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6 hours ago, Hyperspace Industries said:
Trying to set the record for most Geneva convention breaking weapon, are we?
With regard to incendiaries, the Geneva conventions prohibit setting civilians on fire or using incendiaries in manner that can likely result in civilians getting set on fire. These are fairly redundant clauses given the overall restrictions on violence towards civilians found in said conventions.
WPs are one of several weapon types where the words "forbidden by international law" get thrown around incessantly and incorrectly.
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More powerful than most machine learning algorithms, it seems.
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So there's a military crisis every day now, huh?
Some people are feeling left out.
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Today is International Traffic Light Day
This has to be the most useless one in the world.
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On 7/27/2022 at 8:42 PM, AlamoVampire said:
Can someone tell me why an insurance company that made nearly $80,000,000,000.00 in 2019 cannot invest in a phone system that when they call you shows: Auto Insurance Company Name (going generic because well, feels right) or something in that guise as opposed to: Unknown or Toll Free?
I'm not entirely sure it's something they can do or if the problem is on their end. Granted I have never even seen the Caller ID system in action for calls - the only stuff we get out here are paid third-party phone number databases.
And yeah, I've been getting very specific auto insurance spam recently. My father's deets must've been leaked.
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8 hours ago, Pthigrivi said:
why we would invest so much in something incredibly complicated and financially risky like fusion rather than snatch up all the lower hanging fruit by maxing out renewables, overhauling the energy and transportation grid and building codes
Even the number of words should clue you in as to the scope of changes being suggested. Emotionally it's simpler to just build a better powerplant. Building codes, it starts to get administratively and politically complicated. Once you get to the overhaul of all energy and transportation, you enter "sticker shock" territory.
Ever wondered why snake oil is such an attractive remedy?
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11 hours ago, Gargamel said:
But what ever you do, write. That’s what you seem to want to do. Just keep writing. Post your stories. Submit them to publishers of all sorts. Just write and write some more.
You’re going to get kicked in the face by the editors for a while, but that will only help you refine your style. Remember Rowling was on welfare and practically homeless while she wrote her first novel.
I think writing also has decidedly mundane advantages. I hate to brag, but despite being somewhat tongue-twisted I seem to have an easier time putting my thoughts into writing than many people around me.
As a slide-drawing cubicle rat, it helps.
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5 hours ago, SunlitZelkova said:
If one utilizes a dinky early biplane for reconnaissance in WWI, someone is going to put guns on their own plane and shoot it down.
Before guns were mounted on planes, this led to the popularity of the "broomhandle" Mauser due to its air-to-air performance.
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27 minutes ago, SunlitZelkova said:
But I personally don’t think this is because of some retrospectively poor decisions made by leaders centuries or millennia ago but is instead an aspect of Homo sapiens’ behavior.
And this is usually where the fundamental disagreement lies: positing some long-forgotten golden age when [your political system of choice] worked flawlessly. But then [these people] came along and ruined it. If only we [took punitive actions] against [these people]!
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2 hours ago, Pthigrivi said:
We could easily squeeze those assets.
That's how you ensure MBS dumps his Western assets - if not sets them on fire, literally- and moves what can be moved into Bank of China. The reason the Western financial system is awash with the money of foreign kleptocrats is because there is a risk of that money being taken away from them, either by rival cronies or by a bunch of loons waving red flags, whereas Western countries respect the sanctity of private property and not take people's stuff arbitrarily.
* used to respect; you'd think people would have gotten the message back during the Cyprus deposits "haircut" back in 2014
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"Space torpedo" is a term of legitimate defense discussion
https://www.livescience.com/every-country-wants-space-force.html
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On 8/2/2022 at 10:24 AM, DDE said:
Possible third Nivelir with inspector subsatellite targeting USA 236
Closing dostance to 75 km tomorrow
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On 8/1/2022 at 7:43 AM, twinklegarg said:
How long would it take to make a space station module on the ground either a deduced ISS module or commodity like the L.I.F.E Module from Serra Nevada corp? I ’m starting to suppose we need to gutter the ISS or at least put it in a graveyard route for tourism profit.
Several years, basically. It takes quite a while to outfit the fabricated pressure hull.
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2 minutes ago, Pixophir said:
I am a scientist, not a politician.
It's rather hard to tell, since you insist on treating solar as a spherical cow in a vacuum, while taking the absolute worst examples of nuclear energy mismanagement and declaring them to be daming for the concept as a whole. It's an approach about as scientific as posting a video of a burning wond turbine and delcaring that all renewables are over.
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2 hours ago, Pixophir said:
Replacement and recycling of nuclear material (and that includes fusion reactors of the Tokamak type like ITER) is an unsolved, even unsolvable problem.
Missed that bit on the first read.
Challenge accepted.
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Reprocessing-contract-signed-for-fast-reactor-comp
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8 minutes ago, SunlitZelkova said:
Yes, it is possible to build your own solar system - and even the solar panels - from scratch.
