Professor Alex Wellerstein (of Nukemap fame) gives two anecdotes highlighting their issues. 1.
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by nukeman 4y ago
Older nuclear weapons were not nearly as hardened as modern ones. For a good introduction, I recommend Sandia’s three part documentary Always/Never: The Quest for Safety, Control, and Survivability . t. DOE contractor

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