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Comment Re: Model F (Score 1) 68

Tenkeys aren't as useful when you're constantly switching back and forth between a laptop and a desktop. If you spend more of your time on the laptop then you get used to typing numbers with the top row and the numpad ends up superfluous.

I end up working a lot with IP addresses and I still don't really miss the lack of numpad anymore. I just got used to it.

Comment Re:Really cool, application to rockets not so much (Score 1) 66

Respectfully I must disagree. The US military switched from the Beretta 92/M9 to the Sig Sauer P320/M17 in order to gain a few more rounds and to save a few ounces of weight. There was nothing wrong with their prior service pistol that couldn't be resolved with reordering a batch of them to replace the clapped-out ones that had seen decades of use, the M9s were compatible with NATO partners and the supply chain for them was well established. They chose to make a change for what on-paper was only marginally improved performance.

Bombs like the MOAB that are designed to bust bunkers absolutely would benefit from higher yields. If it would perform as a bomb as well as the studies suggest, it might well offer the most powerful conventional bombs that the US has. I could see that being a big reason to do it alone, since it doesn't cross the nuclear threshold while still being more powerful.

Comment Re:Really cool, application to rockets not so much (Score 1) 66

We produce a lot of things that cost more energy to make than they release on-use. It's a matter of how that energy is released and how it's delivered to the point of release.

The Manhattan Project and subsequent nuclear weapons programs demonstrated how much effort and energy we are willing to put into producing bombs. The bombs are incredibly powerful, but cost immense amounts of energy to produce, slowly, over time.

I have no doubt that an explosive twice as dense as TNT would be of interest presuming that it's shelf-stable for a sufficient and reliable period of time and can be set off reliably and simply. If nothing else it might either reduce the weight of conventional bombs or other ordnance, or might increase yields when using them so the same size and mass munition delivers more effect.

Comment Re:Even using the word "incel" (Score 5, Informative) 31

It's not that they haven't found someone, it's that they whine and moan it's because of the women, not them. Nothing is ever their fault. It's women and feminism and equality and any other excuse they can come up with.

Not only do they blame women, they're hostile to women, going out of their way to trivialize anything a woman does. Here's a recent example. Brittany Force has the fastest speed in NHRA history. In fact, she broke her own record a week after setting the first record.

An incel said it's really the technology which did the winning since all she did is press the pedal. Mind you, this line of thought would also apply to every man out there, but because it's a woman getting the record, she's undeserving. She's just a passenger. Other comments were about how she weighs less than a man so of course she would go faster.

There's your incels.

Comment Re:Unsurprising (Score 5, Interesting) 111

I won't dispute that.

The trouble is, there are still folks who think that, "the observer" means consciousness. The term "observer" itself is a problem. The double-slit experiment demonstrates that quantum effects are more than just interaction because arguably the slit assembly as a filter is an interaction, but the "observer" seems to be a slightly more involved interaction.

Of course, the word, "Theory" was also a bit of a poor choice because those who wish to dismiss science will use, "it's just a theory!" as if decades of research and experimentation to come up with the most plausible explanation to-date can be dismissed as easily as the rambling ill-conceived conclusions of someone with no background or education.

yes, I'm aware I'm arguing about semantics now, but unfortunately so are a lot of other people.

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