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   by thijson 2y ago

   There's work being done on alternative fuels: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54511743 Ammonia has no carbon atoms in it, just hydrogen and nitrogen which are abundant. It can be synthesized using the Haber pro
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   by thijson 2y ago

   It's the model that trains have been using for a long time now.
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   by thijson 2y ago

   If all you want is to be able to run it, but don't care about speed, you can run it on a Dell R720, they support hundreds of gigabytes of RAM. https://ollama.com/ makes it easy to download. They're pretty cheap
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   by thijson 3y ago

   I remember how it felt, I thought I was sick, because I felt this rocking motion. I thought it was just me, then I stood up and saw a plant shaking, so I knew it was everything else that was shaking too. The amplitude slowly increased, re
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   by thijson 3y ago

   This seems to be an order of magnitude better than LoRa ( https://lora-alliance.org/ not https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09685 ). LoRa doesn't have all the features this one does like OFDM, TDM, FDM, an
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   by thijson 3y ago

   I looked a bit into the LORA protocol. It does offer reception below the noise floor. LORA doesn't do anything to attempt to make other LORA transmissions seem like noise to a receiver that's attempting to lock to your transmiss
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   by thijson 3y ago

   My cousin works as a farmer's hand in the Netherlands. He had an interesting anecdote about liquid manure. They used to spray it over the land, but people living nearby started complaining about the smell, so they started injected it
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   by thijson 3y ago

   I got a lower back injury from changing diapers. I just wasn't used to bending over while standing I guess.
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   by thijson 3y ago

   I agree, evolution works over thousands of generations. We're still only a few generations from the invention of birth control. We still do a lot of things that used to lead to reproduction, but today lead nowhere. Another thing I&#
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    by thijson 3y ago

    Weight may be an issue. For an airplane extra weight means more fuel burned per mile.
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    by thijson 3y ago

    I attended a conference where they talked about this radio telescope: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Hydrogen_Intensity_Ma... It really is a lot of data that they have to crunch.
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    by thijson 3y ago

    McAfee was Renee James idea, she was two in a box (Intel speak for sharing a management spot) with Brian Krzanich.
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    by thijson 3y ago

    This is a radical idea, but I think what may happen eventually is that we figure out a way to incubate mammals, ie. an artificial uterus. Governments start to raise people like we raise fish in fish farms. Those people are now loyal to th
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    by thijson 3y ago

    If the woman is 35 and over it is called a geriatric pregnancy. Need to do a bunch of additional tests to make sure the kid doesn't have genetic defects.
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    by thijson 3y ago

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Osi_8_VAow
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    by thijson 3y ago

    This will start with small devices used in power electronics likely. There are faster materials than silicon, but they still aren't used for highly integrated digital logic due to cost.
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    by thijson 3y ago

    I worked at Intel for 10 years, mainly the Otellini years. To myself I called it Corporate Attention Deficit Disorder. I think it's a symptom of bad management, always moving on to the next shiny rock, no long term vision. During my
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    by thijson 3y ago

    I used the Turbo Debugger to crack or develop cheats for games, that is until I discovered Softice. It always amazed me that when I set a breakpoint, it would halt the running program, switch to text mode, I could single step for a bit, mo