I have a fear of numbers that can’t be expressed as a fraction, though I realize it’s irrational.

The summary even says that the data analysis showing transition from laminar to turbulent Is a quarter century old while the data itself is approaching a century. Even someone as old as me had this thought ingrained in coursework a quarter century ago, so the idea the single source cited is unique among engineering and science researchers fails miserably. There aren't closed form solutions for simple shapes that resolve to easy to compute answers from a generic solved formula, like simple drag for example, but instead require very intensive finite element analysis, and ideally across more than just simple fluid dynamics. This is why they haven’t had practical use beyond some simple experimental results like golf balls, where the dimple patent is 121 years old, as an example predating the summary. Once you can include this property reliably into physics simulation models for engineering platforms, as is currently being done, we will see many more advances such as the now banned Olympic swimming suits.

They proved my point brilliantly.

Jokes on them, LLM will never scale into a general purpose AI, nor even a profitable one for 99% of use cases. Yet the trillions being poured into data center hardware has a half life of about 3-4 years of utility, meaning hundreds of billions are guaranteed to be wiped out. It may be possible to get another fundamental breakthrough, but realistically this isn’t possible because the current AI models have been around for 15+ years and it took more than a decade for them to actually mature to a bare level of usefulness. We aren’t seeing these so we know trillions will be guaranteed to be flushed down the crapper, while vastly increasing our utility bills, cutting jobs not out of productivity gains but to afford the hardware, and while AI won’t ever go away, these fools and their money will soon be parted. That’s why he’s sweating.

A public square is owned by the public and is public property with people having a right to be there generally. 99.999% of “public” discord space is privately owned, without guarantee of constitutional right to speech (as in US), without any rights in general and you may be banned for nearly any or no reason at any time with no notice. Pubic services are subject to freedom of information (or at least were before this administration) and therefore any algorithm, rules, or similar must be disclosed whereas private ones are often curated by proprietary means. Public squares are paid for by the public and are generally incredible value for the $ spent and offer you a valuable thing whereas if you aren’t paying through the nose you’re the product and will be played to maximize engagement and extract maximum value, usually in ads.

Maybe it’s time we demand an actual online public square for discourse, one that’s free at the point of service and that ideally has the same overhead to value our public roads provide. Because now no one actually uses public squares, information is far easier to share electronically it does not make sense to do it physically, and it’s physically impossible to have the same reach as electronic when you have a powerful message that will organically spread. The constitution guarantees you can’t be silenced for nearly any reason.

Also, enshitification of the work environment and mistreatment of employees in general makes for a who gives a crap mentality that’s backed up by a belief of a bad reference no matter what you do. This leads to indirect sabotage of everything and long term rot from the inside. Eventually even billion dollar momentum crumbles under its own mass. It’s myopic late stage greed.

There are 10 kinds of people that understand Bigfoot. Those that do and those that don’t.

”Are there any women here today?”

Only the emperor has such magnificently transparent clothes you would swear he was wearing nothing at all.

While funny, that’s not actually how it works. Releasing small particles into the atmosphere of any color can greatly enhance the nucleation process and is especially effective at trapping heat by letting more energy in than radiated heat outward. Then the obvious answer becomes we must pollute more fine particles in the upper atmosphere, preferably by removing all regulations like for container ships so it’s profitable. /sarcasm

What’s worse is picking the crops far far before their time and using extended shipping and storage times to ripen them and even gasses to quickly ripen them if needed. It makes things not only taste bad, but they are significantly lower in nutrients.

Diesel is a major cost component in trucking, and per mile electricity is roughly 5 times cheaper when purchased commercially. With newer batteries able to charge in under 15 minutes this means with appropriately sized chargers a very large savings in fuel costs is possible while diversifying the types of raw energy needed. In the coming years it won’t be viable to use diesel anymore simply because it’s too expensive, not to mention that the costs to build an electric vehicle are already dropping below internal combustion while requiring less maintenance and increasing reliability.

Battery capacity is increasing, and larger vehicles are being electrified but that brings us to a major charging problem. 350kW is the maximum available in the US, and vehicles like the Silverado have over 200kWh meaning fast charging isn’t possible, not because the battery and supporting systems can’t take it but because there is no such thing as a charger powerful enough. Somehow BYD in China already has 1,500 kW chargers and even supporting smaller capacity vehicles meaning the charge time is down to roughly the time it takes to fill up at a gas station. Puny 350kW chargers make things like large trucks and semis quite a bit less viable for no particularly good reason at all, maybe the US and other countries should get off their asses and actually support the power needed to properly support reasonable charging of large vehicles and fast charging of small ones. While they are at it, ideally not up charging 5x the cost they pay for electricity like they do here in the US making it just as expensive as fossil fuels when they could turn a profit at lower rates.

People have been allowed to work on multi ton vehicles that reach speeds of a hundred miles an hour with far more kinetic energy than any bullet for a century now without any real issue. The push to make repair illegal is the same as the push to make everything a subscription, unbridled corporate greed and the erosion of rights that brings.

This is a primary push behind banning 3D printers and CNC equipment becoming cheap and affordable. Companies that charge hundreds of dollars for cheap plastic parts are very concerned when you can just print it instead for a dollar of filament.