LostXOR

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[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 3 points 1 hour ago

From what I understand, thorium reactors have been more or less proven to be a viable power source, while fusion reactors still have major unsolved problems and likely won't be viable for decades.

[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 12 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

"laptop"

clearly a desktop

[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 26 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Supercritical fluids are more like a gas than a liquid. Their lack of surface tension means they'll diffuse throughout whatever container you put them in, so they can't really be "poured" like a liquid can. They're actually a pretty good example of why liquids need surface tension to be liquid.

[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 120 points 13 hours ago (11 children)

For a liquid to be a liquid, rather than a gas, it needs to be held together by intermolecular forces. Which means it will have some amount of surface tension. I therefore dismiss this hypothetical as physically unrealistic! :P

[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 16 points 1 day ago (9 children)

This can actually be beneficial if your router is right at the corner of your house. The foil acts as a reflector for some of the radiation that would've been wasted, and thus improves the signal quality within your house.

[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Can you make me a website that runs on my microwave?

[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 9 points 2 days ago

Make sure to back up your power strips regularly!

[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 15 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Not on iOS, of course. But if you're using iOS what are you even doing?

[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If I had $500k, I'd buy this immediately. Not because I want a shitty GPU covered in gold, but because 5kg of gold is worth around $540k at current market prices.

[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah that's happened to me too; as far as I can tell it's just Spotify silently banning your account. Must've signed up for one too many free trials.

[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 5 points 2 days ago

Microsoft likes defaulting to email-based login, and I always click on the option to enter my password instead, but after doing that it sends me an email with a verification code anyways. Seriously???

[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 3 points 3 days ago

All's not lost, just drive the car in reverse for a mile. :)

 
 
 
 

The site this screenshot comes from, SpotWx, is actually really awesome for looking at weather forecasts in detail. (Most of their models are only for North America, sorry Europeans).

 

I'll be drying the silver out and weighing it sometime in the next couple days. Closest guess when I do gets bragging rights! (And absolutely nothing else)

The scale was zeroed with the beaker empty, and it contains only water and silver (and a trace amount of copper nitrate). If you have a strategy behind your guess, please do share it!

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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