thombat

15 ms·

211.
by thombat 4y ago
But now imagine the world of tomorrow, where despite the convenient availability of a range of wheels well optimized for specific roles you get told "that just adds dependencies: any artisan builds their own from scratch" and so y
212.
by thombat 4y ago
Sadly it's not enough to have a force; it needs to produce a motion (to perform work). Think of the analogy with a ball feeling gravity at the top of a hill: it has the potential to release energy but it remains unrealised until it sta
213.
by thombat 4y ago
For low-altitude detonations much of the fallout comes from irradiated dirt. For example the Baker nuclear test was the first sub-surface nuke and resulted in heavy radioactive contamination of the test ships. https://en.m.wikipe
214.
by thombat 4y ago
The EU Aviation Safety Agency explicitly treats them as equivalent for safety purposes: https://www.easa.europa.eu/system/files/dfu/Background%20Inf...
215.
by thombat 4y ago
Given how much got changed, including the room's dimensions, it seems like the "Living Room with a colour scheme inspired by the Oval Office"
216.
by thombat 4y ago
Copyright applies from creation: an unpublished work is still protected, although proving its origin will likely be easier following publication. The US Copyright Office summarises it as: The law automatically protects a work that is create
217.
by thombat 4y ago
Actually, the Stadia management were this close to being shitcanned for failing to live up to Google ideals. The only thing that saved them was when they announced that their group had already pivoted to a promising new product idea featu
218.
by thombat 4y ago
Ground source boreholes are mostly 10-15 metres deep, so not wildly expensive, especially when part of a new construction. You may be thinking of classic geothermal bores? Drilling down to proper hot-rocks would be a much costlier scheme in
219.
by thombat 4y ago
Sounds like a scale of 1:1,000,000,000 so the Earth is 150m from the Sun, Mars is 75m further, and Pluto somewhere around 6km. That's the same (mind boggling) scale as our local one - and to complete the picture you can put a toothpick
220.
by thombat 4y ago
Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
221.
by thombat 4y ago
Shades of the old joke: A man driving on the autobahn hears a newsflash on the radio "Warning for drivers on the A7 northbound! A car is going the wrong way!" "The hell ya say!", snorts the man , "It ain't jus
222.
by thombat 4y ago
What is announced today?
223.
by thombat 4y ago
The article being discussed starts with these words "Over the past several decades", and you suggest as a cause a vaccine that the general public wasn't exposed to just two years ago. You're not being censored, you'
224.
by thombat 4y ago
Does require you to limit your goals: what if you want to see the far side of the moon? (Substitute goal: listen to "Dark Side of the Moon")
225.
by thombat 4y ago
I choose "distance to Voyager 1" as my frame of reference: according to NASA's status website I've traveled about one thousand miles since I started writing this sentence. After such an effort it's clearly time for
226.
by thombat 4y ago
Nice story - but what I liked even more was how the pictures were of a computer from equipped like the first place i ever worked: even back in 1991 the mag tapes and the fleet of three Prime computers were a little antiquated, but lifting u
227.
by thombat 4y ago
Since his design dates from 1976, you reckon it would be cheaper now?
228.
by thombat 4y ago
But Pu-239 is presumably the stuff for this hobby project? The one-click price for that is hard to find, even if you bring your own take-out container.
229.
by thombat 4y ago
Those were the countries offering to buy. In his position I'd be fearing offers of "non-financial inducements"
230.
by thombat 4y ago
But it's a plutonium design, which according to common wisdom is too fissile for slow assembly but needs both compression and enough inertia to stop it from exploding with a very low yield.
231.
by thombat 4y ago
If this paper (that none of us can ever see) really included the plutonium in that BOM then it would be interesting to know how he derived a price for it, since it's not really a openly traded commodity.
232.
by thombat 4y ago
Apparently it's a plutonium design, which is interesting because if it's using implosion then the detonation timing and quality of the explosives is commonly thought to be critical (notably the "Fat Man" plutonium bomb w
233.
by thombat 4y ago
It's like a $5 meal kit for a "BBQ meat feast" that has the recipe, spices, but doesn't include the meat. So once you've visited the specialist butcher and spent a lot more money, now you have the $5 feast.
234.
by thombat 4y ago
Back in 2009? https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2009/06/10-companies-agree-t ... We were testing our software on smartphones around that time and were forever trying to find the specific charger for some phone (
235.
by thombat 4y ago
Many customer-facing occupations provide for extended opening hours, Saturdays and even Sundays. Personally I'd be thrilled if half the organizations I deal with went beyond Mon-Fri 9-5, and to do so they'll need some extra staff.
236.
by thombat 4y ago
My UK employer in 2004 had the brilliant idea to save money by establishing a subsidiary in Bangalore. Find some awesome engineers and only have to pay Indian salaries & office rental! Took them a depressingly long time to understand th
237.
by thombat 4y ago
So every day for 40 years she would have read and thought carefully about that warning label, so that finally when it became relevant it would save her? Unfortunately not: we humans cope with the enormous stream of information pouring relen
238.
by thombat 4y ago
The families of Girl Guides generally end up buying a lot of Girl Guide cookies.
239.
by thombat 4y ago
Well instead you could get one-to-one tuition sensitive to and tailored for your unique strengths, brought by the very best in the field. That would be pretty resource-intensive, but maybe you are worth it. But now look at from the provider
240.
by thombat 4y ago
Agreed - if it could stroll right across the Pacific it would be compelling. But unfortunately Boom needs to stretch its legs a further 25% to manage LAX - China, or about 10% for Tokyo. An A350 takes about 9 hours to fly as far as Boom&#x2

More ›