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Comment Re:claims (Score 2) 37

I've seen tenth of a watt with 50 degree C temperature differential reported. So on a brisk winter day of -17 C you'd need 50 friends or johns or M type gimps to prostrate themselves in a circle with their exposed rumps in the air towards the center, and from your pivot man position in the center jam a silicone heat sink greased JTEC up each their asses to get the 5W to charge a smartphone.

Comment Re: Was it a Russian drone? (Score 1) 113

Nonsense, Russia can't and won't attack any NATO country. Russia does not have the means to stand up to NATO in either conventional or nuclear war. It would end them. Their expansion is limited to Ukraine and they're struggling there. Your hypothetical trillions to defend and scare mongering about an "emboldened Russia" are just fiction.

We sent $24 billion just to prop up Ukrainian government salaries to the end of December 2024 alone, parasites.

We are getting low on several critical munitions because we're wasting them on Ukraine, and Ukraine continues to lose even now. It's good money after bad, a waste. Zelenskyy and his oligarchs have his gravy train from fighting Russia down to the last Ukrainian and last acre of Ukraine.

It is not cost effective to waste our money and munitions on a losing war.

Comment claims (Score 5, Interesting) 37

Johnson claims 40 - 60 % efficiency with large temperature spread of 600 degrees C.. and that's beautiful and wonderful.

Thus far experiments at lower temperature differences have been done, I see on net 180 degrees with 17 percent which actually is ok too. The theoretical max there would be 38 percent.

But, anything near the 40 to 60 percent theoretical value hasn't been demonstrated in repeatable experiment, he's working up to that. So, is Johnson just overhyped about the invention or can he (or anyone) deliver? for that matter, even 20 percent at lower temp differences might be good for a lot of things anyway.

Comment Re: Was it a Russian drone? (Score 0) 113

You're hilarious, I'm a third generation U.S. citizen.

I don't give a shit about either Russia or Ukraine problems, fuck 'em both. I care about my tax dollars propping up sponges, and that means Ukraine.

Your little pea brain can't comprehend someone not swallowing the B.S. narrative fed to them by the Biden administration to support this stupid war.

Comment Re:Part of the reason: 2038 (Score 1) 28

Nope!

OpenBSD has the luxury by fiat that users will accept utterly breaking API for previous versions, to say you must recompile all apps for the new 32 bit time_t; not a big deal the way the distro is put together, if you use their thousands packages you're fine, they did the work for you. OpenBSD users are fine with the "flag day break the past" approached, explained, promised and delivered.

Not the case in Linux land, utterly different situation. They promise and keep backward compatibility of 32 bit libraries. No flag day promised, threatened or allowed. Your 32 bit Linux will die in 2038, deal with it.

Comment Re: That is bullshit (Score 1) 77

Are anything replacing Java and COBOL for big finacial wares the big iron runs with decades old libraries? The mid sized stuff is going to C# which has a Windows curse countries outside the USA hate and Python which is 34 years old.

So 25 to 50 years out it'll be those for core business except Microsoft in coding space will collapse with ai and other unfocused clippy-ism.

Systems programming might go to Rust

Comment Re: Was it a Russian drone? (Score 0) 113

Two words for you, Azov Brigade.

Or the name of the actual WW 2 SS Nazi war criminal Ukraine made their national hero. Look up his name. He was going to speak in Canada's parliament as a hero but then the truth came out, what a scandal.

Russia is evil, Ukraine is too. Let them fight, but not on our dime.

Comment Re: Was it a Russian drone? (Score 1, Troll) 113

Ukraine's ultra-right brigades were slaughtering ethnic Russians before this war started, even CNN used to report on groups like the Azov Brigade before they decided to be a Biden admin propaganda organ. Ukraine sent their national hero to speak in Canada's parliament, but then it came out he was a real live WW 2 Nazi SS war criminal.

You've been duped, sure Russia is bad and Putin a mafia thug, but Ukraine was bad too and karma is a bitch.

Comment Re: Not new info (Score 1) 199

there are various recipes for all those colors around the world, and two major types of bases besides numerous dyes including organic and various inorganic some being metal oxides. Some "recently" invented and some used for thousands of years. Any scientific study would have to involves experiments with each type, otherwise it's noise.

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