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"If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner."
-R B Fuiler
- Comment on Grim Evidence of Trump’s Airstrikes Washes Ashore on a Colombian Peninsula 9 hours ago:
TBH that’s what motivated me to post
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- Comment on How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little? The group’s biggest claims were largely incorrect, a New York Times analysis found. And its many smaller cuts added up to few savings. 6 days ago:
Everyone has blind spots and biases and beliefs that are Just Wrong.
Do you know the difference between an idiot and a wise person?
The wise person learns from the idiot.
- Comment on Fa la la la la la 1 week ago:
Admit it, in your head you hear the signing from the Chinese restaurant in A Christmas Story
- Comment on Live Updates: Suspect in Brown University Shooting Is Found Dead in New Hampshire 1 week ago:
authorities were able to link Neves Valente to both shootings through his rental car and the hotels he stayed in.
Was he portly and did he have a really odd gait? Or was that pro-level getaway gunman technique?
- Comment on Truth Social Parent to Merge With Nuclear Fusion Firm in $6 Billion Deal 1 week ago:
There are at least half a dozen promising but largely unrelated fusion technologies at various stages of development/commercialization. So I did a little research on TAE technologies.
They use “Field Reversed Confinement” (FRC), which I’m not very familiar with. The article mentioned one other company, Commonwealth Fusion Systems, whose tech I am familiar with: spherical tokamak
Anyway, I asked Perplexity to compare and contrast the two companies from a tech and commercialization perspective.
[ Aside: the Brown shooting is now maybe linked to the murder of the head of MIT’s plasma fusion department. Based on the below, the MIT approach is a direct competitor to the TAE approach. If you want a conspiracy theory, this one is screaming for attention. ]
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Commercial and risk trade‑offs
TAE FRC approach
- Potential advantages:
- Aneutronic p–B¹¹ pathway promises greatly reduced neutron‑induced damage, lower activation, and simpler balance‑of‑plant (no large tritium systems).
- Linear geometry and reliance on self‑generated fields may lead to simpler, cheaper reactors if stability and confinement at extreme temperatures can be maintained.
- Key risks:
- FRCs historically suffer from stability and confinement issues; operating an FRC at p–B¹¹ conditions with good energy gain remains unproven.
- Neutral‑beam‑dominant sustainment requires high beam power and efficiency, presenting demanding engineering and wall‐loading challenges.
- Potential advantages:
CFS HTS tokamak approach
- Potential advantages:
- Builds on the most experimentally mature magnetic‑confinement concept (tokamak) with extensive data and validated models.
- HTS magnets allow higher fields and smaller plants, improving projected economics and enabling SPARC to reach high QQ in a relatively compact device.
- Key risks:
- D–T operation entails significant neutron flux, requiring robust blankets, shielding, tritium breeding, and complex maintenance systems.
- HTS magnet systems must withstand neutron and thermal loads over long lifetimes, which remains to be demonstrated at power‑plant scale.
- Potential advantages:
- Comment on Firefox dev clarifies that AI features will be 'opt-in' and there will be a 'killswitch' to disable them 1 week ago:
Or you could just use Librewolf
FF build with adblock built in and AI/spyware ripped out
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- Comment on SPhotonix 5D memory crystal: cold storage lasts 14B years 2 weeks ago:
where does that get you?
Off.
