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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 Federal Vaccine Advisers Take Aim at Covid Shots 1 day ago:
They need to watch some good YouTube
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- Comment on Nope, not visiting that 3 days ago:
Snow Crash is a genre-defining classic.
And yet I will never forgive him for “Hiro Protagonist”
- Comment on Nope, not visiting that 3 days ago:
Every word Neal Stephenson ever wrote is fucking classic
Except The Big U , that was tripe
- Comment on Nope, not visiting that 3 days ago:
thermogoddamics
Bless you for furthering this meme
Arbeit macht Frei… but also, Arbeit is the energy transfer that occurs when a force is applied to move an object over a distance
- Comment on new shadow library just dropped 4 days ago:
JFC what would it cost to pay researchers to review papers and have costs only be to cover those who want physical copies. Compare that number to the $75Billion for ICE specifically, between now and 2029
$7.5 Million would probably cover it for the same period
Think what the USA could have been
- Comment on new shadow library just dropped 4 days ago:
publicly funded research is locked away behind high pay walls
Even though <1% of people would read it, the fact that it’s all there and not hidden would do a lot to dispel the hideous intersection between conspiracy theorists and anti-science sentiment that is now poisoning civic society.
- Comment on new shadow library just dropped 5 days ago:
Apparently it’s for white collar people who “now” things. Maybe he is a nowledge worker.
- Comment on Trump Had Unusual Call With F.B.I. Agents After Election Center Search 5 days ago:
It’s significantly worse than the headline
What occurred during the meeting was even further outside the bounds of normal law enforcement procedure. Ms. Gabbard used her cellphone to call Mr. Trump, who did not initially pick up but called back shortly after, the people said.
The president addressed the agents on speakerphone, asking them questions as well as praising and thanking them for their work on the inquiry, according to three people with knowledge of the discussion.
The supervisor of the squad, which investigates allegations of public corruption and civil rights violations and developed the evidence for the search, primarily fielded Mr. Trump’s queries, the people said. One U.S. official said the call was fairly short, perhaps just a minute long, and compared the conversation to a pep rally or a coach giving an encouraging halftime speech to his players. That person said the president gave no substantive direction to the investigators.
Mr. Trump personally ordered Ms. Gabbard to go to Atlanta for the search, and coordinated her actions with Andrew Bailey, one of two deputy F.B.I. directors, according to the U.S. official.
I’ll just remind people of Steve Bannon’s blunt assertion that there will be a 3rd term .
- Comment on Watching America Unravel in Minneapolis 1 week ago:
It took me a few iterations to parse, but finally I groked the cut of your jib and noticed the reference to Musk’s X/Twitter
First – Dude, how many European or Canadian governmental entities still post on an official X account? Quite a few. We’re all working against Metcalfe’s Law here.
Second – FWIW this niche issue is one I do push on IRL. Locally there are often bills that would require our government to do things like use open source software, use open document standards, ensure all government internet services can be accessed via standards-compliant web pages (not apps that require iOS or Android), yadda. I do what I can to support those. It’s a long uphill process, but also kind of a hobby.
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- Comment on Jamelle Bouie OPINION The Cruelty Is the Point for ICE 2 weeks ago:
“Sometimes my daughter doesn’t want to leave our room because she is so sad and just wants to leave this prison so badly. She cries and cries about all of this. I am so worried that I barely eat,” the woman said.
Representative Veronica Escobar of Texas warned of “dangerous and inhumane” conditions in a letter to the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem:
It is increasingly clear that it is not a safe nor professionally managed facility. Continuing to detain people at Camp East Montana means continually exposing people to risks from bad water, unhygienic conditions, poorly built facilities and a general lack of security and reliable management.
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- Comment on Real and True 2 weeks ago:
Kinda like SQL but in polar coordinates
- Comment on Disgusting 2 weeks ago:
My hats off to you in return; I planned a low-effort snarky Grok-reference post about “spiderman as a child in a floss bikini”
But you got to the tiddys first
- Comment on Disgusting 2 weeks ago:
Grok… is that you?
- Comment on Heat transfer be like 2 weeks ago:
thermodynamics as an elective
This is the engineering equivalent of people who recreationally run marathons
- Comment on Heat transfer be like 2 weeks ago:
When I was taking the class in college a friend called it “Thermogoddamnics” and that has always stuck with me
- Comment on Elon Musk and Sam Altman clashed on X after Musk shared a post about a man who committed a murder-suicide following delusional conversations with ChatGPT 2 weeks ago:
More than time for regulation. LLMs can generally detect when a convo has gone delusional, psychotic, or towards self harm. Those should at minimum be logged and terminated
- Trump Administration Live Updates: President Expects Impeachment if G.O.P. Falters in Midterm Electionswww.nytimes.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to nyt_gift_articles@sopuli.xyz | 22 comments
- Comment on Grim Evidence of Trump’s Airstrikes Washes Ashore on a Colombian Peninsula 5 weeks 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. 1 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 1 month ago:
where does that get you?
Off.
It gets me iff
- Comment on SPhotonix 5D memory crystal: cold storage lasts 14B years 1 month ago:
Data hoarders
This is the Internet, you can say it: pr0n collectors