nebopolis

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by nebopolis 3mo ago
There's a single mine (Giant Mine) in Canada that is contaminated with 200k+ tons of arsenic trioxide - which will literally remain poisonous forever since the poison is a stable element not an organic compound. The current plan is to
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by nebopolis 3mo ago
the thing that makes nuclear waste scary (the radiation) is also something extremely helpful for public health. You can wave a cheap, widely available scanner over your milk and immediately know if it is contaminated with radioactive iodine
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by nebopolis 4y ago
I've been in pretty bad shape off and on for the past five years now. Never to the point of psychosis, but to the point of hospitalization for chest pains caused by panic attacks, persistent hemipelegic migraine, essential tremors, gas
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by nebopolis 4y ago
There exist industrial reaction vessels etc which are made of stainless steel with a bonded liner made of glass. That seems like the ideal "forever" food container material to me - chemically nonreactive and easy to clean, but lig
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by nebopolis 4y ago
Dams have the side effect of making huge swaths of land uninhabitable automatically as soon as they start filling. From the Three Gorges Dam > China relocated 1.24 million residents (ending with Gaoyang in Hubei Province) as 13 cities, 1
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by nebopolis 4y ago
Wood has advantages. For one, insulation is easier. A lot of the current best practices for insulating a brick building are basically to build a different kind of building, insulate it, and then add a cosmetic brick facade. But in a Mediter
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by nebopolis 4y ago
Water usage is heavily region dependent - grass fed beef from a region which does not depend on well irrigation essentially has net zero water usage. The cows eat grass and drink water, which they then piss out watering the grass. This is f
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by nebopolis 4y ago
Being sodium cooled, both a steam explosion and hydrogen gas generation via water is ac minimized. Lots of safety advantages to a coolant that is still liquid at operating core temperature with no added pressure. But of course liquid sodium
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by nebopolis 4y ago
One of my favorite programming ballads is Frank Hayes S-100: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow78cUDdTOg To tell the truth the source of all our troubles seems to be A committee on computers of the I of triple E They settle
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by nebopolis 4y ago
Poured concrete actually is a passive remover! The issue is the process of baking carbonate rocks at high temperatures to form the cement. This not only takes a lot of energy, but it inherently drives off CO2 from the rock. Over the decades
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by nebopolis 5y ago
I would argue that Fortran _is_ "über mainstream" - if you look at computing as a whole. It may not be used extensively for CRUD applications, but it is part of the bedrock of basically all computing. And there are some niches whe
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by nebopolis 5y ago
The thing you are missing is that in addition to fusion power research (which is valuable and NIF has made major contributions to) there is also fusion weapons research. Inertal confinement is (kinda) close to the conditions inside a fusion
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by nebopolis 5y ago
Prions are essentially already denatured/unfolded. They are a more stable state of a normal protein that has biological function, and they interact with the "correctly" folded proteins to cause them to denature into additiona
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Eating the alkali metals: Salts taste test(youtube.com)
4 points by nebopolis 6y ago|0 comments
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by nebopolis 6y ago
The original RM (and all signs point towards the RM2 being the same) had direct root ssh access via a virtual network device on the USB port. This could be used to SCP backup the notebooks, add custom executables, etc. I understand why the
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by nebopolis 6y ago
This version includes a fix for a rare but potentially impactful compiler bug affecting the correctness of const propagation.
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Rust 1.45.1(blog.rust-lang.org)
2 points by nebopolis 6y ago|1 comments
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by nebopolis 7y ago
Is it an unacceptably bad idea to allow auto updates as well? Anything potentially problematic here could also be done with a code change, but at least this contains a flag to opt-out.
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Smyte is joining Twitter(smyte.com)
2 points by nebopolis 8y ago|0 comments
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by nebopolis 9y ago
There is a checkbox for "titlebar" in the customize view that will let you bring back the titlebar if you have your tabs hidden.
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by nebopolis 10y ago
Learning Rust With Entirely Too Many Linked Lists ( http://cglab.ca/~abeinges/blah/too-many-lists/book/ ) is the best resource I've found for learning how to create data structures in Rust. It goes ov
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Benchmarks vs. The World(llogiq.github.io)
2 points by nebopolis 10y ago|0 comments
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by nebopolis 10y ago
My understanding was that in Publications International, Ltd. v. Meredith Corp [0] the ruling came down fairly heavily on the side of recipes (including directions) being outside the domain of copyright. In that case a substantial number of
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by nebopolis 10y ago
Computer Science often has a different curriculum depending on whether the CS program at the university grew out of its Math or Engineering department. I think this helps explain some of the wide variations in what is considered a "CS&
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Helix: writing Ruby classes in Rust without having to write glue code(github.com)
2 points by nebopolis 10y ago|0 comments
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by nebopolis 11y ago
I think that you (or your source) are reading too much into the actions of Quakers in Pennsylvania. Quakers like all people are fallible, and Quakerism especially embraces the idea of continuing revelation and moving beyond previous barbari
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by nebopolis 11y ago
This would not surprise me - the colonial penal code was derived as far as I can tell from the English penal code, although less harsh. It is possible to simultaneously be much less harsh than the contemporary norms and still be abhorrent f
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by nebopolis 11y ago
Do you have any citations to say that Quakers were particularly disposed to capitol punishment during the colonial era? While people of their time what I've been able to find indicates the opposite: [Who Should Die?: The Evolution of C
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by nebopolis 11y ago
Would it be possible to provide an address that receipts could be forwarded to? Similar to how Tripit works where you forward travel plans to plans@tripit.com and they are connected to your account based on the sender address. Reciepts coul