jgamman

Orange Guy is the official mascot for NZ elections.

IIRC Wolfram had a blog post about how everything is developing a data/computational angle - he called it Computational X a few years ago now. Fitting they would call this Computational Astronomy.

weird - can't find anything from an australian source about this

niels bohr dissolved the nobel prize medals of colleagues in it and left it on his office shelf during wwII - the committee recast them after the war https://www.aip.org/history-programs/news/invisible-prize

Awesome - this is the website of the Te Awamutu space centre. "The Space Centre is a privately-funded project run by Dave Owen (Space Dave) and his family." Te Awamutu is a town with ~13,000 people. Live your best life Dave! kia kaha ;-)

it's a nice human scale unit - a bit like some countries still cling to inches as a length measure.

yes - i'm not a programmer but i need to translate business rules for my contractors to build. it helps us 'meet in the middle' when discussing abstract things.

moreon chem: https://www.understanding-cement.com/zero-carbon-cement.html

currently use a lot of rare metals like platinum. inc vol of fuel cells will drive up price of fairly inelastic supply of rare metals. or require step change in anode/cathode catalysts to cheaper metals

silica dessicant. chemists use it in their dessicators to keep things dry - pink is dry, blue is 'full' (i think, it's been 25 years...). i think it's a low level cobalt doping and as the silica matrix swells with water absorption it changes the UV absorption and the colour changes. or something like that.

you want to turn coal into gasoline? i think most people consider use of FT fuels as an approx. neutral carbon emissions assuming clean energy source. >>The process involves the hydroliquefication of brown coal, also known as lignite, into crude oil.

made me smile: 95% of 5% == 5% of 95% - so no change in absolute numbers right?

MIT's Herbert Gross Calculus - done with a chalkboard and a camera. classic.

https://www.openculture.com/2011/01/vintage_mit_calculus_les...

I don't see the problem - food gardens are banned in NZ: https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/18-06-2016/new-zealands-absur...

ha! nz's fluf mentioned. reviewed here:https://thespinoff.co.nz/irl/16-02-2022/inside-the-exclusive...

i read your comment as 'conflate our way out' and thought hhmmm sounds about right

perhaps "IT dept" still conflates infrastructure with application. if you are entirely cloud with a SLA for support, then "application" just means allowing depts to develop the tech they need to solve problems -> as the articles says 'any picture you like, but only using this canvas/paint/brush stack'. i've got a lot of sympathy for this view.