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Its an exciting time to be alive because as of recently we certainly can detect planetary atmosphere major components out to at least 700 or so light years. https://en.wikipedia.or…

"proto-cells that grew on these vents and needed those metallic surfaces to survive didn’t count as “life”" What makes that argument extremely weak is analogies with contemporary o…

I read the author's entire post and find it interesting that the author attributes success to having a good story to tell based upon some wild youth experiences while sailing. Not …

OP is correct, the people making fun of OP don't have an engineering background. The pressure of a condenser at 90F (hot summer day) is about 1/20th of an atmosphere and ... pretty…

I find it interesting the discussion here is entirely about water temperature whereas the shutdown is entirely about NPSH. True there is a small different in NPSH pump limit of hot…

The problem with rational decisionmaking is there are vast areas where only irrational opinions are acceptable. Try the same line of logical reasoning for vaccines, low fat high ca…

A strong indication of addiction is mental backflips to avoid discussing the problem. The story seems to be grain alcohol is as healthy for the human body as rainwater or mother's …

Its interesting to read post WWII accounts of the early amateur telescope making hobby. There was a fear there would be a second glass famine in WWII so a somewhat massive cottage …

Two comments about this being fake news, based upon my wife having two nurse friends: MDs are nationally organized and have a fixed career path. Nurses are more "you do you" career…

None of this is an "AI" problem its SaaS BAU. You don't like the new agreement? Pray I don't alter it further.

"This way your passwords are truly yours" They were never yours, and zillions of people you don't know have access to them.

As a concrete example, some advertising supported topics place search as an unwanted middleman, may as well ask a LLM directly. Consider "chocolate chip cookie recipe". Using googl…

I can't figure out how to find a list and I believe that's intentional to avoid simplistic copyright search and takedown type of problems. It is aggravating how little information …

This is a classic outside the field vs inside the field conceptual disagreement. From the outside, the hard part of designing a chair is making a blueprint. At least making a bluep…

Make it anonymous and the problem will go away. The problem is people trying to get individual credit for merely running a script that spams a mailing list. Many of those people ar…

For those who don't "get it", it's output is not dismal, far from it LOL. About 5M people, a fifth the population of Malawi, none the less are one of the top producers in the entir…

It's very strange what they don't discuss, especially when it seems to answer supposedly unanswerable questions. I rooted around in wikipedia and Malawi has FAR more people than th…

We're going to have two phones, the big brother phone you usually leave at home for banking apps and tax filing and boring stuff like that, locked down and nanny up, and the "real …

Ironically the Z80 is a nibble ALU. That's why its so slow compared to the competition, an 8 bit add on a "2 MHz" Z80 takes as much clock time as a 8 bit add on a "1 MHz" 6809.

Click "Start" admire the CP/M startup, you have an "A>" prompt go for it. Start with https://archive.org/details/cpm-primer-second-edition/mode/1... Or this if you dare: https://ar…

The thing you missed to search for Nyquist limit as applies to the triad of battery power use vs data speed vs range. There's also error rate in the equation... You can more or les…

"Setup a bunch of nodes across a significant area of land, run ... sensors" This is my use case. There are no other options that don't demand something like cell phone coverage (LO…

Unlike ham radio, it allows encryption and doesn't forbid commercial use, so it'll get taken over by commercial interests if it works, or ignored if it remains small or fails. If i…

The purpose of a LLM ban is to encourage use of LLMs to submit PRs, not discourage. The longer term effect is to eliminate FOSS competency from the hiring process. It takes some hu…

"AN/AAR-57" Yes the small yellow subwoofer looking things that people speculate endlessly about. Supposedly BAE systems marketing released a picture of the whole system LOL, who ne…