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Light travels 2000 km in 7 ms. Maybe you took the inverse and got 150 Hz?
When ICANN reserved .internal a couple years ago, I was saying they should just flip and truncate it to .lan(retni) so everyone's happy.
> How come folks can’t conserve energy?
The whole economy runs on energy, and we have a lot of fossil fuels to replace.
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> Write a song about the T-rex. First line "Hotter than a crocodile, cooler than a chicken". Format for aisonggenerator.io.
Then I copied the output to aisonggenerator.io (1 free song per day), and used Audacity/Tenacity to record the MP3 because they make you pay to download.
A solar array makes the earth less reflective by a fixed amount, for as long as the array exists.
Every unit of fossil fuel we burn makes the earth permanently less reflective (or at least something on the order of 100 years). You could compare a 1GW solar array (for its lifetime) to a 1GW coal plant running for x days, though I don't have the value of x.
Even if you ignore my LLM numbers, "what percent of a reactor's output must be reinvested to enrich its own fuel?" is a meaningful contribution to the discussion.
Take these numbers with a grain of salt because I got them by chatting with AIs, but if you're producing electricity from HALEU, then centrifuges require reinvesting <1% of the output, whereas historical calutrons required 200% (useless) and modern technology could potentially bring that down to 10%.
So calutrons will always be less energy efficient than centrifuges, but if the capital cost and construction time is low enough, calutrons might still be economically viable.
Gravity is not "harvested", it just stores the energy briefly. Someone or something has to lift the weight for every shot, which requires energy.
It's not obvious whether a trebuchet is better than compressed air, like a BB gun.
Popcorn bags are a significant source of PFAS and microplastics.
So the content falls down at 10 m/s^2 unless you're falling alongside it.
The openness of those codecs depend on the last patent expiring, not the first.
Note that MPEG-4 part 2 is H.263/DivX/XviD, not H.264.
That sounds less janky than my solution: US wall wart charger -> 6ft extension cord -> international adapter.
(If you want to overvolt an extension cord, make sure it's completely passive: no light, switch, or surge protector.)
They're collecting 10X more data, at roughly the same energy per collision.
> wheel upgrade
At the same size (17"), going from steel to alloy improves performance but reduces durability. Larger wheels (20") are generally a downgrade for performance and ride quality.
Engineering Explained has a video on this topic: NYvKxsYFqO8
TP-Link hardware is decent, if you buy one with OpenWrt support.
You can escape Switzerland by going straight up into space. It's only "in" the EU in 2 dimensions, maybe 2.5 since you can't dig your way out.
Sodium (without chlorine or similar) is a metal, not a salt.
They plan to use molten salt for energy storage, but the reactor itself is liquid metal cooled.
Natrium is expected to spend around 1 month refueling every 24 months.
I think it's a reasonable decision. The only people who will interact with dav2d by name are codec nerds, and a simple increment makes the lineage more obvious to that audience.
Particles don't like being anthropomorphized.
I tried to make an orchestra where they smash household objects, and a synthpop song where all the lyrics are burped. Didn't work. Wake me up when we're in the future for real.
CFS is ITER with better magnets.
It would be pretty straightforward to change the text selection rules, so that double-clicking anything matching the syntax of an IPv6 address selects the whole address.
The hard part is to find all the places to repeat that change, and convince the code owners to accept it.
> the only case where a newer version of software comes back closer to an older one
Winamp 3 -> Winamp 5 was closer to Winamp 2. Windows 8 -> Windows 10 was closer to Windows 7.
Though I don't expect this to happen with IP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-7 exists, but was rarely used.
UTF-8 is convenient because ASCII has a spare bit, but UTF-8 is fundamentally possible because ASCII is variable-length. IPv4 is not variable-length.