Fermion

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[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

20 Kelvin, which still requires substantial cryogenic cooling systems but is much easier to maintain than 4 Kelvin liquid helium.

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

This is fantastic news. I doubt ITER scale fusion plants would have a chance of commercial success. The high field strength of REBCO should enable much more compact and affordable fusion reactors. This is a major linchpin in ending "fusion is the energy source of the future and always will be" jokes.

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

China and South Korea have much lower plant build cost and timelines. The really high delays and cost increases in the west are more an indication of problems in beauracracy and contract writing than fundamental to nuclear technology.

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It really depends on what and how you play. If reaction time is important then you'll feel more than see the difference in refresh rates. If none of your games require sub second reaction time accuracy, then it's much more of a nice to have luxury than a game changer.

Also, frametime pacing matters a lot. If your system very consistently puts out 30 fps, you'll have more accurate keypresses than if you normally get 50 and it gets hung on a few frames and it dips to 30fps. Your nervous system adapts pretty well to consistent delay, but it's much more difficult to compensate for delay that varies a lot.

I don't really play first person shooters so resolution matters more to me than framerate.

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://m.startribune.com/minnesota-man-builds-castle-with-3-d-concrete-printer/273410261/

This guy DIY'd it way back in the early days of concrete extrusion. He actually let a college class I was in see it. It was definitely an involved project and the result was pretty rough around the edges. His system was pretty slow and took a substantial number of batches to complete. Getting the machine and mix balanced for extruding all in one go would be pretty difficult and you'd probably need to have it mix continuously rather than in batches.

Unfortunately I don't remember much about the type of mix he used or the pumping system. So I can't guide you in the right direction.

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the ps5 does a pretty good job mimicking 4k performance for a system with limited power, but there's still lots of room for better hardware.

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

If the solar cell wasn't there, most of the energy would have ended up as heat anyway. The sunlight was going to hit that patch of earth whether the panel was there or not. Whereas coal that isn't burnt is avoidable energy release. Photosynthesis efficiency is approximately 3-6%. So panels in total likely release less heat than forest which has an albedo approximately 10-20%. Albeit a forest releases a bunch of the heat in water vapor which drastically decreases the temperature rise from the heat.

A high albedo surface like fresh snowpack would be optimal for avoiding heating, but I doubt panels produce more warming than the average surface they cover.

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There's a river trail I like to walk regularly. The trail crosses over a creek that frequently smells like laundry detergent and occasionally like sewage. Laundry fragrances aren't effectively removed with waste treatment practices. Think of the amount of fragrance that stays on your clothes after at least one rinse cycle. The amount of fragrance being sent into the wastewater systems is much higher than what remains on your laundry.

I can't find any studies, but I would be shocked if that doesn't really mess with a bunch of aquatic life. Considering how popular bait scents and attractant are with anglers, I believe many fish species rely on scent to find food. Laundry fragrance would almost certainly be overwhelming and negatively affect the ability to search for food for those fish.

Maybe I'm just biased since common fragrances can give me migraines.

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 26 points 1 year ago

There's something else wrong besides just excessive SEO. The other day I was trying to find a battery controller for a diy battery pack. I searched "rechargeable battery controller." Every result on the first page was rechargeable battery packs for Xbox controllers. I understand how there could be a strong correlation, but it was every result being for Xbox controllers. So my conclusion is that Google search is doing more than correlating occurrence of search terms now. I think they're running some sort of ai to guess what you intend to search based on what you typed then showing results based on that. So their system decided I was looking for a battery for an Xbox controller and showed only results for that search rather than a search of what I actually typed.

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, but Trump probably hates Sanders enough to explicitly forbid a weekend at Bernie's arrangement. Even though that logic doesn't make any sense, that doesn't preclude it as a possibility.

Plus we know from Giuliani that warm temperatures makes the makeup start to drip. Masking a corpse until November would take too much coordination to be a successful undertaking for the Trump campaign.

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 57 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Trump has to be less than 1000 big macs from a massive heart attack. She should stay in the race as the contingency candidate.

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did they use the same style and gender of connector for both power and signal?

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