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Solar panels are made by soldering together solar cells into strings
So, after the bulk of fhe dirty work is already done, and all that's left is within the capabilities of a regular electrician.
10 minutes ago, SunlitZelkova said:Googling "can a country run completely on renewable energy"
And that's another interesting bit. Places may report as having a purely "green" electrical grid, but there's the question of consumer and indistrial heating sources. Iceland doesn't have a problem there, but what about everyone else?
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Soyuz-2.1v, Plesetsk, Kosmos 2558
https://t.me/roscosmos_gk/6078
Possible third Nivelir with inspector subsatellite targeting USA 236
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40 minutes ago, Pixophir said:
They are importing energy because they have unexplained stress corrosion and no maintenance people and material to repair it.
So the problem isn't with nuclear as a technology, it's with the execution.
40 minutes ago, Pixophir said:Renewable energy production overtook thermal production in many countries. Some rely totally on the former.
Ah, yes, the vaunted industrial powerhouse of *checks Wiki* Albania.
40 minutes ago, Pixophir said:Now we're getting personal
Are we? A demand for evidence is not an ad hominem.
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2 minutes ago, Pixophir said:
Replacement and recycling of solar power is just trivial and can be done by everyone.
Evidently, not. It took cheap Chinese labor and advanced industey to make solar panels economically competitive, whereas your pretty strong claims for DYI solar powerplants remain groundless.
2 minutes ago, Pixophir said:But there's a misunderstanding here: A solar installation doesn't need much ado in that time. Otoh, no thermal power plant runs 30 years without massive maintenance, a constant stream of parts and fuel.
While producing orders of magnitude more power, reliably.
2 minutes ago, Pixophir said:France has massive problems with partly unexplained stress corrosion in more than half of their reactors. Since the country runs mostly on nuclear, they must import energy.
EDF's importing energy in order to meet Macron's lofty target of exlorted electricity. Purely moronic politics, combined with faulty welds. Don't dismiss the entire class of power sources thanks to a bad apple.
Don't blaspheme against Atom, or be divided in His sight.
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7 hours ago, Pixophir said:
Please look it up.
I have. California as the early adopter is having a crisis where the 25-30 year panels, especially in residential installations, are being decommissioned en masse, and they have no capacity to even properly dispose of them.
Also, 25-30 years is quite unimpressive by powerplant standards.
7 hours ago, Pixophir said:what happens when the nuclear power plants in a country stand still ?
If this happens to all of your nuclear powerplants, usually you have bigger problems to worry about than a nationwide power shortage...
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1 hour ago, TKMK said:
maybe we could put wire across the ocean for electricty. I dony imagine it would be easy, or cheap.
Wires don't work over long distances due to intense power loss to resistance. All you'd do is heat the oceans.
1 hour ago, Pixophir said:Dear colleague, politics, agenda and general defamation aside, the power source for the roof top exists. It is called solar power and depending on the area it can easily supply a household with power including charging an electric car, and add excess to the grid, earning a buck or two. It doesn't power households for just a decade, rather 2-3. There are solutions to combine it with wind and water where applicable and wanted. In combination with a low energy house, well insulated and intelligently placed windows and ventilation system with heat exchanger, heat pump, living off-grid - for whatever reason or agenda, - has become trivial at not too high latitudes. Individual cases need calculation of course.
In most countries it is an initial investment that pays off, sooner than later at current price hike rates.
One needs a house with somewhat suitable roof or another area and/or can participate in neighbourhood projects. These solutions are often times subsidized. Some of it (the PV part, when not grid connected because regulations) can even be made DIY to a degree, because DC isn't rocket science.
And what happens when those solar panels wear out, pray tell? Given current manufacturing techniques, they rarely reach net zero.
And that's before a war-indiced REE crisis looming on the horizon.
1 hour ago, Terwin said:If environmental groups were really concerned with global climate change, and not just fund-raising, they would have been advocating for nuclear power instead of against it.
The ignorant fear, the self-interested stoke that fear to their own ends, and we all get more propaganda until it gets to the point that your 'truth' depends on which source of lies you distrust less.
B-but nuclear power is unnatural whereas solar panels are!
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The problem seems to be less with fixed power production (which can be "green" or nuclear) and more with mobile applications. Greening fuel is probably more important than fusion.
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1 hour ago, Nuke said:
why are backlit keyboards so useless. except for perhaps night use, keyboards with fully addressable leds are being grossly underutilized. it seems there is a lot you can do with application context. like color coding keys to onscreen functions and illuminating shortcuts when the appropriate modifiers are pressed. seems like its a grossly underutilized capability.
I have a very fancy laptop that has that capability... and I just can't be bothered to use that.
Russian Launch and Mission Thread
in Science & Spaceflight
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Soyuz-2.1v out of Baikonir with an Iranian remote sensing satellite. Third stage burn complete, Fregat separated.
https://tass.ru/kosmos/15427073