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I think the bar for what constitutes unacceptable outside of work behavior changes significantly as you move up the responsibility ladder. Once you are in any significant leadershi…

> The COVID devastation is also about long COVID, and even people who had COVID but either recovered “fully” or never displayed symptoms. None of this is over, and we are so, so fu…

The Andromeda Strain!

Not necessarily. Black locust (Robinia psuedoacacia), e.g., is one of the faster growing hardwoods in North America, but produces very hard, dense, and strong wood.

Without question, if you've got a tractor you can rely on, I would get a PTO-driven generator for backup. Even a little 30HP diesel tractor will power a 15kw generator, which is bi…

I don't see how this conversion makes much sense. He started with a generator that was junked because the ICE was shot. He could have replaced that ICE with an off the shelf 4 cycl…

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. Are you saying that these exchanges are trading at prices to a precision of 10 ^ -10 dollars (or other currency)? I saw private exchan…

I'd like a report back from TigerBeetle on how many applications they actually support where the high order 64 bits are nonzero. I would note that the entire US GDP is less than 10…

I'm not a collector, but I'm tempted to bid on this book. It's remarkable to imagine the effort the original owner had to put in, over a couple of decades, to collect all those sig…

Well, the details are at least somewhat impeached by the fact that she got the date wrong (or you did, in your comment). There was no Trinitite to be had at Los Alamos until 1945.

I'm happy for you if that's working out in your enterprise. It was not our experience in the time frame we're talking about (VB was sunset over 20 years ago), and frankly it was no…

Of course, if you want to twist VB, or Delphi, or any of the client-server construction sets into pretzels, you could build a well-factored system. And yes, your data has to scale …

Well, that, and all those wonderful apps were inherently client-server architectures, with the business logic on the client. Nobody ever built a properly factored, with stateless l…

Probably. But what seems much more interesting is to have a spatial model pre-seeded in the LLM, so that it "attaches" language to that as part of its training. Ditto for other mod…

Obviously, you didn't read how it is intended to work. Baking the rock gives them a stream of nearly pure CO2, which can be sequestered underground. The powdered rock then efficien…

It's interesting that discussions of this process don't mention the potential to combine the carbon sequestration with, say, nuclear power generation. This process basically requir…

I'm really thinking of the energy scaling. Suppose you want to use such a technology to offset burning oil for some purpose. Even for highly efficient processes, you're going to ge…

There are no energy free ways to resequester atmospheric CO2. If you accept that we will have to do so to meet the world's climate change goals, then the question is really, how en…

It would be interesting to see someone dig into the differences between the capture of language and culture, and control over how it gets fed back into cultural discourse, that we …

Seeing that old Friden mechanical calculator under it's cover take me way back. We used them to do basic statistics on data sets in an NSF summer research school I attended after m…

When I was in junior high, I was given the opportunity to program on a GE Time Share BASIC system, through KSR 33 teletype, and a 100 baud dialup modem. Between January and May, I …

There are chemical processes, most notably photochemical processes like photosynthesis, that funnel molecular states into new configurations so rapidly, that observation of the det…

I wasn't looking for a "gotcha." Just saying that you need to consider all the input costs to know how this pencils out. 50% is almost exactly the paper's claimed efficiency for th…

Sure, and that is an option if you're using propane as storage for renewable electricity, or for large scale industrial uses like cement production. You won't get to full recycle, …