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LFTRs make readily-available (liquid-form) weapons-grade Uranium-233 during protactinium separation. They're the least proliferation resistant reactor known to man. LFTR has a far …

Frigate is so amazing. The lightweight object detectors plus home assistant automations and notifications are way too fun and powerful. I keep setting up new systems for family mem…

Their FAQ says they use Public Domain Registry to actually buy the domains. They are a wholly owned subsidiary of The Endurance International Group, who is owned by Clearlake Capit…

I asked it to make a valid MCNP model of a sphere of plutonium and it did!

I spent a long time recently setting pretty much this same thing up. When in my office my Android phone battery rapidly died, I guess because usteer kept trying to steer it or some…

I always find this sentiment curious for 2 reasons: 1. Radioactive waste gets less toxic over time unlike many toxins like mercury, lead, and cyanide. People seem to emphasize the …

This is often used within the industry to mean many dozens of commercial nuclear power plants.

I made something like this in like 2007 called Apocalypse Feed. It took in a few factors and aggregated them into a 0-to-100 number that updated and published over RSS. First it pi…

I don't use it and so haven't compared. I'm interested as well.

Tangentially related, I recently had some hand-me-down high-end full tower speakers lose their integrated subwoofer amps. I bypassed them and wired in an external amp but people sa…

I did a book in rst and liked that it had cool admonition, import, glossary, and index features that made it better than markdown for me. Still hate the heading conventions.

On the plus side, mine misdetected a wake word during a funny conversation and said "Sorry, I can't find any area called _____[60 second repeat of funny conversation]___" and it ma…

The announcement on instagram is here in case anyone wants to see it directly. Pretty well done. Nathan did a bunch of teasers with the other stars earlier. Kinda funny and goofy. …

Ryzen 5950x cpu, 64 gb ecc ram, dual 16 tb drives for zfs, Nvidia 5070 gpu. Way way overspeced for what I listed, but I use it for lots of video processing, numerical simulations, …

I have something like this, in the same case. I have beefier specs b/c I use it as a daily workstation in addition to running all my stuff. * nginx with letsencrypt wildcard so I h…

Yeah, but autofilling everything down to the neighboring city is still a huge improvement.

I think they can just skip the zip code entry and enter everything else as usual.

Are all people with physical access to the servers or network access to the hosts guaranteed to be US persons? Are all physical and network accesses logged for audits? That's the k…

Even self-hosting on AWS, GCP, or Azure isn't local enough for certain application, such as people doing export-controlled work where any sysadmin or person with physical access to…

* "Self-hosted: Runs entirely on your infrastructure. No data leaves your network." * "Bring Your Own LLM: Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, or open-weight models via vLLM." With so many …

That is a common and reasonable sentiment. I can't help wonder if Claude Code will move this needle. Maybe people will stop relying as much on excel?

Note that the headline means it's the first time a C-17 airlifted a reactor. Of course we airlifted many reactors in other types of aircraft: a swimming pool reactor from ORNL to G…

Very nice! Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't the lights of the icon computers light up for transmitting and receiving?

It'd be cool to write a little script that dumps them out into an Anki deck for spaced repetition.