Comment Meanwhile Bitcoin... (Score 1) 32
...currently 180 TWh/yr according to: https://ccaf.io/cbnsi/cbeci
If it were a country it would be in the top 25.
Comment Two problems with bitcoin... (Score 2) 80
1. It doesn't scale. All real currencies scale because you can print more; that's not all inflation if it's within a growing economy.
2. It wastes huge amounts of energy. Yes this is a problem. It's aloo a problem with AI.
Comment Re:/64 Prefix delegation (Score 2) 74
/64 is twice as many addresses as the entire IPv4 space. You can effectively subnet within a /64 with some restrictions; SLAAC won't work for instance, DHCPv6 will.
Comment Old news (Score 1) 74
Our estate has been dual-stack for nearly 20 years. It really isn't a big deal.
Submission + - Blood Type May Affect Severity of COVID-19 Infection, New Study Suggests (yahoo.com)
An anonymous reader writes: In a new study published Wednesday, researchers in Canada found that, among 95 critically ill COVID-19 patients, 84 percent of those with the blood types A and AB required mechanical ventilation compared to 61 percent of patients with type O or type B, CNN reports. The former group also remained in the intensive care unit for a median of 13.5 days, while the latter's median stay was nine days.
Dr. Mypinder Sekhon, an intensive care physician at Vancouver General Hospital and the author of the study, said blood type has been "at the back of my mind" when treating patients, but "we need repeated findings across many jurisdictions that show the same thing" before anything definitive is established. It's still unclear what may be behind the possible distinction; Sekhon said one explanation could be that people with blood type O are less prone to blood clotting, which can often lead to more severe cases. Either way, Sekhon doesn't believe blood type will supersede other "risk factors of severity" like age or comorbidities, and he said people should not behave differently based on their group.
Dr. Mypinder Sekhon, an intensive care physician at Vancouver General Hospital and the author of the study, said blood type has been "at the back of my mind" when treating patients, but "we need repeated findings across many jurisdictions that show the same thing" before anything definitive is established. It's still unclear what may be behind the possible distinction; Sekhon said one explanation could be that people with blood type O are less prone to blood clotting, which can often lead to more severe cases. Either way, Sekhon doesn't believe blood type will supersede other "risk factors of severity" like age or comorbidities, and he said people should not behave differently based on their group.
Submission + - The first room-temperature superconductor has finally been found (sciencenews.org)
Joe2020 writes: Although it isn't quite as simple as it first sounds — it requires a high pressure before the material turns super-conductive — is this a very promising result and will help to study this phenomenon at room temperatures.
https://www.sciencenews.org/ar...
https://www.sciencenews.org/ar...
Comment Really? (Score 1) 82
...and I didn't even notice.
Comment Re:And showing every bit of its age too, apparentl (Score 1) 192
Time to take it out back and shoot it.
What he said.
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