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Totally agree with you on ‘putting stuff away’. Much of the mental effort is trying to organize stuff so it takes space efficiently, and be easy to find it when I need it. If a rob…

Global cellular operator revenue is approx $1T. They have put their toe in the water with direct-to-cellular support for starlink, and have bought spectrum to improve this. I'm sur…

Once in a while I get inspired by a post on HN, but I know I don't have the energy to follow it through. Here's my idea for anyone who thinks they can do something with it: Imagine…

This seems like a good opportunity to share my recent photos from a bookstore in Tokyo… just a crazy number of computer books. Mostly in Japanese language. https://imgur.com/a/Kygj…

They remind me a lot of the 'memories' scene in Minority Report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arTIRgdEb1g

The Los Angeles Aqueduct delivers water to LA. The California Aqueduct is used for farmland in the central valley. Two different things.

Surely, the question is: how big do the radiators have to be? gemini says that the NVIDIA DGX H100 is 130kg and takes 11kW. It says space-based radiators in the 100kW range are app…

It will be used for spatial content, for viewing in Apple Vision Pro headset. In fact you can already turn any photo into spatial content. I’m not sure if it’s using this algorithm…

> Access old ideas? Yes. With new perspectives? I wonder if we can mine patent databases for old ideas that never worked out in the past, but now are more useful. Perhaps due to mo…

Trex makes composite decking planks from recycled shopping bags. Seems like a perfect use for the material. Its durable. It doesn’t have to be sterile or pure. Apparently 100,000 b…

They just a hyphen. The motto used to be pollution-free for all!

I don't get why everyone keeps talking about the planets aligning. All the planets are pretty much in the same plane. So if you are on one of the planets, all of the others will al…

Methane derived from co2 and h2o with solar energy is not a fossil fuel. Methane from the ground is a fossil fuel. Casey is going after industry that has a lot of inertia behind me…

Osborn’s Law: Variables won’t; constants aren’t.

I see they are going for the high-end market. Seems the right path to me, for now, since they can charge high prices for foie gras without the guilt. We eat beef, chicken, pork, an…

But the "I am your father" wasn't in the shooting script anyway. The script said "Obi-Wan killed your father", and it was changed to "I am your father when James Earl Jones" said t…

Cool worlds has a great new video discussing the difficulties with carbon capture. https://youtu.be/EBN9JeX3iDs?si=fwkVomJUsw2_4Oa9

Everyday astronaut has a video discussing the layout of the area and which parts are closed during launch. https://youtu.be/aWvHrih-Juk?si=rXff0jL4ln3CY14_

Also current generation rockets burn up in the atmosphere. Starship will be fully reusable! Surely they want that!?

It’s a limited system at the moment because it’s just goes from the convention center to one hotel. They just don’t have the riders at the moment

Home toilets have the front section

I've had my current Ikea Jerker desk for >15 years. Nice metal frame, and large, durable work surface. Also discontinued a long time ago.

The smaller nuclear reactors used on submarines and aircraft carriers would be of the appropriate size, but they generate electricity using steam turbines. I don't think that would…

If a single mission to mars cost $100b, then I would agree with the article that it would probably not be worth it. SpaceX is focused on reducing the cost, and no matter what you t…

You’d recover some of the energy as it passes through the Hoover dam. In fact this proposal has the side benefit of storing energy from solar.