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This was written by Fable 5 over the course of a day in summer 2026 because I wanted more Firefall books to read. I'm hoping Peter Watts can see the irony of a machine of indefinab…

It's a perfect game.

This is extremely obvious and it’s what you think it is.

NK is protected by China, a very credible force.

I can say from direct experience doing research with hollow-core fibres that they are not easy to splice either to each other or to standard fibre. Imagine trying to use heat to me…

Huh, I'm 39 and I really hadn't thought about this incoming generation of people not used to typing.

Brilliant. This is my life.

I must be missing something. This is recommending folders are numbered. Is that it? Is this a "system" now? I think that may have been used previously - for example by humanity for…

Software folk underestimating hardware? Surely not.

Terrifying.

It doesn't

"the BIPM collects time measurements from national timing laboratories around the world" I'm really interested in how this is done with multiple clocks over a distance. Can anyone …

It's mad that this even needs said. A company's aim should be to be sustainable and profitable, not to be a receptacle for capital. Some companies need external capital to get to t…

Why does this read like a cult manifesto?

Are there benefits to registering domain names with country TLDs (e.g. US, EC, DE, UK) directly with the national registrar? For example, Nominet for .UK, or NIC.EC for .EC. Does r…

After how many years do you stop being a startup?

Mick West is very sure he is correct. I'm not sure that's enough.

Yes - this is precisely what was trialled in the UK a few years ago. You can basically take old decommissioned generators and just take power to spin them up - thus, you've just (r…

As another commenter says, it's actually easier the more generators you have because the rotational inertia of all the spinning masses is larger. This (and the storage problem) is …