AlanSE

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Is Power from Pure Proton Fusion Possible?(medium.com)
3 points by AlanSE 3d ago|2 comments
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Design of 1 TWe Fusion Power Plant(medium.com)
3 points by AlanSE 1mo ago|0 comments
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by AlanSE 3y ago
Site won't connect with https, this works for me. http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ116a/keynes1.pdf
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by AlanSE 3y ago
Can someone explain to me where the feeling_lucky variables comes from in the match example? I don't get it. The variable isn't defined anywhere in the relevant scope.
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by AlanSE 3y ago
> For the same reason, the enthusiasm for the idea of installing solar plants in north africa and exporting power over interconnectors to Europe is gone. It's cheaper to install twice as many panels in a field in cloudy northern Eur
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by AlanSE 3y ago
It's still not believed. It's just Twitter that I've seen the juicy stuff, like a (very sketchy) claimed replication from a Russian, and now another claim from a Chinese group. I could still see this being something "new
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by AlanSE 3y ago
No no no, this eliminates the need for cryo, not crypto.
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by AlanSE 3y ago
Fusion was already starting to heat up in recent years. The entire SPARC reactor concept is based on (low-temp) superconductor materials breakthroughs. If these room-temp superconductors pan out, it will be dumping gasoline on the funding f
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by AlanSE 3y ago
The ideal conditions to stimulate daydreaming seems pretty obvious to me - sit me down in any class lecture. Imagine that my mind like a glider. Glider is connected to a Cessna by a tether, but it's a magical tether that can disappear.
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by AlanSE 3y ago
Yeah, good to bring it back to the original point. Reading the article felt exciting, but in hindsight I am now missing a key detail. The equations all seem to be matrix operations with a fixed number of rows / columns (you can take me
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by AlanSE 3y ago
Yes, I should have Googled that before using the wrong word. I am also operating on old information, perhaps the law changed and this it varies by state now.
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by AlanSE 3y ago
As in, they use tax to avoid reporting the earnings? That works fine for the scale of a lemonade stand.
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by AlanSE 3y ago
Higher cash prices are a violation of the card-holder agreement.
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by AlanSE 3y ago
In fact, I have increasingly seen the pattern of adults who work from home but have a commute to drive their children in the morning / afternoon. That's 2-ways both times, for the record. It's often multi-destination.
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by AlanSE 3y ago
I hope/believe that we are near a tipping point. There is a very large and very substantial neighborhood premium based on what's around it, but the zoning is the same everywhere so the competition was legally restricted to greenwa
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by AlanSE 3y ago
I've been following Terraform Industries for a while, and it does strike me as obvious that H2 will be the preferred form of energy storage medium in the long run, not just an intermediate species. Depending on the conditions, if you&#
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by AlanSE 3y ago
I tried this about a year ago and it was alright. I wanted to like Photonix, as it was a python library and I expected would be easier to hack, but I couldn't lie to myself. PhotoPrism is very clearly and very obviously the most mature
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by AlanSE 3y ago
So is it basically true that there is no objective information out there anymore, because anyone running a successful site gets corrupted with money?
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by AlanSE 3y ago
Also, builders want to build high-margin houses, not low-margin houses. Also, high-margin housing gets advertised, low-margin housing does not.
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by AlanSE 3y ago
They see new builds hitting the market and look at the (aspirational) price put there by the builder. It's a borderline conspiracy that Zillow lists certain high-end new developments for a year (before they're built) which pollute
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by AlanSE 3y ago
I have been, personally, figuring that I should wear mostly cotton clothing and glass / ceramic (as opposed to plastic) dishware. Limiting material choices for household items would be politically impossible, but I would like it to bec
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by AlanSE 3y ago
Maybe get rid of them in clothes and personal care products at least?
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by AlanSE 3y ago
It needs to be more expensive to hire lawyers (and lobbyists) than to hire engineers to solve the problem. Some companies will fail to adapt and continue to fight legally in lieu of adding filters and complying, and those companies should g
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by AlanSE 3y ago
I clicked on a few data links from the paper... not ideal, but you take some of the identifiers, Google for them, adjust the criteria a bit... https://ncpfastnetwork.com/data And that's what you're asking for, but
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by AlanSE 3y ago
Not trying to be the troll, but this debate is missing the obvious retort. > Why aren't we forcing the polluters to pay for the cleanup Because then the manufacturing goes to China. It doesn't get cleaner, it might actually get
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by AlanSE 3y ago
I honestly, genuinely, fail to understand the meaning of that. It can't possibly be true that homeless people didn't exist before the 1980s. What does this actually mean?
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by AlanSE 3y ago
What town is that? As I go through my life experiences, every affluent place I've lived in my state, NC, has had decent libraries. They are used mostly by kids and old people, anecdotally. I laughed on the inside a bit when I considere
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by AlanSE 3y ago
From a technical standpoint it doesn't make a lot of sense. CCTVs in cities are a big political topic. For corridors that people walk through often, this is much more effective for facial recognition and you don't have to power pr
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by AlanSE 3y ago
Getting a camera 400 feet in the air after a call to 911 dispatch gave a location sounds like a perfectly-balanced fulfillment of the social contract. While there is an abundance of creeping excesses with tech and policing, the slippery slo
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by AlanSE 3y ago
I strongly agree with almost everything I've read here, but I agree less-so that screen size doesn't matter. We don't build computers to be used socially. I've seen... demos? Someone makes a table with touch input recogn

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