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Bit-tech.net was a good one
Make the text fields non-editable or drop them entirely? The writing and clickable demos provide a very good lesson without using any text input.
Solar roadways might get the last laugh!
If the inverter is smart enough, nothing else would be necessary
Is it because the black hole is a macro distortion of spacetime and not a local quantum property?
Re:The Copilot Delusion on Friday May 23, 2025 @01:39AM (#44070168)
This brought tears to my eyes:

But you—at your most frazzled, sleep-deprived, raccoon-eyed best—you can try. You can squint at the layers of abstraction and see through them. Peel back the nice ergonomic type-safe, pure, lazy, immutable syntactic sugar and imagine the mess of assembly the compiler pukes up.

Amazing

Re:CERN gears up to ship antimatter across Europe on Thursday May 22, 2025 @09:31AM (#44061882)
The emergency copper quench conductors the thickness of my arm were pretty cool to see.

You got to realize they've built a giant circular vacuum tube surrounded by superconducting magnetic jackets that can steer and accelerate a particle beam (actually two going opposite directions), and giant cameras/calorimeters that image photons and other decaying particles from the beam collisions on the micrometer spatial scale. Each component individually may not be grand of scale and complexity but when taken as a whole it works together in amazing ways.

Re:Taking a look at the next generation of telescopes on Friday May 16, 2025 @04:45PM (#44009675)
Looks like around 1000mm full frame equivalent. You could do it with a kit lens and teleconverter or get a cheap catadiotropic lens.
Would be interesting if a non-diabetic person does the same trial, as a "control".

Note: This is pure speculation, and I'm not claiming to know anything more than passing knowledge about diabetes.

Re:Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee on Monday May 12, 2025 @04:38PM (#43967210)
We should be taking a measured approach to shooting them (by that I mean we should be shooting them). So that they know to leave people alone.
This guy Sundars.
I've had automatic inertial valve adjustment in my mountain bike for 10+ years as well.
Re:How dairy robots are changing work for cows and farmers on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @10:52PM (#43700934)
Intensive grazing (with rotation) is also better for the soil and plants.
At a gym I used to climb, there was also a Grigri "failure" where a lighter belayer was pulled up the the first clip, which then unlocked the Grigri until the climber hit the ground.

Pretty sure there were no major injuries thankfully.

Re:Understanding Solar Energy on Thursday March 20, 2025 @09:06PM (#43430854)
Ground source heat pump might help close the gap
Re:Want even tinier chips? Use a particle accelerator on Thursday March 20, 2025 @08:56PM (#43430801)
Does a superconducting semiconductor even make sense philosophically?
Re:Our Interfaces Have Lost Their Senses on Monday March 17, 2025 @12:05AM (#43385101)
Hens are pretty quiet, except the first half of the daytime.
Re:When the Dotcom Bubble Burst on Sunday March 16, 2025 @11:53PM (#43385040)
That sounds a lot like the atmosphere around AI right now
Re:When the Dotcom Bubble Burst on Sunday March 16, 2025 @11:42PM (#43384991)
>>who lack recurring cash flow to buy more of what they already own

You don't know anyone retired, unemployed, or employed but spending all that they currently earn due to having kids etc?

Re:When the Dotcom Bubble Burst on Sunday March 16, 2025 @11:40PM (#43384980)
Money you almost made hurts equally as much as money you had and then lost. (That's Munger. In my opinion big money you almost made hurts more than big money lost.)
The entanglement theory would imply that if you build a detector that turns the gravity interaction into a finite piece of data observable by an (amplified) system, then gravity will act as an observer and collapse the waveform when it reaches that point. That's my take on the whole thing... It's almost like information theory. If the information is lost to the sands of time (below noise floor if you will) then the entanglement can continue.
Your 6-sided dice example sort of brings some focus to his argument of 'its not a real wave it's a math wave ". The result of a 6-sided dice roll exists more in our minds as "math dice" because for most people, if you rolled and it fell in a sewer, lost etc, you wouldn't consider the roll complete until you grabbed a different dice and rolled it. More attached to the person rolling it and the resulting 'what does the number affect'.
Re:Kerning, the Hard Way on Saturday March 15, 2025 @12:16PM (#43373449)
Try having your finger slip and smudge a buffalo drawing. You have to find a whole new cave to draw in!
Re:Why it's so hard to build a jet engine on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @06:52PM (#43348565)
Hard to compare as it depends on application, the shaft speed differential is huge or you're comparing jet thrust to propeller thrust. I don't think small turbines (like RC jet turbine size) are usually very efficient as they are working against the surface area ratio of heat loss through the chamber walls and Reynolds number effects on the turbine blades.
Re:Gemini Robotics brings AI into the physical world on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @04:13PM (#43347205)
Still have to architect, review, and debug AI code.
Re:Gemini Robotics brings AI into the physical world on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @04:02PM (#43347109)
This is a bad take. The business model is pretty clear: subsidized new line of business using the search revenu until it is so dominant that no competition is viable, only then heavily monetize it.
Re:Gemini Robotics brings AI into the physical world on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @03:54PM (#43347023)
Not to mention apple silicon or the apple modem
Re:We're Charging Our Cars Wrong on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @12:59AM (#43263376)
I would guess it will jump to a grounded conductor inside the charging cabinet or the grounded case of the cabinet itself before it goes to the car that is sitting on rubber tires
Re:Why it's so hard to build a jet engine on Friday February 28, 2025 @10:49PM (#43215641)
Tiny nitro RC engines can produce 1+ horsepower in engines that weight 1/2 lb.

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