AwesomeLowlander
@AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Where can I buy a mosquito laser system? 3 days ago:
See the linked article elsewhere in this post, they had to wear safety goggles around it when it was in use.
- Comment on Where can I buy a mosquito laser system? 3 days ago:
You cannot scale it. It is dangerous. It is expensive to keep running / maintained.
Your source:
for the demonstration, I had to wear protective goggles since that type of laser is not safe for your eyes; And no one has yet worked out how to make the device cheap enough to be useful in the places it is most needed, places where most people’s mosquito-defense system consists of sleeping under nets every night.
You were saying?
- Comment on Where can I buy a mosquito laser system? 3 days ago:
But despite Myhrvold’s enthusiasm, the Photonic Fence hasn’t been all that easy to actually build. It’s taken years of development to figure out how to continuously track and identify a specific type of insect and then dispatch it safely and efficiently. For instance, for the demonstration, I had to wear protective goggles since that type of laser is not safe for your eyes; I was assured that when it’s market-ready, the laser they deploy will not potentially blind human passersby. And no one has yet worked out how to make the device cheap enough to be useful in the places it is most needed, places where most people’s mosquito-defense system consists of sleeping under nets every night.
You mean the patent on an item where they haven’t figured out how to make it work yet without blinding its users? Yeah, it’s definitely patent trolls and not user safety /s
- Comment on Where can I buy a mosquito laser system? 3 days ago:
Source?
- Comment on Where can I buy a mosquito laser system? 3 days ago:
Probably haven’t solved the issue of friendly fire, i.e. potentially blinding users.
- Comment on If a leftist ran for president, would liberals support him? 4 days ago:
They totally would, until they disagreed with a single one of his policies.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 5 days ago:
A hundred years supply, probably more, at the current market rate, is not enough of a reserve?
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 5 days ago:
Oh gee, that’s your best argument right now? Usage of caps? Lmao
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 5 days ago:
Oh this is hilarious how badly you’re misunderstanding your own source. This is akin to ‘peak oil’ 30 years ago. The reserves listed in the article are about how much known reserves are capable of supplying AT FIXED MARKET RATES OF $130 - $230 / KG.
Some choice quotes from YOUR linked source:
Further exploration and higher prices will certainly, on the basis of present geological knowledge, yield further resources as present ones are used up.
An orebody is, by definition, an occurrence of mineralization from which the metal is economically recoverable. Orebodies, and thus measured resources – the amount known to be economically recoverable from orebodies – are therefore relative to both costs of extraction and market prices. For example, at present neither the oceans nor any granites are orebodies, but conceivably either could become so if prices were to rise sufficiently. At ten times the current price*, seawater, for example, might become a potential source of vast amounts of uranium. Thus, any predictions of the future availability of any mineral, including uranium, which are based on current cost and price data, as well as current geological knowledge, are likely to prove extremely conservative.
They even SPECIFICALLY addressed your concern!
Of course the resources of the earth are indeed finite, but three observations need to be made: first, the limits of the supply of resources are so far away that the truism has no practical meaning. Second, many of the resources concerned are either renewable or recyclable (energy minerals and zinc are the main exceptions, though the recycling potential of many materials is limited in practice by the energy and other costs involved). Third, available reserves of ‘non-renewable’ resources are constantly being renewed, mostly faster than they are used.
Did you just try to google and link the first result or something? HALF THE ARTICLE IS SPECIFICALLY ABOUT HOW WE HISTORICALLY KEEP TALKING ABOUT RESOURCES RUNNING DRY, AND WHY THAT ENTIRE IDEA IS NONSENSE.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 5 days ago:
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No
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Because #1 is no
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- Comment on You know what would be cool? If all those (job name) simulator games could all be joined. 1 week ago:
They did. Support was discontinued from the start of 2024. That you’ve been using it up to now without any problems is literally because they didn’t break anything on purpose. As long as none of the software changes it will continue to work.
- Comment on You know what would be cool? If all those (job name) simulator games could all be joined. 1 week ago:
MICROSOFT cut off support for windows 7. Is steam supposed to continue support for the entire OS?
- Comment on Why is the word "defense" avoided in reporting and rhetorics around Ukraine? 1 week ago:
Israel: The best defense is a good genocide
- Comment on Preview: The Cerritos Crew Starts A New Comic Book Adventure In First Issue Of ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ 1 week ago:
Maybe someday there’ll be a show based on the comic! They could make it an animated series!
- Comment on In the event you believe a contract killer is in breach of contract, who adjudicates? 1 week ago:
… whooosh
- Comment on Washer estimated "1 minute left", took 13 minutes to finish 1 week ago:
ITT: OP just wants to vent, now he has a home improvement project instead.
- Comment on Trying to Help 1 week ago:
- Comment on 'It even breaks my heart a bit': Denuvo pushes back on its haters, says Steam forums are a 'very toxic, very hostile environment' 4 weeks ago:
What’s with all the recent articles whitewashing Denuvo?
- Comment on Why should we have to continue seeing people's replies when we block them? 4 weeks ago:
Is that not how it currently works? I was under the impression that’s how it works for me at least. What behaviour are you seeing?
- Comment on Trummerkind, the secret apartment built inside a shopping mall 4 weeks ago:
He may be an artist, but he’s definitely no writer. I’d love to read so much more about his story, but it’s just hints and bits.
- Comment on Factorio 2.0 and Factorio: Space Age DLC are out now 4 weeks ago:
It’s also got more attention and care to detail than any 3 other AAA games combined. At this point, AAA is not a compliment to a game
- Comment on Magic Mineral 5 weeks ago:
That helps somewhat, but if the house gets demolished with a bulldozer that’s still a lot of asbestos floating around again. The point is, you don’t know what will happen to it in the future, and it’s just not safe to have semi hazardous material lying around everywhere.
- Comment on Magic Mineral 5 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure we could go back to using it, with more precautions in place, better binders, etc. Hell, it’s still used in many parts
Is there a way to keep it inert when the next homeowner starts tearing down drywall and drilling holes in stuff?
- Comment on He's just lucky I guess 5 weeks ago:
Please explain, I’d like my daily dose of trauma
- Comment on Don't know if it was a glitch or what but when I just logged in it logged me in to another users account. 1 month ago:
What client and platform are you on?
- Comment on Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future? 1 month ago:
Nice, I think yours is the most relevant so far.
- Comment on Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future? 1 month ago:
Do you often go into a book or movie knowing all the tropes that exist within that story? I don’t even understand the logic here.
- Comment on Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future? 1 month ago:
What happens when the story is not set on Earth?
- Comment on Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future? 1 month ago:
Well OP didn’t specify Earth. I can think of some stories where it transitions from high fantasy into sci-fi but is not set on Earth, which is definitely not under the ‘Earth All Along’ trope.
- Comment on Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future? 1 month ago:
if there was a name for this genre, it would spoil the whole game/movie/book for you
Not really. A work doesn’t have to be marketed as a specific trope, that doesn’t mean it isn’t categorised as such. There are entire categories on TvTropes that carry mass spoilers - looking at any of the examples will spoil that work for you. This is just one more such category.