It gets me iff
- Comment on SPhotonix 5D memory crystal: cold storage lasts 14B years 2 weeks ago:
Data hoarders
This is the Internet, you can say it: pr0n collectors
- A Frustrated Congress Pushes the Pentagon to Produce Its Boat Strike Orders [NYT Gift Article]www.nytimes.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to nyt_gift_articles@sopuli.xyz | 0 comments
- Comment on French Anatomy 3 weeks ago:
I am disgusted at myself for laughing at all, much less this much, and absolutely horrified to suddenly find myself sharing it
This is despicable
- Comment on Supreme Court Denies Request to Revisit Same-Sex Marriage Decision 1 month ago:
We as a civilization need to stop respecting adults who have Invisible Friends in the Sky
- Comment on FBI orders domain registrar to reveal who runs mysterious Archive.is site 1 month ago:
.onions too
- Comment on "Nevertheless, the vaginal sounds that were sent will have reached Epsilon Eridani in 1996 and Tau Ceti in 1998. It is unclear what sort of reply we should expect." 1 month ago:
per OP, signal reached T.C. in 1998
T.C. is ~12 ly away
if they responded that year we’d have got the message in 1998 + 12 = 2010
that was 15 years ago - Comment on "Nevertheless, the vaginal sounds that were sent will have reached Epsilon Eridani in 1996 and Tau Ceti in 1998. It is unclear what sort of reply we should expect." 1 month ago:
If you’re thinking of the “Wow” signal, it turned out to be a magnetar
- Comment on "Nevertheless, the vaginal sounds that were sent will have reached Epsilon Eridani in 1996 and Tau Ceti in 1998. It is unclear what sort of reply we should expect." 1 month ago:
Tau Ceti is only 12 ly away
So they’re like 15 years late replying to the pussy call. Either they are too old and slow or they have so much already they’re just too busy
- Comment on Me right fucking now 1 month ago:
I live in a forest. There is mouse poop in my basement and probably always will be despite cats and traps. The mosquitoes often make being outside impossible. Going out to dinner is a minimum 30 minutes drive to a small town
- Comment on Relativity 2 months ago:
sounds… hot
- Comment on I AM BETTER 2 months ago:
There’s a Sean Carrol video somewhere talking about how the average graduate student in physics understands Relativity far better than Einstein did, and it’s because lots of people with lots of different specialties and insights have thought really long and hard about it and come up with deeper, more elegant ways to describe it.
- Comment on I AM BETTER 2 months ago:
I try to bear Old Isaac in mind when I meet arrogant and unpleasant but intelligent teens.
It’s very easy as an adult to be very annoyed by them, short with them, and/or to feel an obligation in some way to “socialize them better”
But you don’t know which of them have an insight in their brain that unlocks the proverbial Warp Drive.
Zefram Cochrane - Comment on Give your mouse the finger with this wild cursor control ring — Prolo Ring hits Kickstarter, hoping to transform your finger into the ultimate macro and gesture device 2 months ago:
Ooooh that’s information
Downvoting myself now LOL
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- Comment on Give your mouse the finger with this wild cursor control ring — Prolo Ring hits Kickstarter, hoping to transform your finger into the ultimate macro and gesture device 2 months ago:
Yet people put lithium batteries on their lap right next to their genetalia and on top of a blanket that covers up the laptop’s hot air exhaust
I have reasons to pass by this invention but exploding off my finger is not the primary concern
- Comment on Viral ‘Cheater Buster’ Sites Use Facial Recognition to Let Anyone Reveal Peoples’ Tinder Profiles 2 months ago:
It’s the very best of Clarke’s work: when he lets a good writer do the storytelling, and sticks himself to figuring out the logical conclusion of new technology
- Comment on Viral ‘Cheater Buster’ Sites Use Facial Recognition to Let Anyone Reveal Peoples’ Tinder Profiles 2 months ago:
Light of Other Days
One of the plot points is that in response to panopticon-style surveillance, an underground counterculture emerges of people who become invisible – hiding under camo, blankets, etc. And never speaking; only using sign language directly touching another person’s hands to keep communication private. - Comment on ‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app 2 months ago:
If it were just a tip jar feature that would be one thing but it’s kind of a lot of things.
It does what it says on the tin and I love having a shared library online for streaming with apps that support local cache download. - Comment on ‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app 2 months ago:
Also it funds Google which is … not ideal
- Comment on ‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app 2 months ago:
I set up a Funkwhale but tbh it is feature-poor
Which would you suggest as a selfhost alternative ?
- Comment on Average physicist experience 2 months ago:
Professor Lenny ❤️
